Alteryx Designer vs SAS Access comparison

Alteryx and SAS are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Alteryx is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.2, while SAS is ranked #63. Alteryx holds a 1.5% mindshare in DI, compared to SAS’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Alteryx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAS users who would recommend it.

Alteryx Designer

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90% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAS Access and Alteryx Designer are products in data analysis, competing in features, deployment, and pricing. Users prefer Alteryx Designer due to its user-friendly interface and automation capabilities.

Features: SAS Access provides direct, secure data access, robust integration options, and high-speed data management. Alteryx Designer offers a visual workflow interface for seamless data extraction, transformation, and analysis. It also allows easy automation of manual processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAS Access requires extensive environment-specific configurations for deployment. Alteryx Designer offers straightforward deployment with user-friendly tools, cloud integration, and comprehensive support.

Pricing and ROI: SAS Access has higher initial setup costs due to licensing and infrastructure needs. Alteryx Designer offers lower setup costs and significant ROI through streamlined operations and reduced labor overhead.

To learn more, read our detailed Alteryx Designer vs. SAS Access Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer

Ranking in Data Integration

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAS Access

Ranking in Data Integration

63rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 1.5%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Access is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Alteryx Designer	1.5%
SAS Access	0.6%
Other	97.9%

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Featured Reviews

Prince Raju

Lead Data Analyst at Ernst & Young

Powerful tool for cleansing, formatting, and transforming data – especially unstructured files

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis. So, Alteryx Designer have significantly reduced the time I spend on data analysis tasks. Moreover, the drag-and-drop interface of Alteryx Designer improved our overall workflow.

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Robert Heck

Co Owner at Hecht und Heck GmbH

The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible

I rate the solution eight out of ten. The number of people required to maintain the solution is dependent on the other applications running. The solution in itself does not require a lot of maintenance. The solution is flexible and I recommend it when you have more complex applications with special requirements.

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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 tool's most valuable feature is its API connections. Its predictive analytics feature has helped us pass some ETL processes to analysts rather than developers."

"The solution is easy to integrate and user-friendly."

"When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."

"For my daily analytics needs, the entire Alteryx Designer platform is beneficial."

"It has great UI."

"Alteryx Designer's best features are that it's easy to use and performs well."

"Alteryx Designer offers a drag-and-drop interface, making it highly user-friendly. Unlike Python and Apache Airflow, which require coding, Alteryx allows users to accomplish tasks without any programming knowledge. Its simplicity makes it accessible to anyone, even those without coding experience, and this ease of use is one of Alteryx's key advantages."

"Alteryx is quite easy to use, learn, and understand as a product."

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"The most valuable part of SAS/ACCESS is what it is made for: connecting to remote systems that are not part of your physical SAS environment."

"The most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ease of access to the data in those databases."

Cons

"Alteryx Designer is not as fast as SSIS and is not good for large datasets. It also needs to improve database procedures. Though it is easy to use, it is limited in terms of technical aspects."

"The actual usage part of it needs to be explained more. It's too vague right now."

"Alteryx Designer overall should be easier to use."

"An improvement for Alteryx Designer would be faster bug fixes and updates."

"Alteryx Designer's cost should be improved."

"Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, the solution works slowly."

"Alteryx Designer's pricing and support could be improved."

"Alteryx needs to improve its web governance. The gallery you use to filter the data is something else that could use some work. For instance, if you have a report connected to a database and want to filter a specific user, you should be able to suggest a specific region or a particular year. I know that the Alteryx isn't designed for data governance, but that would be great to think about."

More Alteryx Designer cons

"I can't really recall any missing feature or general improvement that is needed. We don't really add too many new kinds of databases and therefore our needs are already met."

"The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."

"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

"The product is a bit expensive, it should be looked into."

"It is too expensive for our country. We are a small country, so it is too difficult to sell this solution. With Alteryx Designer, if you want to automate the data and run the flows, you have to pay more money. We were trying to automate the flows, and we found out that people have to pay 600 more for this feature, which makes it even more expensive. We are a partner for Tableau, and we are working with Tableau Prep, which is like a mini Alteryx. In Tableau Prep, you can drag and drop and make new connections with the different data sources. You can make all the connections. You can also publish a source. You don't have to pay more money with Tableau. You pay like $5 per user per month to access it."

"The licenses are expensive, making it difficult to consider acquiring additional licenses to the existing ones."

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

"The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year."

"The pricing is bit expensive."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer as a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is a highly cheap product."

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"The pricing model is complex and is based on modular packages as well as the size of the applicable environment."

"The solution's pricing and licensing are expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	17

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?

It's cheaper than Palantir, but even Alteryx is too much for small clients. It is expensive, considering the server capabilities.

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What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?

For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times.

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SAS/Access

Overview

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Alteryx

SAS/ACCESS is an out-of-the-box solution for integrating SAS and third-party databases. You can read, write and update data regardless of the database or platform. Because the data appears native to SAS, there is no need to learn Structured Query Language (SQL) or any other database-specific query languages.

SAS

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Los Angeles County, West Midlands Police, Credit Guarantee Corporation, Canada Post, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty

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