Label Studio vs VGG Image Annotator
Label Studio
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| Figure | Label Studio | VGG Image Annotator |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $99/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 2 |
| Spec score · Image Annotation Software | 9.1 (#1) | 8.2 (#8) |
| Spec score · AI Image Annotation Tools | 9.1 (#1) | 8.2 (#7) |
| Spec score · Data Labeling Software | 9.0 (#1) | 8.2 (#9) |
| Spec score · AI Data Labeling Tools | 8.9 (#1) | 8.2 (#8) |
| Funding | HumanSignal says it has raised $30 million from Redpoint Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Bow Capital and Swift Ventures. | The project credits UKRI Visual AI and EPSRC Seebibyte research grants for development and maintenance. |
| License | The public Label Studio repository is released under the Apache-2.0 license. | VIA is released under the permissive two-clause BSD license for academic and commercial use. |
| Maker | The company says HumanSignal was founded in 2019 and that Label Studio originated from its founding team’s work. | VIA is developed by the Visual Geometry Group in Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science. |
| Self-hosting | Community Edition can be installed with pip, Homebrew, Git or Docker and run locally or on infrastructure managed by the user. | Users can download ZIP archives or standalone HTML files and run them locally or from their own web infrastructure. |
| Support | Community users are directed to Slack and GitHub issues, Starter Cloud includes a dedicated support portal, and Enterprise offers priority support with response time SLAs. | The makers direct users to an in-app basic guide, a FAQ and email contacts for queries or feedback. |
| What it does | Label Studio is an open-source platform for data labeling, AI evaluation and human-in-the-loop workflows across many data types. | VIA is a manual annotation suite for images, audio and video. |
Plans
Label Studio
- Community EditionFree
- Starter Cloud$99 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Label Studio
Label Studio is an open-source data labeling tool for text, images, audio, video, time series, and multimodal data. It provides a configurable labeling interface, project templates, data management, and annotation import and export. Custom machine-learning backends can provide predictions, while Enterprise adds automated active-learning loops. Its integrations directory spans cloud storage, foundation-model APIs, computer vision, speech and audio, machine-learning frameworks, and infrastructure. Listed storage options include Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Databricks, Redis, and local storage. APIs, a Python SDK, and webhooks support programmatic management and integration. Deployment options include on-premises or cloud installation using pip, Docker, Ubuntu, source, or Anaconda. Security documentation describes TLS for application-component interactions, HTTPS, and secured cookies. Enterprise is described as SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant and can be deployed in the cloud or on premises, with SSO and SCIM 2.0 support. Community Edition is free. Starter Cloud costs $99 a month, with each additional user at $49 a month; Enterprise pricing is custom.
VGG Image Annotator
VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is a suite of lightweight browser tools for manually annotating images, audio, and video. The applications are distributed as single HTML files, allowing offline use without installation or setup. VIA3 handles images, video, audio, and shared or collaborative projects. VIA2 works with image files, does not support shared projects, and remains maintained. Annotation shapes include rectangles, circles, ellipses, points, polygons, and polylines. Projects can import or export annotations as CSV or JSON, while scripts support COCO and Web Annotation formats; a Python package converts VIA projects to COCO. Shared work can use a free public Version File Store maintained by the Visual Geometry Group, or a user-run VFS. VIA is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without external libraries and released under the two-clause BSD license for academic and commercial use. Downloads include ZIP archives and standalone HTML files for versions 2 and 3. The makers provide a guide, FAQ, and email contacts.