Reason to use AI Builder instead of Azure Form Recognition

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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.

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plarrue Microsoft Employee on at

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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-builder-document-processing-and-azure-form-recognizer

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VeGETzX 367 on at

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Got it, Now I will go with Azure Form Recognition

Thanks for super quick response!

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takolota1 4,980 Moderator on at

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@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-GPT/td-p/2201345/page/4

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. 🤷‍

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