Scale AI vs DataRobot

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Scale AI Training data, evaluations and AI applications for labs and government... Visit DataRobot AutoML pioneer now selling a governed platform for enterprise AI agent... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.8 / 10 7 / 10
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Pricing Contact Enterprise
Free tier — 30-day free trial with full platform access and community support; no lasting free plan
Paid from Custom contracts quoted after a demo request, no published $ price Quoted on request: private-offer contracts of 12, 24 or 36 months, plus usage overages
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✗ ✗
Users — 850+ enterprise customers (2026)
Founded 2016 2012
Maker Independent (Meta holds a minority stake) Jeremy Achin, Thomas DeGodoy
Verdict

Scale AI remains one of the largest suppliers of training data and evaluations to frontier AI labs and governments, with SEAL benchmarks widely cited and defence contracts growing. Meta's 2025 investment and the departur...

DataRobot's strength is governance that follows the workload: an agent registry with approvals, real-time checks for PII leakage and prompt injection, per-agent identities and audit trails, the same whether it runs in AW...

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