Who are Surge AI's competitors?

141 companies on our register sell at least two of what Surge AI sells (RL environments, datasets, expert and human data and evaluations and benchmarks). The largest by the money on record: Mercor at $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), Handshake AI at $1B (run rate, Aug 2026), micro1 at $1B (run rate, Oct 2026). Surge AI is #2 of the 61 with money on record, on $1.2B (FY2024).

Who is Surge AI's biggest competitor?

Mercor, by the money on record: $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), against Surge AI's $1.2B (FY2024). Mercor sells RL environments, datasets, expert and human data and evaluations and benchmarks, as Surge AI does.

Which of Surge AI's competitors buy data from companies?

27 of them take data from the companies that hold it, through a published programme or in their own words: Mercor, Handshake AI, micro1, Scale AI, Turing, Appen, AfterQuery, Wirestock and others.

Updated 8 Nov 2026

Surge AI competitors in 2026, ranked by revenue.

The largest companies that sell what Surge AI sells, by the money on record: Mercor ($2B, run rate, Jun 2026), Handshake AI ($1B, run rate, Aug 2026), micro1 ($1B, run rate, Oct 2026), Scale AI ($870M, FY2024) and Prolific ($500M, run rate, May 2026). Surge AI itself is #2 of 61, on $1.2B (FY2024).

141 companies on our register sell at least two of what Surge AI sells (RL environments, datasets, expert and human data and evaluations and benchmarks), read on their own pages. 60 have revenue, a valuation or funding on record and are ranked below with Surge AI, every figure linked to the filing or article it comes from.

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Surge AI and its 60 ranked competitors

1 of them rank above Surge AI. 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.

Surge AI and its competitors, 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	TaskUs	$250M	Revenue, 12 months to Sep 2026 (AI Services)		Annotation, Expert and human data, Datasets
11	Appen	$249M	Revenue, 12 months to Jun 2026		Labeling software, Datasets, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
12	Proximal	$200M	Revenue, run rate, Sep 2026	$300M	Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
13	Invisible Technologies	$134M	Revenue, FY2024	$2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
14	AfterQuery	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Apr 2026	$3.2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Through our introductions
15	Arena	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Oct 2026	$3.1B	Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
16	Mecka	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Jun 2026	$500M	Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
17	Wirestock	$40M	Revenue, run rate, May 2026		Datasets, Expert and human data	Its own programme
18	Toloka	$26.4M	Revenue, FY2024		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
19	Eigent AI	$12M	Revenue, run rate, Oct 2026		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks
20	Applied Intuition	$15B	Valuation, 2025		Simulation, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
21	Labelbox	$1.3B	Valuation, 2026		RL environments, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Its own programme
22	Mechanize	$500M	Valuation, 2026		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Simulation
23	Vals AI	$400M	Valuation, 2026		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
24	Kled	$100M	Valuation, 2025		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
25	Lightwheel	$145M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Simulation
26	Encord	$90M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Annotation, Expert and human data, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks
27	Patronus AI	$70M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation	Through our introductions
28	Sama	$70M	Money raised, disclosed		Expert and human data, Annotation, Evaluations and benchmarks
29	XDOF	$70M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Annotation
30	CloudFactory	$65M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Annotation, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
31	Defined.ai	$62.3M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Annotation, Evaluations and benchmarks	Its own programme
32	Centific	$60M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
33	David AI	$50M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
34	SuperAnnotate	$49.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets	Its own programme
35	Deeptune	$43M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets
36	Bespoke Labs	$40M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Simulation
37	Gray Swan AI	$40M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
38	Kili Technology	$32M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Annotation, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
39	Luel	$31.2M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
40	Halluminate	$30M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks	Its own programme
41	Maxinsights	$30M	Money raised, disclosed		Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Simulation
42	Deccan AI	$25M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
43	iMerit	$23.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets
44	HUD	$16M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks
45	Datacurve	$15M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
46	Midcentury	$15M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Simulation, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
47	General Reasoning	$10.9M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks
48	Chakra Labs	$10.1M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
49	Arga Labs	$10M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks
50	BioStack Platforms	$9.5M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation
51	Idler	$9M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation	Its own programme
52	Perle AI	$9M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
53	Veris AI	$8.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, RL environments
54	Human Archive	$8.2M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Annotation
55	Runloop	$7M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, RL environments
56	VisionLab AI	$6M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Annotation, Expert and human data
57	Build AI	$5M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks
58	Latch	$5M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Annotation
59	Good Start Labs	$3.6M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
60	Poindexter Labs	$2.7M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
61	Quesma	$2M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks

Competitors with no money on record (81)

Who is a competitor.: A company whose own pages, read word for word, say it sells at least two of the things Surge AI 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 Surge AI and its competitors, each linked to its record.

5 Nov 2026Innodata reported $350M revenue (12 months to Sep 2026)
4 Nov 2026TaskUs reported $250M revenue (12 months to Sep 2026, AI Services)
22 Oct 2026Maxinsights raised $30M
22 Oct 2026BioStack Platforms raised $9.5M
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)
9 Oct 2026Eigent AI reported $12M revenue (run rate, Oct 2026)

The questions people ask

Who are Surge AI's competitors?: 141 companies on our register sell at least two of what Surge AI sells (RL environments, datasets, expert and human data and evaluations and benchmarks). The largest by the money on record: Mercor at $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), Handshake AI at $1B (run rate, Aug 2026), micro1 at $1B (run rate, Oct 2026). Surge AI is #2 of the 61 with money on record, on $1.2B (FY2024).
Who is Surge AI's biggest competitor?: Mercor, by the money on record: $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), against Surge AI's $1.2B (FY2024). Mercor sells RL environments, datasets, expert and human data and evaluations and benchmarks, as Surge AI does.
Which of Surge AI's competitors buy data from companies?: 27 of them take data from the companies that hold it, through a published programme or in their own words: Mercor, Handshake AI, micro1, Scale AI, Turing, Appen, AfterQuery, Wirestock and others.

Where Surge AI ranks

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