Labelbox vs Yandex

Labelbox — Infrastructure · Private · $189M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Horizon and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Yandex'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 agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application, developer tool and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldLabelboxYandex
Size$189M raisednot disclosed
Employees—36,991
Founded20181997 21 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryInfrastructureApplication
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, PlatformAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationData analysisModel inferenceModel training

Not verified for Yandex · 4

Data labellingEvaluation and observabilityVector searchWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Labelbox · 14

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText generationText to speechTranslationVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. 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.

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.

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.

No counterpart

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

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.

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.

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

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.