Amazon Comprehend
Cloud-based service for automatically analyzing and extracting insights from text documents and files
- Also known as
- amazon-comprehend
Available worldwide
What is Amazon Comprehend?
A machine learning service that processes text to identify entities, sentiment, topics, and key phrases. It supports both standard pre-built models and custom models trained on your own data, with APIs for document processing in multiple formats.
Amazon Comprehend pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $0.0001 per unit (100 characters) for standard APIs. Free tier: 50K units per month for 12 months.
Standard APIs (Pay-per-use)
Entity recognition, sentiment analysis, syntax analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, event detection, toxicity detection, prompt safety
- free_tier
- 50k units/month for 12 months
- Entity recognition
- Sentiment analysis
- Syntax analysis
- Key phrase extraction
- Language detection
- Event detection
- Toxicity detection
- Prompt safety classification
- PII detection
- Redaction
Custom Classification & Entities
Train custom NLP models to categorize text and extract domain-specific entities
- Custom model training
- Custom entity extraction
- Custom text classification
- Model management
Managed Endpoints (Synchronous)
Real-time inference endpoints with provisioned throughput
- Real-time synchronous inference
- Scalable throughput with multiple IUs
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 35 | 0.07 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |