Netherlands-based food technology company AKA Foods has launched AKA Label Studio, a free regulatory labelling tool covering both FDA and EU/UK compliance markets, in a product category where comparable software typically costs between $500 and $1,500 per user per year.
The tool is available with no usage cap, no payment tier, and no credit card required.
Built for compliance-heavy product development
AKA Label Studio was developed by the same in-house food R&D team behind AKA Studio, the company’s paid AI-powered product development platform. For plant-based and vegan brands, the compliance burden of launching across multiple markets is substantial: the tool automatically detects the US Big 9 allergens and the 14 allergens regulated under EU law, and includes a compliance review workflow with status stages covering review, approval, and sign-off. A live regulatory radar tracks updates from FDA and EFSA sources.
“We have spent two years building a professional food labelling tool inside AKA. Today we are making it available to the food industry free of charge. The food professionals who use it will tell us what to build next,” said David Sack, CEO and co-founder of AKA Foods.
Additional features include recipe versioning, lab result integration, multi-recipe reports, and access to USDA Foundation Foods as an ingredient source. Labels export in print-ready PNG, SVG, or PDF formats. Switching between the US and EU/UK compliance frameworks requires two clicks.
A free entry point to a paid platform
AKA Label Studio functions as the entry point to AKA Studio, the company’s broader AI-powered R&D system, which integrates formulation science, sensory data, and institutional knowledge into a single platform. Users of the free labelling tool will see references to AKA Studio within the product, with an upgrade path to a paid licence.
The approach follows a freemium model common in enterprise software, where a no-cost product drives adoption before converting users to paid tiers. AKA Foods has said it will publicly commit to building the most-requested features submitted through the product’s feedback tool.
“AKA Label Studio is a full implementation of food labelling functionality. It has been built to the same standard as the rest of the AKA Studio platform used by our paying customers,” said Shahar Rosentraub, Chief Product Officer at AKA Foods.
