Lightly

Lightly, headquartered in Zürich, ZH, Switzerland, operates within the B2B sector, specifically focusing on engineering, product, and design. The company, which participated in the Y-Combinator S21 batch, employs a team of 5 and serves clients across Switzerland, Europe, and remotely. Lightly offers a range of services tailored to handling image and video data formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, and WebP. Their offerings include custom data preparation, data labeling with quality assessments, and an automated pre-labeling engine designed for enterprise solutions. Lightly provides various pricing models, including a pay-per-use rate of $0.01 per input image and a free Community plan that supports up to 25k input datasets. The Team plan is available at $280 per month and includes features like dataset sharing and support for higher resolution data up to Quad HD. For more extensive needs, Lightly offers a Custom plan that caters to specific requirements such as on-premise or private cloud installation, advanced production data features, and unlimited data or teams. Additionally, the company provides significant discounts for startups, freelancers, and multi-year contracts, along with a referral program. Yearly billing options include a 20% savings on the Team plan. Lightly also extends free access to students, academics, lightly OSS contributors, and non-profit organizations.