AWS Data Exchange vs Datovu

AWS Data Exchange is a marketplace for finding, subscribing to, and sharing data products. It has more than 3,500 products from over 300 providers, including over 1,000 free data products and custom data products. Offerings can be delivered as files, through APIs, or as Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and AWS Lake Formation data sets; Lake Formation is marked Preview. Data can be exported to S3 and analyzed with Athena or Redshift, or used with SageMaker, EMR, Glue, and Lake Formation. CloudWatch Events can retrieve new data-set revisions to S3 automatically. The service encrypts data in transit with SSL/TLS and at rest with server-side encryption, and CloudTrail integration supports API-call auditing. Providers can offer free or paid subscriptions lasting 1 to 36 months, with private offers allowing customized terms. Prices for paid products are set by providers, and subscribers may also incur standard S3 transfer charges and costs for AWS services used to store, process, or analyze data. Public Open Data on AWS products can be accessed with or without an AWS account.

Datovu builds data APIs from datasets, letting users collect, index and monetize data without writing backend infrastructure. Its AI agent can plan research from natural-language instructions, search across sources and return structured data. Inputs include CSV, JSON and PDF files, pasted text, connected data feeds and web results, combined in a searchable index. The API builder generates REST endpoints with pagination, filtering and documentation. Publishers can add checkout, usage metering and payouts through Stripe Connect, and the marketplace lets people discover and subscribe to data APIs without an account. Datovu is available on the web and by API, with cloud deployment. The Free plan is free and includes 150 actions per month, one published API, one dataset, 100 documents and 1,000 API requests per month. Paid plans start at $29 a month. Operations stop at plan limits without overage charges, with alerts at 80%, 90% and 100% usage. Datovu says data is isolated per user and team, with zero-retention options.