Scale AI vs Weights & Biases vs DataRobot vs Dataiku
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...
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Weights & Biases
The near-default ML experiment tracker, now part of CoreWeave Forge
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DataRobot
AutoML pioneer now selling a governed platform for enterprise AI agent...
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Dataiku
One governed workspace where analysts and engineers build analytics, M...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | — | — |
| API quality | — | — | — | — |
| Pricing | Contact | Freemium | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free: up to 5 model seats, 5 GB/mo storage, 1 GB/mo Weave ingestion | 30-day free trial with full platform access and community support; no lasting free plan | Free Edition to install on Mac or Linux (Windows experimental); 14-day hosted trial, no card, excluding Govern and advanced LLM Mesh |
| Paid from | Custom contracts quoted after a demo request, no published $ price | Pro from $60/mo (teams <50); usage billed for storage/Weave/inference | Quoted on request: private-offer contracts of 12, 24 or 36 months, plus usage overages | Quoted on request (Agent Management priced per instance per year) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 1,400+ organizations (incl. AstraZeneca, NVIDIA) | 850+ enterprise customers (2026) | ~750 enterprise customers (2026) |
| Founded | 2016 | 2017 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Maker | Independent (Meta holds a minority stake) | CoreWeave | Jeremy Achin, Thomas DeGodoy | Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol, Marc Batty |
| 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... |
W&B is close to default infrastructure for ML teams — its experiment-tracking SDK is the sticky part, logging runs, metrics and artifacts with a few lines of code — and as of 30 September 2026 it lives inside CoreWea... |
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... |
Dataiku's case is still collaboration across skill levels: a visual Flow for analysts and code recipes for engineers in one governed project, now extended with Cobuild for building from plain-language goals and Agent Man... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.