IBM SPSS Modeler vs SAS Analytics comparison

IBM and SAS are both solutions in the Data Mining category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.0, while SAS is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0. IBM holds a 17.9% mindshare in DM, compared to SAS’s 7.7% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of SAS users who would recommend it.

IBM SPSS Modeler

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86% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

SAS Analytics and IBM SPSS Modeler are key players in data analytics. SAS Analytics excels with its advanced statistical capabilities and pricing advantages, while IBM SPSS Modeler offers ease of use and flexibility, making it preferable for diverse data needs.

Features: SAS Analytics offers robust data management, advanced predictive modeling, and a comprehensive array of statistical tools. IBM SPSS Modeler provides intuitive data preparation, a highly user-friendly interface, and efficient model deployment options.

Room for Improvement: SAS Analytics could benefit from a more user-friendly interface, easier integration with other platforms, and streamlined deployment processes. IBM SPSS Modeler would improve with enhanced visual modeling capabilities, better security features, and expanded data visualization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAS Analytics involves a complex deployment requiring technical expertise, supported by detailed documentation. IBM SPSS Modeler allows for simple deployment with smoother integration, coupled with intuitive customer service for easier implementation.

Pricing and ROI: SAS Analytics, despite higher setup costs, offers significant long-term ROI for data-intensive projects. IBM SPSS Modeler provides competitive pricing and delivers substantial ROI through ease of use and rapid deployment, appealing as a cost-effective solution for quick analytics execution.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SPSS Modeler

Ranking in Data Mining

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Science Platforms (19th)

SAS Analytics

Ranking in Data Mining

5th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 17.9%, up from 16.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Analytics is 7.7%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Mining

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PeterHuo

Application Architect at Canada Border Services Agency

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.

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AltanAtabarut

Solution Consulting, Growth, Analytics at Akinon

Good interactive reports and dashboards but expensive to run

You need to constantly jump from data prep to visualization, then back to data for fixing quality, enriching, and visualizing again. Then you start modeling and need to switch back and forth again. Eventually, you have to democratize the results so that anyone can look and interactively question the underlying insights. For all of these purposes - data to BI or data to AI to BI - it is never a linear one way relationship; it's rather a closed loop for continuous analysis monitoring and sharing. If used this way, SAS Visual analytics can enable continuous improvement and innovation in a corporation.

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

Pros

"We are creating models and putting them into production much faster than we would if we had just gone with a strict, code-based solution, like R or Python."

"It makes pretty good use of memory. There are algorithms take a long time to run in R, and somehow they run more efficiently in Modeler."

"It is just a lot faster. So you do not have to write a bunch of code, you can throw that stuff on there pretty quickly and do prototyping quickly."

"In the solution, I like the virtualization of data flow since it shows what goes where, which is mostly the strength of the tool."

"It continues to be a very flexible platform, so that it handles R and Python and other types of technology. It seems to be growing with additional open-source movement out there on different platforms."

"It’s definitely scalable, it’s all on the same platform, it’s well integrated. I think the integration is important in terms of scalablility because essentially, having the entire suite helps a lot to scale it"

"The customer loves it at first glance because it is so easy to handle, and you get a solution pretty soon."

"It gives you a GUI interface, which is a lot more user-friendly and easier to use compared to writing R scripts or Python."

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"It has facilitated timely analysis results with quality work and meaningful output."

"Modeling ones and figures, such as PROC LIFETEST, PROC LOGISTICS, PROC GPLOT. PROC FREQ and PROC MEANS, are also among the valuable features."

"I use it to replicate our entire financial system to verify/duplicate calculations."

"It is able to connect to all major platforms, and all the smaller platforms that I have come across."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to handle large data sets."

"I use SAS daily to analyze data, produce reports, and other outputs."

"It's very easy to use once you learn it."

"I like that it is quickly embedding interactive reports and dashboards into a website, Outlook Mail, or even a mobile app."

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Cons

"When I used it in the office, back in the day, we did have some stability issues. Sometimes it just randomly crashed and we couldn't get good feedback. But when I use it for my own stuff now I don't have any problems."

"Dimension reduction should be classified separately."

"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."

"The challenge for the very technical data scientists: It is constraining for them."

"We have run into a few problems doing some entity matching/analytics."

"Initial setup of the software was complex, because of our own problems within the government."

"The platform that you can deploy it on needs improvement because I think it is Windows only. I do not think it can run off a Red Hat, like the server products. I am pretty sure it is Windows and AIX only."

"I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."

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"They could enhance the AI capabilities of the product."

"The installation could also be easier, and the price could be better."

"One of the things that can be simplified is self-service analytics, especially for a citizen developer or a citizen data scientist."

"I would like to see their interface to R added to either Base SAS or SAS Analytics."

"The natural language querying and automated preparation of dashboards should be improved."

"The training for SAS Business Intelligence is often difficult to arrange. It is often cancelled due to not enough people being enrolled."

"Once a SAS figure is produced one would like to modify things, such as titles, legends, and incorporate risk sets as a footer on the plots."

"This solution should be made more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"$5,000 annually."

"It is a huge increase to time savings."

"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."

"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."

"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."

"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."

"When you are close to end of quarter, IBM and its partners can get you 60% to 70% discounts, so literally wait for the last day of the quarter for the best prices. You may feel like you are getting robbed if you can't receive a good discount."

"It is an expensive product."

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"The cost for SAS Business Intelligence can prove to be a little prohibitive."

"It is relatively expensive. It is not an easy software to afford."

"SAS is very expensive."

"I rate the product’s pricing a one out of ten."

"Prices were comparable with alternative solutions."

"Setup costs were quite reasonable."

"Licensing was rather straightforward."

"Our licensing covers the usage for around 50 data analysts."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Educational Organization

11%

Government

10%

University

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM SPSS Modeler?

Compared to other tools, the product works much easier to analyze data without coding.

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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...

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What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Modeler?

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What do you like most about SAS Analytics?

I like that it is quickly embedding interactive reports and dashboards into a website, Outlook Mail, or even a mobile app.

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What needs improvement with SAS Analytics?

SAS Analytics could improve in areas such as handling stress tests and workloads, as well as predicting financial movements, specifically profit and loss movements.

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What is your primary use case for SAS Analytics?

I use SAS Analytics ( /products/sas-analytics-reviews ) in my work to analyze data, such as selecting credits for traditional securitization. Recently, I used SAS Analytics ( /products/sas-analytic...

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IBM SPSS Modeler is an extensive predictive analytics platform that is designed to bring predictive intelligence to decisions made by individuals, groups, systems and the enterprise. By providing a range of advanced algorithms and techniques that include text analytics, entity analytics, decision management and optimization, SPSS Modeler can help you consistently make the right decisions from the desktop or within operational systems.

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SAS was founded in 1976 and actually began as a project at North Carolina State University to analyze agriculture research. It has since become a global company that is recognized for its innovation in data analytics and business intelligence. SAS is redefining what's possible with data analytics through greater efficiency, strong information value chains, effective collaboration tools, and state-of-the-art visualization software. SAS Analytics is designed for use in a variety of industries including government, manufacturing, higher education, defense & security, banking, automotive, communications, and much more. SAS Analytics is a business intelligence (BI) solution that has the ability to reveal patterns and anomalies in data, identify relationships and different variables, and predict future outcomes. Users of SAS Analytics will benefit from making more sound, better informed business decisions based on company data and market trends. Data mining, data visualization, text analytics, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more are all available through SAS Analytics. Staples, which boasts $27 billion in sales across the globe, has a business philosophy that prioritizes customer loyalty and satisfaction. In order to better engage their customers, Staples utilizes SAS Analytics to plan finely tuned marketing campaigns. Through forecasting and advanced analytics, Staples has been able to rely on fewer contractors, and cut their marketing budget, while improving their customer retention rate.

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Sample Customers

Reisebªro Idealtours GmbH, MedeAnalytics, Afni, Israel Electric Corporation, Nedbank Ltd., DigitalGlobe, Vodafone Hungary, Aegon Hungary, Bureau Veritas, Brammer Group, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, InSites Consulting, Fortis Turkey

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