# Amazon SageMaker alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 142 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Amazon SageMaker holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-sagemaker/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Azure Machine Learning: 8
- Google Colab: 7
- KNIME Analytics Platform: 5
- Databricks Mosaic AI: 4
- Google Vertex AI: 4
- Dataiku: 3

## ML platforms

**Small business**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Amazon SageMaker (Amazon SageMaker is #5 of 15 at 9%).

- Google Colab: first choice in 4 of those 53
- Google Vertex AI: first choice in 4 of those 53
- Hugging Face: first choice in 3 of those 53
- KNIME Analytics Platform: first choice in 3 of those 53
- DataRobot: first choice in 2 of those 53
- MLflow: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Modal: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Anyscale: first choice in 1 of those 53

**Mid-market**: 44 of 84 answers did not name Amazon SageMaker (Amazon SageMaker is #4 of 15 at 7%).

- Google Colab: first choice in 3 of those 44
- Azure Machine Learning: first choice in 2 of those 44
- KNIME Analytics Platform: first choice in 2 of those 44
- Databricks Mosaic AI: first choice in 1 of those 44
- H2O.ai: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Kaggle: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Ollama: first choice in 1 of those 44
- PyTorch: first choice in 1 of those 44

**Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Amazon SageMaker (Amazon SageMaker is #3 of 11 at 8%).

- Azure Machine Learning: first choice in 6 of those 45
- Databricks Mosaic AI: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Dataiku: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Domino Data Lab: first choice in 2 of those 45
- Amazon Bedrock: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Azure AI: first choice in 1 of those 45

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