Migrating from Vertex AI?

Looking for an alternative to Vertex AI? Nyckel functions train in seconds (not hours), model deployment is free, and inference calls start at $0.005 per invoke.

Function Types

Nyckel is built around atomic ML functions with different types of inputs and outputs. Each function is fully supported by our API, and requires no ML knowledge to train.

Input

Output

Examples

Input

What type of data do
you want to use?

Image

Text

Tabular

Output

What would you like to
do with your data?

Classify

Detect

OCR

Back

Text Classification

Train a function to categorize text data. Learn more >>

Text Search

Create a gallery of text data. Search the gallery using images or text. Learn more >>

Image Classification

Train a function to categorize images. Learn more >>

Image Search

Create a gallery of images. Search the gallery using images or text. Learn more >>

Image OCR

Extract text from images. Learn more >>

Object Detection

Train a function to detect objects in images. Learn more >>

Image Detection

Train a function to find the location and size of objects in an image using labels you provide. Learn more >>

Tabular Classification

Train a function to categorize tabular data. Learn more >>

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Stories From Some of Our Customers

Machine Learning Doesn't Have to Be That Hard

"After moving to Nyckel, our average content moderation time went down 3x, auto moderation coverage increased 4x, and accuracy improved to 96%!"

Vladislav Yavorskyi

Moderation Manager, Taimi

"Creating a custom spam filter with Nyckel was wonderful. We finally got rid of spam profiles that were draining our site ranking, bothering customers, and giving us a general headache!"

Peter Swan

CEO, Gust

"Our Nyckel-powered 'magic' camera is a game highlight. And bringing it up was so easy! I went from creating a Nyckel account to a working prototype in literally ten minutes!"

Gwyn Morfey

Tech Lead, SPYSCAPE

"AI-powered auto-moderation allowed quicker release of content to our public repository of credit card charges, driving a 4x increase in Ad revenue."

Jeremy Schneider

Co-founder, WTC

"We have been using Nyckel for image spam filtering since their early beta. Their accuracy and ease of use is unmatched! We went from nothing to production in just one week."

Joao Palacio

Tech Lead, Foregon

"When we launched our US site, we had tons of spam issues. With Nyckel we had a model set up to stop spammers in minutes and it was a breeze."

Ryan O’Connell

CTO, Humanitix

"Nyckel has given me the freedom and flexibility to build AI categorization into my SaaS with a few simple APIs calls."

Roman Rose

Founder, DashedAI

"If you have been considering adding ML to your web app but have been put off by the prospect -- too difficult, too costly, too time-consuming -- just try Nyckel. You won't look back."

William Zeller

CTO, Academic Endocrinology

Why Nyckel?

Nyckel is optimized for non ML experts that want to ship ML features quickly.

Use our UI to quickly develop a POC, and then integrate via our API.

Nyckel

Vertex AI

Technology

Nyckel

Automatic re-train and re-deploy on any data changes.
Elastic deploy infra.

Vertex AI

Training and deploy only on user request.
Static deploy infra.

Pricing

Nyckel

Free train & deploy. Elastic pricing per invoke, starting at $50/month.

Vertex AI

Training ~$20 / model.
Deploy: >$1000 / model / month.

Time to POC

Nyckel

Minutes. Train first model in second. Review model predictions directly in UI.

Vertex AI

Hours. Wait 3-5 hours for first model to train. No ability to review predictions in UI.

Performance

Nyckel

Accuracy exceeding Vertex AI in benchmarks.

Vertex AI

Accuracy trailing Nyckel in benchmarks.

Nyckel in 60 Seconds

Train your own hosted Machine Learning model in just a few minutes. The model is instantly deployed and ready to be integrated in your application.

Explore Our API

Train your function through the UI, then call it through the API. Or do everything through the API.

Explore the API

Learn More on Our Blog

AutoML benchmark: Nyckel vs Google vs Huggingface

A comparison of accuracy, training times, and invoke latencies for three major AutoML engines

A top 3% score in the Kaggle Titanic Challenge using Transformers

In this post we show how to make a top 3% submission on the Kaggle Titanic Challenge using Transformers

Introducing Nyckel Image Search Functions

Nyckel Image Search functions enable cross-modal semantic search of images and text using the latest Deep Learning technology. Get started with a few simple API commands.

Custom AI-Assisted Content Moderation

Online communities need content moderation to thrive, but the diversity of the internet is not fully served by general purpose content moderation APIs. We lay out the need for custom AI-assisted content moderation, look at what such a moderation pipeline would look like, and show how Nyckel makes it significantly easier to build such a pipeline.

Whac-a-Spammer - How to Deal with Bots on Your Site

Bots posting content to your site can be a scourge. Stay one step ahead of them with these tips, tools, and tricks.

Building a Recommender system using the Nyckel API.

We break down the components of a Recommender system and show how ot set this up using the Nyckel API.

Pricing

Not sure if Nyckel is right for you? Give it a try today!

Open sign-ups
Always-free tier
First month free
No data lock-in

Development

Free

max 1,000 invokes / month

First 1,000 invokes included
Upgrade for more usage

*Invokes: $0

**Samples: $0 /month

Limits

Functions: 10 /account

Classification

Samples: 5,000 /function

Labels: 20 /function

Search

Samples: 5,000 /function

Detection

Samples: 50 /function

Production

$50

min spend / month

Usage for first $50 included
Overage billed per item

*Invokes: $0.005

**Samples: $0.0025 /month

Limits

Functions: 1,000 /account

Classification

Samples: 10,000 /function

Labels: 50 /function

Search

Samples: 1,000,000 /function

Detection

Samples: 100 /function

Growth

$500

min spend / month

Usage for first $500 included
Overage billed per item

*Invokes: $0.001

**Samples: $0.0005 /month

Limits

Functions: 10,000 /account

Classification

Samples: 25,000 /function

Labels: 200 /function

Search

Samples: 10,000,000 /function

Detection

Samples: 500 /function

Enterprise

Custom

Need more? Learn how we can scale with your business

* Invokes refer to POSTS to the /invoke, /search, or /locate endpoints.

** Samples refer to training data added to functions via the /samples endpoint for classification, search, or detection.

Migrating from Vertex AI?

Function Types

Input

Output

Text Classification

Text Search

Image Classification

Image Search

Image OCR

Object Detection

Image Detection

Tabular Classification

Machine Learning Doesn't Have to Be That Hard

Why Nyckel?

Nyckel in 60 Seconds

Explore Our API

Learn More on Our Blog

AutoML benchmark: Nyckel vs Google vs Huggingface

A top 3% score in the Kaggle Titanic Challenge using Transformers

Introducing Nyckel Image Search Functions

Custom AI-Assisted Content Moderation

Whac-a-Spammer - How to Deal with Bots on Your Site

Building a Recommender system using the Nyckel API.

Pricing

Development

Limits

Classification

Search

Detection

Production

Limits

Classification

Search

Detection

Growth

Limits

Classification

Search

Detection

Enterprise

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