Scale AI vs DataRobot
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Scale AI
Human-labeled data, RLHF and model evals — now 49% owned by Meta
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DataRobot
AutoML pioneer turned enterprise agentic-AI and governance platform
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Self-serve: ~1,000 free labeling units + 10,000 free images/month | 14-day free trial with limited compute hours; no permanent free tier |
| Paid from | — | Custom quote; est. from ~$2,500/mo, Enterprise from ~$150K/yr |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 850+ enterprise customers (2026) |
| Founded | 2016 | 2012 |
| Maker | Meta Platforms (49% non-voting stake, 2025) | Jeremy Achin, Thomas DeGodoy |
| Verdict | Scale built the unglamorous plumbing behind a lot of frontier models — labeled data, human-preference (RLHF) pipelines and evaluation/red-teaming — and its SEAL evals earned real respect. The story in 2026 is the Meta en... |
One of the original AutoML names, DataRobot has spent 2025-2026 repositioning around an 'Agent Workforce' platform (co-engineered with Nvidia) and LLM governance — a sensible pivot as pure AutoML commoditized. What still... |
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