Best for
Best for organisations already on AWS that want research, automation, analytics and app building behind one assistant.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI Chatbots & Assistants Comparison
Amazon Quick vs. Perplexity
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for research, fact-checking and finding sourced answers to current questions.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Amazon Quick | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; Plus $20 / user / month Billed annually, $25 billed monthly. Max is $100 / user / month annually. The organisation plans (Professional $20, Enterprise $40 per user per month) require an AWS account and add a $250 per account per month infrastructure fee. | Free tier; Pro $20 / month Max tier above Pro. |
| Free trial | Free plan, plus a 30-day Enterprise trial for up to 25 users with the infrastructure fee waived | Free tier with cited searches |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Output | Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images, dashboards, cited research reports and interactive web apps | Source-backed answers with live web search |
| API | Yes, existing Amazon QuickSight APIs and SDKs continue to work unchanged | Yes, an Agent API for web-grounded answers, a Search API, an Embeddings API and a Router API for open-weight models, with Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server |
| Hosting | Cloud (SaaS), plus a desktop application | Not stated |
| Ecosystem | AWS. Built-in connectors for Jira, Box, Canva, HubSpot, Notion, QuickBooks, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Shopify, Slack, Smartsheet and Zoom, plus MCP and OpenAPI for anything else; usable from the web, a desktop app, Chrome, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 | Comet browser and Spaces, plus managed connectors to GitHub, Slack, Google Drive, Datadog, Linear and Notion that an Agent API request can call by connector ID |
| Live web search and sources | Yes, Quick Research works across the web and your own data and delivers the result as a cited report | Yes, live web search on every query, with cited sources |
| Files and long documents | Yes, Quick Index connects organisation documents and data sources so answers are grounded in them, and the desktop app works with local files | Yes, file uploads and analysis on paid tiers |
| Images, voice and video | Turns a conversation into documents, presentations, spreadsheets and images without leaving the app | Image input and generation on Pro; no video |
| Coding help | No coding assistant is documented. AWS aims Quick at anyone who works with information, stating that no technical skills or coding experience are required, and the apps, flows and automations it builds are described in natural language rather than written | Limited; answers coding questions but built for research |
| Model choice | No model picker. AWS documents Quick as fully managed, with no infrastructure to provision, no models to host and no ML expertise required, and states that customer data is not used to train models on any plan | Yes, several underlying models on Pro |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Not stated | Email helpdesk, Community forum |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | more entries Jira, Box, Canva, HubSpot, Notion, QuickBooks, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Shopify, Slack, Smartsheet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 | GitHub, Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Linear, Datadog |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Amazon Quick Free plan; Plus $20 / user / month Perplexity Free tier; Pro $20 / month
- Free trial Amazon Quick Free plan, plus a 30-day Enterprise trial for up to 25 users with the infrastructure fee waived Perplexity Free tier with cited searches
- MCP-ready Amazon Quick No Perplexity Yes
- Output Amazon Quick Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images, dashboards, cited research reports and interactive web apps Perplexity Source-backed answers with live web search
- API Amazon Quick Yes, existing Amazon QuickSight APIs and SDKs continue to work unchanged Perplexity Yes, an Agent API for web-grounded answers, a Search API, an Embeddings API and a Router API for open-weight models, with Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Amazon Quick
Strengths
- Chat, research, automation, analytics and app building sit in one product rather than five
- Connectors for Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Notion, Box and more, with MCP and OpenAPI for anything not covered
- Research draws on both the public web and internal data and returns a report with citations
- Reachable from the web, a desktop app, Chrome, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365
- Free plan without an AWS account, and a 30-day Enterprise trial for up to 25 users
Limitations
- The Professional and Enterprise plans add a $250 per account per month infrastructure fee on top of the per-user price
- Those two plans require an AWS account and IAM Identity Center or IAM Federation setup
- Agent hours and index storage are metered, so the bill moves with usage
- Replaces Amazon Q Business, which is closed to new customers, so the product line is young
Perplexity
Strengths
- Cited, source-backed answers
- Best for research and fact-checking
- Free tier with cited searches
Limitations
- Not built for writing, coding or document analysis
- Narrower than general assistants
Plans
Pricing
Amazon Quick
- Free $0 No AWS account required.
- Plus $20 Per user per month billed annually, $25 billed monthly. No AWS account required.
- Max $100 Per user per month billed annually, $125 billed monthly.
- Professional $20 Per user per month plus a $250 per account per month infrastructure fee. Requires an AWS account.
- Enterprise $40 Per user per month plus a $250 per account per month infrastructure fee. Requires an AWS account.
Perplexity
- Free $0 Cited searches.
- Pro $20 Per month.
- Max Not stated
What users say
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Amazon Quick
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Perplexity
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
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- Not rated yet
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- Not rated yet
- Value for money
- Not rated yet
- Features
- Not rated yet
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Amazon Quick https://aws.amazon.com/quick/ · checked against the official source on 2026-09-05
Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai · no check date recorded yet
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