Dataiku vs IBM SPSS Modeler comparison

Dataiku and IBM are both solutions in the Data Science Platforms category. Dataiku is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while IBM is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0. Dataiku holds a 6.7% mindshare in Data Science Platforms, compared to IBM’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dataiku users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

IBM SPSS Modeler and Dataiku are leading tools in data analysis and modeling. Dataiku is often preferred for its comprehensive features that many users feel justify the higher cost.

Features:IBM SPSS Modeler excels in predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and integration with IBM's ecosystem. It offers robust visual programming capabilities and combines different techniques like regression and neural networks in one node. Dataiku stands out with its collaborative data science platform, extensive machine learning tools, and easy integration with diverse data environments. It provides advanced data preparation and supports code from languages like Python and R.

Room for Improvement:IBM SPSS Modeler's visual modeling is less advanced than other software solutions, and its integration for governance and security needs to be enhanced. It's complex to use for beginners without data science expertise. Dataiku could improve its cost efficiency as the perceived value often comes with a steep price. Its user interface, while comprehensive, can be overwhelming for new users, and some users feel the automation of certain tasks could be further developed to enhance usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:IBM SPSS Modeler provides a structured deployment process with support from IBM’s network, which some users find rigid. Dataiku offers a flexible deployment model, favoring seamless integration and iterative updates, coupled with a responsive support team that provides personalized attention.

Pricing and ROI:IBM SPSS Modeler involves a higher initial setup cost due to its enterprise-grade features, promising long-term value with an emphasis on advanced analytics. Dataiku presents a scalable pricing structure, appealing to businesses seeking flexible data solutions. Both offer valuable returns, with IBM focusing on comprehensive analytics and Dataiku on flexibility and scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

Dataiku

Ranking in Data Science Platforms

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM SPSS Modeler

Ranking in Data Science Platforms

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Mining (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Dataiku is 6.7%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 3.5%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dataiku	6.7%
IBM SPSS Modeler	3.5%
Other	89.8%

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Shubhamkumar Gomar

Senior Data Scientist at Deloitte

Visual workflows have streamlined healthcare analytics and have reduced reporting time significantly

In terms of improvement, I cannot comment on the LLMs or the agentic view as I have not used them yet. However, I feel that better documentation is necessary. Dataiku should establish a stronger community since this is proprietary software, where users can share knowledge. Although they have some community interaction, it is often challenging to find assistance when stuck. For example, when I was new to Dataiku and trying to use an external optimization tool such as CPLEX, I struggled with resource directory linking to a project's notebook. Detailed documentation and community discussions could have significantly alleviated these issues for users such as myself.

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Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bisping

Business Owner at SASS GmbH

Support and flexibility enable effective project initiation and meet customer needs but deployment requires enhancement

The customer comes to you and says they want to deploy it and make a production out of this, which is very difficult and expensive with IBM SPSS Modeler. With MATLAB, there is no problem. I have a solution, and then I convert my MATLAB solution to C programming language. This I can deploy, and I can check it, and it is MISRA compatible. It is very easy to deploy it, to go from MATLAB to C or C++, which is actually needed in the car industry. In the car industry, they want to have it in the hardware. You cannot put MATLAB or IBM SPSS Modeler in the hardware of a car, but with C, there is no problem with a microcontroller. They can shoot it into the microcontroller, and I can check it with Polyspace, and it is MISRA compatible, which is an industrial standard. There is nothing similar in IBM SPSS Modeler. I made solutions with IBM SPSS Modeler, and then the customer said they wanted to make a production out of it, and it was not possible. I stopped with IBM SPSS Modeler 18. It is now 18.6 from what I know at the moment. I do not believe that there is a possibility to design a graphic user interface with it. It is itself a graphic user interface, where you put all sorts of little icons into the display.

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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

"Dataiku is really a very intuitive platform that allows you to carry out data projects from end to end, with the opportunity to reuse templates, models, and recipes, which is one of the big advantages of using it."

"The advantage is that you can focus on machine learning while having access to what they call 'recipes.' These recipes allow me to preprocess and prepare data without writing any code."

"I rate the overall product as eight out of ten."

"Cloud-based process run helps in not keeping the systems on while processes are running."

"I believe the return on investment looks positive."

"One of the valuable features of Dataiku is the workflow capability."

"If many teams are collaborating and sharing Jupyter notebooks, it's very useful."

"Dataiku is a complete platform to build ETL and data pipeline and deploy it, which I appreciate."

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"We have full control of the data handling process."

"It handles large data better than the previous system that we were using, which was basically Excel and Access. We serve upwards of 300,000 parts over a 150 regions and we need to crunch a lot of numbers."

"You take two quarters and compare them and this tool is ideal because it gives you a lot of visibility on the before and after."

"Some basic form of feature engineering for classification models. This really quickens the model development process."

"Very good data aggregation."

"The quality is very good."

"Extremely easy to use, it offers a generous selection of proprietary machine learning algorithms."

"IBM was chosen because of usability. It's point and click, whereas the other out-of-the box-solution, or open-source solutions, require full-on programming and a much higher skill level."

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Cons

"Maybe on the interface in general, the information can easily get lost."

"In terms of enhancing collaboration within my team, I would not say Dataiku is the best one because it's so expensive."

"All products have room for improvement, and I would like to see their pricing simplified, as it is somewhat complex."

"Although known for Big Data, the processing time to process 1.8 billion records was terribly slow (five days)."

"The ability to have charts right from the explorer would be an improvement."

"I think the pricing and licensing of Dataiku is a bit expensive; it could be improved further, and I think they should have a different kind of licensing model as well."

"I have not seen a return on investment with Dataiku in terms of time saved, money saved, or fewer employees needed."

"I find that it is a little slow during use. It takes more time than I would expect for operations to complete."

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"It would be helpful if SPSS supported open-source features, for example, embedding R or Python scripts in SPSS Modeler."

"I can say the solution is outdated."

"Time Series or forecasting needs to be easier. It is a very important feature, and it should be made easier and more automated to use. For instance, for logistic regression, binary or multinomial is used automatically based on the type of the target variable. I wish they can make Time Series easier to use in a similar way."

"It is not integrated with Qlik, Tableau, and Power BI."

"Dimension reduction should be classified separately."

"There are performance issues. Extracting data from many combined tables can take hours and occasionally crash the server due to memory leaks. This performance problem bothers people. The performance issue seems to be related to the server. We design streams on the client and submit them to the server, which generates a large SQL statement. There are two potential bottlenecks: one in the server and another in data extraction. I'm unsure about the exact mechanics of data splitting when fetching from the database."

"It is very good, but slow. The slowness may be because we have not finalized all the background information in SPSS. It still needs some tweaking."

"Customer support is hard to contact."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is pretty steep. Dataiku is also not that cheap."

"The annual licensing fees are approximately €20 ($22 USD) per key for the basic version and €40 ($44 USD) per key for the version with everything."

"It is a huge increase to time savings."

"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."

"The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten users use the server with ten licenses, it runs faster. But if forty users use the same appliance, everything slows down. People then think it's not easy to do things and prefer using remote tools like Python to extract data from the database. It's not about being expensive or cheap, but about people's knowledge and experience in how to do the work."

"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."

"It is an expensive product."

"$5,000 annually."

"When you are close to end of quarter, IBM and its partners can get you 60% to 70% discounts, so literally wait for the last day of the quarter for the best prices. You may feel like you are getting robbed if you can't receive a good discount."

"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	32

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dataiku Data Science Studio?

I am not the person involved in the process regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

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What needs improvement with Dataiku Data Science Studio?

To improve Dataiku, it could enhance its visualization features, as it is not possible in Dataiku to create direct visualizations or to integrate a web app directly or in a simpler way as it is pos...

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What is your primary use case for Dataiku Data Science Studio?

My main use case for Dataiku is for data science and AI projects. I use Dataiku for a demand forecasting use case where the objective is to predict the demand for each product for the next four mon...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM SPSS Modeler?

The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten us...

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What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Modeler?

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What is your primary use case for IBM SPSS Modeler?

I have been using IBM SPSS Modeler for a long time. I am using IBM SPSS Modeler mainly for ETL. Sometimes I use it to compare the results of the modeling as compared to MATLAB. MATLAB is the main t...

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Dataiku DSS

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Overview

Dataiku Data Science Studio is acclaimed for its versatile capabilities in advanced analytics, data preparation, machine learning, and visualization. It streamlines complex data tasks with an intuitive visual interface, supports multiple languages like Python, R, SQL, and scales efficiently for large dataset handling, boosting organizational efficiency and collaboration.

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IBM SPSS Modeler is an extensive predictive analytics platform that is designed to bring predictive intelligence to decisions made by individuals, groups, systems and the enterprise. By providing a range of advanced algorithms and techniques that include text analytics, entity analytics, decision management and optimization, SPSS Modeler can help you consistently make the right decisions from the desktop or within operational systems.

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