Dataiku vs Sama

Dataiku — Application · Private · $3.7B valuation · 4 of 4 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

FieldDataikuSama
Size$3.7B valuationnot disclosed
Employees1,250—
Founded20132008 5 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Infrastructure service, PlatformData service, Platform
HeadquartersNew York, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 4

Agent orchestrationData securityModel inferenceModel training

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

Not verified for Dataiku · 1

Data labelling

Recorded for Sama. Dataiku’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

Dataiku

Platform

DataikuPlatform

Platform for building, deploying and governing data, machine-learning and agent workflows across an organisation.

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.

No counterpart

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

AI agent

Dataiku CobuildAI agent

AI building agent that turns a business objective written in plain language into a governed Dataiku project of data pipelines, models, agents and applications rendered as an editable visual workflow.

Agent platform

Dataiku Agent HubAgent platform

Centralised control plane inside the Dataiku platform for creating, orchestrating, deploying and tracking AI agents across teams.

Dataiku E2AAgent platform

Expert-to-Agent engine that converts subject-matter-expert know-how into governed AI agents grounded in enterprise data with structured reasoning and human oversight.

Infrastructure service

Dataiku Agent ManagementInfrastructure service

Cross-platform governance product that discovers every AI agent an enterprise is running -- on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure Foundry, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Databricks, Snowflake Cortex, n8n or Dataiku itself -- measures each agent's business and technical performance, and flags the ones that pose the greatest risk. Announced 2026-09-24; distinct from Dataiku Agent Hub, which creates and operationalizes agents rather than discovering and governing agents built anywhere.

Dataiku LLM Guard ServicesInfrastructure service

Control layer over the Dataiku LLM Mesh that caps LLM spend, screens prompts and outputs for sensitive or malicious content, and scores model output quality.

Dataiku LLM MeshInfrastructure service

Centralised gateway that routes, meters and governs an organisation's connections to multiple LLM providers from inside the Dataiku platform.

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

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.