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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 6, 2024

We compared Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Azure OpenAI based on our user's reviews in several parameters.

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio offers a user-friendly interface, excellent support, and flexible pricing options. Users have highlighted the need for better documentation and collaboration features. Azure OpenAI, on the other hand, focuses on seamless integration, scalable resources, and robust machine learning capabilities. Users appreciate its affordable pricing, extensive support, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement include specific functions and enhancements.

Features: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio offers a user-friendly interface, a wide range of tools and algorithms, seamless integration with other Azure services, reliable and scalable performance, and excellent support and documentation. In comparison, Azure OpenAI focuses on seamless integration with other Azure services, flexibility in resource scaling, robust machine learning capabilities, and extensive documentation and support.

Pricing and ROI: Azure Machine Learning Studio offers flexible pricing options with reasonable setup costs, according to user feedback. On the other hand, Azure OpenAI is positively regarded for its affordable pricing and minimal setup cost. Users find it cost-efficient and note the smooth setup process. Azure OpenAI also provides adaptable licensing options., The ROI of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio includes cost savings, improved efficiency, and reliable predictions. Azure OpenAI offers increased efficiency, cost reduction, and valuable insights for better decision-making.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio: Users have identified areas for improvement, including enhancing the user interface, better documentation and guidance, improved collaboration features, and seamless integration with other tools. Azure OpenAI: Users have provided feedback on enhancing Azure OpenAI, including concerns regarding certain functions and suggested improvements.

Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio indicate some variation in the durations for deployment, setup, and implementation phases, suggesting that these processes may occur at different times. In contrast, the reviews for Azure OpenAI suggest that deployment and setup are considered to be the same period and should not be evaluated separately., Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio's customer service is praised for being prompt, knowledgeable, and efficient. On the other hand, Azure OpenAI's customer service is regarded as highly appreciated, efficient, and reliable, ensuring a smooth user experience.

The summary above is based on 35 interviews we conducted recently with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Azure OpenAI users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure OpenAI vs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Azure OpenAI stems from the GPT-3.5 models it provides to its users.""The solution has a very drag-and-drop environment. Instead of coding something from scratch or understanding any concept in extensive depth before deployment, this is good. Plus, they have an auto dataset, which means you can choose any dataset they have instead of providing your own. So that's also pretty nice.""We have many use cases for the solution, such as digitalizing records, a chatbot looking at records, and being able to use generative AI on them.""Azure OpenAI is very easy to use instead of AWS services.""The product saves a lot of time.""OpenAI integrates seamlessly with the broader Microsoft Azure ecosystem, and that provides synergies with the other solutions. This integration makes it much easier to build solutions.""My goal was to create an experience where project managers don't have to read through entire documents. Instead, they can ask a question and receive relevant point analysis. This analysis identifies the document and specific section where the information resides. Previously, users had to rely on these document references. Now, Azure OpenAI enhances the experience by providing the answer directly in the user's own language, relevant to their context.""The high precision of information extraction is the most valuable feature."

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"Scalability, in terms of running experiments concurrently is good. At max, I was able to run three different experiments concurrently.""The solution is very easy to use, so far as our data scientists are concerned.""The solution's most beneficial feature is its integration with Azure.""When you import the dataset you can see the data distribution easily with graphics and statistical measures.""One of the notable advantages is that it offers both a visual designer, which is user-friendly, and an advanced coding option.""Its ability to publish a predictive model as a web based solution and integrate R and python codes are amazing.""The initial setup is very simple and straightforward.""The most valuable feature is the knowledge bank, which allows us to ask questions and the AI will automatically pull the pre-prescribed responses."

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Cons
"Our customers are worried about data management, ethical, and security issues.""I have found the tool unreliable in certain use cases. I aim to enhance the system's latency, particularly in responding to calls. Occasionally, calls don't respond, so I want to improve reliability.""Since we don't train the model on our data, it's a struggle to ensure OpenAI answers questions exclusively from our data. During user testing, we found ways to make the system provide answers from outside sources.""Azure OpenAI will be expensive if you want to implement it as a permanent solution for a customer.""Azure OpenAI should use more specific sources like academic articles because sometimes the source can't be found.""I noticed there are no instructional videos or guides on the network portal for initial configurations. There is limited information available, and this is a concern for me. I would like to see more resources and guides to address these issues.""Azure OpenAI is not an optimized tool yet, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required.""There are no available updates of information that are currently provided."

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"Technical support could improve their turnaround time.""We can create a label job, but we still have to use the Azure Machine Learning REST APIs, which are not yet supported in the Python SDK version 2.""Stability-wise, you may face certain problems when you fail to refresh the data in the solution.""I personally would prefer if data could be tunneled to my model through a SAP ERP system, and have features of Excel, such as Pivot Tables, integrated.""Integration with social media would be a valuable enhancement.""The solution's initial setup process is complicated.""The AutoML feature is very basic and they should improve it by using a more robust algorithm.""It would be great if the solution integrated Microsoft Copilot, its AI helper."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The cost structure depends on the volume of data processed and the computational resources required."
  • "The pricing is acceptable, and it's delivering good value for the results and outcomes we need."
  • "The cost is pretty high. Even by US standards, you would find it high."
  • "The cost is quite high and fixed."
  • "The tool costs around 20 dollars a month."
  • "Cost-wise, the product's price is a bit on the higher side."
  • "I'm uncertain about the licensing, specifically the pricing. This falls under the purview of other teams, particularly the sales teams. I am not informed about the pricing details."
  • "According to the negotiations taking place and the contract, there is a need to make either monthly or yearly payments to use the solution."
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  • "To use MLS is fairly cheap. Even the paid account is something like $20/month, unless you are provisioning large numbers of VMs for a Hadoop cluster. The main MS makes money with this solution is forcing the user to deploy their model on REST API, and being charged each time the API is accessed. There are several pricing tiers for the API. If you do not use the API, then value of MLS is to create rapid experiments ($20/month). The resulting model is not exportable to use, thus you’ll have to recreate the algorithms in either R or Python, which is what I did. MLS results gave me a direction to work with, the actual work is mostly done in R and Python outside of MLS."
  • "When we got our first models and were ready for the user acceptance testing, our licensing fees were between €2,500 ($2,750 USD) and €3,000 ($3,300 USD) monthly."
  • "From a developer's perspective, I find the price of this solution high."
  • "The licensing cost is very cheap. It's less than $50 a month."
  • "There is a license required for this solution."
  • "I am paying for it following a pay-as-you-go. So, the more I use it, the more it costs."
  • "In terms of pricing, for any cloud solution, you should know the tricks of the trade and how to use it, otherwise, you'll end up paying a lot of money irrespective of the cloud provider, so at least for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio pricing versus AWS, I would rate it three out of five, with one being the most expensive, and five being the cheapest. It could be cheaper, but you also have to be careful when choosing the plans, for example, consider the architecture and a lot of other factors before choosing your plan, if you don't want to end up paying more. If your cloud provider has an optimizer that seems to be available in every provider, that would keep alerting you in terms of resources not being used as much, then that would help you with budgeting."
  • "My team didn't deal with the licensing for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, so I'm unable to comment on pricing, but the money that was spent on the tool was worth it."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product is easy to integrate with our IT workflow.
    Top Answer:We've been a long-term Microsoft shop with an enterprise agreement, so that gives us some advantages. As an Azure-certified partner, we receive preferred pricing. However, AWS also has a very… more »
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    Top Answer:The learning curve is very low. Operationalizing the model is also very easy within the Azure ecosystem.
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being very expensive. Not very expensive, not very cheap. It was on a yearly basis, and there were also usage-based costs.
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    Also Known As
    Azure Machine Learning, MS Azure Machine Learning Studio
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    Overview

    The Azure OpenAI service provides REST API access to OpenAI's powerful language models including the GPT-3, Codex and Embeddings model series. These models can be easily adapted to your specific task including but not limited to content generation, summarization, semantic search, and natural language to code translation. Users can access the service through REST APIs, Python SDK, or our web-based interface in the Azure OpenAI Studio.

    Azure Machine Learning is a cloud predictive analytics service that makes it possible to quickly create and deploy predictive models as analytics solutions.

    It has everything you need to create complete predictive analytics solutions in the cloud, from a large algorithm library, to a studio for building models, to an easy way to deploy your model as a web service. Quickly create, test, operationalize, and manage predictive models.

    Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Will Help You:

    • Rapidly build and train models
    • Operationalize at scale
    • Deliver responsible solutions
    • Innovate on a more secure hybrid platform

    With Microsoft Azure Machine Learning You Can:

    • Prepare data: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio offers data labeling, data preparation, and datasets.
    • Build and train models: Includes notebooks, Visual Studio Code and Github, Automated ML, Compute instance, a drag-and-drop designer, open-source libraries and frameworks, customizable dashboards, and experiments
    • Validate and deploy: Manage endpoints, automate machine learning workflows (pipeline CI/CD), optimize models, access pre-built container images, share and track models and data, train and deploy models across multi-cloud and on-premises.
    • Manage and monitor: Track, log, and analyze data, models, and resources; Detect drift and maintain model accuracy; Trace ML artifacts for compliance; Apply quota management and automatic shutdown; Leverage built-in and custom policies for compliance management; Utilize continuous monitoring with Azure Security Center.

    Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Features:

    • Easy & flexible building interface: Execute your machine learning development through the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio using drag-and-drop components that minimize the code development and straightforward configuration of properties. By being so flexible, the solution also helps build, test ,and generate advanced analytics based on the data.
    • Wide range of supported algorithms: Configuration is simple and easy because Microsoft Azure ML offers readily available well-known algorithms. There is also no limit in importing training data, and the solution enables you to fine-tune your data easily, saving money and time and helping you generate more revenue.
    • Easy implementation of web services: Simply drag and drop your data sets and algorithms, and link them together to implement web services. It only requires one click to create and publish the web service, which can be used from any device by passing valid credentials.
    • Great documentation: Microsoft Azure provides full stacks of documentation, such as tutorials, quick starts, references, and many other resources that help you understand how to easily build, manage, deploy, and access machine learning solutions effectively.

    Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Benefits:

    • It is fully integrated with Python and R SDKs.
    • It has an updated drag-and-drop interface, generally known as Azure Machine Learning Designer.
    • It supports MLPipelines, where you can build flexible and modular pipelines to automate workflows.
    • It supports multiple model formats depending upon the job type.
    • It has automated model training and hyperparameter tuning with code-first and no-code options.
    • It supports data labeling projects.

    Reviews from Real Users:

    "The ability to do the templating and be able to transfer it so that I can easily do multiple types of models and data mining is a valuable aspect of this solution. You only have to set up the flows, the templates, and the data once and then you can make modifications and test different segmentations throughout.” - Channing S.l, Owner at Channing Stowell Associates

    "The most valuable feature is the knowledge bank, which allows us to ask questions and the AI will automatically pull the pre-prescribed responses.” - Chris P., Tech Lead at a tech services company

    "The UI is very user-friendly and the AI is easy to use.” - Mikayil B., CRM Consultant at a computer software company

    "The solution is very fast and simple for a data science solution.” - Omar A., Big Data & Cloud Manager at a tech services company

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    Buyer's Guide
    Azure OpenAI vs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure OpenAI vs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Azure OpenAI is ranked 2nd in AI Development Platforms with 23 reviews while Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is ranked 1st in AI Development Platforms with 51 reviews. Azure OpenAI is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure OpenAI writes "Created a chatbot powered by OpenAI to answer HR, travel, and expense-related questions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio writes "Good support for Azure services in pipelines, but deploying outside of Azure is difficult". Azure OpenAI is most compared with Google Vertex AI, Amazon SageMaker, Hugging Face, Google Cloud AI Platform and IBM Watson Studio, whereas Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is most compared with Google Vertex AI, Databricks, TensorFlow, Google Cloud AI Platform and Dataiku. See our Azure OpenAI vs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio report.

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