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Scale AI ARR: $1B+ After the Meta Deal Reset.
Scale AI rode the data-labeling boom to ~$2B of revenue, sold half of itself to Meta, and then watched 2026 guidance get cut from $4B to just over $1B as its biggest AI-lab customers walked. Every reported revenue, valuation and guidance number is collected below, each traced back to a public source.
$1B+
2026 revenue guidance
~$2B
2025 revenue (est.)
$14.3B
Meta's 49% stake, Jun 2025
$29B
Valuation at Meta deal
The Scale AI Revenue Curve.
Reported and estimated revenue in USD millions, 2022 through 2026 guidance. 2026 shows the reset: guidance was cut from a projected $4B to just over $1B after the Meta deal.
$0 → $290M revenue
6 years
2016 founding → 2022
$290M → ~$2B revenue
3 years
2022 → 2025
Valuation $13.8B → $29B
~13 months
May 2024 → Jun 2025
2026 guidance vs 2025 plan
$4B → $1B+
Post-Meta reset
Every Reported ARR Milestone.
Full year 2022
$290M ARR
Roughly $290M of revenue, built on data labeling for autonomous vehicles before the LLM era took over. — Sacra
Full year 2024
$870M ARR
$870M of revenue, with an annualized run rate around $1.5B by year-end; a May 2024 round valued the company at $13.8B. — Sacra / The Information
June 2025
$870M ARR
Meta paid $14.3B for a 49% non-voting stake at a $29B valuation. CEO Alexandr Wang left to lead Meta's superintelligence unit. — Meta / Value Add VC
Full year 2025
$2B ARR
Estimated ~$2B of revenue. Scale called 2025 its 'strongest financial year ever' — but OpenAI and Google began pulling business over the Meta association. — Sacra / Scale
2026 guidance
$1B ARR
Guidance slashed from an earlier $4B projection to just over $1B after major AI-lab customers defected — with snapshots suggesting a partial recovery toward ~$2B annualized by mid-2026. — Sacra / Value Add VC
Scale AI by the Numbers.
2026 revenue guidance
$1B+
Sacra / Value Add VC
2025 revenue (est.)
~$2B
Sacra
2024 revenue
$870M
Sacra / The Information
Meta investment
$14.3B for 49%
Meta, Jun 2025
Valuation
$29B
Meta deal, Jun 2025
Founded
2016, San Francisco
Company
CEO
Jason Droege (post-Meta deal)
Company
How Data Labeling Became a $2B Business.
Scale sells the human side of AI: data labeling and RLHF for model training, expert evaluations, plus government and enterprise AI applications. Revenue grew from $290M in 2022 to ~$2B in 2025 as every frontier lab became a customer — and its list price model is engagement-based, with large multi-year contracts for training data pipelines and evaluation.
The Meta deal inverted the business. Meta's $14.3B purchase of a 49% non-voting stake in June 2025 — which also took CEO Alexandr Wang to Meta — made Scale's rivals its owner's rivals. OpenAI and Google pulled back their business, and 2026 guidance was cut from a projected $4B to just over $1B, the steepest reversal reported for the company. Scale has since leaned on enterprise and government contracts and new business lines, with third-party snapshots suggesting a run rate recovering toward ~$2B annualized by June 2026.
Revenue Mix
- Data labeling & RLHFTraining data pipelines and expert human feedback for AI labs — the historical core.
- Enterprise & government AIApplied AI engagements, including public-sector contracts, now carrying more weight post-Meta deal.
- Evaluation & model opsModel evaluation services for labs and enterprises shipping AI products.
FAQ
Scale AI Revenue, Answered.
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