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Azure AI Language vs. Azure Machine Learning vs. Keras

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure AI Language

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAzure AI Language (formerly Azure Cognitive Service for Language) is a managed service to add natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering. Users can identify key terms and phrases, understand sentiments, and build conversational interfaces into applications. Annotate, train, evaluate, and deploy customizable models without machine-learning expertise.N/A

    Azure Machine Learning

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Machine Learning is and end-to-end data science and analytics solution that helps professional data scientists to prepare data, develop experiments, and deploy models in the cloud. It replaces the Azure Machine Learning Workbench.

    $0

    per month

    Keras

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AKeras is a Python deep learning libraryN/A
    Pricing
    Azure AI LanguageAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Editions & Modules
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    Studio Pricing - Free
    $0.00
    per month
    Production Web API - Dev/Test
    $0.00
    per month
    Studio Pricing - Standard
    $9.99
    per ML studio workspace/per month
    Production Web API - Standard S1
    $100.13
    per month
    Production Web API - Standard S2
    $1000.06
    per month
    Production Web API - Standard S3
    $9999.98
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure AI LanguageAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    TensorFlow
    Score7.6 out of 10
    TensorFlow
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    Google Cloud AI
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Google Cloud AI
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Google Cloud AI
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Google Cloud AI
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    User Ratings
    Azure AI LanguageAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure AI LanguageAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Best suited for large organizations, availability of usage of more than one language in a specific API call. Moderately suited for small and mid sized organizations as the pricing is on a higher end
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    Microsoft
    I would highly recommend Azure machine learning design for those with less access to high-end computing infrastructure, as using Azure saves a lot of time, money, and effort by providing a hustle-free platform that is easy to use and train your employees on. On the other hand, if you are looking for complete control of the machine learning model you create and would like to add detailed functionalities and try different algorithms, then Azure is less suitable here as it’s very high level.
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    Open Source
    Keras is quite perfect, if the aim is to build the standard Deep Learning model, and materialize it to serve the real business use case, while it is not suitable if the purpose is for research and a lot of non-standard try out and customization are required, in that case either directly goes to low level TensorFlow API or Pytorch
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • The data is pre configured that means the AI models that are used by features are not customizable. One needs to send data and have to use the output of the feature in our application
    • Availability of customizations in order to adjust some specific requirements
    • Availability of Language studio so that one can avoid coding
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    Microsoft
    • Easy to create the experiment.
    • Easy to adopt the best algorithm.
    • Efficient way to deploy the model as a web service.
    • Centralized platform for the life cycle of machine learning goal.
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    Open Source
    • One of the reason to use Keras is that it is easy to use. Implementing neural network is very easy in this, with just one line of code we can add one layer in the neural network with all it's configurations.
    • It provides lot of inbuilt thing like cov2d, conv2D, maxPooling layers. So it makes fast development as you don't need to write everything on your own. It comes with lot of data processing libraries in it like one hot encoder which also makes your development easy and fast.
    • It also provides functionality to develop models on mobile device.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The application is hard to use for new users
    • Data Integration is complex in nature
    • For Mid - sized organizations, the pricing is on higher end
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    Microsoft
    • Few models: Even though it has a lot of Machine Learning models, it is quite limited when compared to R. Most Data Scientists still use and prefer R, so the newest models tend to release as R libraries. With Azure ML, we need to wait for Microsoft to evaluate and decide if including a new model is a good idea or not
    • Tableau interface: last time I checked there was no easy way to connect with Tableau.
    • Cloud based: You always need a good internet connection to use it.
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    Open Source
    • As it is a kind of wrapper library it won't allow you to modify everything of its backend
    • Unlike other deep learning libraries, it lacks a pre-defined trained model to use
    • Errors thrown are not always very useful for debugging. Sometimes it is difficult to know the root cause just with the logs
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Azure AI Language has been highly effective in our product to market by reducing time spent by clinical staff with respect to patient care.
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    Microsoft
    Good UX/UI and overall good usability, but it takes a while to get used to the product & platform. The whole design seems fragmented with little in terms of integration with project management tools such as JIRA, or wireframing. Overall it feels like an unfinished product that's meant for teaching more than for production.
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    Open Source
    I am giving this rating depending on my experience so far with Keras, I didn't face any issue far. I would like to recommend it to the new developers.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I'm satisfied with the Azure Machine Learning Studio- it fulfilled my goal in a single channel. Even haven't worr[ied] about the maintenance or any fault tolerance. This provide[s] the user interactive UI to grab the features easily. [Their] support teams also very help[ful], they stand with us at any time.
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    Open Source
    Keras have really good support along with the strong community over the internet. So in case you stuck, It won't so hard to get out from it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Not sure
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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    We haven't used other products. Our experience with Azure, whilst not meeting our needs this time around, was positive, educational and insightful. This was the first time that we had considered using an AI tool to manage and manipulate our data and we were unsure of the capabilities.
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    Microsoft
    It is easier to learn, it has a very cost effective license for use, it has native build and created for Azure cloud services, and that makes it perfect when compared against the alternatives. As a Microsoft tool, it has been built to contain many visual features and improved usability even for non-specialist users.
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    Open Source
    Keras is good to develop deep learning models. As compared to TensorFlow, it's easy to write code in Keras. You have more power with TensorFlow but also have a high error rate because you have to configure everything by your own. And as compared to MATLAB, I will always prefer Keras as it is easy and powerful as well.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Usage of more than one language in one specific API call
    • Question Answering Feature
    • Key Phrase Extraction, hence one need to read the entire phrase to understand the context
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    Microsoft
    • Reduce energy consumption caused by GPUs.
    • Saves on recycling and transporting costs and maintenance caused by buying high-end equipment.
    • Improve productivity as building products using Azure is easier than building everything up from scratch (e.g., machine learning and AI applications).
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    Open Source
    • Easy and faster way to develop neural network.
    • It would be much better if it is available in Java.
    • It doesn't allow you to modify the internal things.
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