Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?

Re:Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vis... by buro9 on Sunday June 19, 2016 @03:06PM (#11934188)

http://www.clarifai.com/

Pricing is more friendly than the other two. The API is nice.

I did like Google's a lot, but the price just wasn't there for me. Especially if you want most processing options.

Microsoft have been in this game a lot longer, but surpisingly a lot of their cool stuff isn't in their APIs. i.e. ability to spot similar images and seamlessly stitch them. This stuff was in their maps products a long time ago, and you can download tools of theirs: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/ but no APIs. Their basic APIs are just basic... so why not save the dime and go with a smaller player offering just the basics but very well instead.

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Re:Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vis... by jharohit on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:18AM (#11944023)

Thanks for the suggestion. Tried Clarifai's demo - their API & Pricing is nice as you said but they just don't have much to offer in terms of labels and feature detection when you compare to what Microsoft's or Google's version has to offer. Plus, they also don't seem to offer confidence numbers for labels

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Re:Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vis... by jasonnovack on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:40AM (#11944772)

Disclosure: I work at Clarifai.

Thanks for checking us out! Our demo may not fully represent what we have to offer, but you can see a sample response here with confidence numbers included (we call them probs): https://developer.clarifai.com/guide/tag#tag

In terms of labels, our "general" model has over 11,000 labels, and we also have specialized models with labels tailored for other purposes, including NSFW, travel, and food, among others.

Hope this helps

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