No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Dataiku vs IBM SPSS Modeler comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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
2nd
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
13th
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 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
ProductMindshare (%)
Dataiku5.9%
IBM SPSS Modeler3.2%
Other90.9%
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

"One of the valuable features of Dataiku is the workflow capability."
"Dataiku is highly regarded as it is a leader in the Gartner ranking."
"I like the interface, which is probably my favorite part of the solution. It is really user-friendly for an IT person."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is the set of visual data preparation tools."
"Cloud-based process run helps in not keeping the systems on while processes are running."
"Data Science Studio's data science model is very useful."
"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."
"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."
"A lot of jobs that are stuck in Excel due to the huge numbers of rows are tackled pretty quickly."
"It’s definitely scalable, it’s all on the same platform, it’s well integrated. I think the integration is important in terms of scalablility because essentially, having the entire suite helps a lot to scale it"
"We had an IBM Guardium service contract where we used one of their resources to help us develop our prototype."
"Automated modelling, classification, or clustering are very useful."
"Our go live process has been slightly enhanced compared to the previous programmatic process. There is now a faster time to production from the business end."
"Quickness and ease of use with the guarantee of robust modeling techniques and trustworthy accuracy."
"It is very scalable for non-technical people."
 

Cons

"We still encounter some integration issues."
"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."
"Dataiku's scalability is not one of the best solutions to scale."
"The license is very expensive. It would be great to have an intermediate license for basic treatments that do not require extensive experience."
"I think it would help if Data Science Studio added some more features and improved the data model."
"The technical support from Dataiku is not good. The support team does not provide adequate assistance, and there are concerns about billing requests."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see deep learning better integrated into the tool and not simply an extension or plugin."
"Maybe on the interface in general, the information can easily get lost."
"We have run into a few problems doing some entity matching/analytics."
"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."
"It's very stable, although it is not as user friendly as it could be."
"The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood."
"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. But when I use it for my own stuff now I don't have any problems."
"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."
"I would not rate the technical support very well. The technicians have accents, and when you do find someone, it is very hard to get somebody able to answer the technical questions."
"It's not as user friendly as it could 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."
"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."
"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."
"$5,000 annually."
"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."
"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."
"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."
"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Data Science Platforms solutions are best for your needs.
886,468 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
University
8%
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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Dataiku DSS
SPSS Modeler
 

Overview

 

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
Find out what your peers are saying about Dataiku vs. IBM SPSS Modeler and other solutions. Updated: March 2026.
886,468 professionals have used our research since 2012.