Azure OpenAI Service vs. Hugging Face

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure OpenAI Service
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Azure OpenAI Service, a service from Microsoft's Azure suite available in preview, includes pre-generated AI models that enable users to apply advanced coding and language models to a variety of use cases, enabling new reasoning and comprehension capabilities for building applications. Users can apply these coding and language models to a variety of use cases, such as writing assistance, code generation, and reasoning over data.N/A
Hugging Face
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Hugging Face is an open-source provider of natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
$9
per month
Pricing
Azure OpenAI ServiceHugging Face
Editions & Modules
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Pro Account
$9
per month
Enterprise Hub
$20
per month per user
Offerings
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Azure OpenAI ServiceHugging Face
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Azure OpenAI ServiceHugging Face
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(4 ratings)
9.4
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Azure OpenAI ServiceHugging Face
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
If you're looking for a managed OpenAI API service, then Azure OpenAI Service is a good choice.
It's fully compatible with OpenAI API, has lots of models to choose from, lots of parameters to configure to suite your needs.
The documents are well maintained, with examples to get started.
You can also setup firewall to restrict access to the API to certain IP addresses, like those of your VPCs.
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Hugging Face
If an organisation has more access to data and have access to high end computers like GPUs it’s recommended to use Hugging face as it will give better accuracy than any other models. If an organisation having less data and has less access to GPUsis looking for decent performance then traditional algorithms are more appropriate than hugging face
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Generating SQL
  • Generating Images
  • Sensible Response
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Hugging Face
  • Model APIs
  • Hugging Face Spaces for deploying demo apps
  • Latest updated models available easily
  • Vast support for language parsing and other relevant tasks
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The user interface is similar to the Azure, so it's bit laggy, they should improve it.
  • The chat models sometimes return nothing, I guess they are still testing them.
  • The models we use have quota limitation on tokens and number of requests.
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Hugging Face
  • Most of the Hugging face models are of big size, hence difficult to work if there is no access to high computational system like GPU.
  • It’s good to have some visualization tool in hugging face for viewing model architecture.
  • I recommend to implement hugging face lite version so that it can run on any system with less specifications.
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Usability
Microsoft
I think it's a good product and appreciate the addition secure guard rails that running it in Azure provide. However, I still struggle at times to get to the right resources for support and region-based capacity can also be a challenge.
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Hugging Face
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
1. Open AI is best at giving accurate answers. 2. It is secure and more trustworthy 3. Most of our client using Azure cloud so it becomes go to choice for them. 4. Scalable as it handles 1000s of request per minute. 5. SDKs are easy to use and well documented.
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Hugging Face
There are some other services offer similar capacity as to Hugging Face, but not entirely the same. For example, amazon web services have a machine learning service called Comprehend, which offer a set of easy to use APIs to do machine translation and entity recognition and some other common NLP use case.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Our test group of 100 people created more than 200 conversations within the first day
  • People were excited & asked to be included to the test group once words spread that we have an internal ChatGPT portal
  • People started to create & share their own assistants (prompt engineering) for various purposes like code review, marketing, email, etc.
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Hugging Face
  • Hugging Face is cost and time saving.
  • Pay is less, you pay what you use, doesn't affect much.
  • Overall positive impact on business.
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