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Who is the Free version for? |
Teams looking for an enterprise-grade, proven, full-featured data labeling platform. | Used by individual data scientists and small annotation teams. | Small teams and individuals looking to test capabilities or validate early-stage experiments. | Individual users | Open: Only public labels & datasets. | No Free version available |
Free edition limitations: | Unlimited Features Free Forever | Limited to a single organization and workspace | Limited to 10k annotations | Limited to single user & 500 labels/month | Limited to public datasets | No Free version available |
Labeling Features: | ||||||
Text labeling | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Paid |
Image labeling | Free | Free | Free | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Video labeling | Free | Free | Free | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Audio labeling | Free | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Multi-lingual text labeling | Free | Free | N/A | Free | Team | Paid |
Span annotations & overlapping entities | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Paid |
Label relations & dependencies | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Paid |
Projects & Teams: | ||||||
Multiple projects | Free | Free | Free | Team | Free | Paid |
Project grouping | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Project searching/filtering | Free | N/A | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Full API access | Free | Free | Pro | Team | Team | Paid |
Task assignment | Free | Enterprise | Free | Team | Free | N/A |
Task tagging | Free | N/A | N/A | Team | N/A | N/A |
Task comments | Free | N/A | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Role based task status | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | Free | N/A |
Duplicate tasks detection | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Task searching/filtering | Free | Free | N/A | Team | Free | N/A |
Guidelines | Free | Free | Free | Free | Team | N/A |
Feedback & Comments on completions | Free | N/A | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Consensus Analysis/IA Agreement | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Team | Free | N/A |
Quality review workflows | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Team | Team | Paid |
Performance Dashboards | Free | Enterprise | Free | Team | Free | N/A |
QA & collaboration | Free | Enterprise | Pro | N/A | N/A | N/A |
AI-Assisted Text Labeling | ||||||
Project configuration based on existing models and rules | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Rule editing interface | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Pre-annotations with model assisted labeling | Free | Support for 3rd party ML integration | Enterprise | Team | Enterprise | Paid |
Active learning: auto-retrain models on the fly | Free | Enterprise, Support for 3rd party ML integration | N/A | N/A | Pro | Paid |
Transfer learning: start from pre-trained models | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Bring your own models | Free | Support for 3rd party ML integration | Enterprise | Team | Free | Paid |
Precision/Recall Reports for Trained Models | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Model Hub Integration | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Security & Privacy: | ||||||
Role-based access controls | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Team | Enterprise | N/A |
Role-based views | Free | Enterprise | N/A | Team | Enterprise | N/A |
Annotation Versioning | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Full audit trail | Free | N/A | N/A | Enterprise | Enterprise | N/A |
LDAP/AD integration - User import/Login | Free | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | N/A |
Single Sign On - User import/Login | Free | Enterprise | Pro | Enterprise | Enterprise | N/A |
On-Premise / Air-Gap Deployment | Free | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Paid |
Annotation on PDF and image documents: | ||||||
Support for multi-page scanned or generated PDFs | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | Pro | N/A |
Selectable PDFs | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | Pro | N/A |
Scanned PDFs | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Support for image annotation (png) | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Text search in image documents | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Multi line chunk annotations | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Sticky token selection | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Custom region annotation | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Relations annotation | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Zoom features | OCR | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Healthcare features: | ||||||
Pre-annotations with rules & regex | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Paid |
Pre-annotations with dictionaries | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | Team | Paid |
Automatic detection of 100+ clinical and biomedical entities | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Automatic detection of clinical assertion status detection (negation detection) | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Automatic detection of 30+ healthcare-specific relation extraction | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Automatic entity normalization (coding) to 10+ medical terminologies | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Transfer learning for named entity recognition models | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Ready to use healthcare-specific word, chunk, and sentence embeddings | Healthcare | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Read more on how to choose the best text labeling tool for your needs here.
Editions Compared
COMMUNITY
FREE
Annotation Lab is a Free tool, with support for unlimited projects, users, documents, community models, teams, analytics, workflows, audit, No-Code Model Training & Active Learning.
- Support for text, image, video, and audio annotations
- Multi-lingual text labeling
- Span annotations & overlapping entities
- Label relations & dependencies
- Unlimited projects, users, documents, models
- Project grouping
- Project searching/filtering
- Full API access
- Task assignment
- Task tagging and comments
- Role-based task status
- Duplicate tasks detection
- Feedback & Comments on completions
- Consensus Analysis/IA Agreement
- Quality review workflows
- Performance Dashboards
- Project configuration based on existing models
- Pre-annotations with model-assisted labeling
- Active learning: auto-retrain models on the fly
- Transfer learning: start from pre-trained models
- Bring your own models
- Precision/Recall Reports for Trained Models
- Model Hub Integration
- Role-based access control
- Annotation Versioning
- Full audit trail
- LDAP/AD integration – User import/Login
- On-Premise / Air-Gap Deployment
HEALTHCARE
FREE trial
The Healthcare edition offer access to pre-trained healthcare models published on the NLP Models Hub.
- All features from the Community library
- Pre-annotations with rules & regex
- Automatic detection of 400+ clinical and biomedical entities
- Automatic detection of clinical assertion status detection (negation detection)
- Automatic detection of 60+ healthcare-specific relation extraction
- Automatic entity normalization (coding) to 10+ medical terminologies
- Transfer learning for named entity recognition models
- Ready to use healthcare-specific word, chunk, and sentence embeddings
VISUAL
FREE trial
The visual edition offers access to OCR features for image preprocessing and digitization, as well as to Visual NER based preannotation and model training.
- All features from the Community library
- Support for annotations on multi-page scanned or generated PDFs
- Support for image annotation (png)
- Text search in image documents
- Multi line chunk annotations
- Visual NER model training/tuning
- Sticky token selection
- Custom region annotation
- Relations annotation
- Text preannotation in image or PDF documents
Annotate Text & Images
- High Productivity UI
- Share Guidelines & Comments
- Compare Versions & Reach Agreement Quickly




AI Assisted Annotation
- Pre-Annotation: Never Start from Scratch
- API Access: Integrate with your toolset
- Combine Models, Rules, and Prompts




Train & Tune NLP Models
- Auto NLP: Train as you go
- Measure & Evaluate
- Transfer Learning





Models, Rules, and Prompts Hub
- Search, Filter, and Download
- Private Hub
- Playground




Manage Projects & Teams
- Workflows & Reviews
- Versioning & Audit Trails
- Analytics





Enterprise Security & Privacy
- Role-Based Access Control
- Strong Authentication: MFA, AD/LDAP
- Runs on Your Infrastructure

