Who analysts call Leaders

244 reports · 352 vendors

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 and QKS Group SPARK Matrix, 2020 to 2026: 11 reports, 26 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.

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AI Platforms for Data Science and Machine Learning

Gartner Magic Quadrant · 5 editions, 2020 to 2026

  1. 20267 Leaders, 11 in other tiers2026-06-22

    2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Platforms for Data Science and Machine Learning

    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)
  2. 20258 Leaders, 8 in other tiers2025-05-28

    2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

    Changes since 2024

    • IBM · New Leader (was Challengers)
    • SAS · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
    • Snowflake · New in Visionaries
    • Anaconda · Dropped (was Niche Players)
    • KNIME · Dropped (was Niche Players)
    • Posit · Dropped (was Niche Players)
  3. 20248 Leaders, 10 in other tiers2024-06-17

    2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

    Changes since 2021

    • Altair · New Leader (was Niche Players)
    • AWS · New Leader (was Visionaries)
    • DataRobot · New Leader (was Visionaries)
    • Google · New Leader (was Visionaries)
    • Microsoft · New Leader (was Visionaries)
    • IBM · No longer a Leader (now Challengers)
    • 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
    • Alteryx · Down: Challengers to Niche Players
    • KNIME · Down: Visionaries to Niche Players
    • Posit · New in Niche Players
    • RapidMiner · Dropped (was Visionaries)
    • Samsung SDS · Dropped (was Niche Players)
  4. 20216 Leaders, 14 in other tiers2021-03-01

    2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

    Changes since 2020

    • IBM · New Leader (was Challengers)
    • Alteryx · No longer a Leader (now Challengers)
    • Domino Data Lab · Down: Visionaries to Niche Players
    • Alibaba Cloud · New in Niche Players
    • AWS · New in Visionaries
    • Cloudera · New in Niche Players
    • Samsung SDS · New in Niche Players
  5. 20206 Leaders, 10 in other tiers2020-02-11

    2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor20202021202420252026
DatabricksLeadersLeadersLeadersLeadersLeaders
DataikuLeadersLeadersLeadersLeadersLeaders
IBMChallengersLeadersChallengersLeadersLeaders
DataRobotVisionariesVisionariesLeadersLeadersLeaders
GoogleVisionariesVisionariesLeadersLeadersLeaders
MicrosoftVisionariesVisionariesLeadersLeadersLeaders
AWS·VisionariesLeadersLeadersLeaders
Alibaba Cloud·Niche PlayersChallengersChallengersChallengers
SASLeadersLeadersLeadersVisionariesVisionaries
AltairNiche PlayersNiche PlayersLeadersLeadersVisionaries
H2O.aiVisionariesVisionariesVisionariesVisionariesVisionaries
Domino Data LabVisionariesNiche PlayersVisionariesVisionariesVisionaries
Cloudera·Niche PlayersVisionariesVisionariesVisionaries
Snowflake···VisionariesVisionaries
Red Hat····Visionaries
Teradata····Visionaries
MathWorksLeadersLeadersNiche PlayersNiche PlayersNiche Players
Posit··Niche Players·Niche Players
AlteryxLeadersChallengersNiche PlayersNiche Players·
TIBCOLeadersLeaders···
KNIMEVisionariesVisionariesNiche Players··
RapidMinerVisionariesVisionaries···
AnacondaNiche PlayersNiche PlayersNiche Players··
Samsung SDS·Niche Players···

LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed

AI Platforms

The Forrester Wave · 3 editions, 2022 to 2026

  1. 20263 Leaders2026-08-10

    The Forrester Wave: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

    Changes since 2024

    • C3.ai · New Leader
    • Google · New Leader
    • Pegasystems · New Leader
    • SAS · No longer a Leader
  2. 20241 Leader

    The Forrester Wave: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2024

    Changes since 2022

    • SAS · New Leader
    • DataRobot · No longer a Leader
  3. 20221 Leader

    The Forrester Wave: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2022

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor202220242026
C3.ai··Leaders
Google··Leaders
Pegasystems··Leaders
DataRobotLeaders··
SAS·Leaders·

LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed

Worldwide MLOps Platforms

IDC MarketScape · 2 editions, 2022 to 2024

  1. 20241 Leader

    IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MLOps Platforms 2024 Vendor Assessment

    Changes since 2022

    • Microsoft · No longer a Leader
  2. 20222 Leaders

    IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Machine Learning Operations Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor20222024
DataRobotLeadersLeaders
MicrosoftLeaders·

LeadersMajor PlayersContendersParticipants· not placed

Data Science and Machine Learning Platform

QKS Group SPARK Matrix · 1 edition, 2022

  1. 20221 Leader2022-04-10

    SPARK Matrix: Data Science and Machine Learning Platform, 2022

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.