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H2O.ai vs IBM SPSS Modeler comparison

 

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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

H2O.ai
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
16th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Model Monitoring (4th)
IBM SPSS Modeler
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
19th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of H2O.ai is 1.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 2.6%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Kashif Yaseen - PeerSpot reviewer
Plug-and-play convenience enhances productivity but needs better multimodal support
We mostly used the solution in the domain that I'm working. We had most of the use cases around chatbots and conversational BI The solution was plug-and-play, meaning most of the components were handled by the solution itself rather than building them from scratch. This was useful for our banking…
PeterHuo - PeerSpot reviewer
Good tool for extracting data from data warehouses, creating streams, and manipulating logic to extract final data
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. When streams become larger, performance bottlenecks may occur in the IBM SPSS Modeler server or the database. Sometimes the server crashes and needs to be restarted to release memory on both sides. I'm not sure exactly where the problem is caused, as I focus on stream design rather than server issues. The problem could be on the IBM SPSS Modeler server and database.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are the machine learning tools, the support for Jupyter Notebooks, and the collaboration that allows you to share it across people."
"AutoML helps in hands-free initial evaluations of efficiency/accuracy of ML algorithms."
"Fast training, memory-efficient DataFrame manipulation, well-documented, easy-to-use algorithms, ability to integrate with enterprise Java apps (through POJO/MOJO) are the main reasons why we switched from Spark to H2O."
"One of the most interesting features of the product is their driverless component. The driverless component allows you to test several different algorithms along with navigating you through choosing the best algorithm."
"The ease of use in connecting to our cluster machines."
"I have utilized the AutoML feature in H2O.ai, which is one of the very powerful features where you don't need to worry about which algorithm is best for your model."
"The most valuable feature of H2O.ai is that it is plug-and-play."
"It is helpful, intuitive, and easy to use. The learning curve is not too steep."
"In the solution, I like the virtualization of data flow since it shows what goes where, which is mostly the strength of the tool."
"Stability is good."
"You take two quarters and compare them and this tool is ideal because it gives you a lot of visibility on the before and after."
"It's very easy to use. The drag and drop feature makes it very easy when you are building and testing the streams. That's very useful."
"It gives you a GUI interface, which is a lot more user-friendly and easier to use compared to writing R scripts or Python."
"I think the code modeling features are the most valuable and without the need to write a code back with many different possibilities to choose from. And the second one is linked to the activity of the data preparation."
"Automation is great and this product is very organized."
"Extremely easy to use, it offers a generous selection of proprietary machine learning algorithms."
 

Cons

"It needs a drag and drop GUI like KNIME, for easy access to and visibility of workflows."
"H2O.ai can improve in areas like multimodal support and prompt engineering."
"Referring to bullet-3 as well, H2O DataFrame manipulation capabilities are too primitive."
"The interpretability module has room for improvement. Also, it needs to improve its ability to integrate with other systems, like SageMaker, and the overall integration capability."
"I would like to see more features related to deployment."
"On the topic of model training and model governance, this solution cannot handle ten or twelve models running at the same time."
"One improvement I would like to see in H2O.ai is regarding the integration capabilities with different data sources, as I've seen platforms like DataIQ and DataBricks offer great integration with various data sources."
"The model management features could be improved."
"The platform's cloud version needs improvements."
"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 like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."
"Time Series or forecasting needs to be easier. It is a very important feature, and it should be made easier and more automated to use. For instance, for logistic regression, binary or multinomial is used automatically based on the type of the target variable. I wish they can make Time Series easier to use in a similar way."
"The product does not have a search function for tags."
"It would be beneficial if the tool would include more well-known machine learning algorithms."
"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."
"Customer support is hard to contact."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have seen significant ROI where we were able to use the product in certain key projects and could automate a lot of processes. We were even able to reduce staff."
"$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."
"The scalability was kind of limited by our ability to get other people licenses, and that was usually more of a financial constraint. It's expensive, but it's a good tool."
"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."
"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."
"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."
"It is an expensive product."
"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Educational Organization
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
University
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with H2O.ai?
One improvement I would like to see in H2O.ai is regarding the integration capabilities with different data sources, as I've seen platforms like DataIQ and DataBricks offer great integration with v...
What is your primary use case for H2O.ai?
Normally, I use H2O.ai for my machine learning tasks, and to give an example, some of the models that I've created using H2O.ai are taxi demand forecasting and a scoring model for leads. Most of my...
What advice do you have for others considering H2O.ai?
I would rate the technical support a nine. For organizations considering H2O.ai, my recommendations include appreciating it as a great and flexible tool for machine learning tasks without incurring...
What do you like most about IBM SPSS Modeler?
Compared to other tools, the product works much easier to analyze data without coding.
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?
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 performanc...
 

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Sample Customers

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