# Google Cloud Vision API Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Image Recognition Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/image-recognition) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 83 ## About Google Cloud Vision API Detect and classify multiple objects, images, and more using Google Cloud's pre-trained Vision API or custom trained Vision AutoML. Google Cloud's Vision AI helps developers easily leverage the power of machine learning to understand images with industry-leading prediction accuracy. ## Google Cloud Vision API Reviews ### 1. My Review of Google's Vision API **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Badal O. | Member of Technical Staff, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** we are using vision API in a project where we have to know the foods nutritions value so we get the food name by Image recognition API and then calculate its nutritions as per food contents. It is very easy to integrate it with our application and the api response time is also very fast.The models use by vision API are sone of the best models in Image recognition field. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** For low quality image it sometime give wrong answer as some food has same colour. It does not provide us to customize or train the model for our specific use case. Configuration part is complex, which can be improved. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using vision API for recognition of food so that we can get its content and then calculate its nutrition. In our testing with other Image recognition service, vision API has outperform most of the models. The cutting edge models of google are easily available at affordable price, which helps in quick implementation of use cases. In our other use cases we are using OCR for text detection and object detection to detect objects and label them in a image. ### 2. Google Cloud Vision API: Powerful and Easy-to-Use, But Lacks Customization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shabbir M. | Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** The Vision API makes it super easy to add powerful image analysis and processing capabilities to applications without needing machine learning expertise. There are simple REST and RPC APIs for tasks like label detection, facial recognition, OCR, and more. Pre-trained models. Google provides access to state-of-the-art pretrained models like AutoML Vision or custom Vision models. This means you can get great results without having to train and tune models yourself. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** Can't deploy models on-premise/offline. The models are accessed over API so an active connection to Google Cloud is required. This limits use cases for apps/device that need offline CV support. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Vision API gives any developer access to complex machine perception technologies like image labeling, text extraction, facial recognition etc. without needing ML expertise. This democratizes cutting-edge vision capabilities. It provides easy horizontal scaling to process huge volumes of image/video data on Google Cloud. I don't have to worry about infrastructure constraints. It can scale to my needs seamlessly. ### 3. The Power and Limits of Google Cloud Vision API: A Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zaid M. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** The Vision API provides access to incredibly powerful pre-trained machine learning models that can analyze images and video. This means you don't have to train your own models from scratch. The capabilities are very extensive, including label detection, facial recognition, object localization, text recognition (OCR), landmark recognition and more. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** The Vision API exclusively provides access to Google's pre-trained models. There is no ability for users to train or customize models on their own dataset. This limits flexibility for business-specific image recognition needs. Users have very little control or configurability over the provided models and how predictions/analysis is done. It is essentially a black box, which some may not like. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building accurate computer vision models requires significant machine learning expertise and large datasets which I lack. Vision API gives ready-to-use models saving huge development effort. Integrating the Vision API speeds up development cycle massively compared to training my own models. I can launch new features leveraging its capabilities much quicker. ### 4. Elated to share review on google ai products **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vritika M. | Rotaract Club Member , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** The best in google cloud api is that without familarity of machine learning we can easily make use of image recognition. I especially implemented this in my project where label detection and optical character recognition are needed.It just improved my project performance very well . The integration with cloud platform helped me train my model. Initially for using this api i refered to youtube and user manual for support.Summing up my experience with google cloud vision api is great! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** Since every product has its own downsides so does this api. One is we cannot use this great product offline other is there are only limited pre-trained models as it has little room for customization. Well cost is pay as you go which i would suggest to give users atleast 2months of free trail instead of 1 month. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Google Cloud Vision API for a project that required image recognition and classification into emergency and non-emergency categories also including OCR (Optical Character recognition). This greatly helped me out because it reduced the amount of time I had to spend training and labeling the photos. The correctness of my project also improved greatly.Overall, I've had a fantastic experience utilizing the Google Vision API. This also helped me place third in the project expo contest. ### 5. Builds more security with facial recognition features. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaushal S. | Social Media Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** My favorite part is that with the introduction of Google Cloud Vision API, it has helped various government-related websites and secured platforms to integrate video recognition and face recognition in order to be more secure and provide security to the customers and safeguard their data. It has also helped many private businesses with video and face recognition features to build more security in their platforms and apps. I am a part of a company that works in payment gateway services and it has helped our company in the integration of face recognition features and video recognition to be more safe and secure our customer's data. It has also helped in detecting labels from images to get the required information. It has helped in optical character recognition in scanned documents to verify it. The ease of use and implementation of images are fast and it can provide alot of information based on the image. We are currently exploring its full potential and using it daily to improve the efficiency of our business. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** No limitations or disadvantages according to me, because it has helped in image label detection, provides safe search, and integrates facial recognition and character recognition features to provide security and safeguard the personal data of customers. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped our business in implementing facial recognition features and character recognition from the images. It has also helped in image label detection and getting the required information from the images. It has helped in building more data security with document recognition features in order to do business and provide services safely to customers. ### 6. OCR at it's best **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devendra T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** it is very help ful to filter the data like images or documents in our website with out human attention **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** I like it because it is recognising and detecting the sensitive content on my website really cool. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our website we have one feature called house vacancy posting there we need to make sure people are not posting sensitive content before the post it this api is helping us to find out any sensitive content is there or not. ### 7. Google Cloud Vision API **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kunal D. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** Most helpful things I have experienced about this particular Vision API tool from Google is its detection feature integration in our Deep and Machine learning projects. It's API helping us to detect of any objects and label them with human understanding and form a machine learning model. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** Least helpful as such nothing ancountered till now. Cause my our limited uses or features of this Google API. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** OCR ### 8. OCR is awesome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manoj C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** It is easy to filter the data like images and documents through our website instead of using human requirement. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** It is really great that it recongizes and detects sensitive data on our website **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** House vacancy posting is a addon feature to our website which will make people not to post sensitive data before posting. this can be detected by using the api ### 9. Review: Google Cloud Vision **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vatsal G. | Member - Placement committee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** I like protobuf light weight protocol for light weight and fast transmission of payload and response. regarding APIs there is ease of use, implementation and integration is there. features provied are also ok, but in some cases AWS service was doing better than google API. So there needs to be some work done on improving the accuracy. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** I dislike the video labelling api as its very costly. Internaly it uses video segmentation only so it should be not that much costly. in a direrent service, in google ads account Customer Support was of no help. Bsically If someone is creating a google ads account for the first time then there shoud be a progress tracker with them and they should be able to see where is the client stuck. basically ease of implementation and integration is not there. **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud vision API is trying to provide the features related to image. like labels, colors, objects detection, face recognition, optical character recogition, logo detection, etc. We use it for object detction and celebrities recognition. First of all if someone is using their own model for object detection or any of the common requirements, then it requires a lot of computation power, data set and a really skilled team. with google's vision api which is at an affordable cost, reduced the overall cost and most importantly carbon footprint. Vision API helps us in reducing the manpower to build a feature and helps us in launching the product very quickly, which very crucial for an early stage startup. ### 10. Facial HealthCare using Google Cloud Vision API **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Palash D. | Student, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?** I was doing a research over a topic Facial HealthCare using AI ML which brought my attention to the Google cloud Vision API. Eventually we had a plan to bring computer vision in our use case and this Tool / API is a perfect fit for our problem statement Hence the smooth recognition of facial features expressions and emotions help us know the Facial Health of a person **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?** Having A lot Configuration, Our cluster of configuration were very difficult to achieve. Making the Tool more user friendly would be my honest opinion **What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved a multiple problems, like if a person has been to a doctor online on a video conference or one to one meet , he/she can get to know more about a person medical age, skin pigmentation and saturated bloodstream, also the tool help to find white spots or pale skin on the face which brought us closer in accuracy to know about a persons medical health overall ## Google Cloud Vision API Pricing - **Free Trial**: Free Trial Charges are incurred per image. For files with multiple pages, such as PDF files, each page is treated as an individual image. Each feature applied to an image is a billable unit. - **Standard Pricing**: Pay As You Go Charges are incurred per image. For files with multiple pages, such as PDF files, each page is treated as an individual image. Each feature applied to an image is a billable unit. The more units are evaluated using features below the less you pay per unit within a month. [View full pricing details](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-vision-api/pricing) ## Google Cloud Vision API Features **Recognition Type** - Emotion Detection - Object Detection - Text Detection - Motion Analysis - Scene Reconstruction - Logo Detection - Explicit Content Detection - Video Detection **Facial Recognition** - Facial Analysis - Face Comparison **Labeling** - Model Training - Bounding Boxes - Custom Image Detection **Deployment** - Integrations ## Top Google Cloud Vision API Alternatives - [Clarifai](https://www.g2.com/products/clarifai/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (66 reviews) - [Microsoft Computer Vision API](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-computer-vision-api/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (48 reviews) - [OpenCV](https://www.g2.com/products/opencv/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (39 reviews)