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# Google Cloud Natural Language API Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/natural-language-understanding-nlu)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 111
## About Google Cloud Natural Language API
Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning.



## Google Cloud Natural Language API Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users value the **database upload capability** of Google Cloud Natural Language API, enhancing decision-making in healthcare services. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **efficient data handling** of Google Cloud Natural Language API, enhancing decision-making in healthcare services. (1 reviews)
- Users love the **database upload support** of Google Cloud Natural Language API, enhancing decision-making in various applications. (1 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users find the **interface not user-friendly** , making it difficult to understand and effectively utilize the API. (1 reviews)

## Google Cloud Natural Language API Reviews
  ### 1. BEWARE OF PRICING. 

**Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Natural Language API?**

The classifications are extremely accurate and the premise behind the service is exciting. I would love this service if not for the absurd pricing. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Natural Language API?**

The pricing is a complete ripoff. They allow you to submit HTML-based content to be classified, so naturally one would want to submit a webpage to be classified.

Unfortunately, the pricing works as follows: It's ≈ $2 per 1M unicode characters.

An average webpage can easily stretch into the hundreds of thousands of unicode characters. Most of that is junk that you can strip out on your own, like css and html tags. But they apparently don't strip this out, as they let me blow through $500 worth of credits by classifying a few hundred webpages. 

For reference, this is about as expensive as getting a human to do that work. You could probably pay a human $10 / hour to classify webpages for you, and they could probably get through at least 60 web pages an hour. So ≈ $1 / 6 web pages. W/ google it's $1 for 5-10 web pages, since each webpage is hundreds of thousands of unicode characters. 

It's an *api call*, the marginal cost here is extremely low and there is a completely obvious solution here, which is to STRIP OUT HTML TAGS. You can do this in a few lines of python code. 

It would be nice if: 1/ they sent you actual billing alerts to let you know that you are quickly running through credits, and 2/ if they didn't count obvious 'junk' characters towards your billing. 

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Natural Language API:**

Be careful of billing and carefully strip out all html/code from any webpage you want classified. Really sad that google is willing to nickel and dime you over something with extremely low marginal cost to them. 

**What problems is Google Cloud Natural Language API solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Trying to understand the content classification of a set of web pages. 



- [View Google Cloud Natural Language API pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-natural-language-api/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+10%3A59%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bc3635a2-ccc6-412d-9c77-98fd46f6a7a1&secure%5Btoken%5D=ac77d9e8ab14bd0c69285830dd1506b7a28ba6c5969d848307f46e6e02abdf3f&format=llm_user)
## Google Cloud Natural Language API Integrations
  - [Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Center Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/five9-intelligent-cloud-contact-center-platform/reviews)
  - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews)

## Google Cloud Natural Language API Features
**Additional Functionality**
- Tagging
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Extraction
- Multi-Language
- Predictive Analytics
- Drag & Drop
- Speech Recognition
- Reporting/Analytics
- Data Storage Management
- Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA)
- AI Copilot
- Customer Segmentation
- Collaboration Tools
- Data Import/Export
- Generative AI
- For eCommerce
- Role-Based Permissions
- Customizable Branding
- Search/Filter
- Monitoring
- Document Management
- API
- Data Visualization
- Trend Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Alerts/Escalation
- Performance Metrics
- Real-Time Data
- Third-Party Integrations
- Mobile App
- Multiple Data Sources
- For Sales Teams/Organizations
- Sentiment Analysis
- Activity Dashboard
- Chatbot
- Workflow Automation

**Algorithm**
- Part of Speech Tagging
- Summarization
- Named Entity Recognition
- Sentiment Analysis
- Emotion Detection
- Language Detection

**Setup**
- Integration
- Maintenance
- No-Code
- Third-Party Integrations

**System**
- Data Ingestion & Wrangling
- Programming Language Support
- Drag and Drop
- Pre-Built Algorithms
- Customizable Models

**Data**
- Security
- Data Visualization
- Real-Time Data
- Visual Analytics

**Analysis**
- Automation
- Named entity recognition
- Keyphrase Extraction
- Topic Analysis
- Sentiment Analysis
- Language Identification
- Syntax/Part of Speech Parsing
- Multi-Language
- Trend Analysis
- Text Analysis
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Statistical Analysis
- User Research Analysis
- Ad hoc Analysis
- Quantitative Analysis

**Customization**
- Pre-Built Parameterization
- Custom Extension
- Compositionality

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization
- Generative AI

**Additional Functionality**
- Monitoring
- Activity Tracking
- Data Collection
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Predictive Analytics
- Computer Assisted Coding
- Activity Dashboard
- Real-Time Analytics
- AI Copilot
- Reporting & Statistics
- Data Import/Export
- Mixed Methods Research
- Website Analytics
- Multimedia Support
- Media Analytics
- Categorization/Grouping
- Data Storage Management
- Feedback Management
- Tagging
- Collaboration Tools
- Single Sign On
- Drag & Drop
- Annotations
- Customizable Branding
- Data Coding
- Multiple Data Sources
- API
- Search/Filter
- Customizable Reports

## Top Google Cloud Natural Language API Alternatives
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