Toloka vs Upstage

Toloka — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure 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

FieldTolokaUpstage
Sizenot disclosed$958.8M valuation
Employees—100
Founded20142020 6 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureFoundation Models
Stack layerAI agent, Data service, PlatformAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Model API
HeadquartersAmsterdam, NetherlandsSeoul, South Korea

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationCode generationText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Upstage · 7

Data analysisData labellingEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyMarketing contentModel trainingTranslation

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

Not verified for Toloka · 3

Document extractionModel inferenceSearch answers

Recorded for Upstage. Toloka’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

Toloka

No shared stack layer with the other side.

Upstage

No shared stack layer with the other side.

No counterpart

Toloka sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Upstage 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.

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

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.

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.

Agent platform

Upstage StudioAgent platform

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

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.