Hive Data vs. Appen

Founded in 2013, Hive is a pioneering AI company specialized in computer vision and deep learning. Hive is focused on powering innovators across industries with practical AI solutions and data labeling, grounded in the world's highest quality visual and audio metadata. The company solves challenges for enterprises through three main pillars of the business: Hive Data, Hive Predict, and Hive Enterprise. Hive Data is the world's largest distributed data labeling platform with over 2 million registered contributors globally.

Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, video, and other data to create training data used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. We offer a state of the art, licensable data annotation platform to annotate training data use cases in computer vision and natural language processing. Our platform enhances accuracy and efficiency through our Smart Labeling and Pre-Labeling features which use Machine Learning to ease human annotations.