Pilot phase
From $250
Test our accuracy on your own data before you commit to anything.
- Any annotation type we offer
- Guideline review with your team
- Results in about 5 business days
- Accuracy report against your gold set
- No card, no contract
Data annotation pricing: transparent rates, no setup fees
InitLabel pairs trained annotators in Nairobi with multi-layer quality checks, so you get accurate labels without paying Silicon Valley rates. Clear per-unit pricing and a pilot phase so you can see the quality before you spend a shilling.
- No setup or platform fees
- Free rework on missed QA targets
- NDA and DPA on request
Start small, scale when the results speak for themselves
Every engagement includes a project lead, written guidelines, gold-set QA and delivery in the format your pipeline already uses. Move between plans at any time.
Pay as you go
$0.02per unit, from
For one-off datasets and teams that need labels without long commitments.
- No minimum volume
- Two-layer quality review
- 95%+ target accuracy
- Email and Slack support
- Pay per batch delivered
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Managed project
$0.015per unit at volume
For production pipelines with 50,000+ units and ongoing deliveries.
- Dedicated project manager
- Three-layer QA and gold-set audits
- 98% target accuracy in the SOW
- Weekly quality and throughput reports
- Volume discounts up to 35%
Dedicated team
$6.50per annotator hour, from
A trained, full-time team that works as an extension of yours.
- Team sized to your roadmap
- Works in your tools or ours
- Domain training for complex tasks
- Agreed SLAs and service hours
- Monthly invoicing
Prices are in US dollars and exclude applicable taxes, including Kenyan VAT where required. Website prices are indicative starting points; your final price is confirmed in a written quotation or statement of work.
Every format your model learns from
From simple tags to pixel-level masks, annotators are trained and tested on each task type before they touch your data.
Object detection for retail, logistics and autonomy. From $0.035 per box.
Precise outlines for agriculture, medical and satellite imagery. From $0.08 per object.
Pose, gesture and motion data, tracked frame by frame. From $0.05 per instance.
Entities, sentiment, transcription and model evaluation. From $0.015 per item.
Data labeling rate card
The volume rate applies automatically from 50,000 units in a project. Complex guidelines, specialist domains or very dense scenes are quoted after we review a sample, and we always tell you why a price changes.
| Service | What is included | Billed per | Standard | Volume (50k+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image classification | Single or multi-label tags, content moderation | Image | $0.020 | $0.012 |
| Bounding boxes | 2D boxes with class and attributes | Box | $0.035 | $0.025 |
| Polygons | Instance outlines with class labels | Object | $0.080 | $0.060 |
| Semantic segmentation | Pixel-level masks for every class in the image | Image | $0.600 | $0.450 |
| Keypoints and pose | Skeleton, facial or hand landmarks | Instance | $0.060 | $0.045 |
| Video object tracking | Consistent IDs across frames with interpolation checks | Object per frame | $0.050 | $0.035 |
| LiDAR and 3D cuboids | Point-cloud cuboids, sensor-fusion alignment | Cuboid | $0.120 | $0.090 |
| Text classification | Sentiment, intent, topic and toxicity | Item | $0.015 | $0.010 |
| Named entity recognition | Entity spans and relations | 100 words | $0.200 | $0.150 |
| Audio transcription | English, Swahili and Sheng, with timestamps | Audio minute | $0.800 | $0.600 |
| LLM evaluation and RLHF | Response ranking, red-teaming, prompt writing | Annotator hour | $12.00 | $10.00 |
| Document processing | Data extraction, OCR correction, data entry | Page | $0.100 | $0.070 |
Rates assume standard two-layer QA and turnaround. Expert review adds 40%, enhanced review adds 20% and priority turnaround adds 25%. Something not listed? Ask us; we scope custom workflows every week.
Estimate your data annotation cost in seconds
Adjust the options for an indicative budget. Send it to us and we’ll turn it into a firm quote, usually within one business day.
Your project
Billed per box
Volume rates start at 50,000 units
Target accuracy is agreed in your SOW
Priority adds extra shifts
Estimated cost
Total, excluding taxes$0
≈ KES 0
- Rate per unit
- $0
- Volume discount
- None
- QA and turnaround
- ×1.00
Indicative only, not a binding offer. KES at an approximate 129 per US dollar. Final pricing depends on your data, guidelines and acceptance criteria.
Included with every project
Free rework
If a batch misses the agreed accuracy threshold because of our work, we fix it at no extra cost.
Secure handling
Access-controlled workspaces, least-privilege permissions and the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019. Security.
Quality reporting
Gold-set scores, inter-annotator agreement and defect breakdowns, so you always know what you are getting.
Your formats, your tools
COCO, YOLO, Pascal VOC, JSON, CSV or custom schemas, in CVAT, Label Studio or your own platform.
Flexible billing
Pay per batch, per milestone or monthly. Invoices in USD or KES by bank transfer, card or M-Pesa.
A real person to talk to
A named project lead reachable on email, Slack or a quick call during your overlap hours.
Pricing questions, answered
What counts as a unit?
It depends on the task: an image, a box, an object, a frame, an audio minute or a page. We define the unit in writing before work starts, so there is never doubt about what you are paying for.
Why are your rates lower than many data annotation providers?
Our team is based in Kenya, where we pay fair local wages and invest in professional training while keeping overheads lean. You get a skilled, English-speaking workforce and strong QA at a cost that makes large datasets realistic. Why Kenya.
Are there minimum orders or setup fees?
There are no setup fees on any plan and no minimum order on Pay as you go. Volume rates and dedicated teams have minimums that we agree with you up front.
What happens if the quality is not good enough?
Accuracy targets and acceptance criteria are written into your statement of work. If a batch falls short because of our annotation, we correct the affected items free of charge.
How do you keep my data safe?
We sign NDAs and data-processing agreements, limit access to the people on your project and use approved, monitored workspaces. See our security page.
Which currencies and payment methods do you accept?
We invoice in US dollars or Kenyan shillings and accept bank transfer, card and M-Pesa. Kenyan VAT and other taxes are added where the law requires.