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Hive

Hive is a San Francisco company selling cloud-based AI models through APIs for content moderation, AI-generated content and deepfake detection, and visual understanding; speech-to-text, translation, OCR, and image and video generation APIs; the Hive AutoML platform; a managed data-annotation service; and turnkey software products built on them.

StageLate-stage

Founded—

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection API service Sold on its own

  APIs that classify images, video, audio and text as authentic or AI-generated, flag deepfakes and predict which generative model likely produced the content, billed per use.

• Hive AI Detector Application Sold on its own

  A free Chrome extension that scans an image, video, text or audio file on any web page for the likelihood it is AI-generated and, for images and video, names the generator it predicts was used.

• Hive Speech-to-Text API API service Sold on its own

  Real-time multilingual transcription API that returns each spoken word with a timestamp and confidence score, a fully punctuated transcript and automatic language detection.

• Hive Translation API API service Sold on its own

  Text translation API on Hive's own multilingual model, translating directly between any two supported languages and tuned for short user-generated text such as posts, comments and reviews.

• Hive OCR API API service Sold on its own

  Optical character recognition API that transcribes overlay, scene and document text in 15+ languages plus emojis from images and video, returning words and reading-order text blocks.

• Hive Image Generation APIs API service Sold on its own

  Hosted text-to-image API serving SDXL, Flux Schnell and Hive-enhanced variants of them, running every generated image through Hive's visual moderation model before it is returned.

• Hive Video Generation API API service

  Text-to-video API that produces generated clips across genres, subjects and styles from a written prompt.

• Hive AutoML Platform Sold on its own

  No-code platform for uploading and labelling datasets, fine-tuning Hive's proprietary or open-source text, image and language models on them, evaluating the results and deploying the custom model for inference.

• Hive Detect Application Sold on its own

  Free web tool where a person uploads a file or submits a media URL and Hive's detection models report whether an image, video or audio clip is AI-generated or a deepfake, with a detailed analysis.

• Hive Enterprise Data Annotation Data service

  Fully managed data collection and annotation service for enterprises, with every task corroborated by several contributors from Hive's labelling workforce and QA'd before delivery.

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both also serve buyers who need to tell if a photo, video or audio clip is AI-generated; Reality Defender's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEncordUndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Encord Data Annotation both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Encord's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAppenPublicHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Off-the-Shelf Datasets both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Appen's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and CLOVA Speech both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; NAVER Cloud's scale not recorded.5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSpeechmaticsUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and Agent STT both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Speechmatics's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKrispUndisclosedHive Translation API and Krisp Voice Translation API both list translation; both also serve buyers who need to translate content; Krisp's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHCHuawei CloudUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and Short Sentence Recognition both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.6 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRAResemble AIEarly-stageAI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection and Resemble Detect both list synthetic media detection; both also serve buyers who need to tell if a photo, video or audio clip is AI-generated; Resemble AI's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGladiaUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and Gladia Speech-to-Text API both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Gladia's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTolokaUndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Off-the-shelf Datasets both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Toloka's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AILate-stageHive Speech-to-Text API and Fireworks Speech Recognition both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (private).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSSonioxUndisclosedHive Translation API and Soniox Speech Translation API both list translation; both also serve buyers who need to translate content; Soniox's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageHive Speech-to-Text API and Sync Speech-to-Text API both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; AssemblyAI's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLabelboxLate-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Alignerr both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Labelbox's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAOAI or NotEarly-stageHive AI Detector and AI Blocker both list synthetic media detection; 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both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareHAHume AIUndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Data Solutions both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Hume AI's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSAScale AILate-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Scale Data Engine both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareKEKakao EnterpriseUndisclosedHive AutoML and Kubeflow both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Kakao Enterprise's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVEVolcano EngineUndisclosedHive AutoML and Machine Learning Platform (机器学习平台) both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Volcano Engine's scale not recorded.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBasetenLate-stageHive AutoML and Baseten both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSASnorkel AILate-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Snorkel Custom Data Development both list data labelling; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareSASensity AIEarly-stageHive AI Detector and Sensity AI both list synthetic media detection; both also serve buyers who need to tell if a photo, video or audio clip is AI-generated; Sensity AI's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepgramLate-stageHive Speech-to-Text API and Deepgram Audio Intelligence both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareAAlibabaPublicHive Translation API and Alibaba Cloud Machine Translation both list translation; both also serve buyers who need to translate content; larger scale (public).7 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSSamaUndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Sama Annotate both list data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrusoeLate-stageHive AutoML and Crusoe Cloud both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAmazonPublicHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).6 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSASurge AIBootstrappedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Surge AI data platform both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Surge AI's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCCactus ComputeUndisclosedHive AutoML and Cactus Platform both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AILate-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Together Custom Training both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSSoundverseUndisclosedHive AI Detector and Soundverse Trace both list synthetic media detection; both also serve buyers who need to tell if a photo, video or audio clip is AI-generated; Soundverse's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLlamaIndexUndisclosedHive OCR API and LlamaParse both list document extraction; LlamaIndex's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMercorLate-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Mercor Data both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareBBaiduPublicHive OCR API and Baidu OCR (General Text Recognition) both list document extraction; larger scale (public).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareUUnslothUndisclosedHive AutoML and Unsloth both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Unsloth's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIiFlytekPublicHive Translation API and iFLYTEK Translate SaaS both list translation; both also serve buyers who need to translate content; iFlytek's scale not recorded.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)PublicHive Speech-to-Text API and Cloud Speech-to-Text both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (public).7 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMMicrosoftPublicHive Translation API and Azure Translator in Foundry Tools both list translation; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHFHugging FaceLate-stageHive AutoML and AutoTrain both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareIIBMPublicHive Speech-to-Text API and IBM Watson Speech to Text both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareDDatabricksLate-stageHive OCR API and Document Intelligence both list document extraction; larger scale (private).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareVVast.aiUndisclosedHive AutoML and Vast.ai GPU Cloud both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Vast.ai's scale not recorded; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFFalUndisclosedHive Video Generation API and fal Sandbox both list video generation; Fal's scale not recorded.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunPodLate-stageHive AutoML and Pods both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareNGNebius GroupPublicHive AutoML and Nebius AI Cloud both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareUUpstageLate-stageHive OCR API and Document Parse both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to turn handwriting or a scan into typed text; smaller scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredHive AutoML and W&B Models both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHumanSignalEarly-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and HumanSignal Services both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; HumanSignal's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSnowflakePublicHive OCR API and Document AI both list document extraction; larger scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMMicro1UndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Realm both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Micro1's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHandshakeUndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Handshake AI both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Handshake's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePProlificUndisclosedHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Prolific both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Prolific's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUniphoreLate-stageHive Speech-to-Text API and Communication Recording Agent both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareTTencentPublicHive Speech-to-Text API and Tencent Cloud ASR both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSSynthesiaLate-stageHive Video Generation API and Syren both list video generation; larger scale (private).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareIAInworld AIUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and Realtime STT both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLambdaLate-stageHive AutoML and Lambda Cloud both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Lambda's scale not recorded; ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMAMistral AILate-stageHive OCR API and Mistral OCR both list document extraction; larger scale (private).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareIIntelPublicHive AutoML and Intel Geti do comparable work on data labelling and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).6 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHHyperbrowserUndisclosedHive OCR API and Hyperbrowser Web Scraping both list document extraction; Hyperbrowser's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMLMintplex LabsUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and Magic Echo both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Mintplex Labs's scale not recorded.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBrowserbaseEarly-stageHive OCR API and Browserbase Fetch API both list document extraction; smaller scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareYYandexPublicHive OCR API and Yandex Vision OCR both list document extraction; larger scale (public).6 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareITInvisible TechnologiesLate-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and Invisible AI Training both list data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Invisible Technologies's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAudioShakeEarly-stageHive Enterprise Data Annotation and AudioShake Refinery both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; AudioShake's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOraclePublicHive OCR API and OCI Document Understanding both list document extraction; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareEElevenLabsLate-stageHive Speech-to-Text API and Scribe both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (private).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareWWebflowUndisclosedHive Translation API and Webflow Localize both list translation; both also serve buyers who need to translate content; Webflow's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModalLate-stageHive AutoML and Modal Notebooks both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private); ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareNNVIDIAPublicHive Image Generation APIs and NVIDIA Canvas both list image generation; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareBBridgeMindUndisclosedHive Speech-to-Text API and BridgeVoice both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; BridgeMind's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPicsartUndisclosedHive Translation API and Kai both list translation; both also serve buyers who need to translate content; Picsart's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNDNot DiamondUndisclosedHive AutoML and Not Diamond both list model training; Not Diamond's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomPublicHive Speech-to-Text API and Zoom Scribe API both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (public).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareDDifyEarly-stageHive OCR API and Dify Knowledge Pipeline both list document extraction; smaller scale (private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareCMComet MLEarly-stageHive AutoML and Comet Experiment Tracking both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Comet ML's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Total funding

Checked — none published

Latest total in a named news report is stale: "The company has raised $121 million in total." (AdExchanger, April 2021, Series D). Aggregator-only listings (Forge, PitchBook-derived) report a later Series E in May 2026, which I could not confirm in any news report or company release, so no current cumulative figure is entered. thehive.ai/about-us and its blog feed carry no funding announcement.

Stage, from valuation

Company disclosure · 21 Apr 2021

Hive's own Series D post (April 2021): "$85M in new capital, inclusive of a $50M Series D financing round at a $2B valuation". The latest priced round found; funding_total stays empty because $85M is new capital, not a cumulative total.

Founded

Checked — none published

Sources conflict and none is primary: aggregator profiles say 2013; Contrary Research (research.contrary.com/company/hive) lists Jan 2017 and says "At the end of 2017, the team pivoted to focus on enterprise AI and Hive was founded"; Wikipedia's Hive article gives no year. thehive.ai/about-us, /terms-of-use and /privacy state no founding year.

Description

Official documentation · 5 Oct 2026

"Hive also offers turnkey software products powered by proprietary AI models and datasets" -- about page, which also describes cloud-based AI models for platform integrity / content moderation (including AI-generated content detection).

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