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Amazon SageMaker vs DataRobot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 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

Amazon SageMaker
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (2nd)
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 (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 5.3%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DataRobot is 1.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Saurabh Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Create innovative assistants with seamless data integration for large-scale projects
The various integration options available in Amazon SageMaker ( /products/amazon-sagemaker-reviews ), such as Firehose for connecting to data pipelines, are simple to use. Tools like AWS Glue ( /products/aws-glue-reviews ) integrate well for data transformations. The Databricks ( /products/databricks-reviews ) integration aids data scientists and engineers. SageMaker is fully managed, offers high availability, flexibility with TensorFlow ( /products/tensorflow-reviews ), PyTorch ( /products/pytorch-reviews ), and MXNet ( /products/mxnet-reviews ), and comes with pre-trained algorithms for forecasting, anomaly detection, and more.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The few projects we have done have been promising."
"They are doing a good job of evolving."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is SageMaker Studio."
"The most valuable features are the ability to store artifacts and gather reports and measures from experiments."
"The tool has made client management easier where patients need to upload their health records and we can use the tool to understand details on treatment date, amount, etc."
"The Autopilot feature is really good because it's helpful for people who don't have much experience with coding or data pipelines. When we suggest SageMaker to clients, they don't have to go through all the steps manually. They can leverage Autopilot to choose variables, run experiments, and monitor costs. The results are also pretty accurate."
"I recommend SageMaker for ML projects if you need to build models from scratch."
"I have contacted the solution's technical support, and they were really good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"DataRobot is highly automated, allowing data scientists to build models easily."
"DataRobot can be easy to use."
"By automating highly technical aspects like model comparison, DataRobot enhances productivity and reduces project timelines from three months to less than one month."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"The payment and monitoring metrics are a bit confusing not only for Amazon SageMaker but also for the range of other products that fall under AWS, especially for a new user of the product."
"Improvements are needed in terms of complexity, data security, and access policy integration in Amazon SageMaker."
"The solution needs to be cheaper since it now charges per document for extraction."
"SageMaker would be improved with the addition of reporting services."
"There is room for improvement in the collaboration with serverless architecture, particularly integration with AWS Lambda."
"In my opinion, one improvement for Amazon SageMaker would be to offer serverless GPUs. Currently, we incur costs on an hourly basis. It would be beneficial if the tool could provide pay-as-you-go pricing based on endpoints."
"I had to create custom templates for labeling multi-data sets, such as text and images, which was time-consuming."
"The product must provide better documentation."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The support costs are 10% of the Amazon fees and it comes by default."
"SageMaker is worth the money for our use case."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"The pricing is complicated as it is based on what kind of machines you are using, the type of storage, and the kind of computation."
"The pricing is comparable."
"The solution is relatively cheaper."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"I rate the pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price, and ten is the highest price. The solution is priced reasonably. There is no additional cost to be paid in excess of the standard licensing fees."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Educational Organization
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

How would you compare Databricks vs Amazon SageMaker?
We researched AWS SageMaker, but in the end, we chose Databricks. Databricks is a Unified Analytics Platform designed to accelerate innovation projects. It is based on Spark so it is very fast. It...
What do you like most about Amazon SageMaker?
We've had experience with unique ML projects using SageMaker. For example, we're developing a platform similar to ChatGPT that requires models. We utilize Amazon SageMaker to create endpoints for t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
The pricing is high, around an eight. However, SageMaker offers free trials for the first two months, allowing users to determine which features they need. It is considered value for money given it...
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...
 

Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
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Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit
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