Why teams choose Voxel51 over Encord
AI teams are making the switch from Encord to FiftyOne. Improve development efficiency by over 30%, eliminate data issues that lead to model failures, and ship reliable models faster. FiftyOne provides an extensible platform built for curation, annotation, evaluation, and deployment at any scale.
30% increase in model accuracy
Identify edge cases, outliers, duplicates, and mislabeled samples with precision filtering and dynamic slices—so you can build cleaner, leaner datasets that drive better model results.
5+ months of development time saved
Identify your best performing samples, weed out low-quality data, and organize dataset views intuitively — so you can focus on building better models, faster.
30% boost in team productivity
Work with enterprise-level workloads spanning billions of samples across multimodal data in the cloud, on-premise, or air gapped.
Benefits
Voxel51 is a better alternative to Encord. Here’s why.
Tight data-model connectivity
Annotation tools offer limited ML depth, and retrofit curation and model analysis. FiftyOne was built with data and model workflows at its core—providing the understanding to build and iterate faster.
No limit on the scale of data
FiftyOne never limits the amount of data you work with or charges you based on data volume. Explore, query, annotate, and run inference on as much data as you need. No data caps, per-sample limits, and no volume-based pricing.
Flexible and extensible
FiftyOne’s flexible architecture adapts to your project needs. Agentically extend the tool’s functionality, build custom visualizations, automate workflows, and deploy as you need: on-prem, air-gapped, cloud, or managed service.
3x Faster robotics investigations
“FiftyOne has really helped us speed up investigations. If we see a wrong suction cup grasping an item, we can quickly visualize the issue across all data sources and identify what went wrong.” —Dimitry Pechyoni, Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Labeling costs
Encord works with my data. How much will Voxel51 charge me for annotation?
Encord prices based on data volume
Encord Index and Active products for search, query, and model evaluation are price-gated by data volume at every tier. The more data you bring in, the more you pay. When you hit your sample limit, you’re either blocked or forced to upgrade.
FiftyOne puts no limit on the data you work with
We believe that no organization should be limited on how much data they can explore, visualize, annotate, and evaluate. FiftyOne puts no limit on the data. Data grows, so your workflows should never be halted because of that.
Integrated platform
I use Encord for data labeling, and they support other ML workflows. Why should I switch?
Encord provides limited data understanding
Encord is purpose-built for creating and QAing labels, not to help you deeply understand your data. Teams quickly outgrow Encord when they start shipping models to production and need to improve performance.
FiftyOne is a data-centric platform
FiftyOne was built for teams to build reliable production-ready models. When annotation, curation, and model evaluation live on the same platform, annotators and ML engineers work from a shared view of the data. This eliminates lengthy handoffs or lost context, closing the gap between what gets labeled and what the model needs.
Comprehensive annotation
I use Encord for data labeling only. Does Voxel51 provide all the labeling capabilities I need?
FiftyOne gives annotation teams everything they need to create high-quality labels faster.
- Label across images, video, and 3D lidar — bounding boxes, SAM2 click-to-segment, cuboids, polylines, polygons, video object tracking, and temporal events.
- Set up and manage annotation projects with configurable multi-stage workflows.
- Prioritize the right data for labeling and perform intelligent QA.
- Use agentic labeling to annotate faster and more accurately.
Maintained 99% fall detection rates for model performance.
Maintained 99% fall detection rates for model performance.
Maintained 99% fall detection rates for model performance.
Extensibility
Encord offers API access. Does Voxel51 enable me to extend the platform and customize it?
Encord offers no flexibility to extend functionality
Encord offers API access, but extending the platform itself isn't possible. The platform is closed source, so there is no framework to create plugins, build agentic pipelines, or leverage community-built integrations. Your custom workflows and requirements have to adapt to the tool. Any capability it doesn't expose has to wait on their roadmap.
FiftyOne is flexible and extensible
Every team building AI systems has unique requirements, and the ability to extend your tools to fit them is just as important as the tool itself. FiftyOne is designed to be extensible and flexible. Use the Python SDK and agentic workflows to extend the functionality, build custom visualizations, plugins, workflows, and automate tasks to fit your specific needs.
Enterprise-ready
Encord covers our current requirements. What does Voxel51 offer for building production AI?
FiftyOne is built for enterprise-grade security and scale. Deploy anywhere, cloud, hybrid, air-gapped, or on-premise.
- Work with billion+ samples. Search, query, and retrieve samples from connected data lakes.
- Adopt agentic workflows to label data and automate tasks, and draw faster insights into your data and model performance.
- Automate workflows and collaborate with teams, including sharing datasets, model results, and labeling QA.
- Governance and security with access control and audits.
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