--- description: Review of Azure AI Search Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Azure AI Search | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software](/directory/4360/artificial-intelligence/software) > [Azure AI Search](/software/496780/Azure-Cognitive-Services) # Azure AI Search Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/496780/Azure-Cognitive-Services Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/496780/Azure-Cognitive-Services?page=2) > Azure AI Search is a fully managed, cloud-based enterprise search and knowledge retrieval solution that helps businesses across industries find and surface relevant information from large volumes of data. It is suited for small, mid-size, and enterprise organizations in sectors such as retail, finance, healthcare, and technology. Azure AI Search supports cloud-based deployment, making it accessible without on-premises infrastructure. Core features include full-text search, AI-powered indexing, filtering, faceted navigation, and vector search capabilities, which help users locate precise information quickly across structured and unstructured content. Businesses can integrate it with existing data sources and applications through a set of developer-friendly APIs. Support is available via Microsoft's documentation and knowledge base, community forums, and paid support plans that include email and phone assistance. > > Verdict: Rated **4.0/5** by 6 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.0/5** | 6 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Microsoft - **Location**: Redmond, US - **Founded**: 1975 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing Details**: Contact Microsoft for pricing information. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Nepali, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh - **Available Countries**: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark and 69 more ## Features - API - Generative AI - Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing - Speech Recognition ## Integrations (2 total) - Python - Zoho Mail ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4360/artificial-intelligence/software) ## Related Categories - [Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4360/artificial-intelligence/software) - [Enterprise Search Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4368/enterprise-search/software) ## Reviews ### "Excellent AI Based Azure Service for enabling digital intelligence to modern apps" — 4.0/5 > **Navjot** | *26 October 2021* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Azure cognitive services exposes a bunch of super powerful APIs for Vision, Speech, Language \& Intelligent Decision making. Through these services we can leverage the powerful features of AI and Machine Learning without having any specific or generic knowledge on the same. > > **Cons**: I think this is a costly software whose cost need to be reduced for dev \& UAT environments use. > > Actually we wanted to read the Image files using the RPA software's but it was not giving accurate info .Hence we tried for the Azure Cognitive service - Computer vision for recognizing the individual images and read its attribute and texts. It really surprised us by giving the best results\!\!\! ----- ### "congratulation Azure Cognitive Services" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *14 May 2023* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: i like it's simple,interesting,encouraging and cheapness while using for my projects management and creation > > **Cons**: low advertising rate as it is known by less in the globe and is helpful to friends and the whole society > > it very grateful, look out:google search omoronton ----- ### "Azure review" — 1.0/5 > **Michael** | *7 September 2022* | Plastics | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: I can't say I did like this software. What I can say is I'm glad there was a free trial > > **Cons**: It was difficult to get used to the interface. ----- ### "Best Text 2 Speech service" — 5.0/5 > **Usman** | *13 April 2022* | Staffing & Recruiting | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Microsoft Azure Text to Speech is a must-have tool for me. It helps me a lot. It has more than 120 voices and variants for customization of voice. > > **Cons**: Azure Text to Speech is a pretty good tool. It converts any text to the Desired voice that is available. > > The experience working on Azure Text to Speech is Good. It is quite fast and easy to convert a paragraph to a speech. ----- ### "A good environment to get started with ML" — 4.0/5 > **Thien** | *13 April 2022* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Azure cognitive services come with a large selection of pre-built ML and AI tools that make it extremely simple to do machine learning simply with drag and drop movements. You can also easily sync your projects across devices and developers by utilizing OneDrive. > > **Cons**: For some hourly billed services, the cost may escalate pretty quickly and so and you have to be careful. Although the menu of tools is very big, a lot of those tools are locked by default and there is really no other solution but to contact the customer support to ask them to unlock the services for you. I had really thought that there probably were some issues with my subscription that prevent me from using those services and wasted a lot of time trying to figure them out on my end . ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/496780/Azure-Cognitive-Services?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/496780/Azure-Cognitive-Services) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data