Fireworks AI vs Labelbox

Fireworks AI — Infrastructure · Private · $17.5B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Labelbox — Infrastructure · Private · $189M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Fireworks Training and Terra do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private); ships agent platform, application and 3 more rather than the same layer.

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

3 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layer

3 of 5 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, model inference and model training.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Different layer — Labelbox ships agent platform, application and 3 more, not the same layer.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldFireworks AILabelbox
Size$17.5B valuation$189M raised different basis
Employees115—
Founded20222018 4 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAPI service, Model APIAgent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Mateo, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationModel inferenceModel training

Not verified for Labelbox · 2

Model hostingSpeech to text

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

Not verified for Fireworks AI · 5

Data analysisData labellingEvaluation and observabilityVector searchWorkflow automation

Recorded for Labelbox. Fireworks AI’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

Fireworks AI

No shared stack layer with the other side.

Labelbox

No shared stack layer with the other side.

No counterpart

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

API service

Fireworks InferenceAPI service

Serving for frontier open models and for a customer's own post-trained versions of them, on an inference engine tuned at each layer.

Fireworks Speech RecognitionAPI service

Real-time and batch speech-to-text on Fireworks, aimed at voice workflows that need low-latency transcription at scale.

Fireworks TrainingAPI service

Training and retraining of custom models on Fireworks, offered across several training surfaces and served on the same platform.

Model API

Fireworks AIModel API

Hosted API for serving and fine-tuning open-weight models, billed per token.

Fireworks NexusModel API

Drop-in API endpoint that routes each request across models to trade cost against quality.

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

Application

AnnotateApplication

Annotate is the data labeling product within Labelbox, providing 10+ built-in editors for multimodal chat, LLM evaluation, prompt/response generation, computer vision and NLP, plus customizable labeling and review workflows and team performance monitoring.

CatalogApplication

Catalog is Labelbox's data curation and search product providing out-of-the-box search across images, text, video, conversations and documents over metadata, vector embeddings and annotations without building your own vector database infrastructure.

Agent platform

RecursionAgent platform

Labelbox's reinforcement-learning platform for developing, evaluating and deploying enterprise specialist agents, connecting RL environments, evaluation systems and a training loop that fine-tunes models from graded rollout trajectories.

Developer tool

Labelbox FoundryDeveloper tool

Foundry runs third-party foundation models over data already in Labelbox to pre-label and enrich image, text and document datasets without code, routing the predictions to human review; billed as inference cost per model run plus Labelbox Units.

Platform

HorizonPlatform

Horizon supplies RL training gyms and evaluations for reasoning, tool use and computer use, using WorldSim to simulate enterprise environments such as GitLab, Jira, CRM, email and chat and to produce calibrated reward and preference signals for post-training.

Data service

AlignerrData service

Alignerr is Labelbox's expert-network product that routes AI training and evaluation tasks to credentialed contributors across 200+ knowledge domains and 40+ countries and returns structured outputs for RL training, RLHF and evaluation workflows.

TerraData service

Terra is Labelbox's robotics data product delivering video, trajectories and multimodal annotations across pre-training, post-training and evaluation stages, including expert teleoperation with action labels and multiple camera perspectives for embodied foundation models.