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Dataiku vs IBM SPSS Modeler comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Dataiku
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
21
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
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 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
ProductMindshare (%)
Dataiku6.7%
IBM SPSS Modeler3.5%
Other89.8%
Data Science Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

SK
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.
RB
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I believe the return on investment looks positive."
"The most valuable feature is the set of visual data preparation tools."
"I like the interface, which is probably my favorite part of the solution; it is really user-friendly, colorful, and I think it is really beautiful and well-designed."
"Technical support is really, really good."
"The solution is quite stable."
"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."
"Data Science Studio's data science model is very useful."
"Dataiku is highly regarded as it is a leader in the Gartner ranking."
"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 quality is very good."
"I would say it has saved us a lot of time, about 20 or 30% of our time."
"We had an IBM Guardium service contract where we used one of their resources to help us develop our prototype. It was a good experience, but they were helpful and responsive."
"Projecting models, forecasting, being able to incorporate things that we could only imagine, and coming into new, faster learning capabilities from it."
"I would recommend SPSS to someone who has just started trying to run a lot of modeling, it's a good starting point."
"We have full control of the data handling process."
"Our go live process has been slightly enhanced compared to the previous programmatic process, and there is now a faster time to production from the business end."
 

Cons

"We still encounter some integration issues."
"Server up-time needs to be improved. Also, query engines like Spark and Hive need to be more stable."
"I think it would help if Data Science Studio added some more features and improved the data model."
"The license is very expensive. It would be great to have an intermediate license for basic treatments that do not require extensive experience."
"The technical support from Dataiku is not good. The support team does not provide adequate assistance, and there are concerns about billing requests."
"All products have room for improvement, and I would like to see their pricing simplified, as it is somewhat complex."
"Dataiku's scalability is not one of the best solutions to scale."
"I find that it is a little slow during use. It takes more time than I would expect for operations to complete."
"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."
"I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."
"Requires more development."
"It would be good if IBM added help resources to the interface."
"It would be helpful if SPSS supported open-source features, for example, embedding R or Python scripts in SPSS Modeler."
"When I do clustering, I want to try a different stream, but currently the only thing that I can really pick is averaging."
"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."
"The time series is a very important issue, however, it is not given its value in the package as it should be."
 

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."
"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."
"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."
"$5,000 annually."
"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."
"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."
"Having in mind all four tools from Garner’s top quadrant, the pricing of this tool is competitive and it reflects the quality that it offers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
University
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise32
 

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.
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...
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...
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...
What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Modeler?
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 ...
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...
 

Also Known As

Dataiku DSS
SPSS Modeler
 

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Sample Customers

BGL BNP Paribas, Dentsu Aegis, Link Mobility Group, AramisAuto
Reisebªro Idealtours GmbH, MedeAnalytics, Afni, Israel Electric Corporation, Nedbank Ltd., DigitalGlobe, Vodafone Hungary, Aegon Hungary, Bureau Veritas, Brammer Group, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, InSites Consulting, Fortis Turkey
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