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Azure AI Foundry vs Prem Studio comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure AI Foundry
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Low-Code Development Platforms (10th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (10th), AI-Agent Builders (3rd)
Prem Studio
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
18th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
1.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (22nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Sudhakar Pyndi - PeerSpot reviewer
Data, Analytics & Ai Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Document processing has accelerated contract reviews and enabled rapid development of AI-driven supply chain solutions
With regard to security, compliance, or governance features in Azure AI Foundry, this is something that we have started looking into, primarily using Microsoft Purview for our governance, data governance. There is this new module called DSPM for AI, and we are exploring it while trying to operationalize it with different policies and so forth, but we're still not where we want to be on the governance, AI governance side. It's a process and a path, and we are trying to work through that right now. Azure AI Foundry can be improved from the governance perspective, as a lot can be done. The promising part is the recent announcement on the Foundry control plane. A couple of days back, there was an announcement regarding it bringing in some of the gaps that were on the platform, so it's a really positive direction in terms of where it's going. More governance is what is lacking, but the control plane will really play a big role there.
reviewer2760291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of AI at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has accelerated AI solution development through automated evaluation and fine-tuning
Prem Studio allowed me to easily automate and solve the complicated problem of exploring and identifying the best AI architecture for our problems. Prem Studio has a straightforward yet powerful approach to evaluate disparate AI architectures on our business problems and to accurately fine-tune the most promising ones. This significantly reduced time-to-market, almost by a factor of ten in my case, for solutions tailored and optimized for customer requirements and KPIs.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The benefit of using Azure AI Foundry for the organization is saving time, so saving time and then making money—now that we have this, many people were not doing this because it took them so long to do that research, that has been fixed."
"Azure AI Foundry makes it very straightforward, as I do not have to write thousands of lines of code; I rely on GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry."
"The features of Azure AI Foundry that I appreciate the most include the model catalog and the capability to deploy all of these different models, especially now that they've added Anthropic, which was the big one that was missing."
"In my evaluation process, I found that Microsoft Azure AI Foundry is much more accessible compared to AWS on model selection and the capabilities of using Document Intelligence versus Textract were much better."
"What I appreciate most about Azure AI Foundry is that for a single agent flow, the platform provides the ability to build agents quickly, which demonstrates the ease of use for a single agent workflow."
"The most beneficial feature of Azure AI Foundry for enhancing customer experience is the ability to use Azure Functions to call things outside of Azure AI Foundry, making it more comprehensive as a feature."
"With Document Intelligence, we just went through Foundry, enabled Document Intelligence, and we were able to get everything done in less than 90 days for the complete end-to-end solution we built on that."
"Azure AI Foundry has affected our management of privacy, performance, and compliance primarily based on our location in the UK, where it is more focused on the region in terms of where that data is being processed and who has access to it, which is hopefully no one other than us."
"The dataset management feature and the managed finetuning are the most valuable because they save the most time."
 

Cons

"My experience with deploying Azure AI Foundry is that, at this point in time, given the limited capabilities available in Foundry, we built pro-code agents, hosted them, containerized them, and deployed them."
"Azure AI Foundry can be improved by adding educational features."
"I would evaluate customer service and technical support as terrible. Whenever I have to reach out to customer support, I end up waiting sometimes days for a response, and our 24-hour response time often turns into three to five days."
"In Azure AI Foundry, I did not see many tools inside to test it that can really help us. I wish there were more tooling."
"Even though I have only been utilizing Azure AI Foundry for the past four months, I think the understanding between Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry is still somewhat unclear regarding which one to use when and why, and how they complement each other is a journey we are currently undertaking."
"Azure AI Foundry could be improved with better integration within all the other tools from Microsoft."
"Right now, because of the UI and the complexity of it, it is complicated and cumbersome, and I think figuring out how to simplify that would probably make it a faster process."
"For Azure AI Foundry, there is no actual clear pricing structure, which can be confusing for customers to understand, as every feature that you activate has its own price, and it is not very clear sometimes to define the pricing."
"The inference should be faster."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Retailer
12%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise13
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure AI Foundry?
I would need to ask my technical team about my experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing.
What needs improvement with Azure AI Foundry?
The platform's effect on my management of privacy, performance, and compliance across different regions is quite complex because Azure AI Foundry does not make it very clear how to deploy. We set u...
What is your primary use case for Azure AI Foundry?
My main use cases for Azure AI Foundry include deploying AI applications to perform document comparison, translation services, and a chat feature, helping the digital AI team at our company. Curren...
What is your primary use case for Prem Studio?
I use Prem Studio to finetune LLM models so that they answer the way I want.
 

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