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DataRobot vs PyTorch comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

DataRobot
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (5th), AIOps (16th)
PyTorch
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of DataRobot is 1.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 1.3%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

SagarYadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Automating model comparison speeds up development and reduces timelines
DataRobot is equipped with a GUI-based approach that simplifies the process of feature engineering and model training. It provides AutoML capabilities, which allow for comparing thousands of models and selecting the best-suited one based on business requirements. By automating highly technical aspects like model comparison, DataRobot enhances productivity and reduces project timelines from three months to less than one month.
Rohan Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Enabled creation of innovative projects through developer-friendly features
The aspect I like most about PyTorch is that it is really developer-friendly. Developers can constantly create new things, and everyone around the world can use it for free because it's an open-source product. What I personally like is that PyTorch has enabled users to use Apple's M1 chip natively for GPU users. Unlike other libraries using CUDA, PyTorch utilizes Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) to enable GPU usage on M1 chips.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We especially like the initial part of feature engineering, because feature engineering is included in most engines, but DataRobot has an excellent way of picking up the right features."
"It's easy to do MLOps operations. It's a lot easier to manage jobs and see the logs if there's any drift in a model."
"By automating highly technical aspects like model comparison, DataRobot enhances productivity and reduces project timelines from three months to less than one month."
"DataRobot can be easy to use."
"DataRobot is highly automated, allowing data scientists to build models easily."
"PyTorch is developer-friendly, allowing developers to continuously create new projects."
"yTorch is gaining credibility in the research space, it's becoming easier to find examples of papers that use PyTorch. This is an advantage for someone who uses PyTorch primarily."
"Its interface is the most valuable. The ability to have an interface to train machine learning models and construct them with the high-level interface, without excess busting and reconstructing the same technical elements, is very useful."
"I like that PyTorch actually follows the pythonic way, and I feel that it's quite easy. It's easy to find compared to others who require us to type a long paragraph of code."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
"I like PyTorch's scalability."
 

Cons

"If we could include our existing Python or R code in DataRobot, we could make it even better. The DataRobot that we have is specific to an industry, but most of the time we would have our own algorithms, which are specific to our own use case. If we had a way by which we could integrate our proprietary things into DataRobot with a simple integration, it would help us a lot."
"DataRobot is a UI-based tool, which means it cannot provide all the features I might manually implement through notebooks or Python. In this aspect, I see room for improvement in its functionality."
"The business departments will love to work with DataRobot because they use the tool to investigate their data, such as targeting what they want to investigate. They don't need any data scientists near them. They can investigate at eye level and bring into the BI tool, or can bring it to the data scientist. Data scientists can use this tool to bring increase the solution to the maximum. All the others can use it, but not to the maximum."
"Generative AI has taken pace, and I would like to see how DataRobot assists in doing generative AI and large language models."
"There are some performance issues."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"I do not have any complaints."
"On the production side of things, having more frameworks would be helpful."
"The product has certain shortcomings in the automation of machine learning."
"I would like a model to be available. I think Google recently released a new version of EfficientNet. It's a really good classifier, and a PyTorch implementation would be nice."
"PyTorch needs improvement in working on ARM-based chips. They have unified memory for GPU and RAM, however, current GPUs used for processing are slow."
"I would like to see better learning documents."
"PyTorch could make certain things more obvious. Even though it does make things like defining loss functions and calculating gradients in backward propagation clear, these concepts may confuse beginners. We find that it's kind of problematic. Despite having methods called on loss functions during backward passes, the oral documentation for beginners is quite complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of DataRobot is good because if you take the price of the solution which is approximately $65,000, it is less than a data scientist. There are very few data scientists available."
"We dropped the plan to use DataRobot, because we found the pricing to be on the higher sise. We liked DataRobot a lot, but due to the pricing, we dropped that idea."
"PyTorch is open source."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"It is free."
"The solution is affordable."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
21%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
31%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with DataRobot?
DataRobot is a UI-based tool, which means it cannot provide all the features I might manually implement through notebooks or Python. In this aspect, I see room for improvement in its functionality.
What is your primary use case for DataRobot?
In our day-to-day use, I utilize DataRobot to speed up our development process through its GUI capability. Once I set up our connection with a back-end data set, whatever the project I work on next...
What advice do you have for others considering DataRobot?
I would recommend DataRobot because if there is something not included in the UI, I have the freedom to use its Python API, which extends the capability for different use cases. Additionally, I wou...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PyTorch?
I haven't gone for a paid plan yet. I've just been using the free trial or open-source version.
What needs improvement with PyTorch?
PyTorch needs improvement in working on ARM-based chips. Although they have unified memory for GPU and RAM, they are unable to utilize these GPUs for processing efficiently. They take so much time....
 

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