CVAT · FinOps Profile

Cvat Finops

FinOps view of CVAT spend. CVAT cost has two distinct shapes. Self-hosted Community edition (MIT) carries no vendor license fee; the spend is the operator's own infrastructure (compute, storage, GPU for auto-annotation, egress) and ops effort. CVAT Online (app.cvat.ai) is a subscription SaaS: flat monthly/annual for Free and Solo, per-seat for Team, and negotiated for Enterprise, with consumption gated by plan quotas on projects, tasks, storage, cloud connections, and monthly AI (auto-annotation) calls. Annual billing reduces effective per-seat cost by roughly 30%.

Cvat Finops is the FinOps profile for CVAT on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 7 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category subscription.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Computer Vision, Data Annotation, Labeling, Datasets, and Open Source.

Category: Machine Learning and Data Annotation Pricing: Subscription Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Computer VisionData AnnotationLabelingDatasetsOpen SourceFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
CVAT.ai
PricingCategory
Subscription
ProviderName
CVAT.ai
PublisherName
CVAT.ai
ServiceCategory
Machine Learning and Data Annotation
ServiceName
CVAT Online

Meters

subscription_seats
Unit: seats
Billable seats on the Team plan, charged per user per billing cycle (minimum two seats).
subscription_flat
Unit: subscription
Flat monthly or annual charge for Free and Solo hosted plans.
ai_calls
Unit: invocations
Automatic-annotation (AI) calls consumed against the monthly plan allowance.
internal_storage_gb
Unit: gigabytes
Internal storage consumed against the plan storage quota.
project_count
Unit: projects
Projects created against the plan project quota.
task_count
Unit: tasks
Tasks created against the plan task quota.
self_hosted_infrastructure
Unit: resource_hours
Operator-owned compute, storage, GPU, and egress for self-hosted Community CVAT (no vendor charge).

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