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Compare Alation and Appen 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (60.7% of reviews)
Small-Business (54.8% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
SaaS subscription pricing dependent on use case and data type
Alation
Star Rating
(92)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (60.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about AlationAppen
Star Rating
(32)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (54.8% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
SaaS subscription pricing dependent on use case and data type
Browse all 2 pricing plansAlation vs Appen
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Alation easier to use and do business with overall. However, reviewers preferred the ease of set up with Appen, along with administration.
- Alation and Appen both meet the requirements of our reviewers at a comparable rate.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Alation is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Alation over Appen.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Alation
No pricing availableAppen
Appen Data Annotation Platform
SaaS subscription pricing dependent on use case and data type
The industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform used to collect and annotate data for training both computer vision and natural language processing AI models.
- Data annotation capabilities that support all data types (text, audio, image, video, sensor) and use cases including search relevance, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP/Speech).
- Create and launch data annotation jobs easily through our plug and play graphical user interface, or programmatically through our API.
- Smart Labeling capabilities have built-in Machine Learning assistance to save customers time, effort and money - delivering high-quality training data and accelerating the ROI and your AI initiatives.
Free Trial
Alation
Free Trial is available
Appen
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.2
68
8.2
28
Ease of Use
8.3
72
8.2
28
Ease of Setup
8.1
50
8.6
12
Ease of Admin
8.5
41
9.2
8
Quality of Support
8.6
61
8.0
27
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.8
44
8.5
8
Product Direction (% positive)
9.0
72
7.8
26
Features by Category
Data Governance
7.8
26
8.3
13
7.6
26
8.2
12
7.3
25
7.8
12
Data Preparation
8.2
28
8.3
13
7.8
27
8.2
13
7.4
25
7.9
12
6.8
25
7.9
12
Collaboration
8.4
25
8.1
12
7.9
25
8.1
13
8.5
27
8.2
11
8.0
23
8.0
11
Artificial Intelligence
7.2
25
8.3
11
7.2
24
7.2
10
6.7
22
7.4
11
Generative AI
7.4
15
7.6
7
7.7
15
8.3
7
Agentic AI - Machine Learning Data Catalog
6.9
13
Not enough data
7.1
13
Not enough data
7.1
12
Not enough data
7.1
12
Not enough data
7.5
12
Not enough data
Administration
6.9
38
Not enough data
7.2
41
Not enough data
6.9
39
Not enough data
7.1
39
Not enough data
Management
8.2
39
Not enough data
8.4
40
Not enough data
6.8
38
Not enough data
6.9
39
Not enough data
7.3
38
Not enough data
Compliance
7.5
38
Not enough data
7.6
39
Not enough data
7.5
36
Not enough data
7.2
39
Not enough data
Security
7.5
36
Not enough data
7.6
36
Not enough data
7.6
37
Not enough data
Data Quality
6.8
36
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.3
37
Not enough data
Maintainence
7.2
35
Not enough data
7.2
34
Not enough data
Generative AI
6.4
29
Not enough data
6.5
29
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Data Governance
5.5
7
Not enough data
6.0
7
Not enough data
6.2
7
Not enough data
5.8
6
Not enough data
5.2
7
Not enough data
5.2
7
Not enough data
Quality
Not enough data
8.5
11
Not enough data
8.7
10
Not enough data
9.0
10
Not enough data
8.3
9
Automation
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
8.7
9
Image Annotation
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.7
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.8
10
Natural Language Annotation
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
9.0
8
Speech Annotation
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
8.7
9
Data management
8.3
24
Not enough data
7.4
24
Not enough data
8.3
24
Not enough data
8.0
22
Not enough data
8.3
24
Not enough data
Reporting
7.5
23
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.4
20
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.0
19
Not enough data
7.1
19
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Alation and Appen are categorized as Machine Learning Data Catalog
Unique Categories
Alation is categorized as Active Metadata Management and Data Governance
Appen is categorized as Data Labeling
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Alation
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Appen
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
13.1%
Financial Services
8.3%
Computer Software
6.0%
Manufacturing
4.8%
Retail
4.8%
Other
63.1%
Information Technology and Services
22.6%
Higher Education
9.7%
Education Management
9.7%
Internet
6.5%
Computer Software
6.5%
Other
45.2%
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