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The Enterprise AI Data Platform Alternative to CVAT

CVAT is a capable open-source annotation tool—but enterprise AI demands more. Kili Technology delivers complete AI data governance, model evaluation workflows, and multimodal support that scales from pilot to production. Kili empowers cross-functional teams to build production-ready AI systems—without the engineering overhead of customizing open-source infrastructure.

Advanced Labeling Support for Geospatial
Built-in quality control workflow for annotation teams
Easy scalability of teams and projects
Comprehensive Audit Trail
Native multi-data type, multi-format collaboration workflow
Domain expert friendly interface

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Features

From Annotation Tracking to Complete Auditability

CVAT tracks annotation tasks and jobs. Kili governs your entire AI data lifecycle. Every label, every review, every iteration is fully traceable—giving you the audit trails regulated industries demand. While CVAT requires significant internal engineering to build governance workflows, Kili provides enterprise-grade traceability out of the box, ensuring you can diagnose model failures back to their data origins and satisfy compliance requirements without custom development.

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Features

Built for Subject Matter Experts, Not Just Engineers

CVAT was built for ML engineers and annotation specialists. Kili was built for your entire organization. Radiologists, underwriters, quality inspectors, and compliance officers can validate model outputs, review datasets, and refine AI decisions directly—without requiring technical training or engineering support. While CVAT focuses on annotation accuracy within a technical workflow, Kili embeds domain expertise throughout the AI development lifecycle. The result: AI systems shaped by the people who understand your business, not just the engineers who build the models.

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Features

One Platform for Every AI Modality

CVAT excels at computer vision. Kili handles your entire AI portfolio. Beyond images and video, Kili supports text, documents, PDFs, geospatial imagery, and GenAI human-feedback workflows—all within a unified platform. As enterprises expand from computer vision pilots to multimodal AI programs, Kili scales with you. No need to manage separate tools for different data types; one platform, one workflow, every modality.

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Use Cases

Where Kili Technology Excels

Kili Technology is trusted in highly-demanding industries where security and quality of data cannot be compromised

Scaling AI Programs Across Business Units

Kili's built-in project management and organization-wide governance let you scale from one project to hundreds without engineering investment. Unlike CVAT, which lacks native project management capabilities, Kili is proven to support 100+ concurrent use cases across enterprise teams.

Regulated Industry Compliance

Financial services, healthcare, and defense organizations choose Kili for complete audit trails and flexible deployment options—including on-premise for sensitive data. CVAT's open-source model raises sustainability concerns and requires custom work to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.

Advanced Object Detection Requirements

Kili supports rotated bounding boxes, YOLO export formats, and advanced label search functionality that CVAT users frequently cite as limitations. When your computer vision projects demand precision tooling, Kili delivers without workarounds.

GenAI and LLM Development

Building conversational AI, RAG systems, or fine-tuning large language models requires human feedback workflows CVAT wasn't designed for. Kili's GenAI-ready platform enables RLHF, response evaluation, and prompt-output validation—extending your data platform from traditional ML to the frontier of AI development.

Tools

Build structured datasets from all data types

Kili Technology is a complete data suite that supports all data types and handles specialized formats for domain-specific requirements.

Geospatial Imagery

Drive reliable mapping and monitoring through high-quality geospatial annotations.

OCR & Document Layout Analysis

Turn unstructured documents into usable data with accurate text extraction and streamlined review workflows.

Natural Language Processing

Annotate text for NER, classification, and sentiment analysis with collaborative workflows.

Image Annotation

Annotate images 10x faster with SAM 2 integration and automated quality controls.

Video Annotation

Annotate long videos seamlessly and boost productivity with advanced automation.

LLM & RAG Evaluation

Build quality-focused RLHF workflows and evaluate RAG systems with dynamic and static support.  

Testimonials

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We listen closely to our users — and build with their feedback in mind. Their success is what drives us forward.

I have been using Kili for 6 months now on a wide range of labeling use cases (both in computer vision and natural language processing). The stability offered by the tool is essential when you have tight deadlines and large volumes of data to annotate. Our team of over 1000 workers is accustomed to the tool, we were able to easily integrate our workforce management tool with Kili with the SSO functionality.
Kili is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for data labeling and annotation. The interface is user-friendly and offers several interesting features. The customer support team is also responsive and helpful.
Software to engage both labelers and business lines in the necessary but tedious task of labeling and annotation, served by a dedicated team to listen to your problems.
Thanks to the fact that our AI infrastructure now includes Kili Technology, we can use the tool for all kinds of projects... LCL teams can accelerate drastically the creation of their training datasets, which means a significant improvement for all the parties involved.
With the choice of Kili, we are much more confident about the future. We decided to eliminate a large part of the technical debt by choosing a solution that will be perfectly mastered across a whole range of data science and AI projects.
I have been using Kili for 6 months now on a wide range of labeling use cases (both in computer vision and natural language processing). The stability offered by the tool is essential when you have tight deadlines and large volumes of data to annotate. Our team of over 1000 workers is accustomed to the tool, we were able to easily integrate our workforce management tool with Kili with the SSO functionality.
Kili is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for data labeling and annotation. The interface is user-friendly and offers several interesting features. The customer support team is also responsive and helpful.
Software to engage both labelers and business lines in the necessary but tedious task of labeling and annotation, served by a dedicated team to listen to your problems.
Thanks to the fact that our AI infrastructure now includes Kili Technology, we can use the tool for all kinds of projects... LCL teams can accelerate drastically the creation of their training datasets, which means a significant improvement for all the parties involved.
With the choice of Kili, we are much more confident about the future. We decided to eliminate a large part of the technical debt by choosing a solution that will be perfectly mastered across a whole range of data science and AI projects.
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