Datasaur vs LightlyStudio
Datasaur
datasaur.aiLightlyStudio
lightly.aiSide by side
| Figure | Datasaur | LightlyStudio |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $2/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Data Labeling Software | 8.3 (#7) | 8.5 (#4) |
| Integrations | Datasaur integrations include Amazon Textract, Google Cloud Vision, OpenAI, spaCy, Hugging Face, Amazon Comprehend, Azure AutoML, GCP Vertex AI, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. | It reads images and videos from Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage, and supports common annotation formats including COCO, YOLO, Pascal VOC, and YouTube-VIS. |
| Support | Datasaur directs users with questions to its support team at email support. | The Open Source plan lists no customer support; the on-premise offering includes dedicated engineering support. |
Plans
LightlyStudio
- Open SourceFree
- Open SourceFree
- Lightly-HostedPriced on request
- On-PremisePriced on request
In their own words
Datasaur
Datasaur is a web-based platform for labeling data and coordinating labeling teams. Data Studio handles span, textual or row classification, document classification, OCR, bounding boxes, audio, and conversational labeling. LLM Labs adds sandbox experimentation, knowledge bases, human rating and ranking, and automated evaluation. The Models catalog contains over 200 base models and supports Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI. Integrations include OCR, language-processing, machine-learning, and cloud-storage services such as Amazon Textract, spaCy, Hugging Face, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. The API supports webhook import and export, project creation and export, OAuth 2.0, and GraphQL; OAuth credentials are available only on Growth and Enterprise plans. Self-hosting is available with Kubernetes and Helm Chart or Docker. Datasaur states that it maintains SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance, with encryption at rest and in transit. Free includes one user, 5,000 labels per year, and 100MB storage. Paid plans start at $5,000/yr, and a 14-day trial is listed.
LightlyStudio
LightlyStudio has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.