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Snorkel vs Encord

Snorkel

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Depends
Confidence: Medium

Buy only if you run a serious ML organization that needs expert-in-the-loop training data at scale and can stomach sales-led pricing.

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Pick Snorkel when

  • Enterprise ML teams building custom models
  • Frontier labs needing expert-labeled training data
  • Government and defense AI programs
  • Teams drowning in manual labeling

When Snorkel is not a fit

  • Small teams that just need a few thousand labeled rows
  • Anyone fine with off-the-shelf model APIs
  • Buyers wanting self-serve pricing without a sales call
  • Teams without dedicated ML engineers

Sources

  1. Snorkel AI homepagesnorkel.ai
    official
  2. Snork AI company pagesnorkel.ai
    official
  3. Enterprise storiessnorkel.ai
    official
  4. Reuters: Snorkel AI valued at $3.5Breuters.com
    news
  5. BusinessWire: $100M Series Dbusinesswire.com
    news
  6. LinkedIn: 13% layoffs after raiselinkedin.com
    news
  7. G2: Snorkel Flow reviewsg2.com
    review
  8. eesel: Snorkel AI review 2026eesel.ai
    review
  9. eesel: Snorkel AI alternativeseesel.ai
    review
  10. Snorkel blog: 96% recall case studysnorkel.ai
    official
  11. Turntide case studyturntide.com
    official
  12. Carahsoft: DIU case studycarahsoft.com
    official
  13. Snorkel DryBell paper (Google deployment)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
    official
  14. GHSA: Snorkel unsafe torch.loadgithub.com
    security
  15. NVD: CVE-2026-31223nvd.nist.gov
    security
  16. Snorkel AI Security Portal (SafeBase)security.snorkel.ai
    security