# Amazon Q: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 16 judge labels across 1 category by 10 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-q

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Enterprise AI assistants](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/enterprise-ai-assistants/index.md) | 6% | 4 | 6% | 16 |

## What the models said for it

- "1. Amazon Q Business — best if you want the lowest-cost enterprise assistant and your use case is knowledge retrieval." (GPT-5.4 mini, Enterprise AI)
- "Start with Amazon Q Business Lite ($3/user/month) to test enterprise AI functionality" (Claude Haiku 4.5, Enterprise AI)
- "1. Amazon Q Business Lite — *Best Value for Enterprise Features*" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Enterprise AI)
- "If your company uses AWS, this is currently one of the most competitively priced heavy-hitters." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Enterprise AI)

## And against it

- "Glean, Microsoft Copilot, Amazon Q, and other retrieval-connected assistants when source permissions are messy." (Perplexity Sonar, Enterprise AI)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon Q, from 36 of the 41 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- coworker.ai: 25
- microsoft.com: 19
- gane.ai/index: 12
- slite.com: 12
- perceptis.ai: 9
- aws.amazon.com: 8 (its own site)
- bestaiforenterprises.com: 8
- openai.com: 8
- xpander.ai: 8
- resources.rework.com: 7

### Pages cited

- https://coworker.ai/blog/best-enterprise-ai-assistant-2026: 21
- https://microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/solutions/enterprise: 10
- https://perceptis.ai/blog/best-enterprise-ai-software-in-2026-top-tools-by-category: 9
- https://coworker.ai/blog/enterprise-ai-pricing-comparison-2026: 7
- https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/enterprise-ai-assistants/enterprise: 7
- https://microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/resources/compete: 7
- https://slite.com/learn/ai-assistants-for-business: 7
- https://viewpointanalysis.com/post/enterprise-ai-assistant-options-2026: 7

## In its own words

What Amazon Q's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.


## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.