Which are the largest coding data companies?

By the money on record: Mercor, $2B (run rate, Jun 2026); Surge AI, $1.2B (FY2024); Handshake AI, $1B (run rate, Aug 2026). 14 of the 70 on the list have revenue on record; the others are ranked on their valuation or the money they raised.

Is Scale AI the biggest of the coding data companies?

By valuation, yes: Scale AI was valued at $29B (Jun 2025). By revenue on record, Mercor is larger: $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), against $870M (FY2024) for Scale AI.

Which coding data companies buy data from companies?

18 of them take data from companies that hold it, on a published programme or in their own words: Mercor, Handshake AI, micro1, Scale AI, Turing, Appen, AfterQuery, Labelbox, Patronus AI and SuperAnnotate, and others in the table. A company holding such data can value it free and be introduced to every one whose rules take it.

How many coding data companies are there?

70 companies on our register say on their own pages that they work on coding. 33 of them have revenue, a valuation or funding on record, and are ranked; the rest are listed by name.

Updated 8 Nov 2026

Coding data companies for AI in 2026, ranked by revenue.

Name: Coding data companies for AI, ranked by revenue, valuation and funding
Creator: AIData.Broker

The largest coding data companies by revenue on record are Mercor ($2B, run rate, Jun 2026), Surge AI ($1.2B, FY2024), Handshake AI ($1B, run rate, Aug 2026), micro1 ($1B, run rate, Oct 2026) and Scale AI ($870M, FY2024). They supply the code, programming tasks, software environments and reviews that coding models and agents learn from.

70 companies on our register say on their own pages that they work on coding. 33 have revenue, a valuation or funding on record and are ranked below, every figure linked to the filing or article it comes from. Also called code training data providers, software engineering data vendors.

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The largest coding data companies by revenue

The 10 with the most revenue on record, each bar linked to the record it comes from.

1Mercor$2B
2Surge AI$1.2B
3Handshake AI$1B
4micro1$1B
5Scale AI$870M
6Prolific$500M
7Snorkel AI$375M
8Innodata$350M
9Turing$300M
10Appen$249M

Revenue over twelve months as each company published it or was reported to earn it; the periods differ, and the table below gives each one.

The latest money moves

The newest rounds, valuations and revenue figures among these companies, each linked to its record.

5 Nov 2026Innodata reported $350M revenue (12 months to Sep 2026)
14 Oct 2026Labelbox raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation
12 Oct 2026micro1 was valued at $4B valuation
12 Oct 2026micro1 reported $1B revenue (run rate, Oct 2026)
29 Sep 2026Proximal raised $15M at a $300M valuation
29 Sep 2026Proximal reported $200M revenue (run rate, Sep 2026)

Best for each kind of work

For each thing they sell, the highest-ranked company on this list that names it on its own pages: the largest by the money on record, and how many here do the same work.

Best for evaluations and benchmarksMercor, $2B (run rate, Jun 2026): the largest of the 31 here that sell evaluations and benchmarks.
Best for datasetsMercor, $2B (run rate, Jun 2026): the largest of the 27 here that sell datasets.
Best for RL environmentsMercor, $2B (run rate, Jun 2026): the largest of the 26 here that sell RL environments.
Best for expert and human dataMercor, $2B (run rate, Jun 2026): the largest of the 20 here that sell expert and human data.
Best for annotationHandshake AI, $1B (run rate, Aug 2026): the largest of the 13 here that sell annotation.
Best for labeling softwareScale AI, $870M (FY2024): the largest of the 5 here that sell labeling software.
Best for simulationScale AI, $870M (FY2024): the largest of the 5 here that sell simulation.

The ranking: 33 coding data companies

Each company is ranked on the first of these it has on record: its revenue over twelve months (a run rate or a year as published, or its last four quarters added up; an AI segment where the rest of its business is not AI data), then its newest valuation, then the money it disclosed raising. No company pays for a place.

How it is made

Coding data companies for AI, ranked by revenue, valuation and funding on record
#	Company	Ranked on	Measure	Valuation	Sells	Pays companies for data
1	Mercor	$2B	Revenue, run rate, Jun 2026	$10B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Through our introductions
2	Surge AI	$1.2B	Revenue, FY2024		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
3	Handshake AI	$1B	Revenue, run rate, Aug 2026	$3.5B	RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Expert and human data, Annotation	Through our introductions
4	micro1	$1B	Revenue, run rate, Oct 2026	$4B	RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Expert and human data, Datasets	Through our introductions
5	Scale AI	$870M	Revenue, FY2024	$29B	Labeling software, RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Simulation	Through our introductions
6	Prolific	$500M	Revenue, run rate, May 2026		Evaluations and benchmarks, Expert and human data, Datasets, Annotation
7	Snorkel AI	$375M	Revenue, run rate, Sep 2026	$3.5B	Datasets, RL environments, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
8	Innodata	$350M	Revenue, 12 months to Sep 2026		Labeling software, RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
9	Turing	$300M	Revenue, run rate, Mar 2025	$2.2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Through our introductions
10	Appen	$249M	Revenue, 12 months to Jun 2026		Labeling software, Datasets, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
11	Proximal	$200M	Revenue, run rate, Sep 2026	$300M	Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
12	Invisible Technologies	$134M	Revenue, FY2024	$2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
13	AfterQuery	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Apr 2026	$3.2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Through our introductions
14	Toloka	$26.4M	Revenue, FY2024		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
15	Labelbox	$1.3B	Valuation, 2026		RL environments, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Its own programme
16	Mechanize	$500M	Valuation, 2026		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Simulation
17	Vals AI	$400M	Valuation, 2026		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
18	Patronus AI	$70M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation	Through our introductions
19	SuperAnnotate	$49.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets	Its own programme
20	Deeptune	$43M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets
21	Bespoke Labs	$40M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Simulation
22	Gray Swan AI	$40M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
23	Deccan AI	$25M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
24	iMerit	$23.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets
25	SimpleClosure	$19M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets	Its own programme
26	Datacurve	$15M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
27	General Reasoning	$10.9M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks
28	Arga Labs	$10M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks
29	Idler	$9M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation	Its own programme
30	Perle AI	$9M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
31	Veris AI	$8.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, RL environments
32	Runloop	$7M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, RL environments
33	Quesma	$2M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks

On the list with no money on record (37)

Twelve months.: A run rate or ARR is the company's own annualised figure, often its best month times twelve; a year is the year it published. Where a company reports quarters or halves, the last four quarters or two halves are added up. Gross revenue of a human data company includes what it pays its experts.
Who is on it.: A company is on this list when its own pages say it does this work, read word for word. It is not on it because we chose it, and none pays to be here.
Your place, on your site.: Every ranked company has a badge of its place, kept current with this page: the address is /badges/coding-data-companies/ followed by the company's id in its page's address, as in Mercor's. Link it to this page.
Pays companies for data.: "Through our introductions": it takes companies' data through AIData.Broker's introductions and pays us a referral fee when one goes ahead. That never moves its place: the order is the money on record. "Its own programme": a published programme for buying data. "Says it buys data": its own words, linked.

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Other rankings

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Every ranking

Best AI data labs and human data companiesLargest: Mercor
RL environment companiesLargest: Mercor
Best data labeling companiesLargest: Handshake AI
Best data labeling platformsLargest: Scale AI
AI evaluation companiesLargest: Mercor
Best AI training data providersLargest: Mercor
Robotics training data companiesLargest: Scale AI
Medical AI training data companiesLargest: Mercor
Speech and audio training data companiesLargest: Surge AI
Video and image training data companiesLargest: Surge AI
Finance AI training data companiesLargest: Mercor
Legal AI training data companiesLargest: Mercor
AI red teaming and security data companiesLargest: Proximal
Multilingual training data providersLargest: Surge AI
Synthetic training data companiesLargest: Mercor
Best AI data collection companiesLargest: Innodata
Computer-use agent data companiesLargest: Scale AI

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