How much does Scale AI cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Not stated
- Setup
- Stand up in customer environment within a day of a demo "our platform and internal tooling are built to move fast, ready to stand up in your environment within a day of a demo."
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
What Scale AI does
Scale provides training data, annotations and RLHF, model evaluations and red-teaming, and applied AI systems for enterprises and governments. Access is through demos and sales contact; no public pricing is shown.
- Good for
- Large enterprises, AI labs and government or defense agencies that want managed human-sourced training data, evaluations and custom AI systems.
- Main product
- Scale Data Engine
- Also includes
- Scale Data Engine (training data, annotations, RLHF), Scale GenAI Platform, Scale Donovan, Model evaluations and red-teaming, Test & Evaluation Engine for public sector
- Public API
- Not stated
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Image and video annotationNot stated
- Text and NLP labelingNot stated
- Audio and speech labelingNot stated
- LLM and RLHF evaluation
High-quality training data, annotations, and RLHF to power the world's most advanced AI models.
- Model-assisted auto-labelingNot stated
- Review and QA workflowsNot stated
- Managed labeling workforce
We source contributors with precision (25% have advanced degrees) and deliver at the bar frontier AI demands.
- Self-hosted or open sourceNot stated
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
No prices are published on Scale AI's pricing page.
Fine print
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Scale AI, Inc.
- Address
- San Francisco, CA
- Online since
- Dec 29, 1997 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "90% of leading generative AI model builders are powered by Scale" their claim
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Questions
Is Scale AI free?
No free plan is stated on Scale AI's pricing page.