Databricks AI (formerly 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 AI (formerly Mosaic AI)
Build, serve and govern AI agents next to your lakehouse data
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Dataiku
One governed workspace where analysts and engineers build analytics, M...
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DataRobot
AutoML pioneer now selling a governed platform for enterprise AI agent...
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H2O.ai
Free Apache-2.0 AutoML engine, plus a quoted enterprise platform for p...
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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 | Usage_based | Freemium | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free Edition for learning only (no commercial use, no GPU serving, quota limits); 2-week trial with up to $400 of usage | Free Edition to install on Mac or Linux (Windows experimental); 14-day hosted trial, no card, excluding Govern and advanced LLM Mesh | 30-day free trial with full platform access and community support; no lasting free plan | H2O-3 open source under Apache 2.0: all algorithms, AutoML and distributed training, self-hosted with community support |
| Paid from | From $0.07/DBU for model serving (Premium, AWS US East); usage-based, varies by cloud and region | Quoted on request (Agent Management priced per instance per year) | Quoted on request: private-offer contracts of 12, 24 or 36 months, plus usage overages | Quoted on request: annual licence based on compute and memory, not per token |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | ~750 enterprise customers (2026) | 850+ enterprise customers (2026) | 20,000+ global organizations, 1M+ data scientists |
| Founded | 2023 | 2013 | 2012 | 2012 |
| Maker | Databricks, Inc. | Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol, Marc Batty | Jeremy Achin, Thomas DeGodoy | Sri Ambati, Cliff Click, Arno Candel |
| Verdict | Databricks AI makes sense when your data already lives in Databricks: agents, model serving, AI Search and Unity Gateway governance all work against Unity Catalog without copying data to another platform. Agent Bricks an... |
Dataiku's case is still collaboration across skill levels: a visual Flow for analysts and code recipes for engineers in one governed project, now extended with Cobuild for building from plain-language goals and Agent Man... |
DataRobot's strength is governance that follows the workload: an agent registry with approvals, real-time checks for PII leakage and prompt injection, per-agent identities and audit trails, the same whether it runs in AW... |
H2O-3 remains one of the most capable free machine-learning engines available: distributed training, a sensible AutoML baseline and Python, R and JVM interfaces under Apache 2.0, with no usage cap. Production extras such... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.