Managed marketplace meets specialist licensing. Neither advertised amounts nor a public seller route establish what your business will receive.
Jump to the terms ledger ↓Research comparison; limited public terms. Pair-level evidence and scenario review is pending. Published fields alone do not meet our indexing threshold. This page is noindex and absent from the sitemap, not a negative verdict.
| Criterion | Defined.ai | Protege |
|---|---|---|
| Operating records | Published Audio/video/images/text/multimodal; sales, stock, shipping, code, STEM, cinematic/anime Source ↗ | Published Healthcare, video, audio/speech, spatial/physical and other domains; generic CRM/SOP archives not explicitly enumerated Source ↗ |
| Company eligibility | Published No fixed minimum; quality/metadata/rights, consent and compliance/cybersecurity vetting Source ↗ | Published Typically owns outright or controls broad global/all-media rights; quality and opportunity-specific qualification. Source ↗ |
| Seller geography | Published Applicable rights/regulatory compliance; no blanket country acceptance verified Source ↗ | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| Published compensation | Provider claim Licensing fees driven by marketplace demand; terms partner-approved. $600K+ average revenue is a vendor statistic; currency context and period not independently established, not a guarantee Source ↗ | Provider claim Negotiated revenue share. Gradient Health seven-figure revenue is a provider-hosted specialist case, not an ordinary business rate. Source ↗ |
| Fees & net proceeds | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources: Not published. Ask the provider; missing terms do not establish acceptance, free fees or a payment deadline. Inspection URLs remain in the profile source list. | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| Timeline & payment trigger | Provider claim Four-stage onboarding; no fixed elapsed-time or payout commitment Source ↗ | Provider claim Active opportunities often fulfilled under a month; fulfillment is not seller payment timing. Source ↗ |
| Preparation & seller effort | Published Apply as Data Partner via Jira portal; login needed Source ↗ | Published Discovery → revenue-share agreement → curate/QA/mask → qualified deal → revenue-share payment. Source ↗ |
| Ownership & permitted use | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources; confirm in contract. | Published Retains ownership; limited defined AI training/fine-tuning/evaluation/benchmarking rights; no public exhibition/redistribution/entertainment use. Source ↗ |
| Privacy & approval | Provider claim Consent, compliance, cybersecurity and rights vetting; samples may be showcased under a free nonexclusive license. Confirm the Data Partner contract, not service-supplier project terms. Source ↗ | Provider claim Identifier removal and jurisdiction-specific workflows; optional anonymization/voice modification. Media FAQ is not a universal operating-data contract. Source ↗ |
| Exclusivity | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources; confirm in contract. | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| Retention & deletion | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources; confirm in contract. | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| HQ / published contact | Published US; Seattle, with Lisbon office; seller eligibility is separate. Source ↗ | Published Published contact: New York, NY, US; not independently verified operational HQ. Source ↗ |
If you already have a marketable data product, compare distribution rather than headline payouts: Defined.ai is managed marketplace, while Protege is specialist licensing. Listing or matching creates no purchase commitment; ask who actually signs and pays.
For specialist healthcare or media rights, Protege's published categories and Gradient Health case are more relevant than ordinary CRM exports. Defined.ai lists Audio/video/images/text/multimodal; sales, stock, shipping, code, STEM, cinematic/anime. Do not extrapolate specialist case revenue to a small operating business.
Defined.ai: Four-stage onboarding; no fixed elapsed-time or payout commitment Protege: Active opportunities often fulfilled under a month; fulfillment is not seller payment timing. These clocks measure different stages, not equivalent payout deadlines; ask for a written acceptance-to-payment interval.
Both routes need lawful rights to the material. Removing names does not remove confidentiality obligations or re-identification risk. Require sample approval, buyer-use restrictions, precise payment triggers and downstream retention/deletion terms.
Defined.ai: No independently verified operating-business seller payout found. Marketplace listing or matching is not a purchase commitment.
Protege: Gradient Health seller-hosted announcement corroborates partnership and imaging supply, not revenue. Provider-hosted case claims seven-figure revenue; no independently audited receipt.