Databricks vs Sama

Databricks — Infrastructure · Private · $190B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldDatabricksSama
Size$190B valuationnot disclosed
Employees10,000—
Founded20132008 5 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, Infrastructure service, Model API, PlatformData service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Francisco, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 8

Agent orchestrationDocument extractionModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingPresentation generationKnowledge retrievalVector search

Recorded for Databricks. Sama’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Databricks · 1

Data labelling

Recorded for Sama. Databricks’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Databricks

Platform

Databricks AIPlatform

Databricks' tooling for building, fine-tuning, serving and evaluating models and agents on lakehouse data.

Databricks Data + AI PlatformPlatform

Lakehouse platform for storing, governing, querying and sharing enterprise data.

Data service

Databricks AI SearchData service

A managed hybrid semantic, keyword and vector search service (formerly Mosaic AI Vector Search) with automatic data sync and Unity Catalog governance.

Sama

Platform

Sama PlatformPlatform

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.

Data service

Sama AnnotateData service

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 CurateData service

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 GenAIData service

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.

Sama ValidateData service

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.

No counterpart

Databricks sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Sama yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

AI/BIApplication

AI-native business-intelligence product comprising AI/BI Dashboards (AI-assisted dashboard/visualization creation) and Genie Spaces (conversational natural-language exploration of data), built into the Databricks Data + AI Platform with Unity Catalog governance and no per-seat licensing.

Genie OneApplication

AI coworker (the evolution of the earlier Databricks Assistant/Genie) that lets business users ask questions, take action and drive outcomes over enterprise data via natural language, integrating with Slack, Teams, Jira, Google Drive and Salesforce, with mobile apps.

Agent platform

Agent BricksAgent platform

A control plane for building, evaluating, governing and monitoring AI agents across proprietary and open-source models, with native MCP support.

Developer tool

Databricks Model TrainingDeveloper tool

A managed service for fine-tuning open-source LLMs or training custom models on enterprise data using dedicated GPU infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Unity GatewayInfrastructure service

Enterprise AI gateway providing centralized cost tracking/budgets, model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and others), security/governance (access policies, PII/PHI filtering, audit trails), smart routing and observability across an organization's AI systems.

Model API

Databricks Model ServingModel API

A managed endpoint service for deploying and governing classical ML models, generative models and agents from one interface.