Fin vs Sama

Fin — Application · Acquired · $3.6B 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

FieldFinSama
Size$3.6B valuationnot disclosed
Employees1,013—
Founded20112008 3 yrs earlier
StatusAcquiredPrivate
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, API service, Application, Infrastructure serviceData service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Francisco, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 4

Customer supportModel inferenceKnowledge retrievalVoice agent

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

Not verified for Fin · 2

Data labellingGuardrails and safety

Recorded for Sama. Fin’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

Fin

No shared stack layer with the other side.

Sama

No shared stack layer with the other side.

No counterpart

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

Application

CopilotApplication

Agent-assist AI assistant for human support reps that answers their questions and drafts replies from the company's public articles, internal articles and conversation history inside the helpdesk inbox.

Fin AnalyzeApplication

Analytics suite covering every Fin and human conversation: Insights (team performance and trends), Monitors (continuous QA scoring across AI and human interactions) and Recommendations (prioritized fixes for unresolved conversations).

API service

Fin API PlatformAPI service

Access-gated API suite exposing Fin's customer-service models and retrieval pipeline directly to developers, comprising the Fin Apex, Fin Apex Flash, Fin RAG, Fin Retrieval and Fin Reranker APIs.

AI agent

Fin AI AgentAI agent

Customer-facing AI support agent that resolves questions from a company's knowledge sources, takes actions in connected systems via multi-step Procedures, and hands off to a human when it cannot resolve the request; answers are generated by Intercom's in-house Fin CX model suite, led by Fin Apex 1.0.

Fin OperatorAI agent

Autonomous operations agent that tunes the Fin agent's configuration, keeps its knowledge sources current, detects incidents and surfaces prioritised improvements from conversation data, with changes gated behind human approval.

Fin VoiceAI agent

Voice AI agent that handles inbound and outbound phone calls using the same knowledge sources, actions and procedures as the Fin text agent, over a phone number provisioned in Intercom or over a customer's own PSTN/SIP telephony.

Infrastructure service

Fin AI EngineInfrastructure service

Patented seven-phase retrieval/response architecture (query refinement, content retrieval, reranking, generation, accuracy validation, engine optimization, security) powering Fin's customer-service products, including the Fin Apex 1.0 generative model.

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

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.