Mercor

Application

Marketplace connecting domain experts to AI labs that pay them to train and evaluate models in their own professional fields.

Total funding$484.7M
Valuation$20B
Employees265
Founded2023
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA
StatusPrivate
mercor.com

Products

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

Inside Mercor APEX

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HandshakePrivateMercor Data and Handshake AI do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Handshake's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMicro1PrivateMercor Data and micro1 Data Engine do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Micro1's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSnorkel AIPrivate · $1.3BMercor Data and Snorkel Custom Data Development do comparable work on data labelling; smaller scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareInvisible TechnologiesPrivate · $144M raisedOff-the-shelf Data and Meridial do comparable work on data labelling; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHumanSignalPrivateMercor Data and Label Studio Enterprise do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; HumanSignal's scale not recorded; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEncordPrivateMercor Data and Encord Data Annotation do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Encord's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAppenPublicMercor Data and Off-the-Shelf Datasets do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Appen's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTolokaPrivateMercor Data and Off-the-shelf Datasets do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Toloka's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLabelboxPrivate · $189M raisedMercor Data and Alignerr do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSamaPrivateOff-the-shelf Data and Sama Annotate do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHume AIPrivateMercor Data and Data Solutions do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Hume AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVerint SystemsAcquiredMercor Enterprise Evals and Verint Quality Bot both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Verint Systems is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDecagonPrivate · $4.5BMercor Enterprise Evals and Experiments both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareForethoughtPrivate · $115M raisedMercor Enterprise Evals and Forethought QA Agent both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; similar scale (private); ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHaptikAcquired ($112M deal)Mercor Enterprise Evals and Haptik Agent Analytics both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Haptik is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareByteDancePrivateMercor Enterprise Evals and Coze Loop both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (private); ships agent platform, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCognigyAcquiredMercor Enterprise Evals and Cognigy AI Ops Center both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Cognigy is acquired, with no independent scale; ships agent platform, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSAPPublic · $256.3BMercor Enterprise Evals and SAP AI Agent Hub both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TMercor Enterprise Evals and Observability in Foundry Control Plane both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareFinAcquired ($3.6B deal)Mercor Enterprise Evals and Fin Analyze both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Fin is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNiCEPublic · $6.5BMercor Enterprise Evals and NiCE Quality Management both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (public); ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareSierraPrivate · $15.8BMercor Enterprise Evals and Insights both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareDataikuPrivate · $3.7BMercor Enterprise Evals and Dataiku Agent Hub both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareLivePersonAcquiredOverlaps on evaluation and observability; LivePerson is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAlibabaPublic · $273.4BMercor Data and Alibaba Cloud Platform for AI (PAI) do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, API service and 4 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareBraintrustPrivate · $125M raisedMercor Enterprise Evals and Braintrust both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; similar scale (private); ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGalileoAcquired ($68M deal)Mercor Enterprise Evals and Galileo both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Galileo is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare4ParadigmPublic · $2BMercor Data and 4Paradigm Sage HyperCycle both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public); ships application, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.Different layerSmaller scaleCompareYellow.aiPrivateOverlaps on evaluation and observability; Yellow.ai's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIntelPublic · $463.7BMercor Data and Intel Geti do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships application, developer tool and 3 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TMercor Data and NVIDIA AI Workbench both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships hardware, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareFiddler AIPrivate · $100M raisedMercor Enterprise Evals and Fiddler AI both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; similar scale (private); ships application, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDXPrivateMercor Enterprise Evals and AI Code Insights both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; DX's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHarveyPrivate · $11BOverlaps on evaluation and observability; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareArthur AIPrivate · $62.7M raisedMercor Enterprise Evals and Arthur both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; similar scale (private); ships application, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOraclePublic · $454.4BMercor Data and OCI Vision both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).Shared product typeLarger scaleCompareWorkdayPublic · $49.3BMercor Enterprise Evals and Agent System of Record both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareAdobePublic · $115.9BMercor Data and Adobe Firefly Custom Models both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.Different layerLarger scaleCompareZscalerPublic · $30.5BOverlaps on evaluation and observability; similar scale (public); ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLangfuseAcquiredMercor Enterprise Evals and Langfuse both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Langfuse is acquired, with no independent scale; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCrestaPrivate · $1.6BMercor Enterprise Evals and Agent Operations Center both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareZendeskPrivate · $10.2BMercor Enterprise Evals and Zendesk Quality Assurance both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareSiemensPublic · $244.7BMercor Enterprise Evals and Industrial AI Suite both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareServiceNowPublic · $130.1BMercor Enterprise Evals and AI Control Tower both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Third-party database · 20 Feb 2026

Invest and Sell Mercor Stock, Forge Global, February 20, 2026. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Valuation

Third-party database · 6 Aug 2026

Mercor stock - funding rounds and valuation, Forge Global, 2026-08-06. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-08-06. Forge Global figures are derived from the company's certificate of incorporation — the post-money valuation of the named priced round, not a secondary-market implied price.. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · Apr 2026

Forbes company profile for Mercor, "Employees" stated as of April 2026. Read 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

"Mercor connects professionals to AI training projects" and "We partner with leading AI companies to train and evaluate advanced models through human expertise." Labelling is not what is sold.

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