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Product | Features | Price |
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Computer Vision S1 up to 10 requests per second |
Tag Face GetThumbnail Color Image Type GetAreaOfInterest People Detection* Smart Crops |
0-1M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1-10M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 10-100M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 100M+ transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions |
OCR Adult Celebrity Landmark Detect, Objects Brand |
0-1M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1-10M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 10-100M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 100M+ transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions | |
Describe+ Read Caption* |
0-1M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1M+ transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions | |
Content Moderator S0 up to 10 requests per second |
Moderate, Review | 0-1M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1-5M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1-10M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 5-10M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 10M+ transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 10-100M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 100M+ transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions |
Face API Standard up to 10 requests per second |
Face Detection Face Verification Face Identification Face Grouping Similar Face Search |
0-1M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1-5M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 1-10M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 5-100M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 10-100M transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions 100M+ transactions - $- per 1,000 transactions |
Face Storage | $- per 1,000 faces per month |
Product | Features | Price |
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Language Understanding (LUIS) Standard up to 50 requests per second |
Text Requests | $- per 1,000 prediction transactions |
Speech Requests | $- per 1,000 transactions | |
Language Standard up to 1,000 requests per second and 1,000 requests per minute |
Sentiment analysis (and opinion mining) Key phrase extraction Language detection Named entity recognition, including PII (not available in container) |
0M-0.5M text records - $- per 1,000 text records 0.5M-2.5M text records - $- per 1,000 text records 2.5M-10.0M text records - $- per 1,000 text records 10.0M+ text records - $- per 1,000 text records |
Text analytics for health | 0M-0.005M text records - Included 0.005M-0.5M text records - $- per 1,000 text records 0.5M-2.5M text records - $- per 1,000 text records 2.5M+ text records - $- per 1,000 text records | |
Question answering* | Free | |
Translator S1 |
Text Translation Customization Language Detection Bilingual Dictionary Transliteration |
$- per million chars (Pay as You Go) |
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