Amazon SageMaker vs SAS Enterprise Miner comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAS are both solutions in the Data Science Platforms category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while SAS is ranked #24. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 5.7% mindshare in Data Science Platforms, compared to SAS’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of SAS users who would recommend it.

Amazon SageMaker

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

SAS Enterprise Miner and Amazon SageMaker compete in the analytical and predictive modeling market. Amazon SageMaker has the upper hand due to its comprehensive integration capabilities and scalability.

Features: SAS Enterprise Miner provides robust data manipulation, in-depth statistical analysis, and decision tree creation. It supports rich model diagnostics, visual data exploration, and seamless data processing. Amazon SageMaker offers seamless AWS integration, model deployment services, and automated hyperparameter tuning. It supports built-in algorithms, Jupyter Notebooks, and advanced model monitoring.

Room for Improvement: SAS Enterprise Miner can enhance its scalability and integration capabilities, improve cloud integration, and offer more diverse language support. Amazon SageMaker could improve user-friendliness for non-experts, reduce dependency on AWS infrastructure, and expand initial training resources for beginners.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon SageMaker leverages AWS's cloud infrastructure for rapid deployment and efficiency, benefiting from AWS's extensive support. SAS Enterprise Miner requires traditional installations but offers dedicated customer support for its users.

Pricing and ROI: SAS Enterprise Miner typically involves higher upfront costs but provides substantial long-term ROI. Amazon SageMaker, with its pay-as-you-go pricing, allows cost-effective scaling and faster ROI realization. Its flexible pricing model supports rapid implementation and alignment with business needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon SageMaker

Ranking in Data Science Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI Development Platforms (4th)

SAS Enterprise Miner

Ranking in Data Science Platforms

24th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Mining (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 5.7%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Enterprise Miner is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Science Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon SageMaker	5.7%
SAS Enterprise Miner	1.2%
Other	93.1%

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Saurabh Jaiswal

Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company

Create innovative assistants with seamless data integration for large-scale projects

The various integration options available in Amazon SageMaker, such as Firehose for connecting to data pipelines, are simple to use. Tools like AWS Glue integrate well for data transformations. The Databricks integration aids data scientists and engineers. SageMaker is fully managed, offers high availability, flexibility with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, and comes with pre-trained algorithms for forecasting, anomaly detection, and more.

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reviewer1352853

Executive Head of analytics at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

A stable product that is easy to deploy and can be used for structured and unstructured data mining

We use the solution for predictive analytics to do structured and unstructured data mining I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline. The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies. I have been using the solution for 20 years. The product is very…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Feature Store, CodeCommit, versioning, model control, and CI/CD pipelines are the most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker."

"They offer insights into everyone making calls in my organization."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker for me is the model deployment service."

"The superb thing that SageMaker brings is that it wraps everything well. It's got the deployment, the whole framework."

"They are doing a good job of evolving."

"The technical support of the tool was good."

"The few projects we have done have been promising."

"The most valuable features include the ML operations that allow for designing, deploying, testing, and evaluating models."

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"The setup is straightforward. Deployment doesn't take more than 30 minutes."

"The technical support is very good."

"The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully."

"The most valuable feature is that you can use multiple algorithms for creating models and then you can compare the results between them."

"Most of the features, especially on the data analysis tool pack, are really good. The way they do clustering and output is great. You can do fairly elaborate outputs. The results, the ensembles, all of these, are fantastic."

"he solution is scalable."

"The solution is very good for data mining or any mining issues."

"The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation."

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Cons

"The documentation must be made clearer and more user-friendly."

"One area where Amazon SageMaker could improve is its pricing. The high costs can drive companies to explore other cloud options. Additionally, while generally good, the updates sometimes come with bugs, and the documentation could be much better. More examples and clearer guidance would be helpful."

"I would suggest that Amazon SageMaker provide free slots to allow customers to practice, such as a free slot to try out working with a Sandbox."

"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 training modules could be enhanced. We had to take in-person training to fully understand SageMaker, and while the trainers were great, I think more comprehensive online modules would be helpful."

"The main challenge with Amazon SageMaker is the integrations."

"The model repository is a concern as models are stored on a bucket and there's an issue with versioning."

"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."

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"The solution is very stable, but we do have some problems with discrepancies involving SAS not matching with the latest Java versions. It's not stable in cases where SAS tries to run on a different version because SAS doesn't connect with the latest Java update. Once a month we need to restart systems from scratch."

"The ease of use can be improved. When you are new it seems a bit complex."

"The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies."

"The user interface of the solution needs improvement. It needs to be more visual."

"The visualization of the models is not very attractive, so the graphics should be improved."

"Technical support could be improved."

"While I don't personally need tutorials, I can't say that it wouldn't be helpful for others to have some to help them navigate and operate the system."

"The solution is much more complex than other options."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You don't pay for Sagemaker. You only pay for the compute instances in your storage."

"On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month."

"SageMaker is worth the money for our use case."

"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."

"The pricing is comparable."

"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."

"I rate the pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price, and ten is the highest price. The solution is priced reasonably. There is no additional cost to be paid in excess of the standard licensing fees."

"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."

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"The solution must improve its licensing models."

"This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."

"The solution is expensive for an individual, but for an enterprise/institution (purchasing bulk licenses), it is not a high price for the use that will come from it."

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

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University

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28%

Educational Organization

11%

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Small Business	3
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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...

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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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?

If you manage it effectively, their pricing is reasonable. It's similar to anything in the cloud; if you don't manage it properly, it can be expensive, but if you do, it's fine.

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Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker

Enterprise Miner

Overview

Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker removes all the barriers that typically slow down developers who want to use machine learning.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SAS Enterprise Miner is a solution to create accurate predictive and descriptive models on large volumes of data across different sources in the organization. SAS Enterprise Miner offers many features and functionalities for the business analysts to model their data. Some of the business applications are for detecting fraud, minimizing risk, resource demands, reducing asset downtime, campaigns and reduce customer attrition.

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Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit

Generali Hellas, Gitanjali Group, Gloucestershire Constabulary, GS Home Shopping, HealthPartners, IAG New Zealand, iJET, Invacare

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