Label Your Data review

Label Your Data, which launched in 2020, is a managed annotation service that publishes its starting prices, something most vendors don't do.

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Located in: Wilmington, Delaware
File types: Satellite and map images, Photos, Text, Audio, 3D (LiDAR) laser scans
Third-party security audits: ISO 27001
Pricing model: Boxes start at $0.02 each; time-based labeling starts at $6 for an hour of work.
Test for free: Trial job for free
Minimum: Nothing charged to get started

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Is Label Your Data a good fit?

Smaller or mid-size teams are the natural fit when they want pricing up front, before a sales call, with a free pilot included.

A good match if

You work with photos, text, audio, satellite and map images or 3D laser scans (LiDAR).
You need a provider whose own pages name ISO 27001, GDPR.
Trying before buying matters to you: a free trial job is on offer.

Check with Label Your Data first if

Patient records are part of your work: HIPAA is not named on Label Your Data's pages, so ask how the company would treat such data.

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More about Label Your Data

Which laws it says it follows: GDPR
The way it operates: Its own teams do the labeling, using your software or their own
Team: Staff located in multiple regions and time zones

What the market charges for work like this

Each object gets a box., per box: Non-US team.:$0.02 to $0.12Our estimate for a US team.:$0.04 to $0.48
Marking names, places or amounts., per document: Non-US team.:$0.04 to $0.30Our estimate for a US team.:$0.08 to $1.20
Typed-out speech noting each speaker., per minute of audio: Non-US team.:$0.10 to $1.50Our estimate for a US team.:$0.20 to $6.00
Cars and people boxed in 3D., per 3D box: Non-US team.:$0.10 to $0.50Our estimate for a US team.:$0.20 to $2.00

For the work Label Your Data lists, other labeling companies publish prices; we add a US-team estimate using two times the low end and four times the high end, the markup span Habile Data reports for US teams. What you see are market rates rather than a Label Your Data quote.

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Two things to know about Label Your Data

Published pricing starts at $0.02 per bounding box and $0.015 per keypoint, while an hour of annotator time costs $6.
The company says former annotators, people with direct experience of the work, run its projects.

What Label Your Data offers for data annotation

Audio, 3D, text, document and image work
LiDAR
Geospatial and aerial images
From case studies: robotics, legal, aviation, defense/drones and academic research

Label Your Data and similar companies

Label Your Data beside other firms working with similar file types
Company	Located in	File types	Third-party security audits	Price and free test
Label Your DataThis page	Wilmington, Delaware	Photos, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Satellite photos	ISO 27001	A box starts at $0.02; an hour of work starts at $6.There's a free trial job and no charge to begin.
Innodata	Ridgefield Park, New Jersey	Medical scans, Satellite images, Photos, Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Rating chatbot replies	ISO 27001	A sample comes first; the quote follows.
Scale AI	San Francisco, California	Satellite images, Photos, Video, Text, 3D laser scans, Rating chatbot replies	SOC 2 Type II	A sample comes first; the quote follows.A phone call comes first.
Appen	Sydney, Australia and Kirkland, Washington	Medical scans, Photos, Video, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans, Rating chatbot replies	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001	A sample comes first; the quote follows.
TELUS Digital	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Rating chatbot replies, Photos, Text, Audio, 3D laser scans	SOC 2 (the type isn't stated), TISAX, ISO 27001	A sample comes first; the quote follows.

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Prices and companies for the files Label Your Data labels

What to ask Label Your Data before you sign

In what places do your teams work, and which teams would label our data?
What share of labels gets a second-person check, and how is accuracy measured?
How big is the pilot? On its site, it offers: free trial job.
Ahead of any of our files reaching you, will you share your ISO 27001 report with us?
Which rate covers our kind of label, and what extra does a second review bring?
Is there a minimum required? The answer on its website: nothing charged for setup.

Collecting quotes for work like this

You explain the project a single time, covering what the data is, which labels you need and the number of items.
We pick up to three companies that label that kind of data, and email you their names before we pass the brief on.
Every company requests a few sample files, then sends you its quote.

Comparing Label Your Data with others? Describe the job once, and three annotation companies that label your kind of data reply with prices.

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