Labelbox vs VGG Image Annotator

Labelbox provides tools for AI training data, reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, annotation, and enterprise agent workflows. Its Recursion platform can run fleets of agents across connected applications. Work can start from schedules, alerts, events, or API calls; agents can plan jobs, run specialist agents in parallel, use sandboxes, and return graded results with evidence. Shown integrations include Slack, GitHub, Linear, Salesforce, Databricks, Google Drive, Box, and Jira. Horizon supplies reinforcement-learning environments and evaluations for reasoning, tool use, and computer use. Labelbox Annotate offers more than 10 editors for multimodal chat, LLM evaluation, prompt and response generation, computer vision, and natural language processing. Expert services cover RLHF, supervised fine-tuning, preference ranking, red teaming, and coding or agent tasks. The company says its experts span over 200 domains and 30 languages. A free tier includes 10,000 Labelbox units before card charging. Pricing is otherwise directed to contact.

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.