Amazon Rekognition vs. IBM watsonx.ai

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Rekognition	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	Amazon offers Rekognition, an image and video visual analytics tool that is trained on locating and identifying labeled or tag-related objects, events, people, and also inappropriate content in images and video so that images and video can more safely and reliably be integrated and positioned in web applications or presentations after it conducts its analysis.	N/A
IBM watsonx.ai	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Watsonx.ai is part of the IBM watsonx platform that brings together new generative AI capabilities, powered by foundation models, and traditional machine learning into a studio spanning the AI lifecycle. Watsonx.ai can be used to train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI, foundation models, and machine learning capabilities, and build AI applications with less time and data.	$0

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Get started building differentiated AI assets with watsonx.ai, our studio for generative AI, foundation models and machine learning. Scale up your AI use cases as needed with integrations to watsonx.data, a fit-for-purpose data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture, and watsonx.governance (coming soon), a toolkit to accelerate responsible, transparent and explainable AI workflows. Pricing for watsonx.ai includes: model inference per 1000 tokens and ML tools and ML runtimes based on capacity unit hours.

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Rekognition	IBM watsonx.ai
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro User friendly Pro Friendly ui	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Worth the cost Minus Face recognition Minus Small scale	No answers on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Rekognition	IBM watsonx.ai
Small Businesses	IBM SPSS Modeler Score 7.8 out of 10	IBM SPSS Modeler Score 7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Posit Score 9.2 out of 10	Posit Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM SPSS Modeler Score 7.8 out of 10	IBM SPSS Modeler Score 7.8 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Rekognition	IBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (2 ratings)	7.8 (5 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Rekognition	IBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS Amazon Rekognition is well suited for all image and videos analysis. Also, deep learning projects for image and video can easily be done using this. It is very easy to use so a beginner can also use it. Incentivized PB Purva Bhatt Senior Software Engineer Read full review	IBM Based on my experience, I can recommend that you have a good AI management system in your company account, and if you have the money at your disposal to invest in IBM watsonx, do not hesitate. We are using API models to obviously build a work environment with sustainable flow as well. We have AI and ML lifecycle support. Incentivized Chris Lenderborg Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Image tagging is very good. Object detection is precise. Video tagging has become very easy using Rekognition. Incentivized SL Sam Lance ML engineer Read full review	IBM Easy to use Provides a subsequent number of pre-trained models Integration with the overall Watson platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS The cost is bit more for small scale companies. For text processing, OCR is not available in amazon rekognition. Only facial search is available in image search. Incentivized PB Purva Bhatt Senior Software Engineer Read full review	IBM User-interface can be improved Incentivized Amritanshu Kumar MIS Excecutive Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS Very much suitable for many applications where the image processing features are secondary and independent of any domain. This makes it a general solution and the recognition features are returned in a JSON object in response to the API called made which is a very simple process. Incentivized SL Sam Lance ML engineer Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Amazon AWS Support of Amazon is great. So far we are having a great experience using it. Incentivized PB Purva Bhatt Senior Software Engineer Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS It's easy to implement and its documentation is great compared to CNTK. Incentivized SL Sam Lance ML engineer Read full review	IBM IBM watsonx.ai is more enterprise oriented providing more options regarding on-premises setup and other compliance issues. Better suited for the corporate world. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS The best thing it made our work fast. It reduces the chance of failure of a project which is based on image or video processing. We can assign anyone in our team to work on this as it very easy to use. Incentivized PB Purva Bhatt Senior Software Engineer Read full review	IBM effective "LiGO" algorithm saving time and cost access to the catalog of open source models for enterprises fine tuning techniques Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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