Comparison

CVAT vs Toloka

On the evidence we track, Toloka leads this comparison with a composite score of 53/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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CVAT47
★Toloka53
Score
vioscaleAI score
CVAT47 / 100low · 34%
Toloka53 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tier
CVAT✓
Toloka✗
Model
Tolokaquote
Price level
CVATlow
Tolokaunknown
Transparent
CVAT✗
Toloka✗
Integrations
Count
CVAT4
Toloka6
Security
Gdpr
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
Hipaa
CVAT–
Toloka✓
Iso27001
CVAT–
Toloka✓
Soc2
CVAT–
Toloka✓
Content
Faq
Toloka7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data labeling. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Model assisted labeling
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
Programmatic labeling
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
Rlhf preference data
CVAT-
Toloka✓
On prem private cloud
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
Open source
CVAT✓
Toloka✗
SOC2
CVAT-
Toloka✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

CVAT

A data annotation tool for preparing high-quality visual datasets for computer vision AI. Available as a managed cloud service, self-hosted enterprise deployment, or free open-source software, with AI-assisted labeling and team collaboration features.

Independently observed

Toloka

Leader

Toloka is a data curation platform where users specify their annotation goals and an agent automatically assembles the complete data collection and labeling workflow. It combines a network of 200,000+ domain experts with AI-assisted quality validation to produce training datasets for language models, AI agents, and other machine learning systems.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

CVAT

SubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available for CVAT Online; paid Solo and Team plans for additional features

  • FreeFree
  • Solo-
  • Team-
as of verify ↗

Toloka

Leader
Quote-based

Contact sales for pricing

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
CLI
CVAT✓
Toloka✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
Self-hosted
CVAT✓
Toloka✗
On-premise
CVAT✓
Toloka✓
Hybrid
CVAT✓
Toloka✗
Air-gapped
CVAT✓
Toloka✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • Microsoft Azure

CVAT

16 total - 15 not shared
  • Roboflow
  • Backblaze B2
  • AWS S3
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Grafana
  • SAM 2
  • SAM 3
  • Nuclio
  • COCO
  • YOLO
  • Pascal VOC
  • KITTI
  • MOT
  • Amazon S3
  • Google Cloud
Independently observed

Toloka

Leader
6 total - 5 not shared
  • Nebius
  • Zendesk
  • Databricks
  • Tavily
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Independently observed
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CVAT or Toloka: which one depends on you

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