iMerit review
Headquartered in San Jose, California, iMerit labels data with its own full-time staff rather than an open crowd of workers.
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California
- File types
- Photos and Medical scans, Rating AI chatbot answers, Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans (LiDAR)
- Security audits from outside firms
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, TISAX
- Pricing model
- Each job gets its own price
We drew these facts from: the imerit.ai home page · imerit.ai, its about us page · imerit.ai on compliance and certifications · imerit.ai, how imerit ensures data security · the join-scholars.imerit.net home page
Is iMerit a good fit?
It suits medical images, self-driving data and similar work where an audited in-house team matters more than finding the cheapest quote.
A good match when
- Your data is text, audio, photos, video, medical scans, 3D laser scans (LiDAR) or chatbot answers that need a rating.
- You need a company that lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 9001 on pages of its own.
Check with iMerit first if
- A free test first is what you want: request iMerit's pilot terms (firms that publish one).
- You need the cost in hand ahead of any sales call; a sample comes first, then it quotes each job.
- Satellite and map images are not on iMerit's list, so ask if that is what you need.
More about iMerit
- The laws it says it complies with
- HIPAA, GDPR
- Standard for quality
- ISO 9001
- Its working model
- Labeling handled by full-time in-house staff on software iMerit owns
- Team
- More than 5,000 staff in nine secure offices that handle the work
What the market charges for this kind of work
- Each object boxed., per box
- Non-US team.:$0.02 to $0.12Our estimate for a US team.:$0.04 to $0.48
- Tracking objects across frames., per tracked object per frame
- Non-US team:$0.05 to $0.25Our estimate for a US team.:$0.10 to $1.00
- Tagging names, places or amounts., per document
- Non-US team.:$0.04 to $0.30Our estimate for a US team.:$0.08 to $1.20
- Typed-out speech, with who spoke noted., per audio minute
- Non-US team:$0.10 to $1.50Our estimate for a US team.:$0.20 to $6.00
For the jobs iMerit lists, we show prices published by other labeling companies next to our US team estimate. It doubles the low end and uses four times the high end, the markup range Habile Data reports for US teams. Treat these as market rates, not a quote from iMerit.
Get an estimate for a job like this · The origin of each price
Two things to know about iMerit
- EXL, an analytics and operations company, now owns iMerit.
- Entry to its nine delivery centers, which handle client data, is limited by biometric scanners and key cards.
What iMerit offers for data annotation
- Audio, video, image and text files, plus LiDAR, medical scans (DICOM) and PDF
- Alignment, attack testing (red teaming), writing answers for models to learn from (SFT), Rating chatbot answers (RLHF)
- Robotics, mobility/autonomous vehicles, generative AI, healthcare/medical AI
iMerit and similar companies
| Company | Headquarters | File types | Security audits from outside firms | Price and free test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iMeritThis page | San Jose, California | Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Rating chatbot answers, Medical scans, photos | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, TISAX | Quoted after a sample |
 Label Your Data | Wilmington, Delaware | Photos, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Satellite photos | ISO 27001 | The starting price is $0.02 for a box or $6 for an hour.The trial job is free; getting started costs nothing. |
 CloudFactory | Reading, England | Photos, Video, Text, Satellite photos | ISO 27001, SOC 2 (the type isn't stated) | You decide on a yearly budget; payment covers finished work only.As a test, it labels a few of your files free. |
 Appen | Sydney, Australia and Kirkland, Washington | Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Rating chatbot answers, Medical scans, photos | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 | Quoted after a sample |
 Shaip | New York, New York | Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Rating chatbot answers, Medical scans, photos | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II | Quoted after a sample |
Prices and companies for the files iMerit labels
What to ask iMerit before you sign
- What sites do your teams work from, and which of those teams would label our data?
- How do you measure accuracy, and what share of labels gets checked by a second person?
- Can we start with a pilot, free of charge?
- Before any of our files reach you, will you let us review the SOC 2 Type II report?
- Do you price per project, per hour or per label for this kind of work?
Quotes for work like this: how to get them
- Describe the job just once: what kind of data, which labels and the number of items.
- We pick up to three companies that label that kind of data, and email you their names before we pass the brief on.
- A price comes from each one after it asks you for a few sample files.
Want a free test first? Both Label Your Data and CloudFactory publish one.
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