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Neptune vs Polyaxon
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Commercial Requirements
Standalone component or a part of a broader ML platform?
Standalone component. ML metadata store that focuses on experiment tracking and model registry
Standalone tool
Is the product available on-premises and / or in your private/public cloud?
Can be hosted both on-prem and on the cloud
Is the product delivered as commercial software, open-source software, or a managed cloud service?
Managed cloud service
What is the pricing model?
SLOs / SLAs: Does the vendor provide guarantees around service levels?
Support: Does the vendor provide 24×7 support?
SSO, ACL: does the vendor provide user access management?
General Capabilities
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
Needs a Kubernetes cluster to be deployed. Read more about core requirements for a local cluster here
How much do you have to change in your training process?
Minimal. Just a few lines of code needed for tracking. Read more
Extensive code and infrastructure changes required. Check their quick start to get an overview
Does it integrate with the training process via CLI/YAML/Client library?
Yes, through the neptune-client library
Yes, via their CLI and Python library
How can you access model metadata?
– gRPC API
No
No
– Java SDK
No
No
– Julia SDK
No
No
Supported operations
Logging modes
Experiment Tracking
Dataset
– Dataset slicing support
No
No
Code versions
Metrics and losses
Rich format
– Prediction visualization (tabular)
No
No
– Prediction visualization (image)
No
No
Hardware consumption
– TPU
No
No
System information
– Execution command
No
No
Environment config
Files
Parameters and metrics
– Parameter Importance plot
No
No
– Slice plot
No
No
– EDF plot
No
No
Rich format (side by side)
– Video
No
No
– Audio
No
No
– Plots
No
No
– Interactive visualization (HTML)
No
No
– Neural Network Histograms
No
No
– Prediction visualization (image, video, audio)
No
No
Code
– Git
No
No
– Source files
No
No
– Notebooks
Yes
No
Environment
– pip requirements.txt
No
No
– conda env.yml
No
No
– Docker Dockerfile
No
No
Hardware
System information
– Execution command
No
No
Data versions
– External reference version diff (s3)
No
No
Files
– Models
No
No
– CSV
No
No
Custom compare dashboards
Experiment table customization
– Renaming columns in the UI
Yes
No
– Adding colors to columns
Yes
No
Experiment filtering and searching
Custom dashboards for a single experiment
Experiment lineage
Saving/fetching/caching datasets for experiments
No
No
User groups and ACL
Interactive project-level reports
No
No
Model Registry
Environment versions
No
No
Model files (packaged models, model weights, pointers to artifact storage)
Support for continuous testing
No
No
Locking model version and downstream runs, experiments, and artifacts
No
No
Adding annotations/comments and approvals from the UI
No
No
Compatibility audit (input/output schema)
No
No
Compliance audit (datasets used, creation process approvals, results/explanations approvals)
No
No
Model accessibility
No
No
Support for continuous testing
No
No
Integrations with CI/CD tools
No
No
Registered models
No
No
Active models
No
No
By metadata/artifacts used to create it
No
No
By date
No
No
By user/owner
No
No
By production stage
No
No
Search query language
No
No
Native packaging system
No
No
One model one file or flexible structure
No
Flexible
Integrations and Support
CatBoost
No
No
Gluon
No
No
H2O
No
No
Paddle
No
No
Spacy
No
No
Statsmodel
No
No
Ray Tune
No
No
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What are the key advantages of Neptune, then?
- Easy to set up, just a few lines of code necessary to start using it
- Customizable metadata structure
- Comparison features (including table format diff, image comparison, and more)
- Possibility to combine multiple metadata types in custom dashboards
- Team collaboration features (e.g. sharing UI links)
See these features in action
1. Create a free account
Sign up2. Install Neptune client library
pip install neptune-client
3. Add logging to your script
import neptune.new as neptune
run = neptune.init('Me/MyProject')
run['params'] = {'lr':0.1, 'dropout':0.4}
run['test_accuracy'] = 0.84
4. Or see how it works in a notebook (no registration)
Try live notebookThousands of ML people already chose their tool
“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.”
AI Engineer and Data Scientist
“(…) 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.”
Data Science and AI student, Kranenburg, Germany
“This thing is so much better than Tensorboard, love you guys for creating it!”
Junior Researcher at Rényi Alfréd Institute of Mathematics in Budapest, Hungary
“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.”
Computer Science Undergraduate at Saint Louis University
“Such a fast setup! Love it:)”
PhD student in Music Information Processing at Télécom Paris
“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.”
Senior NLP/ML Engineer