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Industry leading language capabilities that enable you to build conversational interfaces into application, identify key terms and phrases, understand sentiments, and many others. Annotate, train, evaluate, and deploy customizable models in Language Studio without machine learning expertise.
Text analytics for health uses natural language processing to find and label information in unstructured clinical documents.
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Language service can be purchased in tiers.
Text Records correspond to the number of 1,000-character units.
- Summarization features count the combined length of input document and corresponding output summary as text records. Other Language features count the length of input document.
- Summarization, sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, question answering, named entity recognition, and conversational language understanding all share 5,000 free text records per month.
- Please contact sales for pricing of over 10 million text records.
- Some features such as question answering require dependent resources. When you choose question answering, an Azure AI Search resources will also be deployed in your subscription.
- Custom Text Analytics for health (preview) is limited to 5,000 free text records per language resource, see region support. To apply for a higher quota, please submit an Azure support ticket.
| Instance | Features | Inferencing Per 1,000 text records |
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| Free - Web |
Sentiment analysis (available in containers) Key phrase extraction (available in containers) Language detection (available in containers) Custom question answering1 Prebuilt question answering Named entity recognition (available in containers) PII detection (available in containers) Summarization (all types) |
5,000 text records free2 per month |
| Conversational language understanding Orchestration workflow |
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Custom text classification
Custom named entity recognition2 Custom Summarization - Preview Custom sentiment analysis (preview) |
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| Standard (S) - Web |
Sentiment analysis (available in containers) Key phrase extraction (available in containers) Language detection (available in containers) Named entity recognition (available in containers) PII detection (available in containers) Custom sentiment analysis (preview) |
0.0M-1M - $- 0.5M-3M - $- 2.5M-10M - $- 10M+ - $- |
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Conversational language understanding Orchestration workflow |
$- | |
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Custom text classification
Custom named entity recognition (available in containers) |
$- | |
| Text analytics for health (available in containers) | 0M-0M - Included 0.005M-0M - $- 0.01M-1M - $- 0.505M-3M - $- 2.505M-10M - $- 10M+3 - $- | |
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Custom question answering4
Prebuilt question answering |
0-2.5M - $- 2.5M+ - $- | |
| Summarization (all types) | $- | |
| Custom Summarization - Preview | $- | |
| Custom Text Analytics for health (Preview)5 | Free |
Training and model endpoint hosting
| Instance | Features | Training and model endpoint hosting |
|---|---|---|
| Free - Web | Conversational language understanding Orchestration workflow |
Standard training: free
Advanced training: up to 1 hour free Model endpoint hosting: free |
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Custom text classification
Custom named entity recognition2 Custom Summarization - Preview Custom sentiment analysis (preview) |
Training: up to 1 hour free
Model endpoint hosting: up to 1 model free |
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| Standard (S) - Web | Conversational language understanding |
Standard training: free
Advanced training: $- per hour Endpoint hosting: free |
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Custom text classification
Custom named entity recognition Custom Summarization - Preview Custom sentiment analysis (preview) |
Training: $- per hour
Endpoint hosting: $- per model per month |
Commitment Tiers
| Instance | Features | Price (per month) | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure – standard | Sentiment analysis (and opinion mining) Key phrase extraction Language detection Named entity recognition PII detection |
$- per 1M text records $- per 3M text records $- per 10M text records |
$- per 1,000 text records $- per 1,000 text records $- per 1,000 text records |
| Azure – standard | Summarization | $- per 3M text records | $- per 1,000 text records |
| $- per 10M text records | $- per 1,000 text records | ||
| Connected container – standard | Sentiment analysis (and opinion mining) Key phrase extraction Language detection Named entity recognition PII detection |
$- per 1M text records $- per 3M text records $- per 10M text records |
$- per 1,000 text records $- per 1,000 text records $- per 1,000 text records |
| Connected container – standard | Summarization | $- per 3M text records | $- per 1,000 text records |
| $- per 10M text records | $- per 1,000 text records |
Disconnected containers
| Features | Price per year | Max usage per year | Projected usage per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sentiment analysis (and opinion mining), Key phrase extraction, Language detection, Named entity recognition, PII detection | $- | 120M text records | 10M text records |
| $- | 36M text records | 3M text records | |
| Summarization | $- | 120M text records | 10M text records |
| $- | 36M text records | 3M text records |
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Frequently asked questions
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In the S tier, the service is billed for only the amount of Text Records submitted to the service.
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A text record in the S tier contains up to 1,000 characters as measured by StringInfo.LengthInTextElements. If an input document into the Language API is more than 1,000 characters, it counts as one text record for each unit of 1,000 characters. For instance, if an input document sent to the API contains 7,500 characters, it would count as 8 text records. If an input document sent to the API contains 500 characters, it would count as 1 text record. If two documents are submitted, one document of 500 characters and one document of 1,200 characters, then the service would be billed for three text records in total: one record for the 500 character document and two text records for the 1,200 character document. You can check your text records usage in your Text Analytics resource in Azure portal under Monitoring > Metrics > Processed Text Records.
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Usage is throttled if the transaction limit is reached on the Free tier. Customers cannot accrue overages on the free tier.
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Let’s say an API call performs both sentiment analysis and key-phrase extraction on 1,000 documents, that will count for 2,000 transactions (2 × 1,000 documents). The maximum size of a single document is 5,120 characters as measured by StringInfo.LengthInTextElements. If a document has more than 5,120 chars then we do not process that specific document and show invalid document as the error. If a request has multiple documents, then we process all documents which are less than 5,120 characters. S0-S4 tiers have been deprecated. Guide on how to migrate.
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Standard pricing (S instance) is text records-based pricing and enables you to use the latest capabilities of Text analytics. It is more cost-effective vs using transactions-based pricing. S0-S4 pricing tiers are now deprecated and you are encouraged to switch to S tier. Guide on how to migrate
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Orchestration workflow only charges you for requests to the Orchestration endpoint. If the orchestration workflow project routes your request to another conversational language understanding, custom question answering, or LUIS project, you are not additionally charged for the call to that service.
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