Sistava vs Amazon Q Business
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Amazon Q Business vs Sistava
Amazon Q Business is AWS enterprise AI assistant, connecting to 40+ data sources so employees can ask questions and get answers grounded in company documents, wikis and systems. It is priced aggressively at $3 per user per month for the Lite tier and $20 for Pro, billed through existing AWS accounts. Sistava is a different product category: employees that carry out work rather than an assistant that retrieves and summarises it.
Profile
- Pricing
- Lite $3 per user per month for basic question answering. Pro $20 per user per month adding the full AI assistant, 40+ data source connectors and document intelligence. Billed through AWS.
- Founded
- Announced by Amazon Web Services in 2023
- Funding
- Part of Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
- Focus
- Enterprise AI assistant grounded in company data across AWS-connected sources
Why Sistava
- Sistava employees execute multi-step work across tools and report on it. Amazon Q Business answers questions grounded in connected data.
- Sistava employees own a schedule and act without being asked. Amazon Q responds to a prompt from a person.
- Sistava attaches a role, persona, memory and guardrails per employee. Amazon Q is one assistant serving all users against permissioned data.
- Sistava adds a leader, a shared board and sprints so work has an owner and a cadence. Amazon Q has no work management layer.
- Sistava is flat-priced per plan regardless of how many people look at it. Amazon Q is per seat, so cost scales with headcount rather than output.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Amazon Q Business | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Limited actions | ✓ | |
| Core product, 40+ connectors | Knowledge base and training | |
| ✗ | Schedules, duties, heartbeat | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| $3/user/mo Lite, $20/user/mo Pro | Free (2,000 lifetime credits) + $49/mo |