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Altair RapidMiner vs IBM SPSS Modeler vs SAS Enterprise Miner comparison

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Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Altair RapidMiner is 3.1%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 3.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Enterprise Miner is 2.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Altair RapidMiner3.1%
IBM SPSS Modeler3.0%
SAS Enterprise Miner2.2%
Other91.7%
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Featured Reviews

SP
Solution Architect at Hitachi Digital Services
Visual workflows have empowered teams to build and deploy reliable predictive maintenance models
The best features Altair RapidMiner offers in my experience are the visual workflow designer in AI Studio, which is the foundation of everything. Building complete machine learning pipelines, data ingestion, transformation, feature engineering, model training, validation, and deployment in a drag-and-drop visual environment without extensive coding is what makes this accessible to organizations that cannot staff a team of Python developers for every analytics project. That capability opens the door.Auto Model is the feature I lean on most when doing rapid prototyping with clients. It evaluates multiple algorithms automatically, surfaces the best-performing model for the data, and explains why. That dramatically compresses the experimentation phase. What would take a data scientist days of manual testing, Auto Model does in an hour.
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.
reviewer1352853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Head of analytics at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
A stable product that is easy to deploy and can be used for structured and unstructured data mining
We use the solution for predictive analytics to do structured and unstructured data mining I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline. The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies. I have been using the solution for 20 years. The product is very…

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

Pros

"The GUI capabilities of the solution are excellent. Their Auto ML model provides for even non-coder data scientists to deploy a model."
"Altair RapidMiner is appreciated for its ease of use and the CRISP data mining model it supports, covering steps like data preparation, data understanding, and business understanding."
"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it is code free. It is similar to playing with Lego pieces and executing after you are finished to see the results. Additionally, it is easy to use and has interesting utilities when preparing the data. It has a utility to automatically launch a series of models and show the comparisons. When finished with the comparisons you can select the best one, and deploy it automatically."
"This solution is a great tool for users that are experimenting and is an alternative to doing the coding and everything themselves."
"Since the beginning, we had a really nice onboarding experience with RapidMiner."
"RapidMiner has a freemium pricing model so, as long as your dataset has fewer than 10,000 rows, you have free software."
"RapidMiner has moved companies toward being more data-driven."
"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it can read a large number of file formats including CSV, Excel, and in particular, SPSS."
"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."
"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."
"It's a very organized product. It's easy to use."
"It helped me in that I didn't need to write them by hand, and I could get a result in one or two minutes. That helped me a lot."
"​It works fine. I have not had any stability issues; it is always up.​"
"A lot of jobs that are stuck in Excel due to the huge numbers of rows are tackled pretty quickly."
"It is a great tool even for an individual with no or basic predictive modeling experience."
"Some basic form of feature engineering for classification models. This really quickens the model development process."
"he solution is scalable."
"SAS internal support is very qualified and if we have any issues, we contact them and trust that they can help."
"The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation."
"The data processing of the solution is very good, easy to use, both for enterprise and personal use."
"I found the ease of use of the solution the most valuable."
"I found the ease of use of the solution the most valuable. Additionally, other valuable features include: the user interface, power to extract data, compatibility with other technologies (specifically with PS400), and automation of several tasks."
"The setup is straightforward. Deployment doesn't take more than 30 minutes."
"I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline."
 

Cons

"RapidMiner can improve deep learning by enhancing the features."
"I would like to see all users have access to all of the deep learning models, and that they can be used easily."
"The price of this solution should be improved."
"Currently, I am unsure of all the AI features available in Altair RapidMiner, particularly advanced AI capabilities like neural networks and deep learning."
"Altair RapidMiner can be improved as the cloud-native story is still maturing."
"I would like to see wider adoption of the RapidMiner platform by the Open Source community as a viable alternative/companion to Python and R."
"Regarding Altair RapidMiner's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are not the greatest."
"About twenty-five percent of my problems involve image processing, and I found RapidMiner lacking in this domain. While we work on OCR and similar tasks, RapidMiner hasn't been as engaged in that field as other models. Some other models also support email processing, but RapidMiner doesn't offer this feature."
"The software is quite expensive and IBM is currently marketing its other digital dashboard tools such as IBM cognos, now we aren't sure on the plans of IBM integrating these two softwares."
"Dimension reduction should be classified separately."
"Setup is a little problematic for desktop. A nightmare for server."
"If IBM could add some of the popular models into the SPSS for further analysis, like popular regression models, I think that would be a helpful improvement."
"Formula writing is not straightforward for an Excel user. Totally new set of functions, which takes time to learn and teach."
"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."
"C&DS will not meet our scalability needs."
"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."
"Virtualization could be much better."
"The visualization of the models is not very attractive, so the graphics should be improved."
"The initial setup is challenging if doing it for the first time."
"The preparation of both the mining and modeling process could be improved. The solution requires data and will reflect data, but the preparation of the data is not useful for end-users; we ended up having to do the preparation in another tool."
"The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies."
"The solution is quite expensive. The pricing is too high."
"The solution is very stable, but we do have some problems with discrepancies involving SAS not matching with the latest Java versions. It's not stable in cases where SAS tries to run on a different version because SAS doesn't connect with the latest Java update. Once a month we need to restart systems from scratch."
"The stability isn't perfect. We have issues with accuracy in some AI forecasting areas, and the accuracy is not as good as the clients need it to be."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For the university, the cost of the solution is free for the students and teachers."
"I used an educational license for this solution, which is available free of charge."
"The client only has to pay the licensing costs. There are not any maintenance or hidden costs in addition to the license."
"I'm not fully aware of RapidMiner's price because we had licenses provided, but from my analysis, it's moderately priced, not too high or too low. It's worth the investment."
"Although we don't pay licensing fees because it is being used within the university, my understanding is that the cost is between $5,000 and $10,000 USD per year."
"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."
"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."
"It is an expensive product."
"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."
"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."
"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."
"This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."
"The solution must improve its licensing models."
"The solution is expensive for an individual, but for an enterprise/institution (purchasing bulk licenses), it is not a high price for the use that will come from it."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Construction Company
13%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RapidMiner?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that the licensing model is based on Altair Units, which ...
What needs improvement with RapidMiner?
Altair RapidMiner can be improved by enhancing the newer GenAI features, which are interesting but honestly still qui...
What is your primary use case for RapidMiner?
My main use case for Altair RapidMiner is predictive quality analysis on the manufacturing site, as Wagner Spraytech ...
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 bud...
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 ...
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...
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