Who are Vals AI's competitors?

94 companies on our register sell at least two of what Vals AI sells (evaluations and benchmarks and datasets). The largest by the money on record: Mercor at $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), Surge AI at $1.2B (FY2024), micro1 at $1B (run rate, Oct 2026). Vals AI is #18 of the 44 with money on record, on $400M valuation (2026).

Who is Vals AI's biggest competitor?

Mercor, by the money on record: $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), against Vals AI's $400M valuation (2026). Mercor sells evaluations and benchmarks and datasets, as Vals AI does.

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

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

Updated 8 Nov 2026

Vals AI competitors in 2026, ranked by revenue.

The largest companies that sell what Vals AI sells, by the money on record: Mercor ($2B, run rate, Jun 2026), Surge AI ($1.2B, FY2024), micro1 ($1B, run rate, Oct 2026), Scale AI ($870M, FY2024) and Prolific ($500M, run rate, May 2026). Vals AI itself is #18 of 44, on $400M valuation.

94 companies on our register sell at least two of what Vals AI sells (evaluations and benchmarks and datasets), read on their own pages. 43 have revenue, a valuation or funding on record and are ranked below with Vals AI, every figure linked to the filing or article it comes from.

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Vals AI and its 43 ranked competitors

17 of them rank above Vals 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.

Vals 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	micro1	$1B	Revenue, run rate, Oct 2026	$4B	RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Expert and human data, Datasets	Through our introductions
4	Scale AI	$870M	Revenue, FY2024	$29B	Labeling software, RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Simulation	Through our introductions
5	Prolific	$500M	Revenue, run rate, May 2026		Evaluations and benchmarks, Expert and human data, Datasets, Annotation
6	Snorkel AI	$375M	Revenue, run rate, Sep 2026	$3.5B	Datasets, RL environments, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
7	Innodata	$350M	Revenue, 12 months to Sep 2026		Labeling software, RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
8	Turing	$300M	Revenue, run rate, Mar 2025	$2.2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Through our introductions
9	Appen	$249M	Revenue, 12 months to Jun 2026		Labeling software, Datasets, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
10	Proximal	$200M	Revenue, run rate, Sep 2026	$300M	Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
11	Invisible Technologies	$134M	Revenue, FY2024	$2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
12	AfterQuery	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Apr 2026	$3.2B	RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks	Through our introductions
13	Arena	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Oct 2026	$3.1B	Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
14	Mecka	$100M	Revenue, run rate, Jun 2026	$500M	Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
15	Toloka	$26.4M	Revenue, FY2024		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
16	Eigent AI	$12M	Revenue, run rate, Oct 2026		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks
17	Mechanize	$500M	Valuation, 2026		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Simulation
18	Vals AI	$400M	Valuation, 2026		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
19	Kled	$100M	Valuation, 2025		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
20	Lightwheel	$145M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Simulation
21	Encord	$90M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Annotation, Expert and human data, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks
22	Patronus AI	$70M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation	Through our introductions
23	XDOF	$70M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Annotation
24	CloudFactory	$65M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Annotation, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
25	Defined.ai	$62.3M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Annotation, Evaluations and benchmarks	Its own programme
26	Centific	$60M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
27	David AI	$50M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks
28	SuperAnnotate	$49.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Expert and human data, RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets	Its own programme
29	Bespoke Labs	$40M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Simulation
30	Gray Swan AI	$40M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
31	Luel	$31.2M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
32	Deccan AI	$25M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
33	iMerit	$23.5M	Money raised, disclosed		Labeling software, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation, Datasets
34	Datacurve	$15M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation	Its own programme
35	Midcentury	$15M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Simulation, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
36	Chakra Labs	$10.1M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets
37	BioStack Platforms	$9.5M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation
38	Idler	$9M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks, Simulation	Its own programme
39	Perle AI	$9M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
40	Runloop	$7M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, RL environments
41	Build AI	$5M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Evaluations and benchmarks
42	Latch	$5M	Money raised, disclosed		Evaluations and benchmarks, Datasets, Annotation
43	Good Start Labs	$3.6M	Money raised, disclosed		RL environments, Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation
44	Poindexter Labs	$2.7M	Money raised, disclosed		Datasets, Expert and human data, Evaluations and benchmarks, Annotation

Competitors with no money on record (51)

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

5 Nov 2026Innodata reported $350M revenue (12 months to Sep 2026)
22 Oct 2026BioStack Platforms raised $9.5M
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)
8 Oct 2026Arena raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation
8 Oct 2026Arena reported $100M revenue (run rate, Oct 2026)
7 Oct 2026Mecka raised $60M

The questions people ask

Who are Vals AI's competitors?: 94 companies on our register sell at least two of what Vals AI sells (evaluations and benchmarks and datasets). The largest by the money on record: Mercor at $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), Surge AI at $1.2B (FY2024), micro1 at $1B (run rate, Oct 2026). Vals AI is #18 of the 44 with money on record, on $400M valuation (2026).
Who is Vals AI's biggest competitor?: Mercor, by the money on record: $2B (run rate, Jun 2026), against Vals AI's $400M valuation (2026). Mercor sells evaluations and benchmarks and datasets, as Vals AI does.
Which of Vals AI's competitors buy data from companies?: 20 of them take data from the companies that hold it, through a published programme or in their own words: Mercor, micro1, Scale AI, Turing, Appen, AfterQuery, Kled, Patronus AI and others.

Where Vals AI ranks

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