Azure Notebooks

Azure Notebooks

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About

Develop and run code from anywhere with Jupyter notebooks on Azure. Get started for free. Get a better experience with a free Azure Subscription. Perfect for data scientists, developers, students, or anyone. Develop and run code in your browser regardless of industry or skillset. Supporting more languages than any other platform including Python 2, Python 3, R, and F#. Created by Microsoft Azure: Always accessible, always available from any browser, anywhere in the world.

About

Google Colab is a free, hosted Jupyter Notebook service that provides cloud-based environments for machine learning, data science, and educational purposes. It offers no-setup, easy access to computational resources such as GPUs and TPUs, making it ideal for users working with data-intensive projects. Colab allows users to run Python code in an interactive, notebook-style environment, share and collaborate on projects, and access extensive pre-built resources for efficient experimentation and learning. Colab also now offers a Data Science Agent automating analysis, from understanding the data to delivering insights in a working Colab notebook (Sequences shortened. Results for illustrative purposes. Data Science Agent may make mistakes.)

Platforms Supported

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Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers, students, data scientists, and AI researchers searching for a powerful Machine Learning solution

Audience

Data scientists and AI researchers

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
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Support

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24/7 Live Support Not Supported
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API

Offers API Not Supported

API

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Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

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Free Version Supported
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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 2.5 / 5
ease 3.6 / 5
features 3.1 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 2.6 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Cannot think of any positive apart from that one can login to the account. No positives as such! Pathetic product.
  • It is free or cheap and good for beginners. It offers a platform to start AI for those who don't have appropriate hardware in personal use.
  • Google Colab is absolutely great. It is so good, that some teachers of my otherwise Google-sceptical computer science department used to recommend it for projects in class as it basically does not need any initial setup and is completely free (the "basic" plan). One of the absolute highlights is the RISE-extension, which enables you to run snippets of code when in presentation mode, without having to switch windows. This really is a great way to present code.
  • Used to live up to their motto: one account to rule them all something something. Now it's 15 accounts to make things work.
  • It's online, it could be useful do do machine learning with high GPU computer. It's linked to Google Drive.

Cons

  • Taking the Google Colab pro subscription, the A100 GPU was almost never available. The T4 GPU used to disconnect in only 1-1.5 Hours making a joke of the GPU subscription.
  • It have been two days that I don't get any GPUs even though I paid for Pro. When I was a regular member I used to get those pretty consistently, maybe not fast and fancy, but at least I had something. Now I have nothing! I will not pay a penny any more and I don't case about quotas etc. You offer a deal, you hold to your promise. There was nothing about quotas in the offer that I went for!
  • You can't really make a virtual environment persist longer than for one session. Running the respective cell with all packages to be installed would take a few minutes at most though. The portability and ease of use of this web-based IDE makes up for this disadvantage. Another disadvantage is the limitation of RAM and computing power but this is hardly reached if you are "just" learning and doing prototyping. If you would want for example to train a somewhat bigger model, it could become very unhandy, as you'd have to do a lot of checkpoints (because you keep getting interrupted by Google every few hours) and memory reallocation, but I guess it would not be impossible. Another disadvantage is that resources are not guaranteed. Depending on the general load and on how much ressources you already used in the past, you can not be sure that you get computing power for your code for a longer time. Nevertheless, being able to use it in its basic version for no money is extraordinary and a huge step towards democratization of, for example AI.
  • Removed the ability to mount different drives to one Colab account thereby breaking entire university projects overnight with no warning. Beyond dumb.
  • - extremely slow - lot of crashes - not intuitive at all - poorly documented - bash and shell extremely horrible - no support for python 2.7

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
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Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
notebooks.azure.com

Company Information

Google
Founded: 1998
United States
colab.research.google.com

Alternatives

CoCalc

CoCalc

SageMath

Alternatives

Categories

Machine Learning Supported

Categories

Agentic AI Supported
AI Agents Supported
AI Data Analytics Supported
AI Fine-Tuning Supported
Data Science Supported
Machine Learning Supported

Integrations

Jupyter Notebook Supported
3LC Not Supported
Chirp 3 Not Supported
DagsHub Not Supported
DeOldify Not Supported
Devin Desktop Not Supported
Gemma 2 Not Supported
Gemma 4 Not Supported
GitHub Not Supported
HyperCrawl Not Supported
Microsoft Azure Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported
Modelbit Not Supported
Papira Not Supported
RagaAI Not Supported
StrongDM Not Supported
TensorBoard Not Supported
Unstructured Not Supported
Visual Studio Code Not Supported
neptune.ai Not Supported

Integrations

Jupyter Notebook Supported
3LC Supported
Chirp 3 Supported
DagsHub Supported
DeOldify Supported
Devin Desktop Supported
Gemma 2 Supported
Gemma 4 Supported
GitHub Supported
HyperCrawl Supported
Microsoft Azure Not Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
Modelbit Supported
Papira Supported
RagaAI Supported
StrongDM Supported
TensorBoard Supported
Unstructured Supported
Visual Studio Code Supported
neptune.ai Supported
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