SuperAnnotate vs Diffgram
Are you in the market for Training Data Tools? Comparing many Data Labeling options?
Diffgram is the Best SuperAnnotate Alternative in 2022.
Summary
Diffgram: 🌎 Grassroots, Open Source, Tech Company, Ethical
SuperAnnotate: 🤑 , Closed Source, Outsourcing, Questionable
- Diffgram is open source, whereas SuperAnnotate is closed source
- Diffgram is tech first, whereas SuperAnnotate is an outsourcing company (human labor) first.
- Diffgram has greater media type support: Image, Video, Text, 3D, GEO and more.
- Diffgram has positive reviews on multiple platforms, SuperAnnotate has positive reviews on some platforms and, oddly, zero reviews on others.
- Diffgram is a business first, SuperAnnotate is a VC balloon — think of companies like Fast that shutdown without notice. For example here is one of their claims…. Just hope they don’t try and sell you a perpetual motion machine…
- With Diffgram you can customize nearly everything and run it on your hardware, SuperAnnotate has only limited support for this.
When you combine SuperAnnotate’s human labor background, closed source nature, beholden to venture capital, and lack of customization, I believe Diffgram is the superior choice.
Diffgram, is open source, focused on tech, a business first, and engineered to empower your team. This yields much stronger results over time for customers like yourself.
Let’s dive in!
Reviews
Both Diffgram and SuperAnnotate have positive reviews.
Diffgram has positive reviews on both G2 crowd and Gartner’s Capterra.
SuperAnnotate has an unusual volume of recent reviews on G2 and zero reviews on Capterra at time of writing.
I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions between the nature of a company pushing so hard on one platform and having zero reviews on another.
Tech vs Outsourcing
Diffgram has more support for overall machine learning process flow. For example creating those conditional flows crosscut between modeling, data pipelines, and human workflow.
As an outsourcing firm first SuperAnnotate’s docs are centered around the literal annotation and human workflow only.
All Media Types
Diffgram has support for Images, Video, Text, 3D, Geo, and more coming soon (Audio, Timeseries, and more).
Super Annotate has only support for images and video and limited support for text.
Technology Architecture
From the technical architecture perspective Diffgram is about empowering your team to create solutions whereas SuperAnnotate is a bit more of a “one true path” approach.
To illustrate this consider the contrast of diffgram userscripts and customization approaches compared to their model training and fixed UI.
SuperAnnotate is a “trust us it’s cloud” company whereas Diffgram offers many self install options for improved cyber security. Basically if your data is on SuperAnnotate it’s vulnerable, an open door to any serious hacker group, but on Diffgram you can secure it using your own hardened network.
Open Source vs Closed Source
Zooming out further, their core tech is closed source whereas Diffgram is fully open source.
Grassroots Business not Venture Balloon
Diffgram is a grassroots business. SuperAnnotate is in a different position financially with different VC expectations. I believe Diffgram is more similar to many established firms like yours where we are a business first and VC growth second.
Recap
Diffgram
- Open source
- Tech first
- Real reviews
- More Media Types
- Grassroots Business
- Engineered to Empower Your Team
SuperAnnotate
- Closed Source
- Outsourcing First
- Questionable Reviews
- Less Media Types
- VC backed may fail any day
- “One size fits all”
For more marketing myth busting see SuperAnnotate page.
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