Best Image Annotation Tools

Compare the Top Image Annotation Tools as of June 2025

What are Image Annotation Tools?

Image annotation tools are used to automatically process and label digital images using advanced techniques in machine learning, AI, and computer vision. These tools can accurately recognize important features in images, such as objects, characters, or facial expressions. This data can then be used for various purposes such as automatic image tagging and sorting. Image annotation is becoming an increasingly popular tool for organizing large databases of images and videos. Compare and read user reviews of the best Image Annotation tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Vertex AI
    Image Annotation in Vertex AI is a powerful tool for preparing visual data for training computer vision models. By labeling and tagging objects, features, or regions of interest in images, businesses can create more accurate and specialized models for tasks like object detection and facial recognition. Vertex AI provides automated and manual annotation tools that can handle large volumes of image data, ensuring high-quality annotations for machine learning models. New customers receive $300 in free credits, enabling them to test the platform’s image annotation capabilities. With this feature, businesses can accelerate the development of visual AI solutions, increasing the accuracy and reliability of their models.
    Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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    Roboflow

    Roboflow

    Roboflow

    Roboflow has everything you need to build and deploy computer vision models. Connect Roboflow at any step in your pipeline with APIs and SDKs, or use the end-to-end interface to automate the entire process from image to inference. Whether you’re in need of data labeling, model training, or model deployment, Roboflow gives you building blocks to bring custom computer vision solutions to your business.
    Starting Price: $250/month
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    Clarifai

    Clarifai

    Clarifai

    Clarifai is a leading AI platform for modeling image, video, text and audio data at scale. Our platform combines computer vision, natural language processing and audio recognition as building blocks for developing better, faster and stronger AI. We help our customers create innovative solutions for visual search, content moderation, aerial surveillance, visual inspection, intelligent document analysis, and more. The platform comes with the broadest repository of pre-trained, out-of-the-box AI models built with millions of inputs and context. Our models give you a head start; extending your own custom AI models. Clarifai Community builds upon this and offers 1000s of pre-trained models and workflows from Clarifai and other leading AI builders. Users can build and share models with other community members. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D., Clarifai has been recognized by leading analysts, IDC, Forrester and Gartner, as a leading computer vision AI platform. Visit clarifai.com
    Starting Price: $0
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    Alegion

    Alegion

    Alegion

    Alegion is the data labeling solution for enterprise-grade Machine Learning. We lead the industry in streaming, high-resolution, high-density video annotation, delivering accurately-annotated, model-ready data to train and validate ML models. Alegion provides both the platform and workforce to operate with quality at scale, processing structured and unstructured data including video, image, audio, and text. Our ML powered platform speeds up task completion by as much as 70%, including classless object tracking and single click smart polygon generation. Segmentation options include Keypoint, Bounding Box, Polyline, & Polygon segmentation, for image and video. Semantic Segmentation tools deliver seamless entity boundaries with pixel perfect accuracy. NLP and NER capabilities support text and audio classification and sentiment analysis. The platform is highly configurable to support hybrid use cases. Available via SaaS (Alegion Control), Managed Platform, and Managed Labeling Services.
    Starting Price: $5000
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    Prodigy

    Prodigy

    Explosion

    Radically efficient machine teaching. An annotation tool powered by active learning. Prodigy is a scriptable annotation tool so efficient that data scientists can do the annotation themselves, enabling a new level of rapid iteration. Today’s transfer learning technologies mean you can train production-quality models with very few examples. With Prodigy you can take full advantage of modern machine learning by adopting a more agile approach to data collection. You'll move faster, be more independent and ship far more successful projects. Prodigy brings together state-of-the-art insights from machine learning and user experience. With its continuous active learning system, you're only asked to annotate examples the model does not already know the answer to. The web application is powerful, extensible and follows modern UX principles. The secret is very simple: it's designed to help you focus on one decision at a time and keep you clicking – like Tinder for data.
    Starting Price: $490 one-time fee
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    V7 Darwin
    V7 Darwin is a powerful AI-driven platform for labeling and training data that streamlines the process of annotating images, videos, and other data types. By using AI-assisted tools, V7 Darwin enables faster, more accurate labeling for a variety of use cases such as machine learning model training, object detection, and medical imaging. The platform supports multiple types of annotations, including keypoints, bounding boxes, and segmentation masks. It integrates with various workflows through APIs, SDKs, and custom integrations, making it an ideal solution for businesses seeking high-quality data for their AI projects.
    Starting Price: $150
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    Supervisely

    Supervisely

    Supervisely

    The leading platform for entire computer vision lifecycle. Iterate from image annotation to accurate neural networks 10x faster. With our best-in-class data labeling tools transform your images / videos / 3d point cloud into high-quality training data. Train your models, track experiments, visualize and continuously improve model predictions, build custom solution within the single environment. Our self-hosted solution guaranties data privacy, powerful customization capabilities, and easy integration into your technology stack. A turnkey solution for Computer Vision: multi-format data annotation & management, quality control at scale and neural networks training in end-to-end platform. Inspired by professional video editing software, created by data scientists for data scientists — the most powerful video labeling tool for machine learning and more.
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    Google Cloud Vision AI
    Derive insights from your images in the cloud or at the edge with AutoML Vision or use pre-trained Vision API models to detect emotion, understand text, and more. Google Cloud offers two computer vision products that use machine learning to help you understand your images with industry-leading prediction accuracy. Automate the training of your own custom machine learning models. Simply upload images and train custom image models with AutoML Vision’s easy-to-use graphical interface; optimize your models for accuracy, latency, and size; and export them to your application in the cloud, or to an array of devices at the edge. Google Cloud’s Vision API offers powerful pre-trained machine learning models through REST and RPC APIs. Assign labels to images and quickly classify them into millions of predefined categories. Detect objects and faces, read printed and handwritten text, and build valuable metadata into your image catalog.
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    Appen

    Appen

    Appen

    The Appen platform combines human intelligence from over one million people all over the world with cutting-edge models to create the highest-quality training data for your ML projects. Upload your data to our platform and we provide the annotations, judgments, and labels you need to create accurate ground truth for your models. High-quality data annotation is key for training any AI/ML model successfully. After all, this is how your model learns what judgments it should be making. Our platform combines human intelligence at scale with cutting-edge models to annotate all sorts of raw data, from text, to video, to images, to audio, to create the accurate ground truth needed for your models. Create and launch data annotation jobs easily through our plug and play graphical user interface, or programmatically through our API.
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    Dataloop AI

    Dataloop AI

    Dataloop AI

    Manage unstructured data and pipelines to develop AI solutions at amazing speed. Enterprise-grade data platform for vision AI. Dataloop is a one-stop shop for building and deploying powerful computer vision pipelines data labeling, automating data ops, customizing production pipelines and weaving the human-in-the-loop for data validation. Our vision is to make machine learning-based systems accessible, affordable and scalable for all. Explore and analyze vast quantities of unstructured data from diverse sources. Rely on automated preprocessing and embeddings to identify similarities and find the data you need. Curate, version, clean, and route your data to wherever it’s needed to create exceptional AI applications.
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    Sixgill Sense
    Every step of the machine learning and computer vision workflow is made simple and fast within one no-code platform. Sense allows anyone to build and deploy AI IoT solutions to any cloud, the edge or on-premise. Learn how Sense provides simplicity, consistency and transparency to AI/ML teams with enough power and depth for ML engineers yet easy enough to use for subject matter experts. Sense Data Annotation optimizes the success of your machine learning models with the fastest, easiest way to label video and image data for high-quality training dataset creation. The Sense platform offers one-touch labeling integration for continuous machine learning at the edge for simplified management of all your AI solutions.
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    Innotescus

    Innotescus

    Innotescus

    Innotescus is a collaborative video and image annotation platform built to streamline Computer Vision development processes via seamless data handling, smart annotation tools, and intuitive collaboration features. Additionally, its data visualization tools and cross-functional collaboration features identify data bias early, improve data accuracy, and enable faster, cost-efficient deployment of high performance Artificial Intelligence.
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    Automaton AI

    Automaton AI

    Automaton AI

    With Automaton AI’s ADVIT, create, manage and develop high-quality training data and DNN models all in one place. Optimize the data automatically and prepare it for each phase of the computer vision pipeline. Automate the data labeling processes and streamline data pipelines in-house. Manage the structured and unstructured video/image/text datasets in runtime and perform automatic functions that refine your data in preparation for each step of the deep learning pipeline. Upon accurate data labeling and QA, you can train your own model. DNN training needs hyperparameter tuning like batch size, learning, rate, etc. Optimize and transfer learning on trained models to increase accuracy. Post-training, take the model to production. ADVIT also does model versioning. Model development and accuracy parameters can be tracked in run-time. Increase the model accuracy with a pre-trained DNN model for auto-labeling.
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    Sama

    Sama

    Sama

    We offer the highest quality SLA (>95%), even on the most complex workflows. Our team assists with anything from implementing a robust quality rubric to raising edge cases. As an ethical AI company, we have provided economic opportunities for over 52,000 people from underserved and marginalized communities. ML Assisted annotation created up to 3-4x efficiency improvement for a single class annotation. We quickly adapt to ramp-ups, focus shifts, and edge cases. ISO certified delivery centers, biometric authentication, and user authentication with 2FA ensure a secure work environment. Seamlessly re-prioritize tasks, provide quality feedback, and monitor models in production. We support data of all types. Get more with less. We combine machine learning and humans in the loop to filter data and select images relevant to your use case. Receive sample results based on your initial guidelines. We work with you to identify edge cases and recommend annotation best practices.
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    Hive AutoML
    Build and deploy deep learning models for custom use cases. Our automated machine learning process allows customers to create powerful AI solutions built on our best-in-class models and tailored to the specific challenges they face. Digital platforms can quickly create models specifically made to fit their guidelines and needs. Build large language models for specialized use cases such as customer and technical support bots. Create image classification models to better understand image libraries for search, organization, and more.
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    TELUS International Ground Truth (GT)
    Our proprietary AI training data platform combines the best of data annotation and computer vision capabilities with the power of our AI Community of professional annotators - all managed within the same platform experience. GT Manage: Our proprietary platform management tool for our 1M + community. GT Annotate: Our proprietary data annotation software. GT Data: Our global expertise in data creation and collection. It all starts with human-powered AI. Our fully-automated platform allows for sophisticated data annotation across all data types within the same software, while also providing seamless project and AI Community management. Ground Truth (GT) Annotate is our proprietary data annotation software, carefully designed to enable teams to be more efficient, fast and accurate creating quality AI training datasets at scale. Below are a few examples of the technology in action.
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    Labelbox

    Labelbox

    Labelbox

    The training data platform for AI teams. A machine learning model is only as good as its training data. Labelbox is an end-to-end platform to create and manage high-quality training data all in one place, while supporting your production pipeline with powerful APIs. Powerful image labeling tool for image classification, object detection and segmentation. When every pixel matters, you need accurate and intuitive image segmentation tools. Customize the tools to support your specific use case, including instances, custom attributes and much more. Performant video labeling editor for cutting-edge computer vision. Label directly on the video up to 30 FPS with frame level. Additionally, Labelbox provides per frame label feature analytics enabling you to create better models faster. Creating training data for natural language intelligence has never been easier. Label text strings, conversations, paragraphs, and documents with fast & customizable classification.
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