Microsoft Azure AI Face vs Amazon Rekognition: Which is Better in 2026?

• Face detection and analysis
• Face verification
• Face identification
• Liveness detection
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• Face liveness
• Face detection and analysis
• Custom labels
• Text detection
• Face compare and search
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Azure AI Face (part of Microsoft's Azure AI Vision suite) provides prebuilt facial recognition and liveness-detection APIs for verifying identity without requiring in-house ML expertise. It is billed on a consumption basis, charged per transaction.

Amazon Rekognition is an AWS machine-learning service for image and video analysis, including face detection, comparison, and search alongside object and text recognition. It is billed pay-as-you-go per image or video analyzed, aimed at developers who need computer-vision features without training custom models.