Capabilities and workflow
| Criterion | StayCharted AI Model Trainer | Amazon Comprehend |
|---|---|---|
| Who uses it | Business teams operating classification workflows and developers consuming predictions.StayCharted documentation | AWS teams building custom text analysis into applications; the console offers a code-free setup.Official documentation · checked October 8, 2026 |
| Custom labels | Train from examples assigned to your team’s categories.StayCharted documentation | Provide representative documents for each classification label and train a custom classifier.Official documentation · checked October 8, 2026 |
| Service scope | Text classification and separate image models with Vision.StayCharted documentation | Custom document classification and custom entity recognition are distinct capabilities.Official documentation · checked October 8, 2026 |
| Document processing | Trains on CSV or Excel files; it does not read PDFs or Word files.StayCharted documentation | Custom analysis supports document processing as part of its text analysis workflow.Official documentation · checked October 8, 2026 |
| Integration | Fill files in the application or call the API on Essentials and up.StayCharted documentation | Use AWS APIs or SDKs to incorporate custom analysis into an application.Official documentation · checked October 8, 2026 |
| Billing | Free text plan; Essentials $49/month; Business $99/month per workspace.StayCharted documentation | AWS pricing examples use $3/training hour, $0.50/model month and $0.0005/second per real-time inference unit ($1.80/hour while active). Asynchronous inference is charged by text volume. Check your region and workload.Custom classification pricing · checked October 8, 2026 |
Buying through AWS
StayCharted is hosted on AWS and available through AWS Marketplace. Your team uses StayCharted’s hosted application; it does not need to provision a SageMaker or Comprehend environment.
Fit by requirement
StayCharted
Teams wanting to train, check and use category models within a hosted application.
Amazon Comprehend
Teams integrating text analysis with AWS services and managing the surrounding application workflow.
Before choosing
Test both workflows on the same separate examples. Compare category errors, review effort, integration and total operating cost.
StayCharted plans and workflow
Free covers text and includes up to one AI Classifier Model. Essentials is $49/month and Business is $99/month per workspace. Pictures require Vision: +$49/month on Essentials or +$99/month on Business. Dedicated AI Models require Business. Prices are USD.
- Every training run reports accuracy on examples not used to train the model, overall and by category. Answers include confidence.
- Data-quality checks and personal-information masking before text training are available on every plan.
- On Essentials and Business, answers below your review cutoff go to a Review Queue. Grouping unlabeled examples into suggested categories is also included; pictures require Vision.
- Picture checks flag near-duplicates and potentially mislabeled examples. Location metadata is stripped from the copies used by the model; original uploads are retained unchanged until deletion.
StayCharted is a hosted service, with no on-premises application deployment or trained-model import. Standard workspace exports do not contain runnable models. Under Terms §6.3, an Owner can download a Dedicated model adapter after moving to a plan that no longer trains Dedicated models; running it elsewhere requires the exact base model and your own inference software.
Compare plans and allowances · Export conditions · Data handling
Common questions
Is Amazon Comprehend no-code?
Its console supports code-free custom analysis setup. Integrating predictions into a business application is a separate task that may require development.
Does Comprehend also extract entities?
Yes. Custom entity recognition is a separate capability from document classification. StayCharted’s category prediction should not be treated as a replacement for entity extraction.
Can I move a trained Comprehend model into StayCharted?
No. StayCharted does not import trained model files. Prepare your labeled examples, train a new model and evaluate it on a separate test set.
Which product should an AWS team choose?
Compare the complete workflow: training, permissions, prediction integration, review and ongoing operation. AWS integration requirements may favor Comprehend; a standalone file-classification workflow may favor StayCharted.