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Azure OpenAI vs TensorFlow comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Azure OpenAI
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TensorFlow
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
6th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Azure OpenAI is 11.0%, down from 20.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TensorFlow is 4.4%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Rafael Keller - PeerSpot reviewer
Creates effective scheduling agents with responsive AI capabilities
I am using it to create agents to schedule appointments for clinics and professionals in general. It serves both small and major companies. The primary use case involves creating agents Its ability to understand and respond well to queries, including language translation for clients, is…
Dan Bryant - PeerSpot reviewer
A strong solution for providing insight into machine learning strategies
I'm not a professional with machine learning. Early on, I was working with data scientists and built a platform for some old-school data scientists to turn around their models faster, and they were focused on electric prices. Based on that experience and my understanding of our value, I'm researching all the machine learning tools. I realized I would have to be a specialist in any of them, and my main skillset is in systems engineering and data engines. I look forward to being an analytics specialist. In real life, I would be better off hiring a professional because when I decide which tool I want to use for what job, I could hire that professional. They would be valuable to me across the whole of what we do. It's kinda of what I do when I build hardware and new products or do version upgrades. I hire a team just for production that are experts in their particular field, so I get production-quality pieces. At that point, my internal team can add the necessary analytics or automation. Hopefully, anyone getting the solution already knows what they will use it for. If they're starting from scratch, I strongly recommend hiring a consultant. I rate TensorFlow an eight out of ten because, for my intents and purposes, I don't know what else one can use to get into the machine learning game if you're going to export models.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ALM."
"Azure's integration with OpenAI's GPT is beneficial as well, especially for text generation tasks."
"The product is easy to integrate with our IT workflow."
"I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"Azure OpenAI is useful for benchmarking products."
"The high precision of information extraction is the most valuable feature."
"Its ability to understand and respond well to queries, including language translation for clients, is beneficial."
"Optimization is very good in TensorFlow. There are many opportunities to do hyper-parameter training."
"TensorFlow improves my organization because our clients get a lot of investment from their investors and we are progressively improving the products. Every six months we release new features."
"TensorFlow is an efficient product for building neural networks."
"TensorFlow is a framework that makes it really easy to use for deep learning."
"It is open-source, and it is being worked on all the time. You don't have to pay all the big bucks like Azure and Databricks. You can just use your local machine with the open-source TensorFlow and create pretty good models."
"Edge computing has some limited resources but TensorFlow has been improving in its features. It is a great tool for developers."
"The most valuable feature of TensorFlow is deep learning. It is the best tool for deep learning in the market."
"What made TensorFlow so appealing to us is that you could run it on a cluster computer and on a mobile device."
 

Cons

"Azure OpenAI will be expensive if you want to implement it as a permanent solution for a customer."
"The product features themselves are fine. However, with Microsoft scaling the service so much, the support structure needs to keep pace. When solving complex issues, the process of interacting with Microsoft can be quite time-consuming."
"Azure needs to work on its own model development and improve the integration of voice-to-text services, particularly for right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Urdu."
"Sometimes, the responses are repetitive."
"We are awaiting the new updates like multi-model capabilities."
"The main issue with Azure OpenAI is the inconsistency in output. We have a set template instruction, and it should generate within those parameters without any creativity because it's meant for regulatory authoring documents."
"Our customers are worried about data management, ethical, and security issues."
"Deployment was slightly complex for me to understand."
"It doesn't allow for fast the proto-typing. So usually when we do proto-typing we will start with PyTorch and then once we have a good model that we trust, we convert it into TensorFlow. So definitely, TensorFlow is not very flexible."
"It currently offers inbuilt functions, however, having the ability to implement custom libraries would enhance its usefulness for enterprise-level applications."
"TensorFlow deep learning takes a lot of computation power. The more systems you can use, the easier it is. That's a good ability, if you can make a system run immediately at the same time on the same task, it's much faster rather than you having one system running which is slower. Running systems in parallel is a complex situation, but it can improve. There is a lot of work involved."
"Personally, I find it to be a bit too much AI-oriented."
"Enhancements could include increasing use cases and improving the accuracy of previously built models in TensorFlow. For instance, when we run certain models, the computing power of laptops becomes high."
"We encountered version mismatch errors while using the product."
"There are connection issues that interrupt the download needed for the data sets. We need to prepare them ourselves."
"It would be cool if TensorFlow could make it easier for companies like us to program for running it across different hyperscalers."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We started with monthly payments, but we plan to switch to yearly billing once we've stabilized our solution."
"While the product meets our business requirements well, I consider it relatively expensive, especially for individual users like myself."
"The cost structure depends on the volume of data processed and the computational resources required."
"The licensing is interaction-based, meaning transactional. It's reasonably priced for now."
"I rate the product pricing six out of ten."
"The platform offers a flexible pricing model which depends on the features and capabilities we utilize."
"If you consider the long-term aspect of any project, Azure OpenAI is a costly solution."
"The pricing is acceptable, and it's delivering good value for the results and outcomes we need."
"It is open-source software. You don't have to pay all the big bucks like Azure and Databricks."
"We are using the free version."
"I am using the open-source version of TensorFlow and it is free."
"The solution is free."
"TensorFlow is free."
"I think for learners to deploy a project, you can actually use TensorFlow for free. It's just amazing to have an open-source platform like TensorFlow to deploy your own project. Here in Russia no one really cares about licenses, as it is totally open source and free. My clients in the United States were also pleased to learn when they enquired, that licensing is free."
"I rate TensorFlow's pricing a five out of ten."
"I did not require a license for this solution. It a free open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Educational Organization
6%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure OpenAI?
The product is easy to integrate with our IT workflow.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure OpenAI?
In the past, the primary expense involved token limitations which constrained scaling. Recent iterations have increased token allowances, mitigating some challenges associated with concurrent user ...
What needs improvement with Azure OpenAI?
Azure ( /products/microsoft-azure-reviews ) could significantly benefit from including more LLM models apart from OpenAI, as I often need to switch clouds when a model doesn't meet my requirements....
What do you like most about TensorFlow?
It empowers us to seamlessly create and deploy machine learning models, offering a versatile solution for implementing sophisticated environments and various types of AI solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TensorFlow?
I am not familiar with the pricing setup cost and licensing.
What needs improvement with TensorFlow?
Providing more control by allowing users to build custom functions would make TensorFlow a better option. It currently offers inbuilt functions, however, having the ability to implement custom libr...
 

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Airbnb, NVIDIA, Twitter, Google, Dropbox, Intel, SAP, eBay, Uber, Coca-Cola, Qualcomm
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