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- MATLAB is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Azure AI (Cortana)
84%
3 Ratings
8.5
MATLAB
85%
55 Ratings
Usability
Azure AI (Cortana)
N/A
0 Ratings
9.8
MATLAB
98%
4 Ratings
Support Rating
Azure AI (Cortana)
N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
MATLAB
91%
13 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure AI (Cortana)
It's easy for anyone who is expecting some simple AI problems like fetching the keywords, understanding the intent, language translation, etc. to be solved from an existing database and all they need is to connect to their APIs via a subscription model. But for complex use cases, there is still room for improvement like customization of underlying AI models for a specific use case like identifying some unique identifiers with respect to industry.

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Oil & Energy Company, 5001-10,000 employeesMATLAB
MATLAB really does best for solving computational problems in math and engineering. Especially when you have to use a lot of functions in your solving process, or if you have a nonlinear equation that must be iteratively solved. [MATLAB] can also perform things like integration and derivation on your equations that you put into it.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employeesPros
Azure AI (Cortana)
- Being hosted in Azure solves a massive hosting problem
- The language understanding system has the ability to revolutionize many vertical markets
- Integrating with Cortana Analytics was really simple due to easy to understand documentation
Director of Research and Development
Peppermint Technology LtdComputer Software, 51-200 employees
MATLAB
- It has a very user friendly library which helps users learn this software fairly quickly in a short span of time.
- The graphical user interface provided by the software is really good.
- The code that a person writes allows options for debugging.
- One can visualize the flow of control of their code inside MATLAB.
Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees
Cons
Azure AI (Cortana)
- More partnerships with colleges and schools to increase the workforce with technical knowledge (increase local workforce)
- Have more online training and documentation in other languages
- Have affordable prices for students
Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial
SENAI-DNNon-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees
MATLAB
- MatLab is pricier than most of its competitors and because of this reason, many organizations are moving towards cheaper alternatives - mostly Python.
- MatLab is inefficient when it comes to performing a large number of iterations. It gets laggy and often crashes. Python is better in this regard.
- There is a limited number of hardware options (mostly NI) that can be connected directly to the data acquisition toolbox.
Graduate Researcher
Texas A&M UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Azure AI (Cortana)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Azure AI (Cortana) Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—MATLAB
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$49 per student license
MATLAB Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard | $8601 |
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Standard | $2,1502 |
Education | $5002 |
Education | $2503 |
Student | $494 |
Student | $495 |
Home | $1496 |
- per year
- perpetual license
- per year
- per student license
- per student suite license
- perpetual license
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Azure AI (Cortana)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MATLAB
MATLAB 9.8
Based on 4 answers
MATLAB is pretty easy to use. You can extend its capabilities using the programming interface. Very flexible capabilities when it comes to graphical presentation of your data (so many different kinds of options for your plotting needs). Anytime you are working with large data sets, or with matrices, MATLAB is likely to be very helpful.
Asst. Prof. of Mathematics
University of South Carolina AikenHigher Education, 201-500 employees
Support Rating
Azure AI (Cortana)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MATLAB
MATLAB 9.1
Based on 13 answers
The built-in search engine is not as performing as I wish it would be. However, the YouTube channel has a vast library of informative video that can help understanding the software. Also, many other software have a nice bridge into MATLAB, which makes it very versatile. Overall, the support for MATLAB is good.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Program Development Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Azure AI (Cortana)
IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the ecosystem, Azure AI precedes IBM Watson Assitant.

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Oil & Energy Company, 5001-10,000 employeesMATLAB
How MATLAB compares to its competition or similar open access tools like R (programming language) or SciLab is that it's simply more powerful and capable. It embraces a wider spectrum of possibilities for far more fields than any other environment. R, for example, is intended primarily for the area of statistical computing. SciLab, on the other hand, is a similar open access tool that falls very short in its computing capabilities. It's much slower when running larger scripts and isn't documented or supported nearly as well as MATLAB.
Research Team for the development of a CubeSAT
Universidad del Valle de GuatemalaEducation Management, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
Azure AI (Cortana)
- Difficult to ascertain the ROI as we are a software house who have developed a module in our application using Cortana. However for companies that use our software I would say the use of sentiment analysis in our application could free up at least 1 full time resource to be used elsewhere in their organisation.
Director of Research and Development
Peppermint Technology LtdComputer Software, 51-200 employees
MATLAB
- MATLAB helps us quickly sort through large sets of data because we keep the same script each time we run an analyzation, making it very efficient to run this whole process.
- The software makes it super easy for us to create plots that we can then show to investors or clients to display our data.
- We are also looking to create an app for our product, and we will not be able to do that on MATLAB, therefore creating a limiting issue and a new learning curve for a programming language.
Product Development Engineer
NoMo DiagnosticsMedical Devices, 1-10 employees