What Abaka AI does

Abaka AI is an AI data services company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, that provides end-to-end data infrastructure for enterprise teams building frontier AI systems. Its offerings span the full AI data lifecycle — data collection, cleaning, annotation, training-data production, and model evaluation — delivered through both managed services and a proprietary platform. The company's stated differentiators are a 1M+ global annotator network across 50+ countries, a 99% accuracy SLA, large-model-powered automation claimed to deliver 50x throughput, GDPR/CCPA compliance with full IP provenance, and a strict no-compete, no-data-resale policy intended to secure client trust.

Its flagship product, the Abaka Forge Platform, is a web-based annotation tool supporting image, 3D/4D point cloud, RLHF, text, audio, and video data within a single unified workflow. Abaka also sells pre-curated off-the-shelf multimodal datasets across coding, reasoning, image, video, audio, agentic, and 3D categories; custom 360° real-world data capture (text, image, video, LiDAR, IoT sensors); managed annotation with hourly and unit-based billing; model evaluation and red-teaming services; an RL Environment product for agent training; and a talent service drawing on its distributed annotator pool. The company co-founded the 2077AI Foundation, an open-source initiative focused on model evaluation and benchmarking.

Revenue mechanics combine per-unit dataset pricing ($0.001-$100 per item depending on modality), hourly annotation rates ($6-$18), per-evaluation billing ($6-$15), and a credit-based self-serve tier for Forge Platform access at $0.20 per credit. Distribution is primarily direct enterprise sales, with a self-serve channel available through the platform. The company explicitly states it is "fully self-funded and profitable" with no venture capital, outside investors, or acquisition pressure, and uses that independence as a primary trust lever with enterprise clients that are unnamed in public materials.

Name

Abaka AI

Legal name

Abaka AI

Website

https://abaka.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Abaka AI provides AI data collection, cleaning, annotation, and model evaluation services for enterprise AI teams building LLMs, multimodal models, autonomous driving, and agents. Its Abaka Forge Platform and 1M+ annotator network serve clients across 50+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Annotation Tooling & Workflow Management (HDAAALAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF), Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF)

Keywords

• AI data annotation
• Multimodal datasets
• RLHF annotation
• Model evaluation
• Data labeling services

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Abaka AI provides an end-to-end AI data infrastructure platform (Abaka Forge) and managed services covering the full data lifecycle for AI/ML teams: data collection, data cleaning, annotation, training-data preparation, and model evaluation. Offerings include off-the-shelf datasets, custom data collection, multimodal annotation (text, image, video, audio, 3D point cloud), RLHF support, model evaluation, and dedicated annotator sourcing for AI labs and enterprises.

Product overview

Abaka AI is an AI data infrastructure company providing a unified platform plus service offerings across the entire AI data lifecycle. The core product is the Abaka Forge Platform, an end-to-end annotation and data production platform that handles image, video, text, audio, 3D, and multimodal data with large model-powered automation. This platform is complemented by pre-curated multimodal Datasets for off-the-shelf use, along with specialized services including Data Annotation (with 1M+ annotators globally), Data Collection (360° real-world capture), Model Evaluation, Talent Service, and an RL Environment for agent training. The company also co-founded the 2077AI Foundation for open-source benchmark work. All offerings are supported by strict data confidentiality commitments, including no resale of client data and segregated secure pipelines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Abaka Forge Platform: A comprehensive data annotation platform supporting Image, 3D/4D Point Cloud, RLHF, Text, Video and more - designed to produce collection, cleaning, annotation, training, and high-quality data production on one platform with automated annotation powered by large models.

Products and services

• Abaka Forge Platform Unified AI data lifecycle platform that provides data collection, cleaning, annotation, training-data preparation, and model evaluation in one environment for AI/ML teams building LLMs and multimodal models.
• Off-the-shelf Datasets Pre-curated, ready-to-use datasets across modalities (text, image, video, audio, 3D point cloud) that AI teams can buy directly to accelerate model training without running their own collection campaigns.
• Data Annotation Service Managed annotation service covering text, image, video, audio, and 3D/4D point cloud modalities, with RLHF support, large-model pre-labeling for speed, and a 99% accuracy SLA for AI/ML teams.
• Data Collection Service Custom data collection service that sources and curates raw training data across modalities for AI teams needing datasets not available off the shelf.
• Model Evaluation Service End-to-end model evaluation service that benchmarks AI model outputs, including LLM and multimodal model assessments, to help teams validate quality, safety, and readiness for deployment.
• RL Environment Reinforcement learning environment offering for AI teams developing RL-based agents, providing environments and feedback signals to support training and evaluation workflows.
• Talent Service Talent sourcing service that provides AI labs and enterprises with vetted, specialized human annotators on a dedicated basis for ongoing labeling work.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50x faster annotation compared to manual annotation through automated model-assisted workflows
• +3 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 2077AI FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAbaka AI co-founded the 2077AI Foundation, an open-source initiative focused on model evaluation and benchmarking work. The foundation represents Abaka's contribution to the broader AI ecosystem through open-source benchmarks, supporting stronger model evaluation standards for the industry.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Scale AI: Scale AI is the leading AI data labeling platform serving frontier model labs with annotation, evaluation, and RLHF services. Direct competitor to Abaka across all data types, with substantially greater scale and capital.
• Sama: Sama (formerly Samasource) provides high-quality data annotation with an emphasis on ethical AI and impact sourcing. Comparable to Abaka in its premium, ethics-led positioning and enterprise AI focus.
• iMerit: iMerit provides expert-annotated training data for computer vision, NLP, and medical AI. Comparable to Abaka's domain-specialist annotation positioning and enterprise AI focus.
• Toloka AI: Toloka AI operates a crowdsourced data labeling platform for LLMs, CV, and multimodal AI. Comparable to Abaka in distributed annotator model and enterprise ML serving.
• Surge AI: Surge AI specializes in high-quality RLHF and nuanced text annotation for frontier LLMs. Closely comparable to Abaka in the enterprise AI labeling niche, with similar premium positioning and human-expert focus.
• Labelbox: Labelbox provides an enterprise data labeling platform with managed labeling services for computer vision and NLP. Direct competitor to Abaka Forge, with similar SaaS-plus-services business model.

Broad incumbents

• Appen: Appen is a global data annotation incumbent with a large crowdsourced workforce serving ML teams across image, text, audio, and video. Competes with Abaka in enterprise data services but with a much broader, more commoditized offering.
• TELUS International (Lionbridge AI): TELUS International acquired Lionbridge AI to offer large-scale data annotation services. Competes with Abaka across enterprise AI data services but as part of a broader BPO portfolio.

Emerging players

• Snorkel AI: Snorkel AI focuses on programmatic data labeling and weak supervision for enterprise ML. Adjacent competitor to Abaka in the AI training data space, with a different technical approach but overlapping customer base.
• Encord: Encord provides a data-centric AI platform for annotation, curation, and evaluation of multimodal data. Emerging competitor to Abaka Forge in the enterprise labeling platform category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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