Cognitive Services Pricing - Content Moderator API
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Content Moderator is not available in the East US region. Please select another region.
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Content moderator enhances your ability to detect potentially offensive or unwanted images through machine-learning based classifiers, custom blacklists, and optical character recognition (OCR). It helps you detect potential profanity in more than 100 languages and match text against your custom lists automatically. Content Moderator also checks for possible personally identifiable information (PII). Each Text API call can contain up to 1,024 characters each. Scan images (minimum 128 pixels, maximum 4MB size) for adult and racy content, optical character recognition (OCR) and face detection. You can also match against custom image lists. Each API call is a transaction.
Pricing details
Customers can send up to 10 transactions per second.
Price until May 31, 2017
| Tier | Price |
|---|---|
| 0 - 1,000,000 transactions | $- per 1,000 transactions |
| 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 transactions | $- per 1,000 transactions |
| 5,000,000 - 10,000,000 transactions | $- per 1,000 transactions |
| 10,000,000 - 20,000,000 transactions | $- per 1,000 transactions |
Price starting June 1, 2017
| Tier | Price |
|---|---|
| 0 - 1,000,000 transactions | $1.00 per 1,000 transactions |
| 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 transactions | $0.75 per 1,000 transactions |
| 5,000,000 - 10,000,000 transactions | $0.60 per 1,000 transactions |
| 10,000,000 - 20,000,000 transactions | $0.40 per 1,000 transactions |
The Content Moderator API will have a monthly transaction limit of 20,000,000 transactions per month. For higher transactions count, please contact us.
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FAQ
Content Moderator
- What are the limits/restrictions of the content that can be moderated by using the API?
When using the API, images need to have a minimum of 128 pixels and a maximum file size of 4MB. Text can be at most 1024 characters long.
- What happens if the content passed to the text API or the image API exceeds the size limits?
The text API will return an error code that informs that the text is longer than permitted. The image API will also return an error code that informs that the image does not meet the size requirements.
- Is there an extra cost to using Human review tool?
Human review tool is included in your subscription.
General
- How does billing for Cognitive Services APIs work?
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 analyzed. 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.
- What happens if I exceed the transaction limit on my Free tier for Text Analytics?
Usage is throttled if the transaction limit is reached on the Free tier. Customers cannot accrue overages on the free tier.
- What happens if I exceed the transaction limit on a standard 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.
- What constitutes a transaction in the Recommendations API?
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.
- What happens if I exceed the transaction limit on my Free tier for Recommendations API?
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.
- How does billing for Recommendations API work?
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.
- How does billing work for Bing Search, Bing Autosuggest and Bing Speller?
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.
- Is there a free trial offer for Bing services?
Please visit https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-US/subscriptions to request free trials.
- Can I change the tier of service I subscribed to?
You may upgrade to a higher tier at any time. Billing rate and included quantities corresponding to the higher tier will begin immediately.
- What are Bing Speech API's Terms of Use?
Bing Speech APIs are licensed separately and are governed by the following Terms of use.
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