# Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases vs Pathway

| Attribute | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | Pathway |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.8 (62% (medium)) | 59.4 (36% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is a fully managed service that integrates generative AI applications with company proprietary data sources. It handles data ingestion, embedding, storage, and retrieval from sources like S3, SharePoint, and Confluence, and integrates natively with Bedrock agents to build AI systems without custom code. | 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":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 | 10 | 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":"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","GB","DE","IE","JP"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["US","GB","DE","IE","IT","SE","JP","IN","BR","SG"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"Pay per page ($0.010), per Retrieve API call ($1.00/1k), and per image for fine-tuning ($0.005)","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"Retrieve API calls"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"image"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"On-demand pricing based on usage","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Flex","summary":"50% discount to Standard tier pricing","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"of":"Standard tier pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":50}],"description":"Discounted on-demand pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Priority","summary":"75% premium to Standard tier pricing","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"of":"Standard tier pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":175}],"description":"Premium on-demand pricing for priority access","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Reserved","summary":"Per-hour pricing per model unit with commitment discounts","features":["Reserved model units","Committed pricing"],"commitment":"monthly","description":"Committed capacity pricing with 1-month or 6-month terms","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Custom Model Storage","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1.95,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Batch Inference","components":[{"of":"On-demand inference pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":50}]}],"summary":"Usage-based starting at $0.010 per page and $1.00 per 1,000 API calls. Free managed search index. Multiple tiers available (Standard, Flex, Priority, Reserved).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:21:34.026Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"image","amount":0.005,"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 | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |

## 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:40:16.547Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*