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Hugging Face vs. IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Hugging Face

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AHugging Face is a git-based platform where teams store, version, and share models, datasets, and demo apps, together with the libraries used to train and fine-tune those models — Transformers, PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning), TRL (Transformer Reinforcement Learning), Accelerate, and Datasets. Inference Endpoints, a separate production service on the same account, deploys a Hub model onto Hugging Face-managed GPUs and returns a URL.

    $9

    per month

    IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM's Watson Visual Recognition was a machine learning application designed to tag and classify image data, and deployable for a wide variety of purposes. The service was discontinued in early 2021, and is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    Hugging FaceIBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Pro Account
    $9
    per month
    Enterprise Hub
    $20
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Hugging FaceIBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    As I mentioned before, it can only be employed in simple basic visual recognition applications. It can be employed in large projects and relying it on completely is not encouraged. It's better to create your own algorithms rather than using it. If you are from a non-programming background, then I may suggest you rely on this and use it to develop simple apps that can predict a few plants and animals.
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    Pros
    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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    • Speed
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    Cons
    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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    • Not perfect
    • Accuracy is doubted and sometimes it may not predict correctly.
    • I think it should be improved and should add a few more functionalities.
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    Usability
    Hugging Face
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    Discontinued Products
    I am giving this rating on the basis of its usability in real-time applications and based on the interface to upload negative and positive images to train the AI. But it's not perfect and sometimes its predictions are wrong. On overall usability, it's better if you are planning on working with UI rather than using complex programs and algorithms on your own.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • High cost if models are trained
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