TinyML Development Platform Imagimob Adds "Free Forever" Pricing Tier to Tempt New Users
New release brings with it the promise that your account won't cost you a penny — so long as you don't run out of compute credits.
Machine learning specialist Imagimob has announced a new pricing tier for it tinyML machine learning at-the-edge platform, which it hopes will bring the technology to a whole new audience: a "free forever" plan.
"The new release of the Imagimob tinyML platform includes a forever free plan that will enable anyone to start developing tinyML applications," explains company co-founder and chief executive Anders Hardebring. "Users can go to the Imagimob website and download the software and get started. Users of the forever free plan will have access to the full functionality of the platform, but will have a limitation in compute credits."
The new free usage tier effectively replaces the company's earlier trial offering, though it has confirmed it will continue to offer what it describes as a "managed trial" for those looking for assistance in getting started with the platform.
Users signing up to the free usage tier will receive the same development tools as paying customers, including data collection and annotation, data analysis, model creation, evaluation, and verification, and tools for deploying the resulting models to microcontrollers and other target devices.
Alongside the new pricing structure, Imagimob has also added an improved "AutoML" system, which aims to offer deep learning anomaly detection using autoencoders. "A big strength with deep learning anomaly detection is that it delivers high performance as well as eliminates the need for feature engineering," claims Hardebring, "thus saving costs and reducing time-to-market. These improvements are a result of the experience from anomaly detection projects between Imagimob and large manufacturing companies."
Interested parties can now sign up for an account and download the Imagimob software from the company website.