Sama vs Scale AI

Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced  |  Scale AI — Infrastructure · Private · $29B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Sama Annotate and Scale Data Engine 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.

3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 5 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

FieldSamaScale AI
Sizenot disclosed$29B valuation
Employees—1,300
Founded20082016 8 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerData service, PlatformData service, Platform match
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Francisco, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisData labellingEvaluation and observability

Not verified for Scale AI · 2

Guardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Sama · 1

Knowledge retrieval

Recorded for Scale AI. Sama’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

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.

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.