Databricks Mosaic AI vs Dataiku vs DataRobot vs H2O.ai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Databricks Mosaic AI
Build and serve models next to your lakehouse data
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Dataiku
One workspace where coders and business analysts build the same AI pro...
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DataRobot
AutoML pioneer turned enterprise agentic-AI and governance platform
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H2O.ai
Apache-2.0 AutoML core, with a paid enterprise stack for private gener...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | — | — |
| API quality | — | — | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | 14-day trial with $400 usage credit; a no-cost 'Free Edition' also available via email signup | Free Edition — self-hosted, up to 3 users, no deployment/governance features | 14-day free trial with limited compute hours; no permanent free tier | Free — H2O-3 open-source core, self-hosted, no restrictions |
| Paid from | DBU-based, from ~$0.07-0.08/DBU for model serving | Custom quote; est. from ~€50K/year (platform tier) | Custom quote; est. from ~$2,500/mo, Enterprise from ~$150K/yr | Free core; commercial (Driverless AI/h2oGPTe) from ~$60K/yr custom quote |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | ~750 enterprise customers (2026) | 850+ enterprise customers (2026) | 20,000+ global organizations, 1M+ data scientists |
| Founded | 2013 | 2013 | 2012 | 2012 |
| Maker | Databricks, Inc. (from MosaicML, acquired 2023) | Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol, Marc Batty | Jeremy Achin, Thomas DeGodoy | Sri Ambati, Cliff Click, Arno Candel |
| Verdict | Mosaic AI's whole argument is data gravity: train, fine-tune, and serve models where your data already lives instead of exporting it to a separate AI platform. It's the generative-AI layer of the Databricks lakehouse — M... |
Dataiku's pitch is collaboration across skill levels, and reviewers say it delivers on it. The visual flow lets an analyst prep data and wire a pipeline without code, while an engineer drops into Python, R or SQL on the... |
One of the original AutoML names, DataRobot has spent 2025-2026 repositioning around an 'Agent Workforce' platform (co-engineered with Nvidia) and LLM governance — a sensible pivot as pure AutoML commoditized. What still... |
The open-source half is the real draw. H2O-3 gives you distributed gradient boosting, GLMs, stacked ensembles and a solid AutoML routine under Apache 2.0, no usage cap, run it on your own hardware forever. Reviewers cons... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.