# Scale AI vs Unsloth

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Scale AI

| Attribute | Scale AI | Unsloth |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 76.1 (45% (low)) | 54.9 (40% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 74,869 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Platform providing high-quality training data through crowdsourced annotation and data management, rigorous evaluation and red-teaming of AI models, and enterprise software for building, deploying, and monitoring production AI systems. | Unsloth is a free, open-source desktop app that lets users run, customize, and train AI models on their own hardware with optimizations for speed and memory usage. It supports multiple GPU setups and offers paid Pro and Enterprise tiers with enhanced performance and deployment capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"architecture_model":"managed_cloud_saas_platform","rlhf_preference_data":true,"rlhf_and_dpo_preference_alignment_optimization":true}` | `{"pricing_model":"free_open_source","architecture_model":"open_source_library_local_gpu","mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"flash_attention_and_xformers_compilation":true,"four_bit_and_eight_bit_memory_quantization":true,"native_huggingface_hub_push_pull_integration":true,"peft_lora_and_qlora_parameter_efficient_tuning":true,"rlhf_and_dpo_preference_alignment_optimization":true,"distributed_multi_gpu_orchestration_fsdp_deepspeed":true}` |
| integrations.count | - | 18 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"Codex"},{"name":"OpenAI API"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Google"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol"},{"name":"Cloudflare"},{"name":"FLUX"},{"name":"MiniMax-H3"},{"name":"Stable Diffusion"},{"name":"Qwen3.8"},{"name":"DeepSeek-V4"},{"name":"Gemma 2"},{"name":"Gemma 4"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Llama 1"},{"name":"Llama 2"},{"name":"Llama 3"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact for pricing","features":["Enterprise-grade quality & SLAs","Access to Data Engine and Enterprise GenAI Platform","Dedicated customer operations support","Data annotation services","Data management","Custom enterprise AI applications"],"description":"Strategic AI initiatives with enterprise-grade quality and SLAs","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Self-Serve Data Engine","summary":"Pay-as-you-go with free tier","features":["Data annotation and management for ML projects","Quality optimization","Free tier: 10,000 images"],"description":"Pay-as-you-go data annotation and management for experimental or research projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"images":"10,000 free"}}],"summary":"Enterprise (contact sales) and Self-Serve pay-as-you-go tiers with free tier","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://scale.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T21:42:41.496Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free, open-source","features":["Supports Mistral, Gemma, Llama 1/2/3 models","4-bit and 16-bit LoRA fine-tuning","Single GPU support","2x speed improvement","60% VRAM reduction","Fully local and offline operation"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Open-source version with core model training capabilities","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"Contact sales for pricing","features":["2.5x faster training","20% less VRAM usage","Multi-GPU support up to 8 GPUs","80% VRAM reduction","Support for any use case"],"description":"Enhanced performance with multi-GPU support","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales for pricing","features":["30x faster training","Up to 30% accuracy improvement","5x faster inference","Multi-node support","90% VRAM reduction","Full training support","Customer support included"],"description":"Maximum performance with multi-node deployment and accuracy improvements","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source tier; Pro and Enterprise plans available","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://unsloth.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T11:04:21.735Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 4 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.803-beta","date":"2026-08-25T13:12:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.803-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.802-beta","date":"2026-08-25T11:27:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.802-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.801-beta","date":"2026-08-20T16:58:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.801-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.800-beta","date":"2026-08-14T14:18:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.800-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.702-beta","date":"2026-08-13T15:21:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.702-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.701-beta","date":"2026-08-11T19:24:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.701-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.70-beta","date":"2026-08-11T15:31:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.70-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.62-beta","date":"2026-08-11T13:25:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.62-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.61-beta","date":"2026-08-10T13:57:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.61-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.60-beta","date":"2026-08-10T11:59:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.60-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.527-beta","date":"2026-08-09T17:14:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.527-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.526-beta","date":"2026-08-04T16:06:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.526-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.512-beta","date":"2026-07-29T15:35:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.512-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.501-beta","date":"2026-07-20T14:06:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.501-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.49-beta","date":"2026-07-15T18:27:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.49-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.481-beta","date":"2026-07-07T14:43:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.481-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.471-beta","date":"2026-06-18T17:36:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.471-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.464-beta","date":"2026-06-12T13:57:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.464-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.451-beta","date":"2026-06-10T18:20:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.451-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.44-beta","date":"2026-06-03T14:35:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.44-beta"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=roland-sloth&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Fine Tuning Platforms)

| Capability | Scale AI | Unsloth |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Architecture model | Managed cloud saas platform | Open source library local GPU |
| 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 |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:40:23.206Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*