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Amazon Lex vs IBM Watsonx Assistant comparison

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 Lex
Ranking in Chatbot Development Platforms
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Watsonx Assistant
Ranking in Chatbot Development Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Chatbot Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon Lex is 18.7%, up from 14.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Watsonx Assistant is 17.0%, down from 17.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Chatbot Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon Lex18.7%
IBM Watsonx Assistant17.0%
Other64.3%
Chatbot Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Joe Limardo - PeerSpot reviewer
Has enabled smoother customer interactions but needs improvement in voice quality and natural understanding
One aspect that could be improved in Amazon Lex is that the voices are not the best at this point in time. The voices really need to step up similar to OpenAI and Google's NLU voices. The NLU also sometimes fails to work correctly. There are some use cases where there's a built-in address field type that you can use on a slot to identify addresses. The NLU doesn't capture it particularly well, and it usually matches the wrong addresses. In our deployments, we've decided not to match or use that field for address manipulation and we just use the text string and then deal with it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Lex?
Amazon Lex's utterances could be improved. If a customer does not speak a sentence or word correctly in the utterances, the solution will show an error.
What is your primary use case for Amazon Lex?
Amazon Lex is mainly used for chatbot functionality, and we can chat with the customers as per the requirements they provide with intents and utterances.
Which would you choose - IBM Watson Assistant or Google Dialogflow?
IBM Watson Assistant is by far the best platform for easily building a chatbot. This solution provides you with a step-by-step process on how to create one, making it exceptionally easy to use. Ver...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Ryanair, Electronic Caregiver, HubSpot, Capital One
American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits