{
  "generated_at": "2026-11-08",
  "publisher": "Best Data Annotation",
  "terms": "Cite with a link. The stamps are dated — quote the date.",
  "slug": "appen",
  "name": "Appen",
  "url": "https://appen.com",
  "model": "Managed service",
  "model_note": "Managed service + crowd platform (CrowdGen), publicly traded (ASX: APX)",
  "founded": "1996",
  "hq": "Sydney, Australia",
  "one_liner": "The category’s longest-running operator: a publicly traded managed data provider with a crowd of over one million contributors in 170+ countries.",
  "pricing": "Not published — project-based quotes",
  "pricing_public": false,
  "best_for": "Multilingual and speech/audio data at global scale, and buyers who value a vendor with public financial reporting and a 30-year operating history.",
  "not_for": "Buyers who need frontier-lab expert demonstrations — Appen’s strength is breadth of crowd and language coverage, not credentialed-specialist depth.",
  "profile": "https://bestdataannotation.com/vendors/appen/",
  "wave": 1,
  "checked": true,
  "last_checked": "2026-11-08",
  "rollup": {
    "claims": 5,
    "verified": 4,
    "unverified": 0,
    "contradicts": 1,
    "verified_share": 0.8
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "field": "Revenue",
      "check": "C9",
      "vendor_value": "Reported roughly $231 million in revenue for the twelve months to December 2025.",
      "stamp": "Verified",
      "evidence_class": "Filed — ASX",
      "source_label": "Appen 2025 Annual Report (ASX, 25 Feb 2026)",
      "source_url": "https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20260225/pdf/06wq7806yk1ll4.pdf",
      "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
      "review_by": "2027-05-07",
      "record_value": "“Full-year operating revenue for 2025 was $230.8 million.” The Appendix 4E reports “revenue and other income” of $233.447 million for the same period; the directory’s figure matches the operating revenue line."
    },
    {
      "field": "Founded",
      "check": "C8",
      "vendor_value": "1996",
      "stamp": "Verified",
      "evidence_class": "Filed — ASX",
      "source_label": "Appen 2025 Annual Report (ASX, 25 Feb 2026)",
      "source_url": "https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20260225/pdf/06wq7806yk1ll4.pdf",
      "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
      "review_by": "2027-05-07",
      "record_value": "“Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices globally.”"
    },
    {
      "field": "Headquarters",
      "check": "C4",
      "vendor_value": "Sydney, Australia",
      "stamp": "Verified",
      "evidence_class": "Filed — ASX",
      "source_label": "Appen 2025 Annual Report (ASX, 25 Feb 2026)",
      "source_url": "https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20260225/pdf/06wq7806yk1ll4.pdf",
      "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
      "review_by": "2027-05-07",
      "record_value": "Registered office on the report cover: “Appen Limited, 9 Help Street, Chatswood, NSW 2067, Australia — ACN 138 878 298.” Chatswood is a Sydney suburb."
    },
    {
      "field": "Crowd size",
      "check": "C5",
      "vendor_value": "A crowd of more than one million contributors across 170+ countries and 235+ languages (Appen website, as recorded in this directory).",
      "stamp": "Contradicts source",
      "evidence_class": "Filed — ASX",
      "source_label": "Appen 2025 Annual Report (ASX, 25 Feb 2026)",
      "source_url": "https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20260225/pdf/06wq7806yk1ll4.pdf",
      "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
      "review_by": "2027-05-07",
      "record_value": "The 2025 Annual Report describes “a global crowd of more than 1 million skilled contractors who speak over 500 languages, in over 200 countries”, footnoted “Self-reported” and “Self-reported, includes territories”.",
      "note": "Both figures are published by Appen. The website figures recorded in this directory (170+ countries, 235+ languages) and the filed annual report figures (over 200 countries, over 500 languages) do not match. Crowd counts are company-reported in both places; no external registry counts them."
    },
    {
      "field": "Pricing",
      "check": "C1",
      "vendor_value": "Not published — project-based quotes.",
      "stamp": "Verified",
      "source_label": "Appen — appen.com sitemap",
      "source_url": "https://appen.com/sitemap.xml",
      "checked_at": "2026-11-08",
      "review_by": "2027-02-06",
      "record_value": "Appen’s sitemap lists no pricing page and the site publishes no rates; pricing is quoted per project.",
      "note": "Absence check: full sitemap and site navigation read on the check date."
    }
  ]
}