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Amazon SageMaker vs PyTorch comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon SageMaker
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (4th)
PyTorch
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 2.9%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 2.0%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon SageMaker2.9%
PyTorch2.0%
Other95.1%
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Featured Reviews

NeerajPokala - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Engineer at Macquarie Group
Automation has transformed document review and reduces manual effort in financial workflows
There will be many features in Amazon SageMaker itself, but we don't know whether the feature is there or not, particularly the documentation part. Whatever the new releases will be, they will not post very fast. It is very easy to deploy Amazon SageMaker. The documentation is also very good. It is good because we are able to collaborate with our notebooks. At a time we can develop simultaneously and work on different use cases in the same notebook itself.
Rohan Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
AI/ML Co-Lead at Developer Student Clubs - GGV
Enabled creation of innovative projects through developer-friendly features
The aspect I like most about PyTorch is that it is really developer-friendly. Developers can constantly create new things, and everyone around the world can use it for free because it's an open-source product. What I personally like is that PyTorch has enabled users to use Apple's M1 chip natively for GPU users. Unlike other libraries using CUDA, PyTorch utilizes Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) to enable GPU usage on M1 chips.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The technical support from AWS is excellent."
"SageMaker has provided everything."
"They offer insights into everyone making calls in my organization."
"The tool makes our ML model development a bit more efficient because everything is in one environment."
"Allows you to create API endpoints."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is that you don't have to do any programming in order to perform some of your use cases."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker for me is the model deployment service."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"For me, the product's initial setup phase is easy...For beginners, it is fairly easy to learn."
"It's been pretty scalable in terms of using multiple GPUs."
"PyTorch is developer-friendly, allowing developers to continuously create new projects."
"Its interface is the most valuable, and the ability to have an interface to train machine learning models and construct them with the high-level interface, without excess busting and reconstructing the same technical elements, is very useful."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
 

Cons

"The product must provide better documentation."
"In general, improvements are needed on the performance side of the product's graphical user interface-related area since it consumes a lot of time for a user."
"The documentation must be made clearer and more user-friendly."
"SageMaker would be improved with the addition of reporting services."
"The pricing for the Notebook endpoints is a bit high, but generally reasonable."
"The solution is complex to use."
"Improvements are needed in terms of complexity, data security, and access policy integration in Amazon SageMaker."
"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."
"I would like a model to be available. I think Google recently released a new version of EfficientNet. It's a really good classifier, and a PyTorch implementation would be nice."
"There is not enough documentation about some methods and parameters. It is sometimes difficult to find information."
"The product has certain shortcomings in the automation of machine learning."
"PyTorch could make certain things more obvious. Even though it does make things like defining loss functions and calculating gradients in backward propagation clear, these concepts may confuse beginners. We find that it's kind of problematic. Despite having methods called on loss functions during backward passes, the oral documentation for beginners is quite complex."
"I've had issues with stability when I use a lot of data and try out different combinations of modeling techniques."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"I do not have any complaints."
"The product has breakdowns when we change the versions a lot."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. It depends on the instance that you do."
"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"I would rate the solution's price a ten out of ten since it is very high."
"You don't pay for Sagemaker. You only pay for the compute instances in your storage."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"The solution is affordable."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"PyTorch is open source."
"It is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
University
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
If you manage it effectively, their pricing is reasonable. It's similar to anything in the cloud; if you don't manage it properly, it can be expensive, but if you do, it's fine.
What needs improvement with Amazon SageMaker?
It takes some work. We need to refer to the documentation. The documentation is good regarding what other providers we are able to connect with. Out of five, I can say 3.5.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PyTorch?
I haven't gone for a paid plan yet. I've just been using the free trial or open-source version.
What needs improvement with PyTorch?
There are a few areas for improvement. The biggest one for me is version and dependency management, as I have to ensure my Torch, TorchAudio, and CUDA versions are all aligned. If one is off, thing...
What is your primary use case for PyTorch?
I have been using PyTorch for the last three years, mostly through my thesis work and model deployment projects. I use PyTorch for pretty much everything in my deep learning work, specifically to b...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
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Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit
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