diff --git a/baal/active/stopping_criteria.py b/baal/active/stopping_criteria.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac9e669
--- /dev/null
+++ b/baal/active/stopping_criteria.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+from typing import Iterable, Dict
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from baal import ActiveLearningDataset
+
+
+class StoppingCriterion:
+    def __init__(self, active_dataset: ActiveLearningDataset):
+        self._active_ds = active_dataset
+
+    def should_stop(self, metrics: Dict[str, float], uncertainty: Iterable[float]) -> bool:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class LabellingBudgetStoppingCriterion(StoppingCriterion):
+    """Stops when the labelling budget is exhausted."""
+
+    def __init__(self, active_dataset: ActiveLearningDataset, labelling_budget: int):
+        super().__init__(active_dataset)
+        self._start_length = len(active_dataset)
+        self.labelling_budget = labelling_budget
+
+    def should_stop(self, uncertainty: Iterable[float]) -> bool:
+        return (len(self._active_ds) - self._start_length) >= self.labelling_budget
+
+
+class LowAverageUncertaintyStoppingCriterion(StoppingCriterion):
+    """Stops when the average uncertainty is on average below a threshold."""
+
+    def __init__(self, active_dataset: ActiveLearningDataset, avg_uncertainty_thresh: float):
+        super().__init__(active_dataset)
+        self.avg_uncertainty_thresh = avg_uncertainty_thresh
+
+    def should_stop(self, metrics: Dict[str, float], uncertainty: Iterable[float]) -> bool:
+        return np.mean(uncertainty) < self.avg_uncertainty_thresh
+
+
+class EarlyStoppingCriterion(StoppingCriterion):
+    """Early stopping on a particular metrics.
+
+    Notes:
+    We don't have any mandatory dependency with an early stopping implementation.
+    So we have our own.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        active_dataset: ActiveLearningDataset,
+        metric_name: str,
+        patience: int = 10,
+        epsilon: float = 1e-4,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(active_dataset)
+        self.metric_name = metric_name
+        self.patience = patience
+        self.epsilon = epsilon
+        self._acc = []
+
+    def should_stop(self, metrics: Dict[str, float], uncertainty: Iterable[float]) -> bool:
+        self._acc.append(metrics[self.metric_name])
+        near_threshold = np.isclose(np.array(self._acc), self._acc[-1], atol=self.epsilon)
+        return len(near_threshold) >= self.patience and near_threshold[-(self.patience + 1) :].all()
diff --git a/experiments/mlp_mcdropout.py b/experiments/mlp_mcdropout.py
index 34f3d4a..b769052 100644
--- a/experiments/mlp_mcdropout.py
+++ b/experiments/mlp_mcdropout.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from baal import ActiveLearningDataset, ModelWrapper
 from baal.active import ActiveLearningLoop
 from baal.active.heuristics import BALD
+from baal.active.stopping_criteria import LabellingBudgetStoppingCriterion
 from baal.bayesian.dropout import patch_module
 
 use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()
@@ -54,8 +55,11 @@
 
 # Following Gal 2016, we reset the weights at the beginning of each step.
 initial_weights = deepcopy(model.state_dict())
+stopping_criterion = LabellingBudgetStoppingCriterion(
+    active_dataset=al_dataset, labelling_budget=10
+)
 
-for step in range(100):
+while True:
     model.load_state_dict(initial_weights)
     train_loss = wrapper.train_on_dataset(
         al_dataset, optimizer=optimizer, batch_size=32, epoch=10, use_cuda=use_cuda
@@ -64,6 +68,5 @@
 
     pprint(wrapper.get_metrics())
     flag = al_loop.step()
-    if not flag:
-        # We are done labelling! stopping
+    if stopping_criterion.should_stop() or flag:
         break
diff --git a/tests/active/criterion_test.py b/tests/active/criterion_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a586d0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/active/criterion_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+from baal.active.stopping_criteria import (
+    LabellingBudgetStoppingCriterion,
+    EarlyStoppingCriterion,
+    LowAverageUncertaintyStoppingCriterion,
+)
+from baal.active.dataset import ActiveNumpyArray
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def test_labelling_budget():
+    ds = ActiveNumpyArray((np.random.randn(100, 3), np.random.randint(0, 3, 100)))
+    ds.label_randomly(10)
+    criterion = LabellingBudgetStoppingCriterion(ds, labelling_budget=50)
+    assert not criterion.should_stop([])
+
+    ds.label_randomly(10)
+    assert not criterion.should_stop([])
+
+    ds.label_randomly(40)
+    assert criterion.should_stop([])
+
+
+def test_early_stopping():
+    ds = ActiveNumpyArray((np.random.randn(100, 3), np.random.randint(0, 3, 100)))
+    criterion = EarlyStoppingCriterion(ds, "test_loss", patience=5)
+
+    for i in range(10):
+        assert not criterion.should_stop(
+            metrics={"test_loss": 1 / (i + 1)}, uncertainty=[]
+        )
+
+    for _ in range(4):
+        assert not criterion.should_stop(metrics={"test_loss": 0.1}, uncertainty=[])
+    assert criterion.should_stop(metrics={"test_loss": 0.1}, uncertainty=[])
+
+    # test less than patience stability
+    criterion = EarlyStoppingCriterion(ds, "test_loss", patience=5)
+    for _ in range(4):
+        assert not criterion.should_stop(metrics={"test_loss": 0.1}, uncertainty=[])
+    assert criterion.should_stop(metrics={"test_loss": 0.1}, uncertainty=[])
+
+
+def test_low_average():
+    ds = ActiveNumpyArray((np.random.randn(100, 3), np.random.randint(0, 3, 100)))
+    criterion = LowAverageUncertaintyStoppingCriterion(
+        active_dataset=ds, avg_uncertainty_thresh=0.1
+    )
+    assert not criterion.should_stop(
+        metrics={}, uncertainty=np.random.normal(0.5, scale=0.8, size=(100,))
+    )
+    assert criterion.should_stop(
+        metrics={}, uncertainty=np.random.normal(0.05, scale=0.01, size=(100,))
+    )