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SAS Enterprise Miner vs Weka comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

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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

SAS Enterprise Miner
Ranking in Data Mining
7th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (23rd)
Weka
Ranking in Data Mining
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Anomaly Detection Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Miner is 7.5%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weka is 7.3%, down from 18.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Weka7.3%
SAS Enterprise Miner7.5%
Other85.2%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

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…
SC
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Data mining projects have become faster and visualization now guides our pattern discovery
Weka can be improved in some areas. As a one-year user, I can share my experiences. I have tried installing other packages into Weka using the inbuilt package manager or adding modern algorithms that I wish to apply to my data sets or data processing. I think Weka needs to improve in that and also in integrating Python into Weka, which would help users much more. I chose eight out of ten because we need improvements in Weka, such as installing inbuilt packages. Weka uses skips such as N+2 or N+4 and eight-node, which makes sense basically, but I think it should improve in the package attribute, such as configuring Python easily and adding modern algorithms into Weka more easily.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Most of the features, especially on the data analysis tool pack, are really good; the way they do clustering and output is great, you can do fairly elaborate outputs, and the results and the ensembles are fantastic."
"he solution is scalable."
"Overall it is a good solution."
"The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully."
"The solution is very good for data mining or any mining issues."
"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 that you can use multiple algorithms for creating models and then you can compare the results between them."
"Most of the features, especially on the data analysis tool pack, are really good. The way they do clustering and output is great. You can do fairly elaborate outputs. The results, the ensembles, all of these, are fantastic."
"It doesn’t cost anything to use the product."
"Weka is a very nice tool, it needs very small requirements. If I want to implement something in Python, I need a lot of memory and space but Weka is very lightweight. Anyone can implement any kind of algorithm, and we can show the results immediately to the client using the one-page feature. The client always wants to know the story. They want the result."
"Weka is a very easy to use Data Mining solution, great for learning and for doing small experiments before exploring the data deeper, with a large number and diversity of algorithms that make it an excellent solution for rapid testing."
"Weka's best features are its user-friendly graphic interface interpretation of data sets and the ease of analyzing data."
"But Weka helped me with this analysis in an easy way."
"With clustering, if it's a yes, it's a yes, if it's a no, it's a no. It gives you a 100% level of accuracy of a model that has been trained, and that is in most cases, usually misleading. Classification is highly valuable when done as opposed to clustering."
"Weka is a very nice tool and it helped me to solve any machine learning problem in one minute."
"It’s pretty straightforward, it's user-friendly, it’s free, and with YouTube videos, online guides, and e-books on machine learning using Weka, you can quickly learn to use its good interface for data visualization, filtering, and creating different scenarios and instances."
 

Cons

"The ease of use can be improved. When you are new it seems a bit complex."
"Virtualization could be much better."
"The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies."
"The license is really expensive. This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."
"The user interface of the solution needs improvement. It needs to be more visual."
"Plus it is prohibitively expensive and is not available with perpetual licensing."
"The initial setup is challenging if doing it for the first time."
"Price of the product"
"Weka is not horizontally scalable. If I had to run a large dataset over Weka I would have to have a very large usage."
"Within the basic Weka tool, I don't see many tools that are available where we can analyze and visualize the data that well."
"If there are a lot more lines of code, then we should use another language."
"The filter section lacks some specific transformation tools. If you want to change a variable from a numeric variable to a categorical variable, you don't have a feature that can enable you to change a variable from a numeric variable to a categorical variable."
"If you have one missing value in your dataset and this missing value belongs to a specific attribute and the attribute is a numeric attribute and there is only one missing data, whenever you import this data, the problem is that Weka cannot understand that this is a numeric field; it converts everything into a string, and there is no way to convert the string into numerical math."
"The visualization of Weka is subpar and could improve. Machine learning and visualization do not work well together. For example, we want to know how we can we delete empty cells or how can we fill in the empty cells without cleaning the data system and putting it together."
"I believe is there are a few newer algorithms that are not present in the Weka libraries. Whereas, for example, if I want to have a solution that involves deep learning, so I don't think that Weka has that capability. So in that case I have to use Python for ... predict any algorithms based on deep learning."
"Weka is a little complicated and not necessarily suited for users who aren't skilled and experienced in data science."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Currently, I am using an open-source version so I don't know much about the price of this solution."
"We use the free version now. My faculty is very small."
"The solution is free and open-source."
"As far as I know, Weka is a freeware tool, and I am not aware if they have an online solution or if it is a commercial product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
12%
Educational Organization
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
19%
University
13%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Weka?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Weka is that I think it's a fair price since we are using it academically, so it is completely free to download and use. The license is als...
What needs improvement with Weka?
Weka can be improved in some areas. As a one-year user, I can share my experiences. I have tried installing other packages into Weka using the inbuilt package manager or adding modern algorithms th...
What is your primary use case for Weka?
My main use case for Weka is data exploration and data processing and data mining. I can give a quick, specific example of how I've used Weka for data exploration or data processing: we have a subj...
 

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Sample Customers

Generali Hellas, Gitanjali Group, Gloucestershire Constabulary, GS Home Shopping, HealthPartners, IAG New Zealand, iJET, Invacare
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