Demo before purchasing licenses? (and other questions)

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Hi,

My team has been thinking about purchasing Prodigy, but we had a couple of lingering questions after reading through the on-site documentation and were hoping to get our hands on a demo copy to try out. Would this be possible?

A couple of other questions:
How would we transfer licenses within the company, and what are the requirements for this?
How would we set up the prodigy web application for annotators to annotate our dataset?

Thanks!

Jen

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Hi Jen – I just realised you also sent us an email about this the other day, right? Sorry for not getting to this sooner. You can expect a reply today :blush:

Company licenses are "floating" and can be transferred between employees. If your company holds 5 licenses, this means that 5 developers can use Prodigy at the same time. One person on your team should be in charge of the license keys and they should always keep a list of the persons who are currently holding the licenses.

Annotators who will only have access to Prodigy via the web application don't require a license.

This depends on your workflow and requirements. The only restriction is that Prodigy can't be publicly acessible and needs to be hosted on an internal network, or behind a password-protected URL. Prodigy is a Python library that starts a web server, so you can also integrate it into your existing infrastructure and stack. During the development phase, we've also found Ngrok very useful – it lets you share a local web server behind a protected, public URL without having to upload any of your data to a server. Some users have also shared their custom setup for managing multiple annotator – see this thread for a cool example.

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Hi,

Does that mean there can be any number of annotators per installation that has 5-seats company license?
Also, a fundamental question, does the license keys restrictions apply per installation? If we have 2 installations of Prodi.gy in 2 separate servers, can the same 5-license keys be used in both the servers?

Thank you!

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Yes, that's correct. The seats are only required for developers who have access to the back-end, database, Python library, CLI etc.

Yes, there's no restriction :slightly_smiling_face: What matters is who is using the software and/or has access to it. So with a company pack, you could install Prodigy on both servers and then have 5 developers access and use it.

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Thanks a lot for the clarifications!