Companies / Data vendor
Labelbox
Builds reinforcement-learning environments that AI labs use for training and Recursion, a platform for enterprises to run teams of AI agents, and runs the Alignerr network of domain experts. Recorded here: its published terms for buying data, what it sells, in its own words, 3 funding events, 1 revenue figure, 21 public prices and 2 market records.
San Francisco, California, USFounded 2018labelbox.comLatest record 17 Oct 2026
How Labelbox buys data
Labelbox Prism, home page, 15 Oct 2026- What it wants
- Work documents (coding sessions, scientific and financial workflows, research traces) and operational systems (Salesforce, Jira, Slack, SAP, ServiceNow, Zendesk, CAD, financial workbooks). Its page marks financial and scientific reasoning traces and cross-system workflow data as urgent.
- What it publishes about price
- "Smaller targeted datasets starting around $50K and large enterprise partnerships reaching $1M+".
- Who it takes
- Companies in any industry; its page names software, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and logistics as where demand is highest. Licences are exclusive by default.
- How the holder is paid
- "From first call to first wire in under 21 days", with a written quote within 48 hours of scoping.
- Who removes personal data
- Prism handles ingestion, normalisation and PII scrubbing; data is filtered, anonymised, aggregated or permissioned before use.
- What it pays for an introduction
- Nothing published.
We are not Labelbox's agent, partner or representative. If you hold data it might buy, we can put it in front of Labelbox and every other buyer that fits at the same time.
What Labelbox sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
RL environments: “Labelbox builds the environments frontier labs train AI on, and the agents engineering and research teams hand their backlog to.” labelbox.com
Expert and human data: “Frontier AI labs train on Labelbox environments and expert data.” labelbox.com
Evaluations and benchmarks: “After seeing the impact of using Labelbox internally, Google Cloud selected it to deliver LLM evaluation as a managed solution inside Vertex AI.” labelbox.com
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “Labelbox's platform produces expert-graded preference signal across customizable dimensions like instruction following, verbosity, and relevance.” labelbox.com
- Buys data from owners
- Its programme is set out above.
- Areas its pages name
- Coding, Business work, Finance, Legal, Medical, Robotics, Speech and audio, Images and video
Public prices involving Labelbox
- Biologist, PhD at Alignerr (PhD biologists writing and reviewing advanced AI evaluation questions, posted for Labelbox)
The PhD tier. As on the Chemist, PhD post, the body still carries an older line reading $25 to $100 per hour that disagrees with the $90-120/hr in the header and in the board's own data (lower bound 90, upper bound 120); the header figure is the one the board shows.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board, Biologist, PhD
$90-120/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Biology Masters at Alignerr (Master's-level biologists evaluating AI answers)
The Master's tier. About 40 listings carry this title and band, and the 'Biology Subject Matter Expert - AI Content Specialist' posts match it. The Masters/PhDs tier on the same board reads $75-90/hr (alignerr-biology-expert-hourly).
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board, Biology Masters
$35-55/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Chemist, PhD at Alignerr (PhD chemists writing and reviewing advanced AI evaluation questions, posted for Labelbox)
The PhD tier, the highest chemistry band on the board. The posting's body still carries an older line reading $25 to $100 per hour, which disagrees with the $90-120/hr in its header and in the board's own data (lower bound 90, upper bound 120); the header figure is the one the board shows.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board, Chemist, PhD
$90-120/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Chemistry Masters at Alignerr (Master's-level chemists evaluating AI answers)
The Master's tier. About 40 listings on Alignerr's board carry this title and the same band, and the 'Chemistry Subject Matter Expert - AI Content Specialist' posts match it. The Masters/PhDs tier on the same board reads $75-90/hr (alignerr-chemistry-expert-hourly).
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board, Chemistry Masters
$35-55/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Dutch Audio Transcriptionist (AI Training) at Alignerr
Reposted under a new address with the floor cut from $15 to $10 an hour (the old posting now answers 404); native Dutch speakers in the US.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board, Dutch Audio Transcriptionist
$10-35/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Operational data from a company's systems (Salesforce, Jira, SAP, ServiceNow) licensed through Labelbox Prism
Licences are exclusive by default, which the price should reflect; smaller targeted datasets sit at the bottom of the range.
The payer's own page, Labelbox Prism, enterprise data licensing
starting around $50K; large enterprise partnerships $1M+per licence
- Accounting & Finance Expert at Alignerr
Finance teaching and economist listings on the same board pay $35-70/hr.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$60-100/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- AI Red Team Tester at Alignerr
15 listings at this band on the day read.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$40-120/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Average pay across Alignerr (Labelbox) experts
Platform-stated average; the same page says $1M is paid weekly and 1K+ are hired weekly. Its job board listed 5,704 roles the same day.
The payer's own page, Alignerr homepage
$80/hr Average payper hour (paid to the worker)
- Biology Expert (Masters/PhDs) at Alignerr
Biology Masters listings on the same board pay $35-55/hr.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$75-90/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Chemistry Expert (Masters/PhDs) at Alignerr
Chemistry Masters listings on the same board pay $35-55/hr.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$75-90/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Creative Writing Evaluator at Alignerr
Prompt Writer listings carry the same band.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$40-120/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Lean 4 Proof Engineer - Mathematical Formalization (Alignerr)
About 130 Lean 4 and formal-verification listings on the board carry this band, the top of Alignerr's STEM pay.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$170-200/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Legal & Government Policy Analyst (AI Training) at Alignerr
Alignerr listed only 16 legal roles, nearly all at this band; no attorney-level legal role was open.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$20-40/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Mathematics Expert (Masters/PhDs) at Alignerr
The chemistry and biology Masters/PhD expert listings carry the same $75-90/hr band.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$75-90/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Machine Learning Evaluation Specialist at Alignerr (designing ML challenges that stump frontier models)
The highest band on Alignerr's board (7 listings).
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$200-400/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Oncology Clinical Researcher at Alignerr
The commonest band among Alignerr's ~800 health and clinical listings; no physician-specific role was listed.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$40-80/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Physicist, PhD at Alignerr
Most of Alignerr's 183 physics listings pay less ($35-55/hr for Masters, $40-80/hr for applied physics).
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$90-120/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Software Developer paid to build their own project with an AI coding assistant (Alignerr)
Listed in 25 cities at the same band; the developer keeps the code, and the sessions are the data.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$60-120/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Voice Actor - German Speakers at Alignerr
German voice actors were the best-paid voice roles; Italian and French voice actors listed at $170-200/hr, UK and Australian English at $120-200/hr, Indian English and Mexican Spanish at $40-80/hr.
The payer's own page, Alignerr job board
$250-280/hrper hour (paid to the worker)
- Alignerr (Labelbox) weekly payouts to experts
About $52M a year if sustained (x52); far below Handshake's ~$60M a month.
The payer's own page, Alignerr homepage
$1M Paid weeklyper week, all experts
What Labelbox earns
Revenue, run rates and ARR as each was published. Run rates are often a best month times twelve, and gross figures include what passes through to experts.
- growth 2026MeasuregrowthFigureprofitable this year, growing more than 5x year over year (no revenue figure given); 400+ customers; expert network of more than 4 million people
Funding and acquisitions
- 14 Oct 2026EventSeries EAmount$100MValuation$1.3B
- 14 Oct 2026EventCredit facility (part of Series E financing)AmountAmount not stated separately; included in the 'more than $100 million' Series E financing (do not add to the equity figure)
- 10 Feb 2026EventAcquired by LabelboxAmountPrice not disclosed (Upcraft: AI sales-automation agents, founded 2021; its team joins Alignerr)
In the brokerage market
Oct 2026, price range
around $50K to $1M+
Upfront licensing fee at signing plus a revenue share on downstream use; no dollar amount for either. Prism states $100M+ distributed to date and 1k+ companies licensing (self-reported).
Jan 2026, buyer program
No price stated
One-time transaction with no maintenance or support burden; clear authorization and tightly scoped usage for AI training; no public attribution. The post does not name Alignerr or state a price.
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AIData.Broker, “Labelbox in the AI training data market”, reviewed 17 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/labelbox
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