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title: Compare Label Studio Editions
short: Compare editions
type: guide
tier: all
order: 28
order_enterprise: 28
section: "Discover & Learn"
meta_title: Label Studio Community and Enterprise Features
meta_description: Compare the features of Label Studio Community Edition with the paid versions so that you can choose the best option for your data labeling and annotation projects.
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Label Studio is available to everyone as open source software (Label Studio Community Edition). There are also two paid editions: Starter Cloud and Enterprise. 

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## At-a-glance

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## Feature comparison



  

    
Functionality
    
Community
    
Starter Cloud
    
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User Management
  
  
  

    
Role-based workflows
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/project_settings_lse#Annotation">Role-based automated workflows for annotators and reviewers.
    
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Role-based access control
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/admin_roles">Role-based access control into workspaces and projects: Admin, Manager, Reviewer, and Annotator.
    
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Data Management
  
  

    
Data management view
View and manage datasets and tasks in a project through the Data Manager view.
    
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Multiple data formats
https://labelstud.io/playground/"> Label any data type from text, images, audio, video, time series data to multimodality.
    
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Import data
Reference data stored in your database, cloud storage buckets, or local storage and label it in the browser.
    
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Advanced cloud storage integrations
Databricks Unity Catalog, IAM for AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage with Service Principal, and WIF for Google Cloud Storage connections.
    
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Import pre-annotated data
Import pre-annotated data (predictions) into Label Studio for further refinement and assessment.
    
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Export data
Export annotations as common formats like JSON, COCO, Pascal VOC and others.
    
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Sync data
Synchronize new and labeled data between projects and your external data storage.
    
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Chat
Generate and label conversation data. Interact live with an LLM of your choice.
    
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Project Management
  
  

    
Organize data in projects
Projects to manage data labeling activities.
    
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Organize projects in workspaces
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/workspaces">Organizes related projects by team, department, or product. Users can only access workspaces they associated with. 
    
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Personal sandbox workspace
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/workspaces">Personal sandbox workspace for project testing and experimentation. 
    
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Templates
Templates to set up data labeling projects faster.
    
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AI assistant
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/ask_ai">Use an LLM trained by HumanSignal to help you create and refine templates.
    
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Project membership
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/project_settings_lse#Members">Only users who are added as members to a project can view it. 
    
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Project-level roles
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/project_settings_lse#Members">Annotator and Reviewer can be assigned to Annotator/Reviewer roles at a per-project level. 
    
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Project-level user settings
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/project_settings_lse#Annotation">Multiple configuration options for how Annotators and Reviewers interact with tasks and what information they can see.
    
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Data Labeling Workflows
  
  

    
Assign tasks
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/manage_data#Assign-annotators-to-tasks">Assign tasks to certain annotators or reviewers.
    
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Automatically assign tasks
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/setup_project#Configure-high-impact-settings">Set rules and automate how tasks are distributed to annotators.
    
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Simplified interface for Annotators
Annotator-specific labeling view that only shows assigned tasks.
    
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Bulk labeling
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/labeling_bulk">Classify data in batches.
    
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Customization & Development
  
  

    
Tag library
Use our tag library to customize the labeling interface by modifying pre-built templates or by building your own templates.
    
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White labeling
Use your company colors and logo to give your team a consistent experience. (Additional cost)
    
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Plugins
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/plugins">Use JavaScript to further enhance and customize your labeling interface.
    
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API/SDK & webhooks
 APIs, SDK, and webhooks for programmatically accessing and managing Label Studio.
    
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Prompts
  
   

    
Automated pre-labeling
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/prompts_overview">Rapidly pre-label tasks using LLMs.
    
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LLM fine-tuning and evaluation
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/prompts_draft">Evaluate and fine-tune LLM prompts against a ground truth dataset.
    
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Run benchmarks
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/prompts_draft#Evaluation-results">Compare model outputs against ground truth or rubric criteria.
    
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Machine Learning
  
  

    
Custom ML backends
Connect a machine learning model to the backend of a project.
    
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Active learning loops
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/active_learning.html">Accelerate labeling with active learning loops.
    
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Predictions from connected models
Automatically label and sort tasks by prediction score with the ML model backend.
    
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Analytics and Reporting
  
  

    
Project dashboards
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/dashboard_project">Dashboards for monitoring project progress.
    
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Annotator performance dashboards
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/dashboard_annotator">Dashboards to review and monitor individual annotator performance.
    
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Activity logs
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/admin_logs">Activity logs for auditing annotation activity by project.
    
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Annotation history
View annotation history from the labeling interface.
    
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Quality Workflows
  
  

    
Assign reviewers
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/quality.html">Assign reviewers to review, fix and update annotations.
    
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Automatic task reassignment
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/quality.html">Reassign tasks with low agreement scores to new annotators.
    
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Agreement metrics
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/stats.html">Define how annotator consensus is calculated. You can choose from pre-defined metrics or customize your own.
    
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Comments and notifications
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/comments_notifications.html">Team collaboration features like comments and notifications on annotation tasks.
    
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Identify ground truths
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/quality.html">Mark which annotations should be included in a Ground Truth dataset.
    
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Overlap configuration
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/project_settings_lse#Quality">Set how many annotators must label each sample.
    
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Pause annotators
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/quality#Pause-an-annotator">Pause an individual annotator's progress manually or based on pre-defined behaviors.
    
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Annotation limits
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/project_settings_lse#annotation-limit">Set a limit on how many annotations a user can submit within a project before their work is paused.
    
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Annotator consensus matrices
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/quality#Review-annotator-agreement-matrix">Matrices used to compare labeling results by different annotators.
    
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Label distribution charts
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/dashboard_project#Label-distribution">Identify possible problems with your dataset distribution, such as an unbalanced dataset.
    
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Security and Support 
  
  

    
SSO
https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/auth_setup.html">Secure access and authentication of users via SAML SSO or LDAP.
    
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SOC2
https://heartex.com/security"> SOC2-compliant hosted cloud service or on-premise availability
    
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Support portal
Access to a dedicated support portal.
    
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Uptime SLA
99.9% uptime SLA
    
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Customer Success Manager
Dedicated customer success manager to support onboarding, education, and escalations.
    
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