Workday Illuminate
HR and finance agents on the Workday data model.
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Workday Illuminate vs Amazon Q Business
Workday Illuminate (Workday) and Amazon Q Business (AWS) both sit in Enterprise Platforms. Workday Illuminate is the cheaper entry point at Enterprise quoted. Amazon Q Business shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Workday Illuminate Workday | Amazon Q Business AWS |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Enterprise Platforms | Enterprise Platforms |
| Version | 2025 | Amazon Q Business |
| Entry cost | Enterprise quoted | Free tier · from $3/mo |
| Pricing tiers | — | Amazon Q Business Lite $3 · Amazon Q Business Pro $20 |
| Model stack | in-house + frontier | Amazon Bedrock · Amazon Bedrock Models · Amazon Nova · Amazon Q Business · Claude · Generative AI model · Nova · Titan |
| Context window | — | Model-dependent |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Agent System of Record, HR agents, Finance agents | 40+ enterprise connectors, Cited answers, Q Apps, IAM Identity Center permissions, Q in QuickSight, Conversational AI, Permission-aware responses, Enterprise single sign-on |
Amazon Q Business
Amazon Q Business indexes enterprise connectors and answers with citations, with Q Developer covering the coding side and Bedrock underneath.
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