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Data clean rooms · October 2026 Edition

AWS Clean Rooms vs Databricks Clean Rooms

Two of fourteen models named AWS Clean Rooms first on the direct prompt; one named Databricks Clean Rooms. AWS Clean Rooms was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Databricks Clean Rooms by twelve and AWS Clean Rooms carries 42 labels and Databricks Clean Rooms 27, so the shares are not directly comparable.

AWS Clean Rooms

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Databricks Clean Rooms

accepted challenger

By Databricks, San Francisco, United States, founded 2013. Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share15%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate7%15%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#7A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels4227A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AWS Clean Rooms reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Snowflake Data Clean Rooms was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. Snowflake Data Clean Rooms vs AWS Clean Rooms · Snowflake Data Clean Rooms vs Databricks Clean Rooms · AWS Clean Rooms vs Amazon Marketing Cloud

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the data clean rooms page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
AWS Clean RoomsFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDatabricks Clean Rooms
Direct211 against Databricks Clean Rooms
Paraphrase20
Comparative21
Budget-constrained501 against AWS Clean Rooms
Scale-constrained00
Negative002 against AWS Clean Rooms · 3 against Databricks Clean Rooms
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, AWS Clean Rooms and Databricks Clean Rooms were named in the same answer forty-six times, of the 142 answers naming AWS Clean Rooms and the 73 naming Databricks Clean Rooms. In those answers Databricks Clean Rooms took the first choice zero times and AWS Clean Rooms ten.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where AWS Clean Rooms and Databricks Clean Rooms stood in it.
ModelDirectACParaphraseACComparativeACBudget-constrainedACScale-constrainedACNegativeAC
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 miniACACACAC
Gemini 3.5 FlashACACAC
Perplexity SonarACACACAC
Grok 4.1 FastACACACACAC
Mistral SmallACAC
DeepSeek V4 FlashACACACACAC
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 FlashACAC
Kimi K2ACAC
GLM 4.7 FlashXACACAC
MiniMax M2.5ACAC
GPT-6 LunaACACACAC
Muse Glimmer 30BACAC
AC AWS Clean Rooms Databricks Clean RoomsAC first choiceAC named as an alternativeAC argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, AWS Clean Rooms on the left and Databricks Clean Rooms on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AWS Clean Rooms and Databricks Clean Rooms stood in it.

AWS Clean Rooms first, Databricks Clean Rooms an alternative

2 of 14 modelsDatabricks Clean Rooms was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniAWS Clean Rooms alternatives: Acxiom, Databricks Clean Rooms, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms
Grok 4.1 FastAWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms alternatives: Decentriq, InfoSum, LiveRamp Clean Room

Databricks Clean Rooms first, AWS Clean Rooms not the choice

1 of 14 modelsAWS Clean Rooms was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Databricks Clean Rooms, LiveRamp Safe Haven, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms alternatives: Apollo.io

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarSnowflake Data Clean Rooms alternatives: AWS Clean Rooms, InfoSum, LiveRamp Clean Room
DeepSeek V4 FlashOptable alternatives: AWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms
GLM 4.7 FlashXSnowflake Data Clean Rooms alternatives: AWS Clean Rooms, Amazon Marketing Cloud, Google Ads Data Hub, Habu, LiveRamp Relate
GPT-6 LunaSnowflake Data Clean Rooms alternatives: AWS Clean Rooms, BigQuery Data Clean Rooms, LiveRamp Clean Room
Muse Glimmer 30BSnowflake Data Clean Rooms alternatives: AWS Clean Rooms, Amazon Marketing Cloud, Google Ads Data Hub, LiveRamp Data Collaboration Platform powered by Habu

Neither was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Gemini 3.5 FlashCrossbeam alternatives: Amazon Marketing Cloud, Google Ads Data Hub, Salesforce Data Cloud DCR, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms
Mistral SmallInfoSum alternatives: Decentriq, Habu, LiveRamp Clean Room
Llama 4 MaverickAmazon Marketing Cloud
Qwen 3.7 FlashLiveRamp Clean Room alternatives: Google Ads, Meta Advanced Analytics, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms, The Trade Desk
Kimi K2Optable alternatives: Habu, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms
MiniMax M2.5Amazon Marketing Cloud alternatives: Deciq

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
AWS Clean Rooms leads by twenty-six points.
AWS Clean Rooms26%#1 of 12
Databricks Clean Rooms0%#10 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
AWS Clean Rooms leads by fourteen points.
AWS Clean Rooms15%#2 of 10
Databricks Clean Rooms2%#7 of 10
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
AWS Clean Rooms leads by eleven points.
AWS Clean Rooms11%#2 of 9
Databricks Clean Rooms0%#7 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about AWS Clean Rooms

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.

“Pay-per-use (CRPU-hours); no free tier; costs can escalate quickly” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Cloud-based (e.g., AWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake, Databricks) | Strong infrastructure, but integration complexity and variable TCO” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · soft negative
“Snowflake and AWS Clean Rooms get reasonable marks when properly configured — but watch for the cost/complexity pitfalls” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“AWS Clean Rooms is often the safer default because the pricing is usage-based and there's no separate license to buy just to get started” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · first choice
“AWS Clean Rooms is the top recommendation for most small businesses due to its pay-as-you-go pricing and free tier” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“Already on AWS → AWS Clean Rooms pay-as-you-go is the most budget-friendly entry point, no big upfront investment.” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Databricks Clean Rooms

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Cloud-based (e.g., AWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake, Databricks) | Strong infrastructure, but integration complexity and variable TCO” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · soft negative
“Some concerns about identity resolution rules not being well-documented” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · soft negative
“user reviews of Databricks Clean Rooms have scored poorly here” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Snowflake, Databricks, and LiveRamp Safe Haven provide balanced scalability and governance support.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS if you already have a mature data team” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“If your data ecosystem is built on Databricks, their Delta Sharing and Unity Catalog offer a similar, highly secure distributed data clean room experience.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · alternative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.