Dataiku vs IBM SPSS Modeler comparison

Dataiku and IBM are both solutions in the Data Science Platforms category. Dataiku is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while IBM is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0. Dataiku holds a 5.9% mindshare in Data Science Platforms, compared to IBM’s 3.2% 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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86% willing to recommend

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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

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM SPSS Modeler

Ranking in Data Science Platforms

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Mining (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Dataiku is 5.9%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 3.2%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dataiku	5.9%
IBM SPSS Modeler	3.2%
Other	90.9%

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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

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is one tool that can do everything, and you have the ability to very easily push your design to prediction."

"Data Science Studio's data science model is very useful."

"Using Dataiku has meant that we spend less time on preparing and cleaning data, and we spend less time on blending models together, ultimately meaning that we can spend more time modeling."

"The best features Dataiku offers include the ability for users to use the node without having to code and the functionality related to low-code/no-code."

"Dataiku has positively impacted my organization, specifically in one project where we performed migration from AWS to Dataiku, speeding up the solution by close to 40% and reducing architecture costs by almost 70%, which was a significant benefit and greatly impacted our operations."

"Dataiku has positively impacted my organization since we use it majorly for our day-to-day work, and it is very helpful in creating and managing ETL pipelines to create a project flow, making it easy to go back to any step and then make edits if some changes occur."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is one tool that can do everything, and you have the ability to very easily push your design to prediction."

"I consider the return on investment with Dataiku valuable because for us, it is one single platform where all our data scientists come together and work on any model building, so it is collaboration, plus having everything in one place, organized, having proper project management, and then built-in capabilities which help to facilitate model building."

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"It has provided us a lot of small wins that we could bring to our leadership and it has given them confidence with what we were doing in regards to analytics."

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

"The benefits are that this product makes us a more efficient sales staff, reducing the inefficiencies in the buying patterns of our customers by calling them when we know they're ready to order, instead of waiting for them to call us."

"We have been able to do some predictive modeling with it"

"We are creating models and putting them into production much faster than we would if we had just gone with a strict, code-based solution, like R or Python."

"Stability is good."

"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."

"The software is robust with advance statistical tools in hand from time series analysis to logistic regression, it can be used by banks for fraud detection, by convenience stores for market basket analysis, for cluster analysis on customer segmentation."

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Cons

"Server up-time needs to be improved. Also, query engines like Spark and Hive need to be more stable."

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

"The interface for the web app can be a bit difficult. It needs to have better capabilities, at least for developers who like to code. This is due to the fact that everything is enabled in a single window with different tabs. For them to actually develop and do the concurrent testing that needs to be done, it takes a bit of time. That is one improvement that I would like to see - from a web app developer perspective."

"Dataiku still needs some coding, and that could be a difference where business data scientists would go for DataRobot more than Dataiku."

"The license is very expensive. It would be great to have an intermediate license for basic treatments that do not require extensive experience."

"There is room for improvement in terms of allowing for more code-based features."

"I find that it is a little slow during use. When I use Dataiku to run my script to transfer data, it takes more time than I would expect for the operation to complete."

"Dataiku's scalability is not one of the best solutions to scale."

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"This tool has a lot of bugs."

"When I used it in the office, back in the day, we did have some stability issues. Sometimes it just randomly crashed and we couldn't get good feedback."

"The platform that you can deploy it on needs improvement because I think it is Windows only. I do not think it can run off a Red Hat, like the server products. I am pretty sure it is Windows and AIX only."

"It would be good if IBM added help resources to the interface."

"We would like to see better visualizations and easier integration with Cognos Analytics for reporting."

"The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood."

"There are issues, we try to mitigate them. There are always issues."

"Neural networks are quite simple, and now neural networks are evolving to these architecture related to deep learning, etc. They didn't incorporate this in IBM SPSS Modeler."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"It got us a good amount of money with quick and efficient modeling."

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

"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."

"It is an expensive product."

"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."

"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."

"It is a huge increase to time savings."

"The scalability was kind of limited by our ability to get other people licenses, and that was usually more of a financial constraint. It's expensive, but it's a good tool."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

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?

The licenses are a bit high for companies that are still hesitating to get started with using Dataiku. For my personal projects, I used the thirty-day free trial. Regarding my company, I did not ha...

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What needs improvement with Dataiku Data Science Studio?

I have no suggestions for improvements because it's all good; it just sometimes lags a lot, and I don't know if the server is full or what, but it sometimes takes a lot of time while loading and re...

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

My main use case for Dataiku involves ETL pipelines, mainly for data analysis, and I majorly use SQL queries for that. For ETL pipelines and data analysis, I had to create the output by combining a...

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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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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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