Label Studio (HumanSignal)
Open-source data-labelling platform supporting text, image, audio, video, time-series. Commercial Enterprise edition + Cloud (HumanSignal).
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 20 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Data labelling platform vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Training infrastructure
- Latest release
- v1.23.2 (2026-09-29) registry fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 (Community); proprietary Enterprise vendor fix
- Pricing
- Community free; Starter Cloud $99/mo for up to 12 users (+$49/user); Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Funding
- HumanSignal raised $25M Series A in 2022-06 (Redpoint Ventures led); Label Studio OSS is Apache-2.0. vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 6.24 (12-mo avg 33.15) · 37 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
OSS; large enterprise adoption; HumanSignal $25M Series A 2022.
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
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- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Community self-host; Starter Cloud hosted; Enterprise cloud or on-prem
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (19 cited facts, 2 third-party)
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- What it is Data labelling platform vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Open-source data-labelling platform supporting text, image, audio, video, time-series. C… vendor
- Claims / benefits OSS; large enterprise adoption; HumanSignal $25M Series A 2022. vendor
- Created 2019 repo
- Latest release v1.23.2 (2026-09-29) registry
- License Apache-2.0 (Community); proprietary Enterprise vendor
- GitHub HumanSignal/label-studio — ~28.6k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding HumanSignal raised $25M Series A in 2022-06 (Redpoint Ventures led); Label Studio OSS is… vendor
- Customers / scale Facebook, Intel, NVIDIA, IBM, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson; Apache-2 OSS adopted broadly. vendor
- Pricing Community free; Starter Cloud $99/mo for up to 12 users (+$49/user); Enterprise custom vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Community self-host; Starter Cloud hosted; Enterpri… vendor
- HQ San Francisco, CA, USA. third-party
- Founders / pedigree Michael Malyuk (CEO), Maxim Tkachenko (CTO), Nikolay Lyubimov; rebranded Heartex -> Huma… vendor
- Code/weights release Active — last commit 2026-05 · 27,288★ repo
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":78.34,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":33.15,"openrank_current":6.24,"parti… third-party
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.23.2 (2026-09-29)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Community free; Starter Cloud $99/mo for up to 12 users (+$49/user); Enterprise custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Community self-host; Starter Cloud hosted; Enterprise cloud or on-prem” source