Azure Cognitive services for sentiment analysis in Power BI

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I am trying to use Azure Cognitive services for sentiment analysis in Power BI.

There is a free version that will allow you send 5000 calls per month to the Text Analytics API.Azure free account is only available to new customers. Mine 12 months free subscription is over.

So It is asking to upgrade to a "Pay-As-You-Go" subscription with card details.

Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks.

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , I think you get a free quota every month post that you will be charged.

Please find more details at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/cognitive-services/

Credit card details are needed for most of the azure services even if they are free. That is validate user and charge the paid usages

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous - I think that just because your Azure free account is asking for credit info that if you post it, you will not necessarily be charged if you are using an otherwise free service. For example, Azure Data Catalog,  you could use that and not get charged for it even if you are on pay-as-you-go.