Sama vs ServiceNow

Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced  |  ServiceNow — Application · Public · $130.1B mkt cap · 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

FieldSamaServiceNow
Sizenot disclosed$130.1B mkt cap
Employees—29,187
Founded20082003 5 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryInfrastructureApplication
Stack layerData service, PlatformAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASanta Clara, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

Not verified for ServiceNow · 1

Data labelling

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

Not verified for Sama · 10

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCustomer supportData securityDocument extractionKnowledge retrievalText generationVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for ServiceNow. 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.

ServiceNow

Platform

AI Control TowerPlatform

Governance layer that inventories every AI agent, model and MCP server in an estate and monitors what they do.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

Application

AI SearchApplication

ServiceNow's generative-AI and semantic search layer, surfacing answers from knowledge articles, FAQs and platform data across portals, mobile apps and Virtual Agent.

ServiceNow Action FabricApplication

Lets any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or custom) execute governed ServiceNow actions headlessly through MCP and A2A protocols, applying ServiceNow's own workflow guardrails to third-party agent calls.

ServiceNow Document IntelligenceApplication

AI document-processing app that extracts information from PDFs and scanned documents and classifies multi-page documents by user-defined type, with human-in-the-loop feedback for variable documents.

ServiceNow OttoApplication

An AI assistant that unifies Now Assist, Moveworks and AI Experience into one voice, chat and text interface for completing work across ServiceNow-connected systems.

ServiceNow Predictive IntelligenceApplication

Built-in machine-learning layer that classifies and routes incidents/cases, generates smart recommendations, detects major incidents and predicts resolution times across Now Platform workflows.

AI agent

AI AgentsAI agent

Autonomous agents that execute IT, HR and customer service workflows on the Now Platform.

Build AgentAI agent

Creates and updates ServiceNow applications from natural-language prompts (ServiceNow's vibe-coding / app-building agent).

Developer tool

AI Agent StudioDeveloper tool

ServiceNow's tool for building and testing enterprise AI agents on the Now Platform.