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Cognitive Services Pricing - Face API

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The Microsoft Face API uses state-of-the-art cloud-based face algorithms to detect and recognise human faces in images. Capabilities include features like face detection, face verification and face grouping to organise many faces into face groups based on their visual similarity.

Pricing details

Tier Features Price
Face API – Free Up to 20 transactions per minute 30,000 transactions free per month
Face API – Standard Up to 10 transactions per second
0 - 10,00,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
10,00,001 - 50,00,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
50,00,001 - 200,00,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
Face Storage Face storage - images size up to 4 MB each $- per 1,000 images per month

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  • We guarantee that Cognitive Services running in the Standard tier will be available at least 99.9% of the time. No SLA is provided for the Free tier. Read the SLA

FAQ

Face API

  • Face Storage allows a subscription to store additional persisted faces when using Person objects and Face Lists for identification or similarity matching with the Face API.

  • The stored images are charged at $- per 1,000 faces; this rate is prorated daily.

    For example, if your account used 10,000 persisted faces each day for the first half of the month and none the second half, you would be billed only for the 10,000 faces for the days stored. The calculation then is ($-/1,000)*(10,000*15+0*16)/31 = $-

    As a second example, if each day during the month you persist 1,000 faces for a few hours and then delete them each night, you would still be billed for 1,000 persisted faces each day.

  • The quota for the number of stored PersonGroups is now 1,000, with up to 1,000 Persons per PersonGroup or FaceLists.

General

  • The Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding Intelligent Service API, Bing Speech to Text API and Bing Text-to-Speech API are billed per 1,000 API transaction calls when a production API call is being actively executed. Billing is prorated for production API transaction call quantities.

    The Bing Long Form Speech API service is billed per hour of speech that is analysed. The billing is prorated on a per minute basis.

    The Recommendations API and Text Analytics API can be purchased in units of the standard tiers at a fixed price. Each unit of a tier comes with included quantities of API transactions. If the user exceeds the included quantities, overages are charged at the rate specified in the pricing table above. These overages are prorated and the service is billed on a monthly basis. The included quantities in a tier are reset each month.

  • Usage is throttled if the transaction limit is reached on the Free tier. Customers cannot accrue overages on the free tier.

  • If the usage on a standard tier is exceeded the account starts to accrue overages. These overages are billed on a monthly basis and are calculated at the rate specified for each tier.

  • Any API call (with the exception of batch scoring calls) counts as a transaction. Batch scoring calls will count based on the number of items that need to be scored in that transaction.

  • Usage is throttled if the transaction limit is reached on the Free tier. Customers cannot accrue overages on the free tier. Batch scoring is not supported on the free tier.

  • The Recommendations API can be purchased in units of the standard tiers at a fixed price. Each unit of a tier comes with included quantities of API transactions. If the user exceeds the included quantities, overages are charged at the rate specified in the pricing table above. These overages are prorated and the service is billed on a monthly basis. The included quantities in a tier are reset each month.

  • The Bing Search APIs, Bing Autosuggest API and Bing Speller API are billed on a monthly basis. Depending on the tier purchased there will be included quantities of transactions defined as API calls. Included quantities will always be tied to the calendar month regardless the start of usage. If the user exceeds the included quantities, overages are charged at the rate specified in the pricing table. These overages are not prorated and the service is billed on a monthly basis. The included quantities for each tier are reset each month.

  • Please visit the Cognitive Services subscription page to request free trials.

  • You may upgrade to a higher tier at any time. Billing rate and included quantities corresponding to the higher tier will begin immediately.

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