Shaip review

Today part of Ubiquity, a firm based in New York, Shaip collects, licenses and labels data for AI.

Located in: New York, New York
File types: Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans (LiDAR), Photos, Medical scans, Rating AI chatbot replies
Security audits by outside auditors: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II
Pricing approach: Every job gets its own price

Source list: shaip.com homepage · security and compliance page on shaip.com · contact us page on shaip.com · data collection page on shaip.com

How to get three quotes for work like this

Is Shaip a good fit?

It suits healthcare text, speech collection and projects where data is both collected and labeled.

A good fit when

You work with photos, video, audio and text, 3D laser (LiDAR) scans, medical scans or chatbot answers that need rating.
Pick a firm whose own site lists ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and SOC 2 Type II.

Check with Shaip first if

If a free test is your first step, request pilot terms from Shaip (firms that publish one).
Before any sales call, you need a price: after seeing a sample, it quotes each job.
Satellite and map images are what you need: Shaip doesn't list it, so ask them.

City street seen from a car with colored boxes around each car, cyclist and pedestrian

More about Shaip

The laws it says it follows: HIPAA
Standard for quality: ISO 9001
Its working model: A mix of managed teams and online workers across the world
Team: More than 60 countries supply its data

Market prices for work like this

Each object inside a box, per box: Non-US team.:$0.02 to $0.12Our estimate for a US team.: between$0.04 and $0.48
Objects followed from one frame to the next., for each tracked object in each frame: Non-US team.:$0.05 to $0.25Our estimate for a US team.: between$0.10 and $1.00
Marking names, places or amounts., for each document: Non-US team.:$0.04 to $0.30Our estimate for a US team.: between$0.08 and $1.20
Speech typed out, noting who spoke., for each minute of audio: Non-US team.:$0.10 to $1.50Our estimate for a US team.: between$0.20 and $6.00

Prices that other labeling companies publish for the jobs Shaip lists, next to our US team estimate. That estimate is double the low end and the high end times four, the markup range Habile Data gives for teams in the US. These figures are market prices; Shaip has not quoted them.

Two things to know about Shaip

Shaip also licenses ready-made datasets, so some projects don't need collection at all.
When Ubiquity bought Shaip, it gained its India operations in Ahmedabad.

What Shaip offers for data annotation

Video, image, text and audio
3D and flat labels, with camera and scanner combined
Clinical and healthcare text (NLP)
First-person video for robotics

Shaip and similar companies

Shaip next to companies that label similar files, and two of them publish a free test
Company	Located in	File types	Security audits by outside auditors	Price and free test
ShaipThis page	New York, New York	Medical scans, Rating chatbot answers, plus Photos, Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans	ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II	Quoted after a sample
Label Your Data	Wilmington, Delaware	Photos, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Satellite photos	ISO 27001	$0.02 per box or $6 per hour is where pricing starts.There's a trial job for free, and getting started costs nothing.
CloudFactory	Reading, England	Photos, Video, Text, Satellite photos	ISO 27001, SOC 2 (the type isn't stated)	Set a yearly budget; you pay only for work that's finished.As a test, a few of your files are labeled free.
Appen	Sydney, Australia and Kirkland, Washington	Medical scans, Rating chatbot answers, plus Photos, Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001	Quoted after a sample
iMerit	San Jose, California	Medical scans, Rating chatbot answers, plus Photos, Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, TISAX	Quoted after a sample

All of them side by side

Prices and companies for the files Shaip labels

What to ask Shaip before you sign

Where do your teams work, and which ones would label our data?
What share of labels gets a second-person check, and how is accuracy measured?
Is starting with a pilot possible, and would it be free of charge?
Can we see your ISO 27001 report before you receive any of our files?
How do you price this kind of work: per label, per hour or per project?

Collecting quotes for this type of work

You describe the job once, covering the data type, the labels and how many items.
We pick up to three companies that label that kind of data, and email you their names before we pass the brief on.
After requesting a few sample files, each one gives you a price.

Do you want a free test before anything else? Label Your Data publishes one; CloudFactory publishes one too.

Comparing Shaip with others? Describe the job once, and three annotation companies that label your kind of data reply with prices.

Get quotes from companies like Shaip

Send one brief, hear from three vendors

Describe your data once and we pass it to three annotation vendors that label that kind of data, so you can compare quotes side by side.

One short form instead of three sales calls. Matched on data type, volume and security needs. You choose who to talk to.