If you want to scale your model development, you need Neptune.
MLflow is great for Data Scientists and ML Engineers looking for a basic ML lifecycle platform. But it doesn’t give you the functionality or collaborative features you need as your team and projects grow in size. Neptune does.
MLflow at a glance
- Functionality:
- experiment tracking
- model registry
- model packaging
- pipelines
- Open-source
- Community support
neptune.ai at a glance
- Functionality:
- experiment tracking
- dataset & model versioning
- SaaS or deployed on your infra
- Advanced UI
- User access management
- Collaboration features
- Dedicated user support
- Security and compliance (SOC 2)
Choose Neptune when bare-bones metadata management is holding you back
Maintenance
SaaS = Zero maintenance
It’s frustrating to spend your days dealing with storage & backups, managing user access, and setting up autoscaling for your servers. Not to mention the need to create new instances for every project.
Neptune’s SaaS solution lets you work on multiple projects & handles your backend automatically. So you can focus on managing your model development.
Team
Created for collaboration
The limitations of open-source software for access management and experiment sharing start to bite as soon as your team expands.
Packed with collaborative features — like customizable workspaces and persistent shareable links — Neptune takes team management off your to-do list.
Interface
Debug your models faster with a flexible User Interface
Neptune allows you to compare all of your metadata in a clean, easy-to-navigate, and responsive User Interface. With searchable side-by-side run tables, parallel coordinates plots, and learning curve charts, Neptune makes it easy to analyze experiments.
Scalability
Will scale. Won’t fail.
Neptune won’t freeze up faced with large streams of logs running 1000s of experiments at once. And even when rendering complex charts to view your data ― like Matpolib figures or Bokeh plots ― Neptune will never slow you down.
Take a deep dive into
what makes Neptune different
Neptune
MLflow
Commercial Requirements
Standalone component
Open-source platform which offers four separate components for experiment tracking, code packaging, model deployment, and model registry
Managed cloud service
Open-source
Free
General Capabilities
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No. However, it’s available on a managed server as part of the Databricks platform.
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No special requirements other than having the neptune-client installed and access to the internet if using managed hosting. Check here for infrastructure requirements for on-prem deployment.
No requirements other than having mlflow installed if using a local tracking server. Check here for infrastructure requirements for using a remote tracking server
Yes, through the neptune-client library
Yes, they have SDK clients in various languages, and a CLI
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Experiment Tracking
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Model Registry
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Integrations and Support
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Make it simple to scale your model development
Neptune is the lightweight solution for ML teams growing frustrated with MLflow’s limited functionality.
Check out the best-fit plan for your business today.
workspace set-up
tracking & packaging
user support