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Dataiku pros and cons

Vendor: Dataiku
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Dataiku facilitates the creation and management of ETL pipelines, allowing users to easily edit project steps.
Dataiku's intuitive platform supports data projects end to end with reusable templates, models, and recipes.
Dataiku is praised for its stability, excellent technical support, and high Gartner ranking.
The platform's low-code/no-code capabilities enable users to preprocess and prepare data without coding, enhancing machine learning focus.
Dataiku's extensive workflow capability and visual data preparation tools simplify data management and model building.

CONS

Dataiku experiences frequent downtime, affecting workflow and efficiency.
Technical support is inadequate, often delaying responses, especially regarding product issues.
Collaboration features are lacking, complicated by expensive pricing and licensing models.
Scalability and server uptime need improvement, with concerns about query engine stability.
Data transfer and processing can be slow, taking longer than expected for operations.
 

Dataiku Pros review quotes

SK
Senior Data Scientist at Deloitte
Mar 23, 2026
Dataiku has positively impacted my organization, specifically in one project where we performed migration from AWS to Dataiku, speeding up the solution by close to 40% and reducing architecture costs by almost 70%, which was a significant benefit and greatly impacted our operations.
PriyankaSharma3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cdao/Global Head Of Data And Analytics at Givaudan Roure
Dec 30, 2025
I consider the return on investment with Dataiku valuable because for us, it is one single platform where all our data scientists come together and work on any model building, so it is collaboration, plus having everything in one place, organized, having proper project management, and then built-in capabilities which help to facilitate model building.
Manikya Arora - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 24, 2026
Dataiku has positively impacted my organization as most of our projects have been migrated to Dataiku, and now people are relying on it as a go-to tool for all our data use cases.
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Durgesh-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Delivery & Practice (Data & AI) at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
Dec 11, 2025
Dataiku is a complete platform to build ETL and data pipeline and deploy it, which I appreciate.
Ravi-Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at Ericsson
Oct 14, 2025
The best feature in Dataiku is that once the data is connected in the underneath layer, it flows exceptionally smoothly if you know how to tweak it.
OI
Data Analyst
Mar 23, 2026
Dataiku is really a very intuitive platform that allows you to carry out data projects from end to end, with the opportunity to reuse templates, models, and recipes, which is one of the big advantages of using it.
reviewer2784765 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 4, 2026
The best features Dataiku offers that help me with my demand forecasting and data science projects include having a complete overview of the flow directly from the flowchart, allowing me to observe all the steps in a single overview, and the ability to use a no-code, low-code node.
RichardXu - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Lead at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 6, 2025
One of the valuable features of Dataiku is the workflow capability.
RR
Manager at CTTI - Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació
Jan 13, 2025
Traceability is vital since I manage many cohorts, and collaboration is key as I have multiple engineers substituting for one another.
reviewer2811273 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Mar 24, 2026
Dataiku has positively impacted my organization since we use it majorly for our day-to-day work, and it is very helpful in creating and managing ETL pipelines to create a project flow, making it easy to go back to any step and then make edits if some changes occur.
 

Dataiku Cons review quotes

SK
Senior Data Scientist at Deloitte
Mar 23, 2026
However, I feel that better documentation is necessary.
PriyankaSharma3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cdao/Global Head Of Data And Analytics at Givaudan Roure
Dec 30, 2025
I think the pricing and licensing of Dataiku is a bit expensive; it could be improved further, and I think they should have a different kind of licensing model as well.
Manikya Arora - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 24, 2026
I need to stress upon the part about customer support because there are some product issues we have identified and raised with customer support, but sometimes the response is delayed, so that can be improved.
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Durgesh-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Delivery & Practice (Data & AI) at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
Dec 11, 2025
All products have room for improvement, and I would like to see their pricing simplified, as it is somewhat complex.
Ravi-Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at Ericsson
Oct 14, 2025
In terms of enhancing collaboration within my team, I would not say Dataiku is the best one because it's so expensive.
OI
Data Analyst
Mar 23, 2026
Maybe on the interface in general, the information can easily get lost.
reviewer2784765 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 4, 2026
Dataiku's scalability is not one of the best solutions to scale.
RichardXu - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Lead at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 6, 2025
We still encounter some integration issues.
RR
Manager at CTTI - Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació
Jan 13, 2025
The license is very expensive.
reviewer2811273 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Mar 24, 2026
Dataiku is down a lot of times, and we have to wait for sometimes five, ten, or fifteen minutes, after which it gets working again, and during those times, we are unable to get our work done.