Sakana AI vs Toloka

Sakana AI — Foundation Models · Private · $2.7B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Toloka — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure 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

FieldSakana AIToloka
Size$2.7B valuationnot disclosed
Employees——
Founded20232014 9 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsInfrastructure
Stack layerApplicationAI agent, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersTokyo, JapanAmsterdam, Netherlands

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisText generationTranslation

Not verified for Toloka · 1

Financial analysis

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

Not verified for Sakana AI · 8

Agent orchestrationCode generationData labellingEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyMarketing contentModel trainingWorkflow automation

Recorded for Toloka. Sakana 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

Sakana AI

No shared stack layer with the other side.

Toloka

No shared stack layer with the other side.

No counterpart

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

Application

Sakana ChatApplication

Assistant built on Sakana's own Fugu and Namazu models.

Sakana MarlinApplication

Produces analyst research reports on request.

Sakana TranslateApplication

Translates and proofreads Japanese and English text using the Namazu model.

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

AI agent

TendemAI agent

A hybrid AI-plus-human agent that takes a delegated task - research, data analysis, copywriting, design or development - has AI do the first pass, then routes it to one of 10,000+ vetted experts for verification and multi-layer QA, returning results in 2-24 hours.

Platform

Toloka ArenaPlatform

An independent evaluation platform that ranks frontier LLMs on agentic tool-use tasks using private, non-contaminated benchmarks across industry domains, scored on a pass^5 reliability metric, with the underlying RL Gyms and evaluation datasets available to license.

Toloka TrainPlatform

A self-serve service that lowers per-request inference cost through two tools - fine-tuning LoRA adapters on frozen Qwen3 base models to replace a frontier API on a narrow task, and prompt gisting that compresses long instruction prefixes into learned tokens.

Data service

Off-the-shelf DatasetsData service

Toloka's catalogue of ready-made training datasets sold outright — three named at the time of writing (Tau-bench Dataset Extension, University-level Math Reasoning, Multimodal Conversations) — as distinct from the custom data work its Platform sells.

Toloka Physical AIData service

Human-in-the-loop data programs -- demonstrations, annotation and evaluation -- for training robotics and physical AI systems.

Toloka PlatformData service

A self-serve platform where an AI agent turns a described data goal into a full human-annotation pipeline - RLHF and preference data, data collection, instruction tuning, model evaluation, synthetic-data validation and content-moderation QA - with LLM-based quality checks on the output.