What CVAT.ai does

CVAT.ai Corporation is a private US-based (Palo Alto) software company, founded in 2022, that operates an open-source data annotation platform for computer-vision and multimodal AI training data. Its product suite comprises three deployment tiers built on the same codebase: CVAT Community (MIT-licensed open-source for self-hosting), CVAT Online (managed cloud SaaS with Free, Solo at $33/month, and Team plans from $23/user/month annually), and CVAT Enterprise (self-hosted Basic from $12,000/year and custom Premium). The platform annotates images, video, and 3D point clouds, integrates Meta's SAM 2 and SAM 3, Ultralytics, Hugging Face, and Roboflow for AI-assisted labeling, and exposes a Python SDK (84K+ monthly PyPI installs), REST API, CLI, and webhooks for pipeline automation.

Beyond the platform, CVAT sells managed professional Labeling Services delivered by 300+ trained annotators across 12 time zones, with one-time projects or 6-month subscriptions (from $5,000 minimum, 20–50% subscription discount), plus a separate Audio Annotation Services line for speech-to-text, speaker diarization, and audio classification. Go-to-market combines community-led and product-led growth (open-source funnel to self-serve SaaS) with enterprise field sales for self-hosted, air-gapped, and compliant deployments (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, EU AI Act). The company serves eight primary vertical segments — autonomous vehicles/robotics, healthcare/medical imaging, defense/geospatial, manufacturing, retail, surveillance, research/academia, and voice AI — with named customers spanning Deloitte, Purdue University, Dragonfly AI, ProMetronics, and others. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, no external funding rounds have been identified, and the core employee count is 1–10, while a 99.8% uptime on app.cvat.ai indicates operational stability.

Name

CVAT.ai

Legal name

CVAT.ai Corporation

Website

https://cvat.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

CVAT.ai Corporation operates an open-source (MIT) and SaaS data annotation platform for computer vision, supporting images, video, 3D point clouds, and audio, with integrated AI-assisted labeling and professional labeling services for ML teams across AV, healthcare, defense, and enterprise.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Annotation Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Annotation Tooling & Workflow Management (HDAAALAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Labeling & Annotation Services (HDAAALAB), End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Data annotation platform
• Computer vision labeling
• Image video annotation
• 3D point cloud labeling
• Managed labeling services

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscriptions (CVAT Online): Monthly or annual per-seat subscriptions for CVAT Online cloud platform. Solo plans at $33/month ($23/month annual), Team plans at $33/user/month ($23/user/month annual) with minimum 2 and maximum 250 seats depending on plan tier. Free tier available with limited features.
2. Enterprise Software Licenses: Self-hosted Enterprise edition starting at $12,000/year for Basic tier with SSO, RBAC, audit logs, SAM2 video tracking. Premium tier with full white labeling, up to 3 instances, 100 dev hours, dedicated engineer at custom pricing. Community edition free under MIT license.
3. Professional Labeling Services: Managed annotation services using 300+ in-house annotators. One-time project pricing with per-object billing (minimum $5,000) or subscription model starting at $5,000 for 6 months with 20-50% discount vs one-time pricing. Audio annotation services also available with per-minute or custom dataset pricing.
4. Audio Annotation Services: Speech-to-text transcription, audio segmentation, speaker diarization, audio classification for voice AI training. Professional service with minimum $5,000 budget, available as one-time or subscription arrangements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CVAT.ai provides a multi-modal data annotation platform for computer vision AI that supports labeling across images, videos, and 3D point clouds. It is distributed as an open-source community edition (CVAT Community, MIT-licensed), a managed cloud SaaS (CVAT Online), and a self-hosted enterprise deployment (CVAT Enterprise), augmented by in-house professional labeling services using 300+ trained annotators.

Product overview

CVAT.ai provides a comprehensive data annotation platform ecosystem with three deployment options: (1) CVAT Community - free, open-source MIT-licensed self-hosted version for individual teams; (2) CVAT Online - cloud-hosted SaaS with Solo and Team subscription plans offering AI-powered annotation and collaboration; (3) CVAT Enterprise - commercial self-hosted solution with advanced security, SSO, and enterprise support for air-gapped and VPC deployments. The platform supports annotation across images, videos, 3D point clouds, and audio modalities. Supplementary managed services include professional Labeling Services (300+ annotators, 12+ years CV expertise) and Audio Annotation Services for speech/voice AI projects. All products share core annotation capabilities including SAM 2/3 integration, quality control workflows, and Python SDK/API access.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CVAT Community: Open-source, self-hosted data annotation platform under MIT license, free forever.
• CVAT Online
• CVAT Enterprise
• Audio Annotation Services
• Computer Vision Annotation Services

Products and services

• CVAT Community Free, open-source (MIT licensed), self-hosted data annotation platform providing core manual annotation tools for images, videos, and 3D point clouds, including basic analytics, API, SDK, and CLI access for automation.
• CVAT Online Fully managed cloud annotation platform with Solo (individual) and Team (collaborative, up to 50 members) subscription plans, offering automated AI annotation tools (SAM 2/3, Hugging Face, Roboflow), quality control workflows, cloud storage integration, and team collaboration features priced from $33/month.
• CVAT Enterprise Self-hosted enterprise annotation platform deployable in VPC, on-premises, or air-gapped environments, providing SSO (OIDC/SAML), RBAC, audit logs, advanced AI integration (SAM 2 via AI agents, custom models via Nuclio), white-labeling, and dedicated enterprise support across Community (free), Basic ($12,000/year), and Premium (custom) plans.
• Computer Vision Annotation Services Professional managed annotation services delivered by CVAT's 300+ trained annotators across 12 time zones, supporting image classification, object detection, semantic/instance segmentation, keypoint detection, video tracking, action recognition, and 3D LiDAR annotation with a minimum project budget of $5,000.
• Audio Annotation Services Specialized speech and audio labeling services for voice AI development, supporting audio-to-text transcription (multi-language, multi-speaker), audio segmentation (VAD, speaker diarization, sound event detection), and audio classification/tagging with custom attributes for ASR training, contact centers, voice assistants, and accessibility applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Scales from 1,000 to 100M+ labels without hiring additional annotators using managed services
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Hugging FacecoreTechnology or IntegrationModel hub integration allowing users to connect pre-trained detection, classification, and segmentation models from Hugging Face directly within CVAT for automated annotation workflows.
• RoboflowcoreTechnology or IntegrationModel hub integration for accessing pre-trained models for detection and classification tasks, streamlining annotation by leveraging existing model predictions.
• AWS S3coreTechnology or IntegrationCloud storage integration allowing users to connect Amazon S3 buckets for data management without uploading files to CVAT servers.
• Azure Blob StoragecoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud storage integration with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for enterprise users requiring Azure infrastructure.
• Google Cloud StoragecoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud storage integration with Google Cloud Storage enabling seamless data management for GCP-based ML workflows.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Roboflow: Closest direct competitor in the computer vision annotation space, offering a cloud-hosted platform for image and video labeling with model training workflows. Both target ML engineers building vision AI, both integrate foundation models like SAM, and both pursue PLG-plus-enterprise GTM motions.
• Labelbox: Enterprise-focused data labeling platform supporting images, video, text, and geospatial data, with a model-assisted labeling and analytics suite. Targets similar Fortune 500 ML teams and competes head-to-head for CVAT's Enterprise and managed services deals.
• Scale AI: Largest pure-play data labeling company with deep computer vision, autonomous vehicle, and foundation-model RLHF capabilities. Competes with CVAT's professional labeling services and platform offerings, particularly in AV/robotics and large foundation-model customer accounts.
• SuperAnnotate: Computer vision annotation platform with integrated managed services and model-assisted labeling. Targets similar autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, and retail verticals with a comparable SaaS-plus-services business model.
• V7 Labs: AI data platform for image and video annotation with a focus on automation via 'V7 Darwin' and document processing. Competes directly for CVAT's manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomous vehicle customer segments.
• Encord: Data-centric AI platform for image, video, and medical imaging annotation with active learning workflows. Targets similar ML engineering teams building production vision systems and competes for healthcare and AV workloads.
• Kili Technology: Enterprise data labeling platform supporting images, video, text, and document annotation with an integrated services offering. Targets similar mid-market and enterprise ML teams and competes on price-performance for managed annotation projects.
• Label Studio (Heartex): Open-source data labeling platform (similar MIT-style license to CVAT Community) supporting images, video, text, and audio. The most direct open-source competitor and a potential alternative for users evaluating CVAT Community.

Broad incumbents

• Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth: Hyperscaler-bundled data labeling service integrated into the AWS ML stack. While not a specialist CV platform, it competes for the same enterprise ML budgets and benefits from AWS distribution leverage and existing procurement relationships.

Emerging players

• Datasaur: NLP- and CV-focused labeling platform with LLM-assisted workflows. An emerging player with meaningful overlap in enterprise annotation tooling, particularly for teams building mixed-modality models.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/cvat-ai/cvat
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCV3qghS05GjAI714ID97IuA
• Facebookfacebook.com/cvat.corp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/89242456

Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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