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Amazon Comprehend vs Amazon SageMaker comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Comprehend
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
19th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Amazon SageMaker
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
AI Development Platforms (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon Comprehend is 0.5%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 7.6%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Pavan Nanjundappa - PeerSpot reviewer
Good job extracting entities and does the classification in the healthcare products
I would like to see a feature that allows me to create or generate a summary based on the extracted entities. Amazon Comprehend works with a large pool of doctors. They're building the product based on working with domain experts. I don't have any suggestions except if they can provide a feature for generating the summary for the entities that has been updated.
Hemant Paralkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Improves team collaboration with advanced feature sharing but needs a better user experience
Improvement is needed in the no-code and low-code capabilities of Amazon SageMaker. This would empower citizen data scientists to utilize the tool more effectively since many data scientists do not have a core development background. Additionally, dealing with frequent UI updates can be challenging, especially for infrastructure architects like myself. It involves effort to migrate to new UIs, making the updates not seamless. User auditing requires enhancements as tracking operations performed by users can be difficult due to dynamic IP validation and role propagation.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amazon Comprehend works with a large pool of doctors. They're building the product based on working with domain experts."
"I recommend SageMaker for ML projects if you need to build models from scratch."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is its integration. For example, AWS Lambda. Additionally, we can write Python code."
"The most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker are its AutoML, feature store, and automated hyperparameter tuning capabilities."
"I have seen a return on investment, probably a factor of four or five."
"The most valuable features are the ability to store artifacts and gather reports and measures from experiments."
"The solution's ability to improve work at my organization stems from the ensemble model and a combination of various models it provides."
"The most valuable features include the ML operations that allow for designing, deploying, testing, and evaluating models."
"The tool has made client management easier where patients need to upload their health records and we can use the tool to understand details on treatment date, amount, etc."
 

Cons

"It is a bit complex to scale. It is still evolving as a product."
"The solution needs to be cheaper since it now charges per document for extraction."
"One area for improvement is the pricing, which can be quite high."
"The entry point can be a bit difficult. Having all documentation easily accessible on the front page of SageMaker would be a great improvement."
"Improvements are needed in terms of complexity, data security, and access policy integration in Amazon SageMaker."
"I would recommend having more walkthrough videos and articles beyond AWS Skill Builder."
"In my opinion, one improvement for Amazon SageMaker would be to offer serverless GPUs. Currently, we incur costs on an hourly basis. It would be beneficial if the tool could provide pay-as-you-go pricing based on endpoints."
"The documentation must be made clearer and more user-friendly."
"For any cloud provider, the cost has to be substantially reduced, especially in the case of Amazon SageMaker, which is extremely expensive for huge workloads."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Databricks solution is less costly than Amazon SageMaker."
"I would rate the solution's price a ten out of ten since it is very high."
"The solution is relatively cheaper."
"The pricing is complicated as it is based on what kind of machines you are using, the type of storage, and the kind of computation."
"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."
"The pricing could be better, especially for querying. The per-query model feels expensive."
"The pricing is comparable."
"The support costs are 10% of the Amazon fees and it comes by default."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Educational Organization
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Comprehend?
I would like to see a feature that allows me to create or generate a summary based on the extracted entities. Amazon Comprehend works with a large pool of doctors. They're building the product base...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Comprehend?
I use it to extract medical entities for doctors like the deceased and so on. It does the job well for our requirements. It is mainly for automation.
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Comprehend?
Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten. I would recommend Amazon AWS Medical Comprehend for healthcare products because it does a good job extracting entities and does the classifica...
How would you compare Databricks vs Amazon SageMaker?
We researched AWS SageMaker, but in the end, we chose Databricks. Databricks is a Unified Analytics Platform designed to accelerate innovation projects. It is based on Spark so it is very fast. It...
What do you like most about Amazon SageMaker?
We've had experience with unique ML projects using SageMaker. For example, we're developing a platform similar to ChatGPT that requires models. We utilize Amazon SageMaker to create endpoints for t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
Before deploying SageMaker, I reviewed the pricing, especially for notebook instances. The cost for small to medium instances is not very high.
 

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AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
 

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