specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
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provider: Lightly
providerId: lightly-ai
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Computer Vision
- Data Curation
- Active Learning
- Embeddings
- Plans
description: >-
  Lightly's commercial pricing is for the hosted LightlyOne data-curation /
  active-learning platform and is largely sales-led. A free Community tier is
  available for smaller datasets, with a paid Team subscription and a custom
  Enterprise tier (on-prem / private cloud, larger media, unlimited data /
  teams). Free access is also offered to students, academics, OSS
  contributors, and non-profits on request. The open-source `lightly`
  self-supervised learning SDK is free and Apache-2.0 licensed and is not part
  of the platform subscription. Tier limits and the Team price below are
  indicative of published figures and are not reconciled against a current
  rate card.
notes: >-
  Verify Community limits, Team price, and Enterprise terms against the Lightly
  pricing page on reconciliation; figures change and Enterprise is quoted by
  sales. The OSS SDK is free regardless of platform plan.
sources:
- https://www.lightly.ai/pricing
- https://docs.lightly.ai/
- https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
plans:
- id: lightly-oss-sdk
  name: Open Source SDK
  type: free
  description: >-
    The open-source `lightly` Python library for self-supervised learning
    (SimCLR, MoCo, DINO, BYOL, etc.), Apache-2.0 licensed and free to use. It
    also ships the ApiWorkflowClient for calling the platform, but using it
    against the platform still requires a LightlyOne account / token.
  entries:
  - label: lightly OSS SDK
    name: oss_sdk
    type: free
    metric: usage
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: $0.00 (Apache-2.0)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Self-Supervised Learning Models
  - name: ApiWorkflowClient
- id: lightly-community
  name: Community
  type: free
  description: >-
    Free LightlyOne platform tier for smaller datasets - active learning,
    analytics, data storage, and automation. Indicatively limited to images up
    to ~1024px and an input dataset of ~25k samples.
  entries:
  - label: Input Dataset Size
    name: community_input_samples
    type: limit
    metric: samples
    limit: 25000
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: $0.00
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Active Learning
  - name: Analytics
  - name: Data Storage
  - name: Automation
- id: lightly-team
  name: Team
  type: subscription
  description: >-
    Paid subscription adding collaboration, video and higher-resolution images
    (up to Quad HD), and a larger input dataset (indicatively ~100k samples).
    Published indicative price ~$280 / month; verify on reconciliation.
  entries:
  - label: Team Subscription
    name: team_subscription
    type: flat
    metric: subscription
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: ~$280/month (indicative, verify)
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Input Dataset Size
    name: team_input_samples
    type: limit
    metric: samples
    limit: 100000
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: included
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Everything in Community
  - name: Collaboration
  - name: Video Support
  - name: Quad HD Images
- id: lightly-enterprise
  name: Enterprise
  type: enterprise
  description: >-
    Custom tier with on-prem / private-cloud install, production data, 4K UHD+
    video and images, sequences, object-level crops, special datatypes,
    unlimited data / teams, security, and training. Quoted by Lightly sales.
  entries:
  - label: Enterprise Agreement
    name: enterprise
    type: flat
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: On-Prem / Private Cloud
  - name: Unlimited Data and Teams
  - name: 4K UHD and Sequences
  - name: Object-Level Crops
  - name: Security and Training
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com