Voxel51 and Roboflow

Voxel51 helps you curate and label your data, Roboflow takes it all the way to deployment

Voxel51 vs. Roboflow? Over 2 million engineers create datasets, train models, and deploy 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 use Voxel51 and Roboflow?

  • Import images to Roboflow

    Bring data from Voxel51 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 taking your data to deployment

Bring us your curated dataset and we'll map the path to a deployed model on the first call.

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  • Import of your existing labels in COCO, YOLO, or 40+ other formats
  • A live demo of Auto Label on your own images
  • Training on current architectures, including RF-DETR
  • Deployment options: cloud, VPC, on-prem, edge, or air-gapped

Over 80,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

  • Rivian
  • Pella
  • Chobani
  • USG Corporation
  • BNSF Railway
  • American Woodmark
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Compare Roboflow and Voxel51

Voxel51’s FiftyOne helps teams search, curate, annotate, and evaluate visual datasets, including video, 3D, and sensor data. Its training integrations connect that work to external machine learning frameworks. Roboflow brings managed training and production inference into the same platform as your data, giving engineers a direct path from finding a model’s weaknesses to deploying an improved application.

Use Auto Label (opens in a new tab) to draft annotations from a text prompt for review, then train a custom model on your images. Roboflow Agent helps turn that model into an application, building Workflows that connect predictions with logic and actions. Deploy through a cloud API or run on compatible edge hardware.

That connection continues after deployment. Configure Vision Events to capture production images, predictions, and context such as manufacturing line or lot number. Review false positives and missed detections, add those examples to your training dataset, and evaluate the next model before deploying it. Your dataset improves with evidence from the application it powers.

Roboflow’s free plan includes private projects, 10 monthly credits, and self-hosted inference, so teams can start building and deploying immediately. Enterprise options add fleet management, SSO, audit logs, and implementation support as the application expands across teams and sites.

Voxel51 vs Roboflow: Feature by Feature

FeatureRoboflowVoxel51
Form factorSoftware platform; runs on the cameras and compute you choose, or the Roboflow AI1 deviceData platform; FiftyOne for search, curation, visualization, and evaluation of visual data, plus FiftyOne Enterprise for teams
Open-source toolingYes; open-source inference server and supervision libraryYes; FiftyOne is Apache 2.0 licensed, with 11,000+ GitHub stars
Data and label typesObject detection, instance and semantic segmentation, classification, keypoints, OCR, depth estimation, and multimodal tasksBroad; images, video, 3D scenes, lidar point clouds, and sensor streams, including cuboid and polyline labels
Dataset curation and searchDataset versioning, preprocessing, and augmentation built inCore strength; natural-language, visual similarity, and metadata search, with synchronized playback of video, 3D, and sensor data
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; Agentic Labeling uses VLMs and text prompts, and SAM 2 propagates masks and tracks through video
Labeling team workflowYes, Admin, Labeler, and Reviewer roles with assignment tracking; annotation history with version revertYes, on Enterprise; multi-stage annotate and review workflows with task assignment and rejection loops
Interoperability40+ formats, including COCO, YOLO, and Pascal VOCYes; integrates with CVAT, Label Studio, V7, Labelbox, Hugging Face, and Ultralytics
Keeping models accurateBuilt in; active learning and operator feedback send flagged images back into training; Vision Events logs every prediction and image; model monitoring on EnterpriseEvaluation focus; surfaces underperforming classes and failure patterns so you can curate and re-test
Edge hardwareYes, NVIDIA Jetson, GPU servers, Raspberry Pi, x86, or Roboflow AI1, online or fully offlineNot documented
Deployment optionsManaged cloud, customer VPC, on-premises, and fully air-gapped / offlineCloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, on-premises, air-gapped, or managed service, for the data platform
ComplianceSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA with BAAs, PCI DSSISO 27001 listed on Team and Custom plans; SOC 2 and HIPAA not documented
Train your own modelYes, RF-DETR, YOLO (v8 / v11 / v26), Detectron2, and moreThrough integrations with external frameworks such as Ultralytics and Detectron2
Self-hosted inferenceYes, open-source inference server for custom and foundation modelsNo; a self-hostable inference server for production applications is not documented
SDKs and APIsYes, Python SDK plus REST/HTTP APIsYes, open-source fiftyone Python library and a plugin framework
PricingPublished plans; Enterprise adds volume pricing and an uptime SLAFiftyOne open source is free; hosted Free plan (3 datasets, 10,000 samples each); Team and Custom through sales

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