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Label Studio vs. Roboflow Annotate

Label Studio vs. Roboflow Annotate

Learn how Label Studio and Roboflow Annotate compare in terms of supported task types, enterprise features like SSO and RBAC, and more.

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Label Studio

Label Studio is an open source image annotation tool with support for detection, segmentation, and more.
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Roboflow Annotate

Roboflow Annotate allows you to label data for object detection, segmentation, classification, and keypoint. Roboflow Annotate is equipped with AI-assisted tools to help you label data.
Supported Vision Task Types

Object detection, instance segmentation, keypoints, classification

Object detection, instance segmentation, keypoints, classification

Offers SSO?
Yes
Yes
Offers Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)?
Yes
Yes
Dataset Analytics Support
Limited
Yes
Labeling History Support
No
Yes
Semantic Dataset Search
No
Yes
Image Augmentation Support
No
Yes
Offers Foundation Model Label Assistant?

Support for SAM-2-powered label assistant in the annotation interface.

Model Training Offered?
No
Yes
Deployment Offered?
No
Yes
Offers a Interactive Vision Application Builder?
No
Yes
How to buy
Online & Sales
Online & Sales

Compare Label Studio and Roboflow Annotate

When comparing Label Studio to Roboflow Annotate, both support core vision tasks: object detection, instance segmentation, keypoints, and classification, but they differ in collaboration, tooling, and workflow features. Label Studio is a versatile, open-source tool with SSO support and role-based access control, making it a strong choice for teams working across vision, audio, text, or time-series data. While Roboflow Annotate offers the same task support plus: built-in dataset analytics, annotation history, semantic search, image augmentation, and AI-powered label assistants like SAM-2 for polygon suggestions. Unlike Label Studio, it also includes model training, deployment, and an interactive app builder, all within a single platform.

There are a few key differences to consider:

Label Studio is helpful for teams seeking a flexible, open-source annotation tool with broad data type support and customizability, while Roboflow Annotate is purpose-built for fast, automated, and end-to-end vision workflows - empowering even non-ML teams to go from data to deployed model with minimal friction.