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HUD
Platform and marketplace for building, buying and running RL environments
Platform or hubComputer useCoding and SWETool use
HUD sells an MIT-licensed SDK for building environments, hosted training and evaluation, QA agents that look for grader errors, and DataVendor, a marketplace where labs buy environments and tasks from third parties. It hosts OSWorld-Verified and has released SheetBench-50 and Assemble Bench. It is the only vendor here that publishes a usage price.
Best for: Self-serve teams that want published pricing and an open SDK
1 Legal nameHuman Union Data, Inc.
2 HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA
3 Founded2025
4 Team24 (YC profile)
5 DeliveryPlatform or hub, Open source, Managed RL training
6 ExclusivityNot disclosed
7 Customers and partnersSays 50+ businesses use the platform; names no frontier-lab customer.
8 Published pricesSDK and platform free; Cloud $0.10 per environment-hour; Enterprise custom; $100 academic credits
Where we recommend them
- Best platform or hub, an alternative.
- Best for self-serve and published pricing, our pick.
Worth knowing before you sign
- Homepage claims SOC 2 compliant infrastructure but no report or trust centre is published
- Marketplace environments come from third parties and need buyer-side QA
- Usage and marketplace metrics are self-reported
Sources
- HUD homepage
- Series A announcement
- Y Combinator profile
- rl-list profile
- hud SDK on GitHub
- pavlovslist directory
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