How much does CVAT cost?
Paid plans start at
$23/mo billed yearly
or $33/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.cvat.ai/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. Free plan for 1 to 2 members: 1 project, 3 tasks, 1 GB internal storage, 100 internal AI calls per month. Paid plans are needed for higher limits.
- Notice before price changes. Limits can change with preliminary notification if necessary
Watch out for
- No refunds on a long commitment. Non-refundable except as stated in the separate Subscription and Refund Policy
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Try CVAT Online, Talk to sales, Get a quote
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card required for the free plan "Free plan available • No credit card required • GDPR & CCPA compliant"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- CVAT Enterprise and labeling services are sales-led "Talk to sales"
- Support
- Priority support from a dedicated engineer with 24-hour response SLAs (Enterprise) "Get priority support from a dedicated engineer with 24-hour response SLAs."
- Support
- Community support on GitHub and Discord "Community support on GitHub and Discord"
What CVAT does
CVAT started as an internal Intel tool in 2017, was open-sourced in 2018 and became the independent company CVAT.ai in 2022. It offers CVAT Online (Free, Solo and Team plans), CVAT Enterprise (self-hosted) and professional annotators who label data for customers.
- Good for
- ML and computer vision teams, from solo labelers to enterprises, that annotate image, video, 3D and audio data in the cloud, on their own infrastructure, or via an outsourced labeling team.
- Channels
- Web app, Self-hosted (Community and Enterprise), REST API, Python SDK, CLI, Webhooks
- Main product
- CVAT Online
- Also includes
- Image, video, 3D point cloud and audio annotation, Boxes, polygons, masks, skeletons, tags and tracks, Auto-annotation with SAM 2, SAM 3, Ultralytics, Hugging Face and custom models, Manual review, ground truth jobs, honeypots and consensus, Reports and analytics, Cloud storage import
- Connects to
- Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Hugging Face, Roboflow, SAM 2, SAM 3, Ultralytics, LDAP, Kubernetes
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Image and video annotation
Create boxes, polygons, masks, skeletons, tags, and tracks
- Text and NLP labelingNot stated
- Audio and speech labeling
Transcribe speech into time-aligned text
- LLM and RLHF evaluationNot stated
- Model-assisted auto-labeling
Speed up labeling with SAM 2, SAM 3, Ultralytics, Hugging Face models, or custom models
- Review and QA workflows
Review jobs through validation and acceptance stages
- Managed labeling workforce
300+ dedicated annotators across 12 time zones
- Self-hosted or open source
Open-source, self-hosted edition. Free forever, full control of your stack.
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "training or improving CVAT’s own machine learning or artificial intelligence models, or any models made available to other customers or third parties"terms |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available on Enterprise | "GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA compliant"enterprise |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | compliant | "GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act compliant"home |
| CCPA | compliant | "GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act compliant"home |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | annual plans (Online); included in Enterprise | "Available only for annual plans."pricing |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 2 users1 project, 3 tasks, 1 GB internal storage, 100 internal AI c | – | "Free plan available • No credit card required • GDPR & CCPA compliant" |
| Teamper user | $33 | $23per month | 2 users2 to 50 seats | – | "$33/per user" "$23/per user" |
| Solo | $33 | $23per month | 1 usersPersonal workspace only | – | "ine https://app.cvat.ai/auth/register cvat online plans for solo labelers and teams teamso" "plement changes with preliminary notification if necessary. solo monthly unlimited plan fo" |
| CVAT Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "For organizations that need secure, self-hosted data annotation with full control over the" |
Free plan: Free plan for 1 to 2 members: 1 project, 3 tasks, 1 GB internal storage, 100 internal AI calls per month. Paid plans are needed for higher limits.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Billed in advance on a recurring basis, monthly or annually "All Fees are billed in advance on a recurring basis (e.g., monthly or annually)"
- Refunds
- Non-refundable except as stated in the separate Subscription and Refund Policy "are non-refundable, except as expressly stated in our separate Subscription and Refund Policy"
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Limits can change with preliminary notification if necessary "Limits can be changed based on the company's needs and use patterns. CVAT.ai can implement changes with preliminary notification if necessary."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- CVAT.ai Corporation
- Online since
- May 4, 2022 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 13 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 27, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "Thousands of ML teams use CVAT" their claim
- Backing
- "Backed by an open-source community, MIT-licensed" their words
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Questions
Is CVAT free?
Yes. Free plan for 1 to 2 members: 1 project, 3 tasks, 1 GB internal storage, 100 internal AI calls per month. Paid plans are needed for higher limits. Paid plans start at $33/month.
How much does CVAT cost?
Paid plans start at $23 per month billed yearly, or $33 billed monthly.
Does CVAT train AI on your data?
No, according to CVAT: "training or improving CVAT’s own machine learning or artificial intelligence models, or any models made available to other customers or thir"
Is CVAT HIPAA compliant?
CVAT says a HIPAA BAA is available on Enterprise.