# Azure Face API Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Image Recognition Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/image-recognition) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Azure Face API Azure Face API uses state-of-the-art cloud-based face algorithms to detect and recognize human faces in images.Its capabilities include features like face detection, face verification, and face grouping to organize faces into groups based on their visual similarity. ## Azure Face API Reviews ### 1. Live Face Recognition **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Palash D. | Student, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** The number of attribute it returns back like it can detect Glasses, mask while a student is in online meet can mark his/her attendance by doing nothing **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** It has limitations of azure face api - Accuracy issue and pricing concerns **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm making a live face attendance system which enables you to mark attendance in an online meet no additional software required you can just let the software capture the frames of available students and the system will get all faces and get their attendance and mark it also will give you the records of every student with timestamp ### 2. get bunches of advantages from Azure with in excess of 100 tools **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lasantha w. | Media Marketer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** We utilize Azure to offer our types of assistance to our clients that work with Microsoft. What I like the most about Azure is its AI apparatuses. Purplish blue is extremely effective with regards to AI There are alternatives to arrange the fundamental settings straightforwardly on the virtual machine sharp edge itself. Furthermore, versatile, ingenious, and is dependable and secure **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** The interface ought to be easier to understand. It is truly confounded for the amateurs. The incomplete windows that open in each progression is befuddling. It will be simpler without the part structure. It's anything but an extraordinary choice for nearby remaining burdens. While you can design it for nearby and cloud reinforcement it is lumbering and the detailing isn't the best. What's more, for the end-client when you don't have a web you will have no entrance to the assets. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** Microsoft Azure is perhaps the best iaa cloud stages that we have utilized ever. You can immediately set up most Windows server applications with a high accessibility.You have options. With a promise to open-source and backing for all dialects and structures, assemble how you need and convey where you need to get security from the beginning, sponsored by a group of specialists and proactive consistence trusted by endeavors, governments, and new businesses **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** My involvement in Azure is by and large great and would prescribe this to other people. Microsoft has an extremely responsive client care ### 3. Easy to use Facial Recognition API **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JJ O. | Systems Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** Azure Face API is an amazing tool because it allows developers to incorporate facial recognition technology in their software without requiring them to know anything about machine learning or computer vision. Developers who already use the Azure platform will be able to use this API within minutes. Simply send the picture(s) you would like to analyze in an API call, and Azure will return information about the faces in that picture as JSON. This is useful for recognizing facial expressions, emotions, and comparing faces. **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** The age estimation feature isn't very accurate yet. However, as time goes on, this will hopefully get better. **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this API for a personal/school project where I wanted to activate a motor when a specific face was recognized. ### 4. Microsoft Azure Face API Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frank N. | Front End Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** It is very easy to use. The documentation is very clear and easy to read. Integrating this API into my applications as well as calling it works flawlessly. The response it gives back is also very easy to use. Overall great API. **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** I honestly have no dislikes, Microsoft API's are always well done and easy to use. I have never had any real problems with using them. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** I recommend just trying it out. Honestly the documentation has everything you need to get it working. Also there are alot of videos and tutorials online that anyone can use. Overall I would definitely recommend anyone that wants to use this to just try it. **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it to solve facial recognition issues with the applications I am trying to use. Ive made countless camera apps and apps to take picture and recognize facial expressions with this API. ### 5. Easy to integrate with small projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** I have integrated the Azure face API with my hackathon application, and it was amazingly simple to follow the instructions. **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** The rate limits and training image dataset limits are little too stringent **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** It is a really good place to start, but if you are planning to use it on a long run, or trying to use with a lot of data, I would not suggest going with this, as there are many other free APIs available **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to build an application to help people with Alzheimers to recognize their friends and family ### 6. Decent **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** It is at least functional and helps a lot. I see myself using at least twice a week and I can't really find a replacement for this program. Has at least basic functions needed **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** That it doesn't have all the functions needed. Sometimes it would just not work and freeze on me. Also, it can be a bit buggy and I would have to find a different solution to it. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** I would possibly recommend this to others if they can't find a better program and is in desperate need of this kind of software. However, if there were to be a better program, then I would not. **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** That it doesn't have all the functions needed. It also just doesn't have the top performance that we need. ### 7. Azure Face API - Simple API to Face Recognition **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** 1.This application was made easy to integrate with other applications. 2. Reduced error rates on facial recognition for men and women of darker complexion. **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** 1. Bad quality images or images at an angle still had issues with identifying faces. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** Use this API over others if you need to identify people with darker complexion! **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team and I used this API to implement emotion recognition for in store customers when they are looking at a certain item. Based on this, we analyzed the correlation between facial emotions and the likelihood of a customer buying a certain product. The biggest benefit I saw in using the Azure Face API is that it returns the confidence across a set of emotions for each face in the image. ### 8. Azure Face API **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** The idea that it could detect a person's age and gender is interesting in itself, but the aspect I find most intriguing is how it can detect human emotions. Using this Face API can be beneficial to many companies. **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** It cannot detect faces in videos. The maximum size of an image is 4MB. I think there should be more than 27 facial landmarks. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** Definitely keep an eye out for the "preview pricing" when using Azure Face API. **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** A business can use this for customers who create accounts and upload their profile image to reduce the possibility of creating duplicate accounts. This can be beneficial to optimize database storage space when too many duplicate accounts could be created by multiple users. ### 9. Azure Face API - Simple API to Face Recognition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sujith N. | Technology Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** 1. Easy to integrate with any application 2. Relatively cheaper and simple code that can be effectively used for our applications 3. Comparison efficiency is much better **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** 1. Image with a lesser quality would face a lower confidence score 2. Results should be available in a more user friendly manner **Recommendations to others considering Azure Face API:** Definitely this is an upcoming area for the Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. Will definitely recommend to all developers to try this once as Microsoft provides a 30 day trial for these services which will help us to understand the scope and level of usage of these services for our applications.These services are really useful for applications which have validations of images/ photos against any id proofs or to search image against social accounts of the specific user. In Face API services itself, there are group based and person based api's which also can be useful when we have multiple photos of the same person to be stored and need to compare against list . **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apps for Staff recruitment firm. When a user uploads his/her id proof , it is validated against the user's profile pic which will avoid the manual intervention of getting these validations. ### 10. API for Face Recognition **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** 1. Easy integration 2. Very cheap and easy to code to merge with your application 3. Very efficient **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** 1. Need high quality image for good results 2. Need certain technical knowledge to understand results **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing photos submitted by users to photos found online to validate original images versus stock images. ### 11. I like the idea! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric M. | End User Support/Product Specialist, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** How it can obviously detect your face but I love how it can detect similar faces. Makes it fun not just a security api. **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** That it's a work in progress. Not the best yet but it'll get there. **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** Convenience. Good while driving or if your hands are tied to unlock your phone. ### 12. Recognition ahead of its time **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Face API?** Clear, spot on and easy to use with several processes **What do you dislike about Azure Face API?** Can be slow at times and decrease productivity rates **What problems is Azure Face API solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee verification - [View Azure Face API pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-face-api/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-13+23%3A43%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=009feab9-c6c7-42f9-afb3-ac88652f7f62&secure%5Btoken%5D=408a7b15c2ad1c8e39fc23b7b78dfe7e994d4b86b51e9075c27a46b02f248f04&format=llm_user) ## Azure Face API Features **Recognition Type** - Emotion Detection - Object Detection - Text Detection - Motion Analysis - Scene Reconstruction - Logo Detection - Explicit Content Detection - Video Detection **Facial Recognition** - Facial Analysis - Face Comparison **Labeling** - Model Training - Bounding Boxes - Custom Image Detection **Deployment** - Integrations ## Top Azure Face API Alternatives - [OpenCV](https://www.g2.com/products/opencv/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (40 reviews) - [Google Cloud Vision API](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-vision-api/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (83 reviews) - [Amazon Rekognition](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-rekognition/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (28 reviews)