LightlyStudio

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Annotation

The product supports classification, object-detection and segmentation annotations that can be edited in the GUI or through Python.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Annotation and evaluation

It supports image and video annotation, model-assisted labeling plugins, and model evaluation with a confusion matrix and per-sample metrics.docs.lightly.ai · read 29 Sep 2026

API and SDK

The Python API can index datasets, query and slice samples, manipulate annotations and tags, run sampling, export data and start the GUI.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

CLI

The command-line package provides quickstart and gui subcommands.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Cloud integrations

The software can read media from AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage through optional cloud-storage dependencies.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Cloud limitation

Cloud storage currently supports raw media folders and COCO imports; other importers still require local files.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Collaboration

Enterprise collaboration provides Viewer, Labeler, Editor and Admin roles plus centrally managed cloud credentials.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Company founding

Lightly says it was founded in 2019 from ETH Zurich research.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Company headquarters

LinkedIn lists Zurich as headquarters and gives a primary Zurich address at Schützengasse 23, 8006 Switzerland.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Company size

LinkedIn lists Lightly as a privately held software-development company with 11–50 employees.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Compliance claim

Lightly's LinkedIn profile states that the company is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Curation

It automatically creates embeddings and supports metadata filtering, text or image similarity search, deduplication, outlier detection, diversity sampling and class balancing.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Deployment

LightlyStudio Enterprise is offered as a Lightly-hosted service or as an on-premise deployment; the on-premise option can run fully offline and air-gapped.docs.lightly.ai · read 29 Sep 2026

Documentation depth

The documentation includes quickstarts, dataset setup, workflows, tutorials, API references, glossary pages and enterprise deployment guidance.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Export

Users can export full datasets or filtered subsets to COCO, YOLO, Pascal VOC, YouTube-VIS, or CSV.docs.lightly.ai · read 29 Sep 2026

Export formats

Exports include CSV, COCO detection and segmentation, YOLO, Pascal VOC, COCO captions and YouTube-VIS video segmentation.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Funding

Lightly's About page states that the company has raised $10 million.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

Hosted data handling

Hosted Enterprise reads media from cloud storage and stores metadata in PostgreSQL on Lightly infrastructure.docs.lightly.ai · read 14 Oct 2026

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