Comparison

LLaMA-Factory vs Scale AI

On the evidence we track, Scale AI leads this comparison with a composite score of 58/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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LLaMA-Factory51

★Scale AI58

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	LLaMA-Factory	Scale AILeader
vioscaleAI score	51 / 100low · 32%	58 / 100low · 45%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	open_source	quote
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	unknown
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	7	-
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	-	✓
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fhiyouga%2FLlamaFactory&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	0	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	75,316	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	8	-
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	25	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Python	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	-	Available worldwide · Popular in US · HQ US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	6 items	6 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

LLaMA-Factory51 / 100low · 32%

Scale AI58 / 100low · 45%

Pricing

Free tier

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI✓

Model

LLaMA-Factoryopen_source

Scale AIquote

Price level

LLaMA-Factoryfree

Scale AIunknown

Transparent

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI✗

Integrations

Count

LLaMA-Factory7

Scale AI–

Security

Disclosure policy

LLaMA-Factory–

Scale AI✓

Fedramp

LLaMA-Factory–

Scale AI✓

Gdpr

LLaMA-Factory–

Scale AI✓

Iso27001

LLaMA-Factory–

Scale AI✓

Soc2

LLaMA-Factory–

Scale AI✓

Vulnerabilities

LLaMA-FactoryCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fhiyouga%2FLlamaFactory&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Scale AI–

Adoption

Dependent repos

LLaMA-Factory0

Scale AI–

Github stars

LLaMA-Factory75,316

Scale AI–

Activity

Commits last 30d

LLaMA-Factory8

Scale AI–

Release

Cadence days

LLaMA-Factory25

Scale AI–

History

LLaMA-Factory20 items

Scale AI–

License

Spdx

LLaMA-FactoryApache-2.0

Scale AI–

Language

Primary

LLaMA-FactoryPython

Scale AI–

Market

Availability

LLaMA-Factory–

Scale AIAvailable worldwide · Popular in US · HQ US

Content

Faq

LLaMA-Factory6 items

Scale AI6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for fine tuning platforms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Fine Tuning Platforms
Capability	LLaMA-Factory	Scale AI
Capabilities
Architecture model	Open source library local GPU	Managed cloud saas platform
Peft lora and qlora parameter efficient tuning	✓	-
Rlhf and dpo preference alignment optimization	✓	✓
Serverless hosting of fine tuned adapters lorax	-	-
Four bit and eight bit memory quantization	✓	-
Flash attention and xformers compilation	✓	-
Distributed multi GPU orchestration fsdp deepspeed	✓	-
Synthetic data generation and evaluation pipeline	-	-
Native huggingface hub push pull integration	-	-
Weights and biases wandb experiment tracking	✓	-
SOC2 type ii	-	✓
Mit or apache permissive oss license	✓	-
Pricing model	Free open source	-

Capabilities

Architecture model

LLaMA-FactoryOpen source library local GPU

Scale AIManaged cloud saas platform

Peft lora and qlora parameter efficient tuning

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI-

Rlhf and dpo preference alignment optimization

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI✓

Serverless hosting of fine tuned adapters lorax

LLaMA-Factory-

Scale AI-

Four bit and eight bit memory quantization

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI-

Flash attention and xformers compilation

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI-

Distributed multi GPU orchestration fsdp deepspeed

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI-

Synthetic data generation and evaluation pipeline

LLaMA-Factory-

Scale AI-

Native huggingface hub push pull integration

LLaMA-Factory-

Scale AI-

Weights and biases wandb experiment tracking

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI-

SOC2 type ii

LLaMA-Factory-

Scale AI✓

Mit or apache permissive oss license

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI-

Pricing model

LLaMA-FactoryFree open source

Scale AI-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

LLaMA-Factory

Open source Sphinx theme offering customizable styling, sidebar navigation, and clear typography. Built for smaller documentation projects.

Independently observed

Scale AI

Leader

Provides private evaluation frameworks and leaderboards for assessing and comparing AI models, used by leading AI development teams.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

LLaMA-Factory

Open sourceFree tier

Free, open source (MIT license)

as of 2026-10-05verify ↗

Scale AI

Leader

HybridFree tier

Enterprise (contact sales) and Self-Serve pay-as-you-go tiers with free tier

EnterpriseContact sales
- Enterprise-grade quality & SLAs
- Access to Data Engine and Enterprise GenAI Platform
- Dedicated customer operations support
- Data annotation services
- Data management
- +1 more
Self-Serve Data EnginePay-as-you-go with free tier
- Data annotation and management for ML projects
- Quality optimization
- Free tier: 10,000 images

as of 2026-08-18verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	LLaMA-Factory	Scale AI
WebPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✗
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

LLaMA-Factory✗

Scale AI✓

CLI

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI✗

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

LLaMA-Factory✗

Scale AI✓

Self-hosted

LLaMA-Factory✓

Scale AI✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

LLaMA-Factory

7 total

TensorBoard
Wandb
MLflow
SwanLab
Transformers
vLLM
Hugging Face Hub

Independently observed

Scale AI

Leader

Not documented yet.

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