Documentation

Welcome to the documentation of CVAT.

CVAT is a leading visual annotation platform for building high-quality image, video, and 3D datasets for AL/ML models. It is being developed CVAT team to help AI/ML teams annotate millions of objects with different shapes and properties. Many UI and UX decisions are based on feedbacks from CVAT’s in-house professional data annotation team.

CVAT comes in three editions: CVAT Community, CVAT Online, and CVAT Enterprise.

  • CVAT Community is the free, self-hosted version with core functionality.
  • CVAT Online is the SaaS edition with three pricing tiers (Free, Solo, Team).
  • CVAT Enterprise is a self-hosted, premium version with enhanced security.

This documentation provides information for data annotators, AI researchers, system administrators, and developers.

It is divided into three sections, and each section is divided into subsections basic and advanced.

Getting started

Basic information and sections needed for a quick start.

FAQ

Answers to frequently asked questions.

GitHub Repository

Computer Vision Annotation Tool GitHub repository.

Manual

This section contains documents for CVAT simple and advanced users.

Administration

This section contains documents for system administrators.

Contributing

This section contains documents for developers.