Labelbox vs Scale AI

Labelbox — Infrastructure · Private · $189M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Scale AI — Infrastructure · Private · $29B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Terra and Scale Data Engine do comparable work on data labelling; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private).

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

3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 8 capabilities — Shares data analysis, data labelling and evaluation and observability.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship data service and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldLabelboxScale AI
Size$189M raised$29B valuation different basis
Employees—1,300
Founded20182016 2 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 · 3

Data analysisData labellingEvaluation and observability

Not verified for Scale AI · 5

Agent orchestrationModel inferenceModel trainingVector searchWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Labelbox · 1

Knowledge retrieval

Recorded for Scale AI. 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.

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.

Data service

Scale Data EngineData service

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

No counterpart

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