CVAT pricing in 2026 with plan limits and what a team really pays
CVAT pricing in October 2026 has four paths. CVAT Online is free for one small workspace, Solo costs 33 USD a month (23 USD billed yearly), Team costs 33 USD per user a month (23 USD billed yearly), and self hosted Enterprise support is quoted by sales. The self hosted Community edition has no license fee, but you pay in server and engineer time. A team of 8 labelers on CVAT Online Team pays 264 USD a month, or 184 USD a month billed yearly. Figures come from cvat.ai as read on 2026-10-26.
If you label only images and want one fixed number, compare it with a flat priced CVAT alternative for image annotation before you commit.
CVAT plans and prices at a glance
| Plan | Price | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 USD, 1 project, 3 tasks, 1 GB, 100 AI calls a month | Trying the editor on a handful of images |
| Solo | 33 USD a month, or 23 USD a month billed yearly | One person with a personal workspace, no team features |
| Team | 33 USD per user a month, or 23 USD per user billed yearly, 2 to 50 seats | Teams that need shared projects, roles and review |
| Enterprise self hosted | Quote, Basic and Premium support tiers | Companies that run CVAT on their own servers and want vendor support |
| Community self hosted | Free open source edition | Engineers who maintain their own deployment |
Team limits grow with the seat count, and several features are gated by plan. The next two sections show both.
CVAT Online limits by plan and seat tier
| Limit | Free | Solo | Team 2 to 7 seats | Team 8 to 25 seats | Team 26 to 50 seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projects | 1 | 10 | 30 | 50 | 100 |
| Tasks | 3 | 250 | 750 | 1,250 | 2,500 |
| Internal storage | 1 GB | 25 GB | 75 GB | 125 GB | 250 GB |
| Internal AI calls a month | 100 | 10,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 |
Role based access control, audit logs through the API and SSO are Team features, and SSO is limited to annual billing. Solo has no team collaboration, so a second labeler means moving to Team. Check cvat.ai/pricing/cloud for the current limits, since CVAT states they can change with notice.
What a CVAT Online team pays per month
The bill is seats times the per seat rate, with a 2 seat minimum on the selector.
| Team | Monthly billing | Yearly billing, per month | Yearly total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 labelers | 66 USD | 46 USD | 552 USD |
| 5 labelers | 165 USD | 115 USD | 1,380 USD |
| 8 labelers | 264 USD | 184 USD | 2,208 USD |
| 15 labelers | 495 USD | 345 USD | 4,140 USD |
Seasonal teams feel this most. Adding four labelers for a harvest project adds 132 USD a month on monthly billing, and they cannot be dropped for free on a yearly plan.
The real cost of self hosted CVAT
Community edition costs nothing in license fees. A working install still needs a server with enough RAM and disk for your images, a GPU node if you want automatic annotation with your own models, backups, upgrades and someone who answers when the disk fills. Many teams do this fine, and if you also label video or 3D data, CVAT is hard to beat. When the server belongs to whoever has time, a day of lost labeling costs more than a hosted plan. Uptime monitoring such as a 30 second ping on your server and its ports at least tells you before the labelers do.
Enterprise support is sold in Basic and Premium tiers. Both include email support with a 24 hour SLA, Premium adds a dedicated support engineer, live chat, up to 3 private instances and up to 100 hours of professional services a year. Prices are not published, and white labeling is a paid add on.
Is CVAT worth the price for your team
CVAT earns its price when you need video interpolation, 3D point clouds or full control of where data lives. The cost shows up differently for image only work. On CVAT Online it follows headcount, and on self hosted it follows engineer time.
A flat plan is easier to forecast. ImageLabeling includes 10 seats, 3,500 AI pre-labeled images and 100,000 stored images on the Team plan at 149 USD a month, or 74 USD billed yearly. The 15 labeler row above, 495 USD a month on CVAT Online, fits the Business plan at 499 USD a month with 30 seats, 12,000 AI pre-labeled images and one million stored images. Teams that want to see pre-labels on their own data can try the AI data labeling flow first.
How much does CVAT cost?
CVAT Online has a free plan, Solo at 33 USD a month or 23 USD billed yearly, and Team at 33 USD per user a month or 23 USD per user billed yearly, as of October 2026. Enterprise self hosted support is quoted. The Community self hosted edition has no license fee.
Is CVAT free?
CVAT has a free self hosted Community edition and a free CVAT Online plan limited to 1 project, 3 tasks, 1 GB of storage and 100 AI calls a month. Team work needs a paid Team plan on CVAT Online, or your own server plus the time to run it.
Does CVAT charge per user?
Yes on the Team plan. CVAT Online Team costs 33 USD per user a month, or 23 USD per user a month billed yearly. Solo is a flat 33 USD a month for one personal workspace. Limits for projects, tasks and storage rise with the seat tier.
How much does CVAT Enterprise cost?
CVAT does not publish Enterprise prices. Self hosted Enterprise comes as Basic and Premium support tiers sold through sales, with email support on a 24 hour SLA and extras like white labeling as paid add ons. Ask for a written quote.
Is there a cheaper alternative to CVAT for image labeling?
For image only work with several labelers, a flat priced tool is usually cheaper and easier to budget. ImageLabeling plans start at 24 USD a month billed yearly, include seats, stored images and AI pre-labels, and export COCO, YOLO and Pascal VOC. See the full CVAT alternative comparison.