Amazon · 1 category · RankedAmazon Cognito
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer identity and access management | Identity and access | 4% | 9 of 74 | 28% | 25 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“the best choice is usually Amazon Cognito if you want the lowest-cost, AWS-native customer identity platform” Perplexity Sonar · CIAM · budget prompt · first choice
“Amazon Cognito (Best overall free tier for AWS users or general startups)” Grok 4.1 Fast · CIAM · budget prompt · first choice
“It is cost-effective and integrates natively with other AWS services ... but offers less flexibility than Auth0.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CIAM · comparative prompt · alternative
“AWS-native applications | Tight AWS integration, Lambda triggers, cost-effective” Kimi K2 · CIAM · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“generally not recommended for highly regulated industries or enterprise-grade governance without significant customization” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CIAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“caution if you want a more polished developer experience or need broader CIAM features without AWS-specific tradeoffs” Perplexity Sonar · CIAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“though they often require more custom work. I'm not recommending them as the first pick here” GPT-5.4 mini · CIAM · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Recently tripled prices for larger user bases and reduced free tier from 50K to 10K MAU” Kimi K2 · CIAM · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 51 of the 63 answers that named Amazon Cognito and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
228 of the 228 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Cognito came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Amazon Cognito
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