Companies / Data vendor
Snorkel AI
Describes itself as "the frontier AI data lab helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier models", creating datasets, benchmarks and evaluations for AI labs and enterprises. Recorded here: what it sells, in its own words, 2 funding events, 1 revenue figure and 1 public price.
Founded 2019snorkel.aiLatest record 15 Oct 2026
What Snorkel AI sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
Datasets: “The Snorkel Data Series is a set of research-defined, non-exclusive dataset and environment products, refreshed quarterly as models advance.” snorkel.ai
RL environments: “Whether it’s a benchmark, an eval set, RL environments, or specialized training data, we can help on essentially any data or evaluation project in a high-stakes domain.” snorkel.ai
Expert and human data: “We deliver expert data development as a service: datasets, benchmarks, evaluations, and environments built with our experts, rather than a SaaS app your team runs.” snorkel.ai
Evaluations and benchmarks: “Frontier teams come to us for benchmark creation and RL/agentic evaluation.” snorkel.ai
Annotation: “Learn how Snorkel’s Data-as-a-Service helps teams label, refine, and evaluate high-quality, domain-specific datasets for your projects.” snorkel.ai
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “We deliver expert data development as a service: datasets, benchmarks, evaluations, and environments built with our experts, rather than a SaaS app your team runs.” snorkel.ai
The client's own data: “Enterprises come to build reliable, domain-specific AI grounded in their own data and operating knowledge.” snorkel.ai
- Buys data from owners
- Its pages do not say it does.
- Areas its pages name
- Coding, Computer use, Business work, Legal, Science
Public prices involving Snorkel AI
- One prompt-and-code-review task (writing a prompt, A/B comparing two models' code and picking the better) for Claude Code fine-tuning, Snorkel AI's project Marlin for Anthropic
Two contractors' account to Business Insider, relayed by a news summary because the Business Insider article was not fetched; a ceiling, not a published rate. At about an hour a task, up to about $280 an hour, far above the $30 to $130 per-task rates platforms post for comparable review.
Press report, Let's Data Science, summary of Business Insider: Anthropic uses contractors to improve Claude Code (1 Jun 2026)
up to $280 per taskper task, typically about an hour
What Snorkel AI 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.
- run-rate Sep 2026Measurerun-rateFigure$375M
Funding and acquisitions
- 22 Sep 2026EventSeries EAmount$350MValuation$3.5B
- 29 May 2025EventSeries DAmount$100MValuation$1.3B
Cite this
AIData.Broker, “Snorkel AI in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://aidata.markets/companies/snorkel
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