Data science and ML platforms
Platforms to build, train, deploy and run machine learning models. Evaluated by Gartner Magic Quadrant, The Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape, QKS Group SPARK Matrix, 2020 to 2026: 11 reports, 26 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
AI Platforms for Data Science and Machine Learning
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 5 editions, 2020 to 2026
2026
2026-06-22
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Platforms for Data Science and Machine Learning7 Leaders, 11 in other tiers
AWS
Databricks
Dataiku
DataRobot
Google
IBM
Microsoft
Changes since 2025
Altair · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
Posit · New in Niche Players
Red Hat · New in Visionaries
Teradata · New in Visionaries
Alteryx · Dropped (was Niche Players)
2025
2025-05-28
2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms8 Leaders, 8 in other tiers
Changes since 2024
SAS · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
Snowflake · New in Visionaries
Anaconda · Dropped (was Niche Players)
KNIME · Dropped (was Niche Players)
2024
2024-06-17
2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms8 Leaders, 10 in other tiers
Changes since 2021
MathWorks · No longer a Leader (now Niche Players)
TIBCO · No longer a Leader
Alibaba Cloud · Up: Niche Players to Challengers
Cloudera · Up: Niche Players to Visionaries
Domino Data Lab · Up: Niche Players to Visionaries
RapidMiner · Dropped (was Visionaries)
Samsung SDS · Dropped (was Niche Players)
2021
2021-03-01
2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms6 Leaders, 14 in other tiers
Changes since 2020
2020
2020-02-11
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LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
AI Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 3 editions, 2022 to 2026
2026
2026-08-10
The Forrester Wave: AI Platforms, Q3 20263 Leaders
C3.ai
Pegasystems
Changes since 2024
2024
The Forrester Wave: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 20241 Leader
Changes since 2022
2022
Worldwide MLOps Platforms
IDC MarketScape · 2 editions, 2022 to 2024
2024
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MLOps Platforms 2024 Vendor Assessment1 Leader
Changes since 2022
2022
Data Science and Machine Learning Platform
QKS Group SPARK Matrix · 1 edition, 2022
2022
2022-04-10
Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.