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Amazon SageMaker vs DataRobot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon SageMaker
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (3rd)
DataRobot
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (5th), AIOps (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 8.1%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DataRobot is 1.7%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Natu Lauchande - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and manage, but the documentation does not have a lot of information
SageMaker Studio sounds very interesting. Feature Store and data pipeline features are very interesting. The product is a one-stop shop. It allows people without much engineering knowledge to try out and deploy models in environments similar to the production environments. The tool makes our ML model development a bit more efficient because everything is in one environment. It is easy to manage compared to when things were in different components of AWS. Amazon SageMaker is in AWS, so I need not pay two bills. It is one less system to manage, so it is easier.
Raviteja Guna - PeerSpot reviewer
Highly automated solution allowing data scientists to build models easily
Based on your similar requirements, V10.0 has very cool features related to AI Generation. I would suggest the team, too. This is very good for data scientists or people who don't want to code. Even the documentation is well-maintained in terms of its capabilities. It's easy to navigate. The support documents are good. Even someone with basic IT knowledge can easily navigate. If you're an IT engineer, you can efficiently perform operations using it. We have deployed eight to nine use cases on DataRobot and have seen a tremendous response in accuracy and performance. We are pleased because we conducted a comparison. We took a model we built using a sample Python on a local machine and applied the same data and process using DataRobot Autopilot. The results were pretty amazing, with promising accuracy and recall. The accessibility is so easy. Even a college graduate with essential experience can use it. Suppose I do the same model in Databricks and want to monitor my MLOps pipeline. So, I need to use a third-party framework again, like MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, or whatever. I need to build my dashboards and everything, customization dashboards. However, everything is available in DataRobot. I can use it directly. They have a new option called DataRobot apps. So, on the predictions, we can even create customized apps. I can build my dashboard, and I can develop my applications. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is easy to scale...The documentation and online community support have been sufficient for us so far."
"The superb thing that SageMaker brings is that it wraps everything well. It's got the deployment, the whole framework."
"We were able to use the product to automate processes."
"The most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker are its AutoML, feature store, and automated hyperparameter tuning capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is SageMaker Studio."
"Amazon SageMaker is highly valuable for managing ML workloads. It connects to AWS cloud resources, making it easy to deploy algorithms and collaborate using tools like GitLab. It offers a wide range of Python libraries and other necessary tools for modelling and algorithms."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon SageMaker for me is the one-touch deployment, which simplifies the process greatly."
"The most tool's valuable feature, in my experience, is hyperparameter tuning. It allows us to test different parameters for the same model in parallel, which helps us quickly identify the configuration that yields the highest accuracy. This parallel computing capability saves us a lot of time."
"It's easy to do MLOps operations. It's a lot easier to manage jobs and see the logs if there's any drift in a model."
"DataRobot can be easy to use."
"We especially like the initial part of feature engineering, because feature engineering is included in most engines, but DataRobot has an excellent way of picking up the right features."
"DataRobot is highly automated, allowing data scientists to build models easily."
 

Cons

"The payment and monitoring metrics are a bit confusing not only for Amazon SageMaker but also for the range of other products that fall under AWS, especially for a new user of the product."
"For any cloud provider, the cost has to be substantially reduced, especially in the case of Amazon SageMaker, which is extremely expensive for huge workloads."
"Creating notebook instances for multiple users is pretty expensive in Amazon SageMaker."
"The solution is complex to use."
"SageMaker would be improved with the addition of reporting services."
"The dashboard could be improved by including more features and providing more information about deployed models, their drift, performance, scaling, and customization options."
"The user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of SageMaker and AWS, in general, need improvement as they are not intuitive and require substantial time to learn how to use specific services."
"The solution needs to be cheaper since it now charges per document for extraction."
"The business departments will love to work with DataRobot because they use the tool to investigate their data, such as targeting what they want to investigate. They don't need any data scientists near them. They can investigate at eye level and bring into the BI tool, or can bring it to the data scientist. Data scientists can use this tool to bring increase the solution to the maximum. All the others can use it, but not to the maximum."
"There are some performance issues."
"Generative AI has taken pace, and I would like to see how DataRobot assists in doing generative AI and large language models."
"If we could include our existing Python or R code in DataRobot, we could make it even better. The DataRobot that we have is specific to an industry, but most of the time we would have our own algorithms, which are specific to our own use case. If we had a way by which we could integrate our proprietary things into DataRobot with a simple integration, it would help us a lot."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"You don't pay for Sagemaker. You only pay for the compute instances in your storage."
"The pricing is complicated as it is based on what kind of machines you are using, the type of storage, and the kind of computation."
"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"The solution is relatively cheaper."
"The cost offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. It depends on the instance that you do."
"We dropped the plan to use DataRobot, because we found the pricing to be on the higher sise. We liked DataRobot a lot, but due to the pricing, we dropped that idea."
"The price of DataRobot is good because if you take the price of the solution which is approximately $65,000, it is less than a data scientist. There are very few data scientists available."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Educational Organization
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
25%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

How would you compare Databricks vs Amazon SageMaker?
We researched AWS SageMaker, but in the end, we chose Databricks. Databricks is a Unified Analytics Platform designed to accelerate innovation projects. It is based on Spark so it is very fast. It...
What do you like most about Amazon SageMaker?
We've had experience with unique ML projects using SageMaker. For example, we're developing a platform similar to ChatGPT that requires models. We utilize Amazon SageMaker to create endpoints for t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
Pricing is rated as a six, which is slightly more expensive compared to the budget yet adequate for the capabilities provided. On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month.
What needs improvement with DataRobot?
There are some performance issues when it comes to improvements. They also offer storage-related services compared to other tools like Admin, Azure, or AWS. It is easy to plug and play. Third-party...
What is your primary use case for DataRobot?
We work on AI and ML use cases related to technology and IT.
What advice do you have for others considering DataRobot?
Based on your similar requirements, V10.0 has very cool features related to AI Generation. I would suggest the team, too. This is very good for data scientists or people who don't want to code. Eve...
 

Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
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Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit
Harmoney, Zidisha, ONE Marketing, DonorBureau, Trupanion, Avant
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