CVAT vs Prodigy
No leader: the top candidate CVAT has only 0.26 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data labeling. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
CVAT
A data annotation platform for converting visual data into labeled datasets for machine learning, available as open-source, cloud-hosted, or through managed annotation services.
Prodigy
Prodigy is a downloadable developer tool that helps teams efficiently annotate training data and build machine learning models. It runs entirely on user infrastructure, integrates with spaCy and other Python libraries, and supports customizable automated workflows and human-in-the-loop annotation processes.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
CVAT
Free tier available. Paid CVAT Online plans (Solo, Team). Custom annotation services from $5,000.
- FreeFree
- Basic annotation tools
- CVAT Online access
- Solo-
- Team-
- Enterprise (Self-Hosted)Contact sales
- SSO
- RBAC
- Enterprise support
- On-premise deployment
- Air-gapped deployment
- One-Time Annotation ProjectContact sales
- Subscription Annotation ServiceContact sales
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
CVAT
- Roboflow
- Backblaze B2
- AWS S3
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Storage
- Grafana
- SAM 2
- SAM 3
- Nuclio
- COCO
- YOLO
- Pascal VOC
- KITTI
- MOT
Prodigy
- spaCy
- OpenAI
- PyTorch
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.