What Encord does
Encord is a data infrastructure platform for AI teams, with a focus on physical AI and enterprise use. It manages, curates, and annotates multimodal data, including video, LiDAR, audio, text, and sensor fusion. Named features include annotation and labeling, data collection and curation with embedding-based search, and model alignment and evaluation for RLHF, rubric-based evaluation, and pairwise comparison. Data-as-a-service options include expert annotation and managed data collection. The platform is API and SDK first, and customer data remains in the customer cloud environment. The page links to a pricing page but does not state a pricing model.
How Encord compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Encord does. All 5 offer an API, as Encord does. Encord offers a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Encord was founded in 2021; the alternatives were founded between 2016 and 2023, 3 of them earlier. Encord is based in London, United Kingdom; none of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the United Kingdom. They are in the United States and Spain.