CVAT vs V7 Darwin

CVAT8.9Visit V7 Darwin8.4Visit

Higher score CVAT #2 in Image Annotation Software 8.9/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit CVAT

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V7 Darwin #7 in Image Annotation Software 8.4/10 Free plan · pricing on request Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit V7 Darwin

• CVAT fits best

  Open-source teams needing a complete CV workflow

• V7 Darwin fits best

  Teams annotating medical and video imagery

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Side by side

Feature	CVAT 8.9/10 Visit ↗	V7 Darwin 8.4/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.4
Ranking	#2 in Image Annotation Software	#7 in Image Annotation Software
Best for	Open-source teams needing a complete CV workflow	Teams annotating medical and video imagery
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	$23/mo	—
Free plan	✓	✓
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Community, Docs	Community, Docs
Compliance	GDPR, SSO/SAML	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA
Integrations	5 integrations	5 integrations
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features CVAT 3/3 · V7 Darwin 3/3
Model-assisted labeling	✓	✓
Team collaboration	✓	✓
API access	✓	✓
Specs
Annotation types	Rectangle/bounding box, polygon, polyline, points, ellipse, cuboid, skeleton, tag, brush/mask	Polygon; bounding box; tag; skeleton; keypoint; line; ellipse; mask; attributes; text; directional vector; instance ID
Image formats	JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PPM, TIFF	.jpg, .jpeg, .webp, .png, .bmp, .svs, .tif, .tiff, .qtiff, .dcm, .rvg, .nii, .nii.gz, .ndpi
Dataset export	CVAT XML, Datumaro JSON, COCO JSON, YOLO, Pascal VOC, Cityscapes, KITTI, Open Images, MOT, and others	Darwin JSON; Darwin XML; COCO; CVAT; YOLO; Semantic PNG; Instance PNG; Pascal VOC; NIfTI
Our review
Pros	Supports image, video, and 3D annotation with many annotation types Offers AI-assisted workflows, REST API, Python SDK, and CLI Exports to major computer-vision formats and connects to cloud storage	Supports many annotation types, including masks, skeletons, keypoints, and polygons AI-assisted labeling, model-in-the-loop workflows, and external model integration Video and DICOM interpolation plus multi-stage review and collaboration
Cons	Free plan supports only 1–2 members Solo plans are limited to a personal workspace Enterprise deployment starts at $12,000 per year	Paid pricing uses custom platform fees, user licenses, and volume-based charges Its broad workflow may be more than teams needing simple image labeling The platform is web-based and API-accessible rather than open source
Our verdict	CVAT is a visual data annotation platform for creating training datasets from images, video, and 3D data. It is aimed at computer vision and AI teams that need manual labeling, AI-assisted detection, segmentation or tracking, dataset… Read the review →	V7 Darwin is a web-based data-labeling platform for teams creating machine-learning datasets from images, video, medical imaging, microscopy, documents, and other visual data. It is suited to AI teams, research groups, and enterprise… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• CVAT — where it wins

  • Supports image, video, and 3D annotation with many annotation types
  • Offers AI-assisted workflows, REST API, Python SDK, and CLI
  • Exports to major computer-vision formats and connects to cloud storage

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan supports only 1–2 members
  • Solo plans are limited to a personal workspace
  • Enterprise deployment starts at $12,000 per year

• V7 Darwin — where it wins

  • Supports many annotation types, including masks, skeletons, keypoints, and polygons
  • AI-assisted labeling, model-in-the-loop workflows, and external model integration
  • Video and DICOM interpolation plus multi-stage review and collaboration

  Where it doesn't

  • Paid pricing uses custom platform fees, user licenses, and volume-based charges
  • Its broad workflow may be more than teams needing simple image labeling
  • The platform is web-based and API-accessible rather than open source

• CVAT8.9/10 · Free plan

  A broad CV workflow spanning manual, AI-assisted, collaborative, and programmatic annotation.

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• V7 Darwin8.4/10 · Free plan · pricing on request

  A broad annotation platform for teams building computer-vision and medical-imaging datasets.

  Visit V7 DarwinFull verdict →