Labelbox vs Sama

Labelbox — Infrastructure · Private · $189M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Alignerr and Sama Validate do comparable work on data labelling; Sama's scale not recorded.

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

4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product type

4 of 8 capabilities — Shares data analysis, data labelling, evaluation and observability and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship data service and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldLabelboxSama
Size$189M raisednot disclosed
Employees——
Founded20182008 10 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, PlatformData service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Francisco, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisData labellingEvaluation and observabilityWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 4

Agent orchestrationModel inferenceModel trainingVector search

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

Not verified for Labelbox · 1

Guardrails and safety

Recorded for Sama. Labelbox’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

Labelbox

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.

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

Labelbox sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Sama 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.