AI Data For Sale

Compare AI data companies and options

Head-to-head comparisons, alternatives and lists, built on the same sourced facts as our company profiles.

Updated AI Data For Sale
In short
  • Comparisons use the same criteria for every company and cite a source for each fact.
  • Lists are grouped by what a company does, not ranked.
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Every page compares companies on what they do, who they serve, how they work with data holders and what to check before signing. We do not score or rank companies, and no one pays to appear. Where a fact is not published, we say so rather than guess.

Head to head

Scale AI vs Surge AIBoth create training data for frontier AI labs using large expert workforces.Mercor vs Scale AIMercor matches AI labs with domain experts and charges an hourly finder's fee and matching rate.Defined.ai vs ProtegeDefined.ai sells ready-made text, speech, image and video datasets and invites organizations to sell through it.AWS Data Exchange vs Snowflake Marketplace vs Databricks MarketplaceAll three let providers sell data to customers of their cloud platform.AI data broker vs data labeling vendorA labeling vendor uses its workforce to create or annotate data to your specification.

Alternatives

Scale AI alternativesClosest like-for-like alternatives are other vendors that create data with expert workforces: Surge AI and Mercor.Defined.ai alternativesFor selling health and real-world data, Protege pays a revenue share each time data is used.SimpleClosure alternativesSimpleClosure's Asset Hub has handled more than 150 deals, per MIT Technology Review.

Lists

Where to sell data to AI companiesThe right place depends on your data type, whether it is public or private, and whether you want a revenue share or a fixed fee.AI data marketplacesAI-specific marketplaces focus on training data and its rights; cloud marketplaces focus on delivery to their customers.AI training data vendorsVendors differ in model: finished data (Scale AI, Surge AI, Appen), expert time (Mercor), tools plus experts (Labelbox) and participant panels (Prolific).Expert networks for AI trainingMercor reported over 30,000 experts earning an average of more than $85 an hour.Companies that buy data from closed startupsBuyers include foundation AI labs, vendors building simulated workspaces, and companies training their own models.Ways to monetize company dataAI training licenses are the newest route and can pay for archives that had no other market.

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