Elastic vs Scale AI

Elastic — Infrastructure · Public · $10.2B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Scale AI — Infrastructure · Private · $29B valuation · 3 of 3 figures 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

FieldElasticScale AI
Size$10.2B mkt cap$29B valuation different basis
Employees4,0191,300 Scale AI has 3.1× fewer
Founded20122016 4 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Model API, PlatformData service, Platform
HeadquartersAmsterdam, NetherlandsSan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityKnowledge retrieval

Not verified for Scale AI · 6

Agent orchestrationModel hostingModel inferenceThreat detection and responseVector searchWorkflow automation

Recorded for Elastic. Scale AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Elastic · 1

Data labelling

Recorded for Scale AI. Elastic’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

Elastic

Platform

Elastic AI AssistantPlatform

A conversational assistant embedded in Kibana that answers natural-language questions against a customer's own indexed data across Elastic's Observability, Security and Search solutions.

Scale AI

Platform

Scale DonovanPlatform

AI platform for defence and intelligence users, for searching, summarising and reasoning over operational data.

Scale GenAI PortfolioPlatform

Platform for building and evaluating enterprise generative-AI applications against a customer's own data.

No counterpart

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

Application

Elastic AI SOC EngineApplication

An AI security-operations layer that correlates alerts from a customer's existing security tools, prioritizes threats and guides response workflows without replacing their SIEM.

Elastic AIOpsApplication

GenAI- and ML-driven capability inside Elastic Observability that automatically detects, diagnoses and helps resolve operational issues, providing recommended actions for SREs.

Elastic LLM ObservabilityApplication

Monitoring capability inside Elastic Observability for generative-AI and agentic applications: performance, cost control, guardrail tracking and reliability for GenAI workloads.

Elastic SecurityApplication

Agentic security-operations platform unifying SIEM, XDR and native automation, with autonomous agents handling detection-to-response workflows and purpose-built AI skills for threat hunting, alert analysis and detection engineering; supports multiple LLMs including on-premises models.

Agent platform

Elastic Agent BuilderAgent platform

A builder for custom AI agents that answer questions and take actions over data indexed in Elasticsearch, using configurable tools, skills and prompts.

Elastic WorkflowsAgent platform

An automation engine that runs both scripted steps and AI agents which reason through investigations and execute response actions against data in Elasticsearch.

Model API

Elastic Inference ServiceModel API

Hosted inference endpoint that runs Elastic-managed LLMs, the ELSER sparse-embedding model and third-party embedding models for ingest, search and chat without provisioning ML nodes in a customer's own Elasticsearch deployment.

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

Data service

Scale Data EngineData service

Data labelling and curation service producing training and evaluation sets for AI models.