Google Cloud Natural Language API vs rasa NLU: What are the differences?

Developers describe Google Cloud Natural Language API as "Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning". You can use it to extract information about people, places, events and much more, mentioned in text documents, news articles or blog posts. You can use it to understand sentiment about your product on social media or parse intent from customer conversations happening in a call center or a messaging app. You can analyze text uploaded in your request or integrate with your document storage on Google Cloud Storage. On the other hand, rasa NLU is detailed as "Open source, drop-in replacement for NLP tools like wit.ai". rasa NLU (Natural Language Understanding) is a tool for intent classification and entity extraction. You can think of rasa NLU as a set of high level APIs for building your own language parser using existing NLP and ML libraries.

Google Cloud Natural Language API and rasa NLU belong to "NLP / Sentiment Analysis" category of the tech stack.

rasa NLU is an open source tool with 5.76K GitHub stars and 1.7K GitHub forks. Here's a link to rasa NLU's open source repository on GitHub.