01Appen alternative

An Appen alternative when the work is capture, not clicks

Appen crowdsources annotation. Harbor pays people to record work they already do, then delivers the files with a task label and a licence.

Where Harbor loses

• Appen has a longer history as a crowd annotation vendor.
• Harbor is not a general-purpose clickwork platform for every annotation type.

Where Harbor is the alternative

• The person in the clip is the person who consented to record it.
• Specs state hours, clips, or patients up front. Unlabelled video is not delivered.
• Speech-to-text rows include the transcript.

Questions buyers ask

When should a buyer stay with Appen?

When the job is labeling an existing corpus at crowd scale. Harbor does not replace that.

When should they use Harbor?

When the corpus does not exist yet, and it has to be recorded from real work.

See Harbor Enterprise, pricing, Harbor vs Scale AI, data types, and the other alternatives. Talk to Harbor before you scope a capture program.