Sama

Infrastructure

Training-data company that annotates, validates and evaluates data for computer-vision and multimodal models, with delivery teams built around impact sourcing in East Africa and India.

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Founded2008

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Founded — en.wikipedia.org · 4 Sep 2026

sama.com

Products

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

Sama Platform Platform

Sama's data annotation and validation platform, combining annotation tooling, SamaAssure quality assurance, SamaHub project management and reporting, and SamaIQ analytics, with a REST API and CLI for pipeline integration.

Inside Sama Platform

Sama Annotate Data service Included with the parent

Sama Annotate is Sama's enterprise data annotation offering, delivering image, video and 3D point cloud labeling through a full-time in-house annotation workforce working on the Sama Platform, with CLI and API access for automated data workflows.
Sama Curate Data service Included with the parent

Sama Curate is a data curation offering that uses filtering and curation algorithms to suggest which assets in a raw dataset should be labeled, so teams annotate only the data most likely to improve an ML model.
Sama Validate Data service Included with the parent

Sama Validate is a managed human-in-the-loop service in which trained reviewers inspect and correct a customer's model predictions across image, video and 3D point cloud data and report where the model performs well or poorly.
Sama GenAI Data service Included with the parent

Sama GenAI supplies human-generated training and evaluation data for foundation models, covering model validation and fact checking, instruction following, preference ranking, image and video captioning, creative writing, synthetic data creation and RAG evaluation.

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No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

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EncordPrivateSama Annotate and Encord Annotate do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare T

TolokaPrivateSama Annotate and Toloka Platform do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.5 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare A

AppenPublicSama Annotate and Appen Frontier Alignment do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare L

LabelboxPrivate · $189M raisedSama Validate and Alignerr do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare SA

Scale AIPrivate · $29BSama Annotate and Scale Data Engine do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare SA

Surge AIPrivate · $0 raisedSama Annotate and Surge AI Off-the-Shelf Datasets do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare T

TuringPrivate · $2.2BSama Validate and Off-the-shelf datasets do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare M

MercorPrivate · $20BSama Annotate and Off-the-shelf Data do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare HA

Hume AIPrivateSama Annotate and Data Solutions do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare IT

Invisible TechnologiesPrivate · $144M raisedSama Curate and Meridial do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.5 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare SA

Snorkel AIPrivate · $1.3BSama Annotate and Snorkel Custom Data Development do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare H

HandshakePrivateSama Validate and Handshake AI do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare M

Micro1PrivateSama Validate and micro1 Data Engine do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare P

ProlificPrivateSama Validate and Prolific do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare FA

Fiddler AIPrivate · $100M raisedSama GenAI and Fiddler AI Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance do comparable work on guardrails and safety; Sama's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare H

HumanSignalPrivateSama Platform and Label Studio Enterprise do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare RA

Resemble AIPrivateSama GenAI and Resemble Signal do comparable work on guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and application rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare N

NVIDIAPublic · $5.1TSama Platform and NVIDIA NeMo do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare A

AlibabaPublic · $273.4BSama Platform and Alibaba Cloud Platform for AI (PAI) do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare Z

ZscalerPublic · $30.5BSama GenAI and Zscaler AI Red Teaming do comparable work on guardrails and safety; Sama's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare I

IntelPublic · $463.7BSama Platform and Intel Geti do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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