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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
4th
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
12th
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 September 2026, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 2.8%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 2.1%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon SageMaker2.8%
PyTorch2.1%
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

"Amazon SageMaker definitely provides ROI."
"SageMaker has provided everything."
"The technical support of the tool was good."
"The evolution from SageMaker Classic to SageMaker Studio, particularly the UI part of Studio, is commendable."
"The various integration options available in Amazon SageMaker, such as Firehose for connecting to data pipelines, are simple to use."
"Amazon SageMaker is highly valuable for managing ML workloads. It connects to AWS cloud resources, making it easy to deploy algorithms and collaborate using tools like GitLab. It offers a wide range of Python libraries and other necessary tools for modelling and algorithms."
"The tool makes our ML model development a bit more efficient because everything is in one environment."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker for me is the model deployment service."
"We are a data science team that trains mathematical models with this solution, which can spin up VMs that you can use remotely or on your local machines."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
"PyTorch allows me to build my projects from scratch."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"yTorch is gaining credibility in the research space, it's becoming easier to find examples of papers that use PyTorch. This is an advantage for someone who uses PyTorch primarily."
"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."
"It's been pretty scalable in terms of using multiple GPUs."
 

Cons

"The main challenge with Amazon SageMaker is the integrations."
"In my opinion, one improvement for Amazon SageMaker would be to offer serverless GPUs. Currently, we incur costs on an hourly basis. It would be beneficial if the tool could provide pay-as-you-go pricing based on endpoints."
"While integration is available, there are concerns about how secure this integration is, particularly when exposing data to SageMaker."
"Lacking in some machine learning pipelines."
"The platform could be more accessible to users with basic coding skills, making it more intuitive and easier for beginners to use comfortably."
"The documentation must be made clearer and more user-friendly."
"Improvements are needed in terms of complexity, data security, and access policy integration in Amazon SageMaker."
"I would say the IDE is quite immature, but it is still in its infancy, so I expect it to get better over time."
"I've had issues with stability when I use a lot of data and try out different combinations of modeling techniques."
"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."
"The training of the models could be faster."
"PyTorch needs improvement in working on ARM-based chips. They have unified memory for GPU and RAM, however, current GPUs used for processing are slow."
"The analyzing and latency of compiling could be improved to provide enhanced results."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"I would like to see better learning documents."
"I do not have any complaints."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month."
"Databricks solution is less costly than Amazon SageMaker."
"The solution is relatively cheaper."
"I rate the pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price, and ten is the highest price. The solution is priced reasonably. There is no additional cost to be paid in excess of the standard licensing fees."
"In terms of pricing, I'd also rate it ten out of ten because it's been beneficial compared to other solutions."
"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."
"The pricing could be better, especially for querying. The per-query model feels expensive."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open source."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"The solution is affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
12%
University
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
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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