Comparison

Scale AI vs Toloka

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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★Scale AI58
Toloka53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Scale AI58 / 100low · 45%
Toloka53 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tier
Scale AI✓
Toloka✗
Model
Scale AIquote
Tolokaquote
Price level
Scale AIunknown
Tolokaunknown
Transparent
Scale AI✗
Toloka✗
Integrations
Count
Scale AI–
Toloka6
Security
Disclosure policy
Scale AI✓
Toloka–
Fedramp
Scale AI✓
Toloka–
Gdpr
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓
Hipaa
Scale AI–
Toloka✓
Iso27001
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓
Soc2
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓
Trust center
Content
Faq
Scale AI6 items
Toloka7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data labeling. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Model assisted labeling
Scale AI-
Toloka✓
Programmatic labeling
Scale AI-
Toloka✓
Rlhf preference data
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓
On prem private cloud
Scale AI-
Toloka✓
Open source
Scale AI-
Toloka✗
SOC2
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓

What each one is

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

Scale AI

Leader

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

Independently observed

Toloka

Toloka is a data curation platform where users specify their annotation goals and an agent automatically assembles the complete data collection and labeling workflow. It combines a network of 200,000+ domain experts with AI-assisted quality validation to produce training datasets for language models, AI agents, and other machine learning systems.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 verify ↗

Toloka

Quote-based

Contact sales for pricing

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Scale AI✓
Toloka✓
On-premise
Scale AI✗
Toloka✓

Integrations

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

Scale AI

Leader

Not documented yet.

Toloka

6 total
  • Nebius
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Zendesk
  • Databricks
  • Tavily
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Independently observed
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