SAS Enterprise Miner vs Weka comparison

SAS and Weka are both solutions in the Data Mining category. SAS is ranked #7, while Weka is ranked #4 with an average rating of 10.0. SAS holds a 6.0% mindshare in DM, compared to Weka’s 8.0% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of SAS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Weka users who would recommend it.

SAS Enterprise Miner

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93% willing to recommend

Weka

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80% willing to recommend

SAS Enterprise Miner

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

SAS Enterprise Miner and Weka are competing data analysis tools within the analytics domain. While SAS Enterprise Miner is noted for its advanced analytical capabilities and structured support, Weka's flexibility and cost-effectiveness make it appealing to a broader audience.

Features: SAS Enterprise Miner provides comprehensive data mining capabilities such as predictive modeling, decision tree creation, and robust analytics integration within Base SAS. It handles large data sets efficiently and allows for customization using SAS code. Weka offers diverse machine learning algorithms, ease of use without programming, and integrates easily with Java for rapid testing and flexible applications.

Room for Improvement: SAS Enterprise Miner could improve its user interface and simplify its deployment process. Enhancing the visualization capabilities would make the tool more accessible for novice users. Weka would benefit from developing enhanced visualization features, expanding its enterprise-level functionalities, and offering more structured customer service to improve user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAS Enterprise Miner involves a complex deployment process and requires a significant learning curve, but it is supported by extensive customer service. Weka boasts easier installation due to its open-source nature and has community-driven support, but lacks dedicated support services, which might limit assistance available compared to SAS.

Pricing and ROI: SAS Enterprise Miner demands a substantial initial investment due to its advanced features, offering higher ROI for large-scale operations. In contrast, Weka, being open-source, presents a much lower entry cost, attracting cost-conscious users seeking flexibility without the high financial commitment.

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Categories and Ranking

SAS Enterprise Miner

Ranking in Data Mining

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Science Platforms (23rd)

Weka

Ranking in Data Mining

4th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Anomaly Detection Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Miner is 6.0%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weka is 8.0%, down from 20.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Weka	8.0%
SAS Enterprise Miner	6.0%
Other	86.0%

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reviewer1352853

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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reviewer1522338

Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

Using data mining and visualization has improved my research and student learning process

In my opinion, Weka is very useful. I think perhaps a new function with a new algorithm in data mining could be developed. The algorithms currently available in Weka are very good, and all functions are very useful. I have found that I need to use Weka with R and different databases, which has been very useful for me. I am satisfied with Weka's visualization tool. Weka is very easy to use, is very complete, and provides many benefits to the end user. It has many algorithms in data mining and many algorithms to prepare data for the next process in data mining. Weka has many graphical interfaces, though it may not have as many tools for analyzing results.

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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

"SAS internal support is very qualified and if we have any issues, we contact them and trust that they can help."

"Technical support has been good, and when I called them at the start of using the product with some issues they were very helpful."

"The solution is very good for data mining or any mining issues."

"It enables statistical modeling of data using Base SAS (another product from the same vendor) as the backbone."

"The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation."

"Performance is excellent."

"The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully."

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"But Weka helped me with this analysis in an easy way."

"In Weka, anyone can access the program without being a programmer, which is a good feature since the entry cost is very low."

"My main recommendation is that if you want artificial intelligence, or machine learning, go for an easy and quick tool like Weka, otherwise, any language will have a more expensive entry cost."

"I like the machine algorithm for clustering systems. Weka has larger capabilities. There are multiple algorithms that can be used for clustering. It depends upon the user requirements. For clustering, I've used DBSCAN, whereas for supervised learning, I've used AVM and RFT."

"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."

"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."

"The interface is very good, and the algorithms are the very best."

"Weka is a very nice tool and it helped me to solve any machine learning problem in one minute."

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Cons

"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."

"While I don't personally need tutorials, I can't say that it wouldn't be helpful for others to have some to help them navigate and operate the system."

"Technical support could be improved."

"We really don't like the protocols the solution offers. The solution is much more complex than other options."

"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 license is really expensive. This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."

"The ease of use can be improved. When you are new it seems a bit complex."

"The initial setup is challenging if doing it for the first time."

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"The product is good, but I would like it to work with big data. I know it has a Spark integration they could use to do analysis in clusters, but it's not so clear how to use it."

"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."

"For production, it's not the best option."

"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."

"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. It's really very complicated."

"Not particularly user friendly."

"I'm not sure if it's reliable. It's a little difficult to get results, especially if you are on some other programs like Tableau."

"With Python and R, you can do anything — you have that confidence, but with Weka, I don't have that confidence."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."

"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."

"The solution must improve its licensing models."

"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."

"The solution is free and open-source."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Construction Company

12%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

17%

University

10%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

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Overview

SAS Enterprise Miner is a solution to create accurate predictive and descriptive models on large volumes of data across different sources in the organization. SAS Enterprise Miner offers many features and functionalities for the business analysts to model their data. Some of the business applications are for detecting fraud, minimizing risk, resource demands, reducing asset downtime, campaigns and reduce customer attrition.

SAS

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes.

Weka

Sample Customers

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

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