Updated 8 Nov 2026
Lightly competitors in 2026, ranked by revenue.
The largest companies that sell what Lightly sells, by the money on record: Scale AI ($870M, FY2024), Innodata ($350M, 12 months to Sep 2026), Appen ($249M, 12 months to Jun 2026), Encord ($90M raised) and Roboflow ($60M raised). Lightly itself is #12 of 14, on $3M raised.
19 companies on our register sell labeling software, as Lightly does, read on their own pages. 13 have revenue, a valuation or funding on record and are ranked below with Lightly, every figure linked to the filing or article it comes from.
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Lightly and its 13 ranked competitors
11 of them rank above Lightly. 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.
| # | Company | Ranked on | Measure | Valuation | Sells | Pays companies for data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scale AI | $870M | Revenue, FY2024 | $29B | Labeling software, RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Simulation | Through our introductions |
| 2 | Innodata | $350M | Revenue, 12 months to Sep 2026 | Labeling software, RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation | ||
| 3 | Appen | $249M | Revenue, 12 months to Jun 2026 | Labeling software, Datasets, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation | Its own programme | |
| 4 | Encord | $90M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Annotation, Expert and human data, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks | ||
| 5 | Roboflow | $60M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software | ||
| 6 | SuperAnnotate | $49.5M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets | Its own programme | |
| 7 | Voxel51 | $42.5M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software | ||
| 8 | Dataloop | $33M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Annotation | ||
| 9 | Kili Technology | $32M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Annotation, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks | ||
| 10 | HumanSignal | $25M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Annotation, Evaluations and benchmarks | ||
| 11 | iMerit | $23.5M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets | ||
| 12 | Lightly | $3M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software | ||
| 13 | CVAT | $2M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Annotation | ||
| 14 | Segments.ai | $1.1M | Money raised, disclosed | Labeling software, Annotation |
- Who is a competitor.
- A company whose own pages, read word for word, say it sells at least two of the things Lightly sells. Not our opinion of who competes, and nobody pays to be here.
- The place.
- Each company's place among these, renumbered from its place on the whole register's ranking (/best), by the same rule.
- 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.
The latest money moves
The newest rounds, valuations and revenue figures among Lightly and its competitors, each linked to its record.
- 5 Nov 2026Innodata reported $350M revenue (12 months to Sep 2026)
- 27 Oct 2026CVAT raised $2M
- 27 Aug 2026Appen reported $249M revenue (12 months to Jun 2026)
- 24 Jun 2026iMerit was acquired by EXL (ExlService Holdings) for $310M
- 26 Feb 2026Encord raised $60M
- 17 Dec 2025Dataloop was acquired by Dell Technologies for $120M
- 2 Oct 2025Segments.ai was acquired by Uber (Uber AI Solutions)
- 15 Jul 2025SuperAnnotate raised $13.5M
The questions people ask
- Who are Lightly's competitors?
- 19 companies on our register sell labeling software, as Lightly does. The largest by the money on record: Scale AI at $870M (FY2024), Innodata at $350M (12 months to Sep 2026), Appen at $249M (12 months to Jun 2026). Lightly is #12 of the 14 with money on record, on $3M raised.
- Who is Lightly's biggest competitor?
- Scale AI, by the money on record: $870M (FY2024), against Lightly's $3M raised. Scale AI sells labeling software, as Lightly does.
- Which of Lightly's competitors buy data from companies?
- 3 of them take data from the companies that hold it, through a published programme or in their own words: Scale AI, Appen, SuperAnnotate.
Where Lightly ranks
Its place on each list of the market it belongs to, by the same rule.