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Amazon SageMaker

152Judge labels
14First choices
46Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
19% in ML platforms for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 99 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 49 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In ml platforms · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Amazon SageMaker for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
ML platformsData platform10%3 of 9929%49criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Amazon SageMaker yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Amazon SageMaker across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501203
GPT-5.4 mini03014
Gemini 3.5 Flash04026
Perplexity Sonar02013
Grok 4.1 Fast10326
Mistral Small11114
DeepSeek V4 Flash22015
Llama 4 Maverick00213
Qwen 3.7 Flash01135
Kimi K211204
GLM 4.7 FlashX02013
MiniMax M2.511013

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct28 labels5
Paraphrase33 labels7
Comparative34 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels2
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative26 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative152 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 20 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd recommend starting with your existing cloud provider—most often Amazon SageMaker (if on AWS), Google Vertex AI (GCP), or Azure Machine Learning (Azure)” Grok 4.1 Fast · ML platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd usually recommend starting with the managed ML service on whichever cloud you already use (SageMaker, Azure ML, or Vertex AI)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ML platforms · direct prompt · first choice
“Amazon SageMaker and Databricks are the top choices due to their scalability, integration, and comprehensive feature sets.” Mistral Small · ML platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Broadest feature set, deep AWS integration ... Best for complex enterprise ML at scale. ~34% market share.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ML platforms · comparative prompt · first choice

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.

“Avoid these platforms if you are a small team, a startup, or just starting out.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ML platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“SageMaker is notoriously complex, has a steep learning curve, and often drains mid-market budgets through hidden configuration costs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ML platforms · direct prompt · soft negative
“may not be suitable for teams that prioritize open-source flexibility or operate in a multi-cloud environment due to vendor lock-in” Llama 4 Maverick · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Cloud giants (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML): Secure but watch costs, lock-in, and misconfigs (e.g., exposed creds in Azure).” Grok 4.1 Fast · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Amazon SageMaker, over the 152 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon SageMaker was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Google Vertex AI129 of 15214Not in the top three
DataRobot66 of 1523Not in the top three
Dataiku50 of 1526Not in the top three
MLflow47 of 1526Not in the top three
H2O.ai42 of 1522Not in the top three
Kubeflow34 of 1521Not in the top three
Domino Data Lab26 of 1523Not in the top three
Weights & Biases18 of 1521Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon SageMaker. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 124 of the 152 answers that named Amazon SageMaker and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com60
checkthat.ai39
learn.g2.com36
techtarget.com29
thirstysprout.com28
truefoundry.com28
devopsschool.com26
articsledge.com25
dataiku.com25
trustradius.com25

321 of the 321 domain citations in answers naming Amazon SageMaker came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Amazon SageMaker

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Amazon SageMaker; a claim can dispute any of them.
AWS SageMaker 29Amazon SageMaker (AWS) 2Amazon SageMaker AI 2AWS SageMaker AI 1SageMaker 1
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