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Scale AI

Reliable AI systems for critical decisions

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Scale AI provides training data, model evaluations, and applied AI systems for AI labs, enterprises, and governments. The platform addresses the need for reliable data and evaluation infrastructure to build, deploy, and oversee AI applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company organizes its work around three areas: Data at Scale, covering high-quality training data, annotations, and RLHF; Evaluations, covering rigorous model evaluations, red-teaming, benchmarks, and leaderboards; and Applied AI, covering full-stack systems for building, deploying, and overseeing AI.

Named products include the Scale data engine, Scale GenAI Portfolio, and Scale Donovan, with solutions grouped by industry and sector, including enterprise, insurance, healthcare, national security, and public sector. Security certifications listed include SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, DoD IL4 Provisional Authorization, and FedRAMP High Authorized. The company does not publish pricing on these pages; prospective customers are directed to book an introductory call to get started.

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