Azure AI Search vs. Klevu

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure AI Search
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.
$0.10
Per Hour
Klevu
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Klevu is an intelligent site search solution designed to help eCommerce businesses increase onsite sales and improve the customer online shopping experience, from Klevu Oy in Espoo.
$499
per month
Pricing
Azure AI SearchKlevu
Editions & Modules
Basic
$0.101
Per Hour
Standard S1
$0.336
Per Hour
Standard S2
$1.344
Per Hour
Standard S3
$2.688
Per Hour
AI-powered Search - Premium
$499
per month
AI-powered Search - Premium Plus
$799
per month
AI-powered Search + Category Navigation - Premium
$998
per month
AI-powered Search + Category Navigation - Premium Plus
1,598
per month
AI-powered Search + Category Navigation - Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure AI SearchKlevu
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Guru
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Guru
Guru
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure AI SearchKlevu
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(3 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure AI SearchKlevu
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
It's very useful when used with large file systems, once the models index the files good enough, the suggestions are very impressive and produce grounded answers. Since it can natively work with blob storage the requirement for pre-processing the data is eliminated i.e. the data can be searched in its raw form, this makes Azure AI Search a very powerful tool when used with Azure Stack.
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Klevu Oy
I think Klevu is a great solution for brands looking to enhance their website. They have templates that may work for brands that don't have a tech team. Their product offering can also be fully customizable but this would require some development work on the brand end. Overall, would recommend them!
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Incredibly robust back-end infrastructure.
  • Streamlined integration into Microsoft's Azure Cloud.
  • From a user standpoint, it lets the customer easily access their data and provide useful search tips.
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Klevu Oy
  • Great customer success team
  • Always sharing with us their latest product offering
  • Their technical support team is very helpful and willing to hop on calls with us
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Like virtually all Azure services, it has first-class treatment for .Net as the developer platform of choice, but largely ignores other options. While there is a first-party Python SDK, there are only community packages for other languages like Ruby and Node. Might be a game of roulette for those to be kept up-to-date. This might make it a non-starter for some teams that don't want to do the work to integrate with the REST API directly.
  • In my opinion, partitions inside of Azure Search don't count as data segregation for customers in a multi-tenant app, so any application where you have many customers with high-security concerns, Azure Search is probably a non-starter.
  • To elaborate on the multi-tenant issue: Azure Search's approach to pricing is pretty steep. While there is a free tier for small applications (50MB of content or less) the first paid tier is about 14x more expensive than the first SQL Database tier that supports full-text search. For many applications, it makes a lot more economic sense to just run some LIKE or CONTAINS queries on columns in a table rather than going with Azure Search.
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Klevu Oy
  • I think you definitely need someone technical in house to help assist and customize
  • They're pretty stern on pricing
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Usability
Microsoft
I want to improve their product and also want to learn Azure AI Search like a professional and use it with full feature but their price is too high, so now I use the free plan as of now, but it takes a very large amount of data, type is few minutes, and give result that I want.
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Klevu Oy
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Product enhancement and recent updates, Azure AI Search has become more cost-effective, especially for large-scale generative AI applications2.
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Klevu Oy
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • When integrated with our existing file system the Azure AI Search helped users tremendously by reducing search times and improve efficacy of intended result.
  • Since Azure AI Search is a PaaS solution, we had very short ideation to go-live timespan, which ended up reflecting in our product performance.
  • A rare but not negligible occurrence was correctness of search being questionable when new data was added to the system. The search returns false positive results.
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Klevu Oy
  • Seeing a 2x increase in conversion rate
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