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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure OpenAI Service

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAzure 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

    OpenAI API Platform

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe OpenAI API platform provides a simple interface to AI models for text generation, natural language processing, computer vision, and other purposes.

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    Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI API Platform
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    $0.0600
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    Pricing Offerings
    Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI API Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI API Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
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    8.5
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI API Platform
    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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    OpenAI
    For smaller organizations that run lean and would like to get to deploy a solution quickly. This is a solution that is easy and quick to develop. It has a good amount of customization. However, for advanced customization this might not be a good solution. I suggest experimenting with OpenAI API and then if the experimentation is successful then it is a good idea to optimize and try other LLM models.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Generating SQL
    • Generating Images
    • Sensible Response
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    OpenAI
    • The developer experience is top notch. Their SDKs are super easy to use
    • Organization and project billing separation. You know where everything was consumed.
    • Playground. The playground is super useful to prototype without writing a single line of code
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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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    OpenAI
    • Restrictions are sometimes too strong
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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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    OpenAI
    Easy to setup, develop and deploy. The payload for the API is simple and has all the inputs required for simple projects. There are a good number of options of LLM models to optimize for speed, cost or quality of the answers. A larger token input might improve the overall usability.
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    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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    OpenAI
    Anthropic is only the best for coding and its really really expensive. So, if you're not making a coding app, I would stay away from it. On the other hand, Gemini models are dirt cheap but come with a bit of performance limitations, so i would use it for big volume non sofisticated use cases. The OpenAI API platform excels at providing best in class performance models, at not outrageous anthropic-like pricing.
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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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    OpenAI
    • Big question about functionality
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