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Roboflow
Roboflow runs the full computer-vision pipeline. Developers annotate images, train models, and deploy inference to cloud or edge — all in one platform.
Audience
Developers
Pricing
Freemium
What Roboflow does
- Annotation tools cover bounding boxes, polygons, keypoints, and segmentation. A team labels datasets together with version control.
- Datasets convert across formats. Upload COCO or YOLO data; export to whatever your training framework needs.
- Roboflow Train fine-tunes vision models without training code. You also keep the option to download data and train in your own stack.
- Hosted inference runs models behind a REST API. For latency-sensitive uses, Roboflow deploys to Jetson, Raspberry Pi, browsers, and mobile.
- Universe hosts more than 100,000 public datasets. Most are free to start a project from.
When to use Roboflow
- ML engineers train a custom object detector from labelled photos.
- Robotics teams run real-time inference on camera feeds at the edge.
- Solo builders bootstrap a project from a public Universe dataset.
Roboflow pricing
Roboflow is offered as a freemium product. Plans and exact prices change often — check the official Roboflow site for current tiers and limits.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Roboflow free?
Roboflow has a free tier for public projects and small private ones. Paid plans add private projects, more inference, and team features. See roboflow.com/pricing for current numbers.
Do I need to know machine learning to use Roboflow?
Not for the basics. Annotating data and using a hosted model do not require ML experience. Building a custom architecture or tuning training does.
Which model architectures does Roboflow support?
Roboflow Train uses tuned versions of common architectures including YOLO and other detector families. You can also export data in standard formats and train any architecture you want elsewhere.