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KNIME Business Hub vs Weka comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
KNIME Business Hub offers excellent ROI with low costs, ease of use, and encourages cost-effective experimentation before full-scale implementation.
Sentiment score
6.8
Weka boosts ROI through productivity, time savings, scalability, performance analytics, simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and superior alternatives.
The relevant metrics for return on investment, as we are using a free version, obviously mean saved time, productivity, and scalability for the company.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
KNIME Business Hub offers efficient support through community forums and documentation but needs more diverse language options and resources.
Sentiment score
6.6
Weka's customer service is available 24/7, responsive, and supported by forums, though some find it lacking at times.
While they cannot always provide immediate answers, they are generally efficient and simplify tasks, especially in the initial phase of learning KNIME.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
My mark for technical support for KNIME Business Hub is about a 7, as most of the support is in the community, and it is quite good because it is open source.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Technical support for Weka is very good, and I rate it a 10.
Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
they were very good and available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
KNIME Business Hub is scalable with server setups but faces challenges on desktops with large datasets and requires add-ons.
Sentiment score
5.9
Weka faces challenges with large datasets and users, but offers strong vertical scalability and stability post-implementation.
Scalability for Weka refers to the ability to expand, the ability to increase the number of users, and the ability to increase the amount of data, among other factors.
Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Weka struggles with large data sets imported into it.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Users find KNIME Business Hub stable, rating it 7-10/10, though noting crashes with large data and improved stability post-version 4.
Sentiment score
7.7
Weka is generally stable with ratings between seven and ten, though performance may vary based on hardware and features.
For now, KNIME Business Hub is excellent for me and for our team.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
From 1 to 10, I would rate the stability of KNIME Business Hub quite good, around an 8 or 9.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

KNIME Business Hub needs enhanced performance, data visualization, integration, and user interface improvements to handle large datasets effectively.
Users seek improved Python integration, scalability, documentation, and deep learning capabilities in Weka to enhance usability and performance.
I would like to see additional functions in KNIME Business Hub that can connect to generative AI, allowing users to describe the workflow for easier workflow generation and creation.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Computer vision is the most important because now there is a new age of large language models and visual language models.
Director, Channel And Alliances at Basefy
I think Weka needs to improve in integrating Python into Weka, which would help users much more.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Setup Cost

KNIME Business Hub provides a cost-effective open-source desktop version, with server pricing based on enterprise support needs.
Weka is popular for its free open-source availability, adaptable for academic use, with a paid version for enterprise features.
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.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Valuable Features

KNIME Business Hub simplifies data tasks with an intuitive interface, supporting automation, seamless integrations, and extensive machine learning tools.
Weka excels in user-friendly data processing, visualization tools, classification algorithms, and Java integration for efficient analysis.
It is very important that I have the workflow automation integrated with Python nodes.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Collection of company-wide information is one of the main benefits that KNIME Business Hub provides to the end users; all the intellectual property that has been developed in a central location is critical.
Director, Channel And Alliances at Basefy
KNIME is simple and allows for fast project development due to its reusability.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
Weka processes a large set of data sets without needing to write any type of code.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Weka is very easy to use, is very complete, and provides many benefits to the end user.
Phd at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

KNIME Business Hub
Ranking in Data Mining
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (3rd)
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 KNIME Business Hub is 11.4%, down from 25.1% 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 (%)
KNIME Business Hub11.4%
Weka7.3%
Other81.3%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

NataliaRaffo - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Workflow automation has accelerated advanced analytics and machine learning delivery
Sometimes it is a little bit difficult to use some nodes when we have many large-scale data, for example, CSV files with a large amount of data. It is sometimes difficult to try to import the data in KNIME Business Hub nodes because I think that some features that are in the CSV in text, for example, large text, is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to import these fields. I don't know why, but it is very difficult. We need to try to use different nodes for importing the data, such as File Reader and CSV Reader. However, I think that it is always the features that have much text, it is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to understand and import this information. I don't know why, or maybe I don't know if we don't know what the better option is to configure the node to import all the CSV or the data set. However, we have always had this problem. In some nodes, sometimes it is the same because sometimes, for example, I have a CSV and in my CSV, I have a feature that is, for example, a date. When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text, for example. We try to use their nodes that convert text to date, but sometimes it is difficult, and it is not immediate to transform the text into a date. So we needed to convert the text into a date in the CSV, and then import it again in the KNIME Business Hub node and try to have a good read of this field. I know that KNIME Business Hub has some nodes to convert text to date and others, but sometimes it is difficult to use these nodes. I don't know why. Maybe it needs a specific format for the date and we need to transform our feature in this option. So sometimes it is a large process to convert these features. However, sometimes we need to investigate and search for other nodes, and try with other nodes to import these cases.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Educational Organization
7%
Educational Organization
19%
University
14%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise31
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for KNIME?
I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with KNIME?
In my previous PeerSpot review from March 2024, I mentioned that KNIME was not very strong in visualization and that I wanted to see NLQ (Natural Language Query) and automated visualization capabil...
What is your primary use case for KNIME?
I mainly use KNIME for ETL and data integration projects, followed by clustering and customer segmentation, process mining, AI and machine learning preprocessing pipelines, and recently GenAI orche...
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

Infocom Corporation, Dymatrix Consulting Group, Soluzione Informatiche, MMI Agency, Estanislao Training and Solutions, Vialis AG
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