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Amazon SageMaker vs PyTorch comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

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 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
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 3.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 2.7%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon SageMaker3.1%
PyTorch2.7%
Other94.2%
AI Development Platforms
 

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 evolution from SageMaker Classic to SageMaker Studio, particularly the UI part of Studio, is commendable."
"There is no cessation from what I can see; whatever they have in the industry, they can solve 98% of the use cases."
"The support is very good with well-trained engineers whose training curriculum is rigorous."
"The technical support from AWS is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the ability to store artifacts and gather reports and measures from experiments."
"They offer insights into everyone making calls in my organization."
"We were able to use the product to automate processes."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker for me is the model deployment service."
"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."
"PyTorch allows me to build my projects from scratch."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"I like PyTorch's scalability."
"I like that PyTorch actually follows the pythonic way, and I feel that it's quite easy. It's easy to find compared to others who require us to type a long paragraph of code."
"PyTorch is developer-friendly, allowing developers to continuously create new projects."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
 

Cons

"For any cloud provider, the cost has to be substantially reduced, especially in the case of Amazon SageMaker, which is extremely expensive for huge workloads."
"The platform could be more accessible to users with basic coding skills, making it more intuitive and easier for beginners to use comfortably."
"The dashboard could be improved by including more features and providing more information about deployed models, their drift, performance, scaling, and customization options."
"They could add features such as managing environments, experiment management across those environments, and the integration with training datasets as you go through those experiments."
"From the cost point of view, it's relatively on the higher side."
"There are other better solutions for large data, such as Databricks."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the collaboration with serverless architecture, particularly integration with AWS Lambda."
"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."
"There is not enough documentation about some methods and parameters. It is sometimes difficult to find information."
"I do not have any complaints."
"The product has breakdowns when we change the versions a lot."
"I would like to see better learning documents."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"The product has certain shortcomings in the automation of machine learning."
"I've had issues with stability when I use a lot of data and try out different combinations of modeling techniques."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"SageMaker is worth the money for our use case."
"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."
"On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month."
"The support costs are 10% of the Amazon fees and it comes by default."
"I would rate the solution's price a ten out of ten since it is very high."
"The pricing could be better, especially for querying. The per-query model feels expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution is relatively cheaper."
"PyTorch is open source."
"The solution is affordable."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"It is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Manufacturing Company
17%
University
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

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 Enterprise5
 

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?
PyTorch needs improvement in working on ARM-based chips. Although they have unified memory for GPU and RAM, they are unable to utilize these GPUs for processing efficiently. They take so much time....
What is your primary use case for PyTorch?
I used PyTorch for creating my machine learning projects. For example, my last project was called 'Code Parrot'. It was from an NLP Transformers book. I tried creating a chatbot which can autocompl...
 

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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