# Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases vs Pathway

| Attribute | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | Pathway |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 58.2 (74% (medium)) | 57.4 (35% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A fully managed AWS service that automatically handles document ingestion, multimodal content parsing, embedding generation, and intelligent retrieval with optional AI-powered multi-step query planning for complex information lookups. It is indexed under RAG Tools.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","question":"What is Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.01. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","question":"Is Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","question":"Can Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, including Amazon S3, SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, OneDrive, Web crawlers, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Asana, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","question":"What does Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/trust-center/?nc1=f_cc","question":"What security certifications does Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is available in the United States, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Ireland. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","question":"Where is Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Pathway Live Data Framework is a scalable, open-source data processing platform that enables continuous, real-time data pipeline construction for AI applications. It provides unified stream and batch processing with built-in support for retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, and multimodal data handling. It is indexed under RAG Tools.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","question":"What is Pathway?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pathway does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Community, Scale and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","question":"How much does Pathway cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pathway supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","question":"What platforms does Pathway support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pathway can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","question":"Can Pathway be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Pathway, including Kafka, Apache Spark, Amazon S3, PostgreSQL, Redpanda, Logstash, Slack and Google Pub/Sub, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","question":"What does Pathway integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Pathway. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pathway not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/blog/regulatory-compliance-automation-live-ai","question":"What security certifications does Pathway have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Pathway is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","question":"Where is Pathway available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases automates linking AI models to your organization's data, from extracting and indexing documents to executing intelligent searches that provide models with current, relevant context. | Pathway Live Data Framework is a scalable, open-source data processing platform that enables continuous, real-time data pipeline construction for AI applications. It provides unified stream and batch processing with built-in support for retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, and multimodal data handling. |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":false,"multimodal_rag":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"reranking_integration":true,"built_in_rag_eval_metrics":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` | `{"open_source":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"hybrid_retrieval":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 300 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"SharePoint"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"OneDrive"},{"name":"Web crawlers"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock AgentCore"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Strands"},{"name":"S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Bedrock Data Automation","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Web Crawler","native":true,"category":"web","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Redpanda"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Google Pub/Sub"},{"name":"Microsoft Sharepoint"},{"name":"Delta Lake"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"QuestDB"},{"name":"MQTT"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Sentence Transformers"},{"name":"Docling"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["US","BR","DE","IE","IN","ID","IT","JP","SE"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard Tier","summary":"Free parsing, $1.00 per 1,000 Agentic API calls, $0.010 per page processed","features":["Multimodal document parsing","Embeddings generation","Standard retrieval API","Agentic multi-step retrieval","Native connectors to S3, SharePoint, Confluence, OneDrive, Google Drive","Web crawler support","Session memory and observability"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"1000 Agentic Retrieve API calls","amount":1,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay-per-use pricing based on data processing and API calls","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Usage-based pricing: free multimodal parsing, $1.00 per 1,000 Agentic Retrieve API calls, $0.010 per processed page","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-28T13:42:48.025Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Community","features":["300+ API connectors to data sources","Kafka, S3, PostgreSQL, cloud database connectors","Sub-millisecond REST API endpoints","Python and SQL programming interfaces","Streaming and batch processing","Advanced joins, windows, temporal operations","Rust-based streaming engine","Jupyter notebook support","Vector indexing (HNSW, BM25, hybrid)","LLM extension pack","Unstructured data parsing","Community support"],"description":"Open-source framework under BSL 1.1 license with self-hosted deployment","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"ram":"8 GB","cores":"4"}},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","features":["All Community features","20+ pre-built application templates","Basic RAG pipelines, document processing, log monitoring","Kafka ETL and social media analytics templates","Business support with 1-business day response","Free pipeline design consultation","Developer assistance program"],"description":"Scalable tier for production deployments with cloud hosting options","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"ram":"24 TB","cores":"128","nodes":"40"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["All Scale features","Advanced connectors (Sharepoint, Delta Lake, Iceberg, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, QuestDB)","MQTT/IoT and custom messaging connectors","High-availability failover","Kubernetes deployment","OpenTelemetry and Grafana monitoring","Real-time geospatial analytics","Visual live dashboards","Historical data snapshots","Industry-specific solutions","Professional services and custom pipelines","Multi-zone SLA","24/7 phone support"],"description":"Fully managed tier with advanced connectors and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free Community tier; Scale and Enterprise licenses available (specific pricing not published)","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T10:57:45.277Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/"},{"name":"HIPAA/HITECH","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/"},{"name":"FIPS 140-3","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/"},{"name":"NIST 800-171","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/security/ | - |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

| Capability | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | Pathway |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Hybrid retrieval | - | ✓ |
| Reranking integration | ✓ | - |
| Multi hop agentic retrieval | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embedding provider agnostic | - | ✓ |
| LLM provider agnostic | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built in rag eval metrics | ✓ | - |
| Citation attribution | - | - |
| Multimodal rag | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed ingestion pipeline | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T11:48:35.035Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*