Google Cloud Vision API vs MaxCDN: What are the differences?

What is Google Cloud Vision API? Understand the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models. Google Cloud Vision API enables developers to understand the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models in an easy to use REST API.

What is MaxCDN? Our CDN makes your site load faster!. The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.

Google Cloud Vision API can be classified as a tool in the "Image Analysis API" category, while MaxCDN is grouped under "Content Delivery Network".

Some of the features offered by Google Cloud Vision API are:

• Powerful Image Analysis
• Insight From Your Images
• Detect Inappropriate Content

On the other hand, MaxCDN provides the following key features:

• We Make You Fast- With our fast-growing network of multiple PoP locations in all parts of the globe, we mirror your content and deliver it to the neared location to your visitors. It isn't just our network that is fast, but with our state-of-art hardware, fast RAM and SSD storage, content is served at lightning fast speeds.
• We Have Your Back- To ensure that you do not have any downtime, we have deployed redundant networks and intelligent routing that ensures selecting an alternative route if a network pathway is down.
• We Help You Rank- Using MaxCDN will help you improve your website speed, and since this is now a ranking factor used by Google and other search engines for deciding search results, deploying MaxCDN will help you rank better, giving you more traffic.

"Image Recognition " is the primary reason why developers consider Google Cloud Vision API over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking MaxCDN.

Postman, Accenture, and Stack Exchange are some of the popular companies that use MaxCDN, whereas Google Cloud Vision API is used by Buzzvil, Evergreen, and Atrium. MaxCDN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1050 company stacks & 547 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud Vision API, which is listed in 39 company stacks and 68 developer stacks.