Protege competitors and alternatives
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 10 companies most like Protege: Turing, Innodata, Labelbox, Snorkel AI, Truveta, Scale AI, Volga Partners, Mecka, Collinear and Appen.
- Protege itself has 19 open roles on Alion.
- Of them, Scale AI is hiring the most, with 160 open roles.
- Scale AI has raised the most venture funding on record: $1.4B.
- Open roles at Innodata rose the most: from 32 on Oct 12, 2026 to 39 now.
Protege and its competitors compared
Open roles are the postings Alion lists today; their change is shown only for career sites that state posting dates. Funding is the venture money on record. A dash means Alion holds no figure.
| Company | Open roles | Change | Raised | Last round | Employees | Headquarters | Main technologies | Hiring in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Protege
This company
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19 | – | – | – | 201-500 | New York, United States | Python, SQL, LLM | United States |
Turing
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
49 | – | – | – | 501-1000 | San Francisco, United States | AI Agents, Reinforcement Learning, Edge AI | United States, India, Brazil +2 more |
Innodata
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, SQL, GCP · headquarters in United States |
39 | +22%since Oct 12, 2026 | – | – | 201-500 | Ridgefield Park, United States | Machine Learning, Fine-tuning, Python | United States, India, Sri Lanka +1 more |
Labelbox
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
10 | – | $65M | Series C $40M2021 | 201-500 | San Francisco, United States | Databricks, Reinforcement Learning, LLM | United States, India |
Snorkel AI
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
43 | -2%since Oct 12, 2026 | $150M | Series D $100M2025 | 201-500 | Redwood City, United States | Snorkel, AI Agents, LLM | United States |
Truveta
In common: Health Data & Interoperability · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
31 | -9%since Oct 12, 2026 | – | – | 201-500 | Bellevue, United States | Azure, Python, Kubernetes | India, United States |
Scale AI
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
160 | -8%since Oct 12, 2026 | $1.4B | Series E $1B2024 | 1001-5000 | San Francisco, United States | Python, AI Agents, AWS | United States, United Kingdom, Kuwait +5 more |
Volga Partners
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
20 | – | – | – | 51-200 | Kirkland, United States | Machine Learning, Edge AI, LLM | Pakistan |
Mecka
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
52 | – | $60M | Venture round $60M2026 | 201-500 | New York, United States | Embodied AI, Python, Computer Vision | United States, Canada |
Collinear
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, SQL, GCP · headquarters in United States |
10 | – | – | – | 51-200 | San Francisco, United States | Python, CI/CD, AI Agents | United States, India |
Appen
In common: AI Training Data & Annotation · Python, SQL, Databricks · headquarters in United States |
25 | – | – | – | 201-500 | San Francisco, United States | Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, SFT | United Kingdom, United States, India +2 more |
How the list is made
The list comes from Alion's similar-companies engine, the same one AI agents query through the Alion MCP server. A company ranks higher when it shares more of Protege's industry segments and is less spread over others, when its job postings name the same technologies, when it is headquartered in the same country and when its size is close. The list is rebuilt every week.
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