Clarifai and Roboflow

Clarifai's core team has moved to Nebius, Roboflow builds vision AI

Clarifai vs Roboflow? Over 2 million developers create datasets, train models, and deploy to production with Roboflow, and every plan, including the Free tier, comes with self-hosted inference, model weights download, and a private workspace.

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Why are companies choosing Roboflow?

Roboflow is enterprise vision AI infrastructure, used by more than half of the Fortune 100, with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and air-gapped deployment. Create datasets, train models, and deploy to production.

  • End-to-End Vision, One Platform

    From labeling to deployment - build, train, and launch with ease.

  • Built for Builders, Ready for Anything

    Interoperable infrastructure for developers to create custom vision solutions.

  • AI at the Edge, Without Limits

    Deploy seamlessly to any edge device and power real-time vision AI.

  • Roboflow Annotate labeling cans with AI box prompting

    Fast data labeling

    Label data quickly with a suite of AI-assisted annotation tools to augment human labeling or fully automate your data labeling pipeline.

  • Workflow blocks for notifications and integrations

    Build vision AI applications with ease

    Use a low-code open source platform to simplify building and deploying vision AI applications.

  • A team reviewing a detected pallet in a warehouse aisle

    Machine learning expertise, always

    Work with account-dedicated AI specialists and Field Engineers to accelerate development and optimize performance.

  • Photos from datasets across industries

    Datasets and models for every industry

    Access thousands of datasets and pre-trained models to kickstart your computer vision projects.

  • Logos of OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, Google and Qwen

    Flexible model licensing

    Choose from a range of licensing options to fit your needs, whether for commercial use, private deployment, or collaboration across teams.

Want to migrate from Clarifai to Roboflow?

  • Import images to Roboflow

    Bring data from Clarifai to Roboflow for model training.

  • Deploy with Roboflow

    No matter where you train your model, use Roboflow's trusted deployment solutions.

  • Automate data labeling

    Use AI labeling in Roboflow to automate 90% of human labeling.

OK I’m ready, how do I use Roboflow?

Roboflow makes it easy to build, train, and deploy custom computer vision models, even if you’re not a machine learning expert.

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Talk to a Vision AI engineer about moving off Clarifai

Bring us your Clarifai vision workloads and we'll map the move to Roboflow on the first call.

Ask us about:

  • A migration plan for your datasets, models, and API calls
  • A live demo of Auto Label on your own images
  • Deployment options: cloud, VPC, on-prem, edge, or air-gapped
  • Pricing compared against your current plan

Over 80,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

  • Rivian
  • Pella
  • Chobani
  • USG Corporation
  • BNSF Railway
  • American Woodmark
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Compare Clarifai and Roboflow Visual AI

In May 2026, Nebius announced an agreement (opens in a new tab) to bring Clarifai’s core engineering and research team into Nebius and license its inference and compute orchestration technology. The license excluded Clarifai’s legacy computer vision models. For teams evaluating their vision infrastructure, Roboflow offers a platform built specifically around developing, deploying, and improving custom vision applications.

That work starts with your data. Auto Label (opens in a new tab) drafts annotations from a text prompt describing what you want to recognize. Review the results, create a versioned dataset, and train a model such as RF-DETR on your products, parts, or defects. Evaluate accuracy and latency before choosing what to deploy.

Roboflow Agent helps turn your requirements into a working application, from selecting models to building Workflows and connecting predictions to business systems. Your team can inspect and modify what it builds. The Roboflow MCP server and ChatGPT plugin (opens in a new tab) also bring dataset management, training, and inference into the conversations and coding tools your engineers already use.

Deploy to Roboflow’s managed cloud, your own cloud infrastructure, or local hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson and GPU servers. Workflows combines models with counting, OCR, decision logic, and integrations; Enterprise edge offerings add industrial connections such as PLCs. Active learning and Vision Events help your team review production results and bring useful examples back into training as conditions change.

Enterprise plans provide SSO, role-based permissions, and an uptime SLA for hosted services. Optional support and professional services add a named Customer Support Engineer, 24/7 support with a support SLA, hardware procurement, and on-premise deployment assistance. Manufacturers such as USG use Roboflow to run custom inspection models locally and connect their predictions to production equipment.

Start for free with private projects, unlimited seats, supported model weight downloads, and 10 credits each month. Self-hosted inference is free on every plan, with no Roboflow credits consumed by local inference. Bring a representative set of your images and test a model against your application’s requirements, then build toward a deployment your team can maintain and improve.

Clarifai vs Roboflow: Feature by Feature

FeatureRoboflowClarifai
Vision tasksObject detection, instance and semantic segmentation, classification, keypoints, OCR, depth estimation, and multimodal tasksLegacy vision models; pre-trained detection, OCR, and moderation models remain, but the Nebius license excluded Clarifai's legacy computer vision models
Cloud inferenceHosted APIs with autoscalingYes, Compute Orchestration on serverless or dedicated GPU clusters, with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
Train your own modelYes, RF-DETR, YOLO (v8 / v11 / v26), Detectron2, and moreYes, training templates including MMDetection YOLOX, YOLOF, and Faster R-CNN; single-GPU training at $4/hr
AI-assisted labelingYes, Auto Label labels the classes you describe in a text prompt; Smart Polygon powered by Meta AI's Segment Anything; Label Assist pre-annotates with your own trained modelsYes, auto-annotation tasks run a model or workflow over your inputs
Labeling team workflowYes, Admin, Labeler, and Reviewer roles with assignment tracking; annotation history with version revertYes, labeling tasks assigned to workers, with manual or consensus review
Export and own model weightsYesEnterprise only; full model exports are listed on the Hybrid-Cloud AI Enterprise plan
Industrial integrationsPLC Reader, PLC Writer, and OPC UA blocks speak OPC UA, Modbus TCP, and EtherNet/IPNot documented
Deployment optionsManaged cloud, customer VPC, on-premises, and fully air-gapped / offlineShared or dedicated cloud, your VPC, on-premises, or edge; air-gapped is optional on Enterprise
MCPYes, every trained model is exposed over MCP so frontier models can call it as a specialized vision toolYes, hosts custom MCP servers, and AI Runners connect local models, MCP servers, and agents through its API
Uptime SLAYes, on Enterprise, with a public status pageYes, 99.99% SLA on Enterprise
Support24/7, with a support SLA and a named Customer Support Engineer on Enterprise Support24/7 dedicated support on Enterprise; email support on paid plans
Primary focusComputer vision: labeling, training, and deploying vision modelsFast GPU inference and reasoning for large models such as Kimi K2.5 and Llama 4 Scout
Self-hosted inferenceYes, open-source inference server for custom and foundation modelsYes, Local Runners connect locally run models through Clarifai's API
SDKs and APIsYes, Python SDK plus REST/HTTP APIsYes, Python and Node.js SDKs, gRPC clients in seven more languages, and a REST channel
ComplianceSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA with BAAs, PCI DSSSOC 2 Type II
Free tierYes, with free self-hosted inference, model weights download, and a private workspaceYes, Community plan with a limited number of monthly requests on Clarifai's hosted API
PricingPublished plans; Enterprise adds volume pricing and an uptime SLAPublished plans: Developer (promotional $1/mo), Essential from $30/mo, Professional from $300/mo; Enterprise by quote

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