Amazon Connect vs. Amazon Lex

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Connect
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Launched in 2017 and available on AWS, Amazon Connect is a cloud-based omnichannel contact center designed to provide a seamless experience across voice and website live chat, featuring skills-based routing, task tracking, and analytic tools to track customer interactions, or evaluate agent activity. It can support office-based or virtual contact centers. The service is pay-per-usage, per feature.
$0
per profile/per month
Amazon Lex
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
AWS provides Amazon Lex, a chatbot building technology.
$0
Per Speech Request
Pricing
Amazon ConnectAmazon Lex
Editions & Modules
Customer Profiles
$0.0025
per profile/per month
Chat
$0
per message
Contact Lens (5 million+ monthly minutes)
$0.0125
per minute
Contact Lens (first 5 million monthly minutes)
$0.015
per minute
Voice
$0.02
per minute
Voice ID
$0.025
per transaction
Tasks
$0.04
per task
Request and Response
$0.004
Per Speech Request
Stream Conversation
$0.0065
Per Speech Interval
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon ConnectAmazon Lex
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon ConnectAmazon Lex
Features
Amazon ConnectAmazon Lex
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
7.8
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Amazon Lex
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Connect
7.6
6 Ratings
8% below category average
Amazon Lex
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon ConnectAmazon Lex
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon ConnectAmazon Lex
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Our company is a startup that is just starting to get wholesale customers. When we realized our customers needed support using our products, we set up a Contact Center via Amazon Connect. It has been very useful in allowing us to scale up very quickly, and provide services to our company as if we were a large corporation.
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Amazon AWS
If you wish to quickly deploy multilingual chatbots without having to worry about infrastructure and model training, go for Amazon Lex. It is one of the best general-purpose conversational AI solutions in the market. The cherry on the cake is that it also seamlessly integrates with other AWS services, so you would be good there. Performance monitoring is very easy with AWS. It has support for both text and integration. If you are not a pro-NLP expert, Amazon Lex will make your job really easy.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • It helps us connect with ServiceNow as a direct integration.
  • It allows us to document everything from the chat with ticket documentation in real time.
  • It allows us to track agent and case activities.
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Amazon AWS
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • On reports and analytics, [I feel] Amazon Connect is slightly behind, and it should be perfected.
  • [In my experience], Amazon Connect lacks social platform integration, which is convenient and resourceful currently.
  • [I believe] Amazon Connect should include a queue management feature, for the call centers and customer help.
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Amazon AWS
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It is reliable system. It has own IVR, Database(DynamoDB) Backend(Lambda) support of multi channel(email, chat & voice) Integration with some of the biggest CRM system
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Amazon AWS
Easy to deploy and very easy to integrate with other AWS services. Automating simple tasks is also very easy with Amazon Lex. We never had NLP experts in our team, but we were still able to deploy chatbots for our support functions with minimal issues. Native integration with other AWS services like S3 and Lambda has been of paramount importance.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
Community support for Amazon Lex is good. Also, since it is an AWS service, the support has a similar standard as other AWS services. We have had a couple of instances of our bots weren't able to interact with our web apps. We reached out to the support team, and they were able to resolve our issue in no time. The documentation from the Amazon Lex team also makes creating chatbots a breeze.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Amazon Connect has lots of free training available for partners and in general. So many demos are available to practice. It's free to test and gain more confidence before deploying in real world scenarios. You can use other AWS features to be integrated with Amazon cloud. Features like lense is amazing
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Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to scale quickly and retain flexibility.
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to provide omnichannel support as if we were a larger corporation.
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to retain productivity.
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Amazon AWS
  • Support satisfaction has increased
  • Time to resolve customer concerns has seen a major improvement
  • Amazon Lex can quickly automate repetitive simple tasks for us
  • Our organization has built NLP capability without having to hire language experts/linguists
  • Since the integration with AWS services is natively supported, our existing DevOps team can manage our Amazon Lex deployment
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