Azure AI Search vs. Yext

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cognitive Search
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.
$0.10
Per Hour
Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Yext is a digital experience software provider headquartered in New York, New York.N/A
Pricing
Azure AI SearchYext
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Cognitive SearchYext
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsThe cost of Yext varies depending on a number of factors such as package type, business size, entity count, and more. To create a solution that fits your business goals, please contact us or request a demo.
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Features
Azure AI SearchYext
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
-
Ratings
Yext
10.0
3 Ratings
19% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
-
Ratings
Yext
9.8
3 Ratings
16% above category average
API00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
-
Ratings
Yext
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Admin section00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
-
Ratings
Yext
8.0
2 Ratings
10% above category average
SEO support00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
-
Ratings
Yext
10.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Conversion tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Digital Experience Platform
Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Search
-
Ratings
Yext
8.9
3 Ratings
4% below category average
Cloud enablement00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Content aggregation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Content classification00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Multi-website management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Digital asset management00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Azure AI SearchYext
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.3
(12 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure AI SearchYext
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Incredibly robust software for an enterprise organization to plug into their application. If you have a full development resource team at your disposal, this is great software and I highly recommend it. Largely, however, you won't be able to use this prior to the enterprise level. It's just too complicated and cumbersome of a product.
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Yext
We have multiple branch locations throughout our market area. It's very challenging to manage the web listings for each location, with a large volume of listings across numerous platforms for each of those locations. Yext significantly reduces the workload by allowing me to make a single update and Yext automatically pushes the notifications across the other platforms
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure Search provides a fully-managed service for loading, indexing, and querying content.
  • Azure Search has an easy C# SDK that allows you to implement loading and retrieving data from the service very easy. Any developer with some Microsoft experience should feel immediate familiarity.
  • Azure Search has a robust set of abilities around slicing and presenting the data during a search, such as narrowing by geospatial data and providing an auto-complete capabilities via "Suggesters".
  • Azure Search has one-of-a-kind "Cognitive Search" capabilities that enable running AI algorithms over data to enrich it before it is stored into the service. For example, one could automatically do a sentiment analysis when ingesting the data and store that as one of the searchable fields on the content.
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Yext
  • Yext is very, very user-friendly and easy to use.
  • Yext provides information within the portal on how you can enhance your listings as well as how you can fix any issues with your listings that may exist.
  • Yext's dedicated account managers can help you with any issues that may arise. For example our location pin on Apple Maps was wrong on one of our clinic listings and our Yext account manager reached out directly to Apple support and fixed the issue.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Cross platform compatibility to integrate with various OS
  • Optimizing latency.
  • Nothing better than work on price, create more flexible options.
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Yext
  • Cost. This platform offers a lot of powerful features, but it has an expensive barrier to entry.
  • Annual contracts limit flexibility for smaller companies
  • The biggest drawback is that you need to keep your subscription active or listings/citation data will revert back to what it was pre-Yext implementation
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Yext
Yext is pretty easy and straightforward to utilize out of the box. While I work for a digital marketing agency, and this is second nature to me at this point, I do believe the average SMB owner with zero digital marketing experience could be a proficient Yext user within 1 hour or so of usage. It's easy
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Yext
Have been very impressed with the support we receive from Yext. I always feel I am listened to and if I have any problems or concerns they are quickly addressed. I have multiple ways to obtain support, either technical or strategic support, and they are responsive. I couldn't ask for more.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Search is a competitor against Google's own AI autosuggest a feature. We went with Azure because our network security folks found it to be more robust from a security standpoint, which is incredibly important when you have proprietary manufacturing information. Additionally, we're a Microsoft shop so it plugged into our cloud hosting package and client facing OS.
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Yext
We initially chose Yext because it provided the greatest control for our multiple listings. Plus, it had access to the most publishers. However, when evaluating Synup we were very impressed. You would not go wrong to choose either!
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure Search enabled us to stand up a robust search capability with very few developer hours.
  • The fully-managed service of Azure Search means we get low cost of management (EG, DevOps) going into the future, even though the cost of the service itself definitely reflects the time saved.
  • Azure Search counts as a "Cognitive Service" for Microsoft Azure consumption and aligns our products with Microsoft's interests of driving an AI-first approach in the enterprise. Microsoft Partners, service and product companies alike, should be looking to align with this AI vision as it means favorable treatment from the Microsoft sales teams.
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Yext
  • Consistency in business listing management - without Yext, we would surely have more inconsistencies with our business address across the web. This can lead to poor communication to our customers, and potentially lost business if we lose trust as a reputable business.
  • Yext saves me hours of legwork to manage numerous web listing platforms individually.
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