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Shaip

Healthcare-leaning data collection and annotation, plus off-the-shelf datasets.

The verdict. Consider for healthcare/speech collection; verify licensing terms for training use.

Facts checked against primary sources on July 21, 2026.

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  • Healthcare/speech depth
  • Both collection and catalog
  • Narrower outside core verticals
  • Rights vary by asset

What Shaip is

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Shaip provides data collection, annotation, licensed datasets, and generative-AI/RLHF services, with a healthcare emphasis.

Modalities and languages they cover

Speech, text, and medical data, plus an image/video computer-vision catalog, egocentric video, and physical-AI/robotics data. The company cites 70,000+ hours of speech across 65+ languages, 30M unstructured patient notes, and 250K hours of physician dictation.

Sourcing model

Collection to spec from 60+ countries, plus an off-the-shelf catalog.

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Rights & provenance posture

Mixed catalog-and-services model; confirm AI-training licence terms per asset.

Pricing

Shaip pricing is scoped to a project or dataset. The reviewed public materials do not establish a universal enterprise rate card. Compare source volume, collection region, technical specification, annotations, quality acceptance, permissions and delivery on the same basis. A contributor project’s advertised pay is compensation for that project, not the enterprise price to buy its resulting dataset. Pricing note checked October 27, 2026.

Where Shaip falls behind

Breadth outside its healthcare/speech core is thinner; provenance depth varies.

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Sources

Alternatives

Appen

Scale AI

Surge AI

Sapien

Pangeanic

Nexdata

Weighing fiund as one of the alternatives? Read how fiund compares to Shaip — a first-party comparison that is explicit about where Shaip wins.

Frequently asked questions

Is Shaip rights-cleared for AI training?

Mixed catalog-and-services model; confirm AI-training licence terms per asset.

What does Shaip cost?

Shaip pricing is scoped to a project or dataset. The reviewed public materials do not establish a universal enterprise rate card. Compare source volume, collection region, technical specification, annotations, quality acceptance, permissions and delivery on the same basis. A contributor project’s advertised pay is compensation for that project, not the enterprise price to buy its resulting dataset. Pricing note checked October 27, 2026.

What are the best Shaip alternatives?

Depending on what you need, consider Appen, Scale AI, Surge AI. fiund itself focuses on owner-licensed, rights-cleared audio and video sourced to brief.

Want data you can actually defend in diligence?

fiund licenses real-world audio and video at the source, with the rights cleared before anything moves.

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