Reason to use AI Builder instead of Azure Form Recognition

[VeGETzX]

Hello, Expert.

I have been researching something about OCR / Document AI for a while.

And I found out that AI Builder and Azure Form Recognition functionality was about the same.

Some thing that most different is "The Price"

AI Builder (Form Processing) will cost 500$ per 2000 pages (which is ridiculously expensive for most customer in my country)

Instead, Azure Form will cost 100$ per 2000 pages which is reasonable.

So, which situation I should pay 5x expensive to use AI Builder when I can call Azure Form Recognition from Power Automate and get the same results.

Thank you in advance. 

[plarrue · Accepted solution]

Hi @VeGETzX 

Thanks for posting this question.

You can find some answers in our FAQ

• AI Builder is part of Microsoft Power Platform. This enables anyone to add AI into apps and automation with an easy-to-use interface. You don't need to be a developer or data scientist.

• Azure Form Recognizer is targeted to professional developers. They can use simple REST APIs to add AI capabilities to their custom code solutions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/form-processing-faq#what-is-the-difference-between-ai-bu... 

Hope it helps

[VeGETzX]

Got it, Now I will go with Azure Form Recognition

Thanks for super quick response!

[takolota]

@VeGETzX @plarrue 

So I built this template that processes any document just using the less expensive image recognition AI Builder service & GPT.

It seems much less expensive with a much lower barrier to entry only requiring a premium Power Automate license with 5000 AI Builder credits per month & some on-going LLM / GPT costs…

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Cookbook/Extract-Data-From-PDFs-and-Images-With-G...

If I’m looking at this right, this method should cost 

Image recognition +.0017

GPT prompt & output +.007

Flow actions +.00375

So about $ .013 per page.

Less expensive than any of the other microsoft document/receipt/invoice processing options. And several of those take about 30 seconds to run. 
And the 5000 AI Builder credits that come with the now $15 premium Power Automate license is enough for 1500 Image recognition pages. So you could probably process 500-750 documents per month with just 1 premium Power Automate license.

So it seems this method is faster, less expensive, easier to adjust, & requires less set-up than other standard AI builder set-ups.

Once the GPT actions are in general availability, I don’t know why I’d use any of the other services. 🤷‍