Labelbox vs Upstage

Labelbox — Infrastructure · Private · $189M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Upstage — Foundation Models · Private · $958.8M valuation · 4 of 4 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

FieldLabelboxUpstage
Size$189M raised$958.8M valuation different basis
Employees—100
Founded20182020 2 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureFoundation Models
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, PlatformAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Model API
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASeoul, South Korea

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationModel inferenceWorkflow automation

Not verified for Upstage · 5

Data analysisData labellingEvaluation and observabilityModel trainingVector search

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

Not verified for Labelbox · 4

Code generationDocument extractionText generationSearch answers

Recorded for Upstage. 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

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.

Upstage

Application

Solar ChatApplication

Research-the-web chat assistant built on Upstage's Solar LLM family, answering questions with sources.

Upstage AI SpaceApplication

Document intelligence tool that extracts, drafts and reviews document-based work; referenced in a customer testimonial as helping brokers find answers across long documents.

Agent platform

Upstage StudioAgent platform

Workspace for building and running document-processing agents from Upstage's parsing and extraction steps.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

API service

Document ParseAPI service

API that converts PDFs and scanned documents into structured, machine-readable layout and text.

Information ExtractAPI service

API that pulls named fields out of unstructured documents such as invoices, claims and contracts.

Model API

Solar LLMsModel API

Upstage's family of agent-oriented language models -- Solar Pro 4 as a hosted API for terminal tasks, document workflows and multi-turn tool use, plus the open-weight Solar Open 2 (250B MoE, 15B active params) for self-hosting.