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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure AI Studio

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AA platform for developing generative AI solutions and custom copilots. Azure AI Studio includes catalog of models from OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Meta, that can be applied over in-house data. It is intended for professional software developers—including cloud architects and technical decision-makers—who want to create generative AI applications and custom copilot experiences.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 StudioAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure AI StudioAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure AI StudioAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Azure AI StudioAzure Machine LearningKeras
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    I am deploying a lot of pipelines and making a lot of variants of these pipeline segments, like different types of vector search techniques. The simple way to mix and fix these segments to run the whole pipelines in notebooks options are big overhead killer. The playground which provides a test sandbox helps a lot to evaluate LMs if they are the best fit for our use-case even before deploying and startup with the costing angle.
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    Microsoft
    For [a] data scientist require[d] to build a machine learning model, so he/she didn't worry about infrastructure to maintain it.
    All kind of feature[s] such as train, build, deploy and monitor the machine learning model available in a single suite.
    If someone has [their] own environment for ML studio, so there [it would] not [be] useful for them.
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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
    • Wide Catalog of Models is a beautiful feature for all who want to evaluate a lot of models before proceeding with any client use case for the best performance.
    • Playground for testing and evaluating visual comparisons on so many metrics like latency, cost, and output time.
    • Integration with other Cloud services, this makes the full complete solutioning and vision complete, from storage to compute.
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    Microsoft
    • User friendliness: This is by far the most user friendly tool I've seen in analytics. You don't need to know how to code at all! Just create a few blocks, connect a few lines and you are capable of running a boosted decision tree with a very high R squared!
    • Speed: Azure ML is a cloud based tool, so processing is not made with your computer, making the reliability and speed top notch!
    • Cost: If you don't know how to code, this is by far the cheapest machine learning tool out there. I believe it costs less than $15/month. If you know how to code, then R is free.
    • Connectivity: It is super easy to embed R or Python codes on Azure ML. So if you want to do more advanced stuff, or use a model that is not yet available on Azure ML, you can simply paste the code on R or Python there!
    • Microsoft environment: Many many companies rely on the Microsoft suite. And Azure ML connects perfectly with Excel, CSV and Access files.
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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
    • Model Catalog can have a feature to show basic compute and the cost of running the model on that compute. With latency metrics, I generally need to do a lot of research before losing some dollars on deployment on hit and trials.
    • Documentation generator for pipelines deployed in notebooks, generally developers use notebooks for experimentation, where logging them can be a big overhead.
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    Microsoft
    • It would be great to have text tips that could ease new users to the platform, especially if an error shows up
    • Scenario-based documentation
    • Pre-processing of modules that had been previously run. Sometimes they need to be re-run for no apparent reason
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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
    Microsoft Foundry includes the existing AI Services. It's quite literally Cognitive Services under the hood, so in that sense, if you're building a new "AI app" today where you would have deployed an AI Services Account, you can deploy Microsoft Foundry instead. The side benefit of that is that Foundry also includes model deployments, and more than just the OpenAI models. So, it removes the need for deploying a separate Azure OpenAI Service in some circumstances. Then finally it has agent capabilities too. So, if you're developing and deploying agents as part of your solution (which usually interface with a model) then you can do that from there as well. Effectively it's meant to be a one-stop-shop for all things AI, just like Fabric is for data.
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    Microsoft
    Easy and fastest way to develop, test, deploy and monitor the machine learning model.
    - Easy to load the data set
    -Drag and drop the process of the Machine learning life cycle.
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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
    Support is nonexistent. It's very frustrating to try and find someone to actually talk to. The robot chatbots are just not well trained.
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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
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Not sure
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure AI Studio were the pioneers of DevOPs, so MLOPs feels quite a bit better on this platform than Google. Azure brought OpenAI into the system which made the Organization to shift from any other platform to Azure AI Studio.
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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
    • Onboarding a team member for the codebase is slightly slower, almost 20% slower. As codebase sharing is like a git pull from repos, whereas here we need to provide all the access.
    • I have experienced scaling up speed almost 50% faster as per compared with on-prem solutions. ML models are faster deployed in terms of on-prem deployments.
    • 10 times better Azure AI Studio for cost visibility over any other solution.
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    Microsoft
    • Productivity: Instead of coding and recoding, Azure ML helped my organization to get to meaningful results faster;
    • Cost: Azure ML can save hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars for an organization, since the license costs around $15/month per seat.
    • Focus on insights and not on statistics: Since running a model is so easy, analysts can focus more on recommendations and insights, rather than statistical details
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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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