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Commercial Requirements

Commercial requirements chevron
Standalone component or a part of a broader ML platform?

Standalone component

Standalone tool

Is the product available on-premises and / or in your private/public cloud?

Only public cloud support for the free plan. On-prem/private cloud installation only for paid plans. Read more about their plans here

Is the product delivered as commercial software, open-source software, or a managed cloud service?

Managed cloud service

Managed cloud service

Support: Does the vendor provide 24×7 support?
SSO, ACL: does the vendor provide user access management?
Security policy and compliance

Yes

General Capabilities

Setup chevron
What are the infrastructure requirements?

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.

How much do you have to change in your training process?

Minimal. Just a few lines of code needed for tracking. Read more

Minimal. Just a few lines of code need to be added for basic tracking

Does it integrate with the training process via CLI/YAML/Client library?

Yes, through the neptune-client library

Yes, through the Git and DVC CLI

Does it come with a web UI or is it console-based?

Web UI

Serverless UI

No

No

Flexibility, speed, and accessibility chevron
Customizable metadata structure

Yes

No

How can you access model metadata?
– gRPC API

No

No

– CLI / custom API

Yes

Yes

– REST API

No

– Python SDK

Yes

– R SDK

Yes

– Java SDK

No

– Julia SDK

No

Supported operations
– Search

Yes

Yes

– Update

Yes

No

– Delete

Yes

Yes

– Download

Yes

No

Distributed training support

Yes

Pipelining support

Yes

Yes

Logging modes
– Offline

Yes

No

– Debug

Yes

No

– Asynchronous

Yes

Yes

– Synchronous

Yes

No

Live monitoring

Yes

Yes

Mobile support

No

Yes

Webhooks and notifications

No

Yes

Experiment Tracking

Log and display of metadata chevron
Dataset
– location (path/s3)

Yes

Yes

– hash (md5)

Yes

Yes

– Preview table

Yes

Yes

– Preview image

Yes

Yes

– Preview text

Yes

Yes

– Preview rich media

Yes

Yes

– Multifile support

Yes

Yes

Code versions
– Git

Yes

Yes

– Source

Yes

Yes

– Notebooks

Yes

Yes

Parameters

Yes

Yes

Metrics and losses
– Single values

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

– Series values

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

– Series aggregates (min/max/avg/var/last)

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Tags

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Descriptions/comments

Yes

Yes

Rich format
– Images (support for labels and descriptions)

Yes

Yes

– Plots

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

– Interactive visualizations (widgets and plugins)

Yes

No

– Video

Yes

Yes

– Audio

Yes

Yes

– Neural Network Histograms

No

No

– Prediction visualization (tabular)

No

No

– Prediction visualization (image)

No

No

– Prediction visualization (image – interactive confusion matrix for image classification)

No

NA

– Prediction visualization (image – overlayed prediction masks for image segmentation)

No

NA

– Prediction visualization (image – overlayed prediction bounding boxes for object detection)

No

NA

Hardware consumption
– CPU

Yes

No

– GPU

Yes

No

– TPU

No

No

– Memory

Yes

No

System information
– Console logs (Stderr, Stdout)

Yes

No

– Error stack trace

Yes

No

– Execution command

No

No

– System details (host, user, hardware specs)

Yes

No

Environment config
– pip requirements.txt

Yes

Yes

– conda env.yml

Yes

Yes

– Docker Dockerfile

Yes

Yes

Files
– Model binaries

Yes

Yes

– CSV

Yes

Yes

– External file reference (s3 buckets)

Yes

Yes

Comparing experiments chevron
Table format diff

Yes

Yes

Overlayed learning curves

Yes

Yes

Parameters and metrics
– Groupby on experiment values (parameters)

Yes

No

– Parallel coordinates plots

Yes

Yes

– Parameter Importance plot

No

No

Rich format (side by side)
– Image

Yes

Yes

– Video

No

No

– Audio

No

No

– Plots

No

No

– Interactive visualization (HTML)

No

No

– Text

Yes

No

– Neural Network Histograms

No

No

– Prediction visualization (tabular)

Yes

Yes

– Prediction visualization (image, video, audio)

No

No

Code
– Git

No

Yes

– Source files

No

Yes

– Notebooks

Yes

Yes

Environment
– pip requirements.txt

No

Yes

– conda env.yml

No

Yes

– Docker Dockerfile

No

Yes

Hardware
– CPU

Yes

No

– GPU

Yes

No

– Memory

Yes

No

System information
– Console logs (Stderr, Stdout)

Yes

No

– Error stack trace

Yes

No

– Execution command

No

No

– System details (host, owner)

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Data versions
– Location

Yes

Yes

– Hash

Yes

Yes

– Dataset diff

Yes

– External reference version diff (s3)

Yes

Yes

Files
– Models

No

No

– CSV

No

Yes

Custom compare dashboards
– Combining multiple metadata types (image, learning curve, hardware)

Yes

No

– Logging custom comparisons from notebooks/code

No

No

– Compare/diff of multiple (3+) experiments/runs

Yes

Yes

Organizing and searching experiments and metadata chevron
Experiment table customization
– Adding/removing columns

Yes

Yes

– Renaming columns in the UI

Yes

No

– Adding colors to columns

Yes

No

– Displaying aggregate (min/max/avg/var/last) for series like training metrics in a table

Yes

No

– Automagical column suggestion

Yes

No

Experiment filtering and searching
– Searching on multiple criteria

Yes

Yes

– Query language vs fixed selectors

Fixed selectors

– Saving filters and search history

Yes

No

Custom dashboards for a single experiment
– Can combine different metadata types in one view

Yes

Yes, through the New Relic integration

– Saving experiment table views

Yes

No

– Logging project-level metadata

Yes

No

– Custom widgets and plugins

No

No

Tagging and searching on tags

Yes

Yes

Nested metadata structure support in the UI

Yes

No

Reproducibility and traceability chevron
One-command experiment re-run

No

No

Experiment lineage
– List of datasets used downstream

No

Yes

– List of other artifacts (models) used downstream

No

No

– Downstream artifact dependency graph

No

No

Reproducibility protocol

Yes

Is environment versioned and reproducible

Yes

Yes

Saving/fetching/caching datasets for experiments

No

Yes

Collaboration and knowledge sharing chevron
Sharing UI links with project members

Yes

Yes

Sharing UI links with external people

Yes

Yes

Commenting

Yes

Interactive project-level reports

No

No

Model Registry

Model versioning chevron
Code versions (used for training)

Yes

Yes

Environment versions

Yes, through MLflow integration

Parameters

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Dataset versions

Yes

Yes

Results (metrics, visualizations)

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Explanations (SHAP, DALEX)

Yes, through MLflow integration

Model files (packaged models, model weights, pointers to artifact storage)

Yes

Yes

Model lineage and evaluation history chevron
Models/experiments created downstream

No

No

History of evaluation/testing runs

No

No

Support for continuous testing

No

No

Users who created a model or downstream experiments

No

No

Access control, model review, and promoting models chevron
Main stage transition tags (develop, stage, production)

Yes

No

Custom stage tags

No

No

Locking model version and downstream runs, experiments, and artifacts

No

No

Adding annotations/comments and approvals from the UI

No

Model compare (current vs challenger etc)

No

Compatibility audit (input/output schema)

No

No

Compliance audit (datasets used, creation process approvals, results/explanations approvals)

No

No

CI/CD/CT compatibility chevron
Webhooks

No

Yes

Model accessibility

No

No

Support for continuous testing

No

No

Integrations with CI/CD tools
Model searching chevron
Registered models

Yes

No

Active models

Yes

No

By metadata/artifacts used to create it

Yes

No

By date

Yes

No

By user/owner

Yes

No

By production stage

Yes

No

Search query language

Yes

No

Model packaging chevron
Native packaging system

No

No

Compatibility with packaging protocols (ONNX, etc)

No

No

One model one file or flexible structure

No

No

Integrations with packaging frameworks

No

No

Integrations and Support

Languages chevron
Java

No

No

Julia

No

No

Python

Yes

Yes

R

No

REST API

No

No

Model training chevron
Catalyst

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

CatBoost

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

fastai

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

FBProphet

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Gluon

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

HuggingFace

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

H2O

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

LightGBM

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Paddle

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

PyTorch

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

PyTorch Ignite

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

PyTorch Lightning

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Scikit Learn

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Skorch

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Spacy

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

Spark MLlib

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

Statsmodel

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

TesorFlow / Keras

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

XGBoost

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Hyperparameter Optimization chevron
Hyperopt

No

No

Keras Tuner

No

Optuna

Yes

Yes, through MLflow integration

Ray Tune

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

Scikit-Optimize

No

Model visualization and debugging chevron
DALEX

Yes

No

Netron

No

No

SHAP

No

Yes, through MLflow integration

TensorBoard

No

No

IDEs and Notebooks chevron
JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook

Yes

Yes

Google Colab

Yes

Yes

Deepnote

Yes

No

AWS SageMaker

Yes

No

Data versioning chevron
DVC

Yes

Yes

Orchestration and pipelining chevron
Airflow

Yes

No

Argo

No

No

Kedro

Yes

No

Kubeflow

No

No

ZenML

Yes

No

Experiment tracking tools chevron
MLflow

Yes

Sacred

Yes

No

TensorBoard

Yes

No

CI/CD chevron
GitHub Actions

Yes

Yes

Gitlab CI

No

No

CircleCI

No

No

Travis

No

No

Jenkins

No

Yes

Model serving chevron
Seldon

No

No

Cortex

No

No

Databricks

No

No

Model versioning chevron
Seldon

No

No

Fiddler.ai

No

No

Arthur.ai

No

No

LLMs chevron
LangChain

No

No

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What are the key advantages of Neptune then?

Computer vision dashboard
  • Customizable metadata structure
  • Possibility to log many metadaty types, inlcuding rich format
  • Possibility to combine multiple metadata types into dashboards
  • Support for distributed training
  • Hardware consumption monitoring

See these features in action

1

Sign up to Neptune and install client library

pip install neptune
2

Track experiments

import neptune

run = neptune.init_run()
run["params"] = {
    "lr": 0.1, "dropout": 0.4
}
run["test_accuracy"] = 0.84
3

Register models

import neptune

model = neptune.init_model()
model["model"] = {
    "size_limit": 50.0,
    "size_units": "MB",
}
model["model/signature"].upload(
    "model_signature.json")
decor

Thousands of ML people already chose their tool

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Previously used tensorboard and azureml but Neptune is hugely better. In particular, getting started is really easy; documentation is excellent, and the layout of charts and parameters is much clearer.
Simon Mackenzie AI Engineer and Data Scientist
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(
) thanks for the great tool, has been really useful for keeping track of the experiments for my Master’s thesis. Way better than the other tools I’ve tried (comet / wandb).

I guess the main reason I prefer neptune is the interface, it is the cleanest and most intuitive in my opinion, the table in the center view just makes a great deal of sense. I like that it’s possible to set up and save the different view configurations as well. Also, the comparison is not as clunky as for instance with wandb. Another plus is the integration with ignite, as that’s what I’m using as the high-level framework for model training.
Klaus-Michael Lux Data Science and AI student, Kranenburg, Germany
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This thing is so much better than Tensorboard, love you guys for creating it!
Dåniel Lévai Junior Researcher at Rényi Alfréd Institute of Mathematics in Budapest, Hungary
quote
While logging experiments is great, what sets Neptune apart for us at the lab is the ease of sharing those logs. The ability to just send a Neptune link in slack and letting my coworkers see the results for themselves is awesome. Previously, we used Tensorboard + locally saved CSVs and would have to send screenshots and CSV files back and forth which would easily get lost. So I’d say Neptune’s ability to facilitate collaboration is the biggest plus.
Greg Rolwes Computer Science Undergraduate at Saint Louis University
quote
Such a fast setup! Love it:)
Kobi Felton PhD student in Music Information Processing at Télécom Paris
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For me the most important thing about Neptune is its flexibility. Even if I’m training with Keras or Tensorflow on my local laptop, and my colleagues are using fast.ai on a virtual machine, we can share our results in a common environment.
VĂ­ctor Peinado Senior NLP/ML Engineer

It only takes 5 minutes to integrate Neptune with your code

Don’t overthink it