Amazon Comprehend vs. IBM watsonx.ai

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Comprehend
Score 4.4 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text. Amazon Comprehend uses machine learning to help uncover insights and relationships in unstructured data. The service identifies the language of the text; extracts key phrases, places, people, brands, or events; understands how positive or negative the text is; analyzes text using tokenization and parts of speech; and automatically organizes a collection of text…
$0
per unit
IBM watsonx.ai
Score 8.7 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.
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Pricing
Amazon ComprehendIBM watsonx.ai
Editions & Modules
Syntax Analysis
$0.00005
per unit
Key Phrase Extraction
$0.0001
per unit
Sentiment Analysis
$0.0001
per unit
Entity Recognition
$0.0001
per unit
Language Detection
$0.0001
per unit
Pll Detection
$0.0001
per unit
Event Detection Per Event Type
$0.003
per unit
Free Trial
$0
ML functionality (20 CUH limit /month); Inferencing (50,000 tokens / month)
Standard
$1,050
Monthly tier fee; additional usage based fees
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon ComprehendIBM watsonx.ai
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for watsonx.ai includes: model inference per 1000 tokens and ML tools and ML runtimes based on capacity unit hours.
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User Ratings
Amazon ComprehendIBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon ComprehendIBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Specifically, it starts processing millions of documents in minutes by leveraging the power of machine learning without having trained models from scratch. If any of the content contains personally identifiable information not only can Amazon Comprehend locate it but it will also redact or mask it. Using NLP techniques Amazon Comprehend goes well beyond keyword search or rules-based tagging to accurately classify documents. For my task or development, I cannot find any difficulties with Amazon Comprehend.
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IBM
I have built a code accelerator tool for one of the IBM product implementation. Although there was a heavy lifting at the start to train the model on specifics of the packaged solution library and ways of working; the efficacy of the model is astounding. Having said that, watsonx.ai is very well suited for customer service automation, healthcare data analytics, financial fraud detection, and sentiment analysis kind of projects. The Watsonx.ai look and feel is little confusing but I understand over a period of time , it will improve dramatically as well. I do feel that Watsonx.ai has certain limitations from cross-platform deployment flexibility. If an organization is deeply invested in a multi-cloud environment, Watson's integration on other cloud platforms may not be seamless comported to other AI platforms.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Comprehend identifies the language of the text and extracts Key-phrases, places, people, brands or events.
  • It can build a custom set of entities or text classification models that are tailored uniquely to the organisation's need
  • Amazon Comprehend's medical can be used to identify medical conditions, medications, dosages, strength and frequencies from sources like doctor's notes, clinical trial reports and patient health records. This service is very good and with well an accuracy or confidence score.
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IBM
  • It allows specialists to apply several base models for specific subtasks in the field of NLP.
  • Gives the availability of many models developed for AI enhancement for different solutions.
  • Has incorporated functionality for data governance and security to support access to AI tools by multiple users.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • It will be great if Amazon Comprehend provide support specifically for litigation or related text documents to extract insights from it.
  • For REST API support using JAVA SDK, it will be great for developers if they provide support for testing without any credentials or account details.
  • Setting up for REST API integration can be as simple as possible.
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IBM
  • IBM watsonx.ai is expensive than other platforms.
  • Limited integraions though it has many but still some tools integrations not there for medical usecase
  • Its little difficult to learn as right now not many open reseouces
  • Community is not that strong to get any answer
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
I still don't have enough experience, but i have seen a lot of demos and i have made some real world scenarios and so far so long every thing looks fine. I was at IBM Think 2025 and IBM TechXchange 2025 and the labs were really usefull and simple to understand.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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IBM
I needed some time to understand the different parts of the web UI. It was slightly overwhelming in the beginning. However, after some time, it made sense, and I like the UI now. In terms of functionality, there are many useful features that make your life easy, like jumping to a section and giving me a deployment space to deploy my models easily.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
I still don't have enough experience, but i have seen a lot of demos and i have made some real world scenarios and so far so long every thing looks fine. I was at IBM Think 2025 and IBM TechXchange 2025 and the labs were really usefull and simple to understand.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
For natural language processing tasks or techniques, there are many service providers out there in the market such as Azure Cloud Services, IBM Watson and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), but compared with them, Amazon Comprehend is the best service provider in contents of accuracy, speed of processing multilingual text, supporting SDK for most of the languages and well documented.
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IBM
IBM watsonx.ai has been far superior to that of Chat GPT AI. the UI elements prompt responses and overall execution of the AI was much better and more accurate compared to the competition. I can not recommend using this platform enough. Great job IBM. I hope the team behind this project continues to grow and prosper.
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
I still don't have enough experience, but i have seen a lot of demos and i have made some real world scenarios and so far so long every thing looks fine. I was at IBM Think 2025 and IBM TechXchange 2025 and the labs were really usefull and simple to understand.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • It supports better and accurately as compared with our existing or old implementations. So, we fulfil our needs as per clients' requirements and it will help to grow or improve client satisfaction.
  • For these specific requirements, we do not require any machine learning engineers or related professionals to hire in our organisation.
  • None of any negative sides can be affected our business or distract existing clients.
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IBM
  • Time saving to set up the infrastructure - without watsonx.ai we would have had to set up everything individually
  • The first point translates directly into cost savings
  • The compliance aspect was a game changer for us and provided us with the confidence to focus all our efforts only on IBM watsonx.ai
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ScreenShots

IBM watsonx.ai Screenshots

Screenshot of the foundation models available in watsonx.ai. Clients have access to IBM selected open source models from Hugging Face, as well as other third-party models, and a family of IBM-developed foundation models of different sizes and architectures.Screenshot of the Prompt Lab in watsonx.ai, where AI builders can work with foundation models and build prompts using prompt engineering techniques in watsonx.ai to support a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) type tasks.Screenshot of the Tuning Studio in watsonx.ai, where AI builders can tune foundation models with labeled data for better performance and accuracy.Screenshot of the data science toolkit in watsonx.ai where AI builders can build machine learning models automatically with model training, development, visual modeling, and synthetic data generation.