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openva / richmondsunlight.com

The Richmond Sunlight website.
https://www.richmondsunlight.com/
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Find a new facial recognition API #104

Open waldoj opened 7 years ago

waldoj commented 7 years ago

After Face.com was acquired by Facebook, that left the site with no facial recognition API. Amazon has one, but it runs $1 per 1,000 images, which is steep. (I mean, maybe not in the abstract, but it's expensive for a site without a budget.) Maybe use it, but at a low frequency, and perhaps only for the Senate (because of their non-persistent chyrons)?

waldoj commented 7 years ago

Azure runs $1.50 per 1,000 images, but they have a free API that allows 30,000 transactions per month, capped at 20 per minute. (The purpose of paying is to run up to 10 transactions per second.)

waldoj commented 7 years ago

Kairos is free, capped at 25 transactions per minute and 1,500/day, for unlimited transactions.

waldoj commented 7 years ago

Lambda Labs allows 1,000/month for free, at $0.0024 for each additional query (or $2.40 per 1,000).