Kili Technology vs Label Studio

Kili Technology and Label Studio both land on Depends.

Kili Technology

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you're an enterprise ML team labeling large volumes of image, text, or LLM training data with compliance requirements.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if your team labels multi-modal data regularly and wants a free, self-hostable core.

Kili Technology versus Label Studio
Compare	Kili Technology	Label Studio
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Enterprise ML data teams	Multi-modal ML labeling teams
Who it's not for	Small teams labeling a few hundred samples	One-off labeling of a few hundred items
Privacy	Strong posture: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA claimed, on-prem option, published trust center.¹⁰	Open source platform with several disclosed 2025 CVEs, including full account takeover; self-hosters must patch quickly.
Support quality	No direct support reviews found	Community forum and docs only
Public sentiment	Public review volume is modest (53 on G2) and available snippets skew positive, describing a distinctive, complete annotation suite.^³	Reddit ML communities treat Label Studio as a reliable free, self-hostable labeler while warning it is overkill for simple jobs.
Biggest gotcha	No transparent pricing; expect sales calls and negotiated enterprise contracts.^⁵	2025 account-takeover and path-traversal CVEs . patch immediately if self-hosting.

Small teams labeling a few hundred samples
Buyers wanting transparent self-serve pricing
Anyone seeking EU AI Act compliance software . that hook is just lead-gen content
Projects without a dedicated ML lead to run the platform