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Commercial Requirements

Commercial requirements chevron
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

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

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

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

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

Both Web UI and CLI

Serverless UI

No

Yes

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

Yes

– Python SDK

Yes

Yes

– R SDK

Yes

No

– Java SDK

No

No

– Julia SDK

No

No

Supported operations
– Search

Yes

Yes

– Update

Yes

Yes

– Delete

Yes

Yes

– Download

Yes

Yes

Distributed training support

Yes

Yes

Pipelining support

Yes

Yes

Logging modes
– Offline

Yes

Yes

– Debug

Yes

Yes

– Asynchronous

Yes

Yes

– Synchronous

Yes

Yes

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

No

– Preview image

Yes

No

– Preview text

Yes

No

– Preview rich media

Yes

No

– Multifile support

Yes

No

– Dataset slicing support

No

No

Code versions
– Git

Yes

Yes

– Source

Yes

Yes

– Notebooks

Yes

Yes

Parameters

Yes

Yes

Metrics and losses
– Single values

Yes

Yes

– Series values

Yes

No

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

Yes

No

Tags

Yes

Yes

Descriptions/comments

Yes

Yes

Rich format
– Images (support for labels and descriptions)

Yes

– Plots

Yes

Yes

– Interactive visualizations (widgets and plugins)

Yes

Yes

– Video

Yes

Yes

– Audio

Yes

Yes

– Neural Network Histograms

No

Yes

– 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

Yes

– GPU

Yes

Yes

– TPU

No

No

– Memory

Yes

Yes

System information
– Console logs (Stderr, Stdout)

Yes

Yes

– Error stack trace

Yes

No

– Execution command

No

No

– System details (host, user, hardware specs)

Yes

Yes

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

No

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

– Slice plot

No

No

– EDF plot

No

No

Rich format (side by side)
– Image

Yes

No

– 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

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
– 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

No

Data versions
– Location

Yes

No

– Hash

Yes

No

– Dataset diff

Yes

No

– External reference version diff (s3)

No

No

Files
– Models

No

No

– CSV

No

No

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

Query language

– Saving filters and search history

Yes

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

Yes

– Saving experiment table views

Yes

– Logging project-level metadata

Yes

Yes

– Custom widgets and plugins

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

Yes

Experiment lineage
– List of datasets used downstream

No

– List of other artifacts (models) used downstream

No

– Downstream artifact dependency graph

No

Yes

Reproducibility protocol

Limited

Yes

Is environment versioned and reproducible

Yes

Yes

Saving/fetching/caching datasets for experiments

No

No

Collaboration and knowledge sharing chevron
Sharing UI links with project members

Yes

No

Sharing UI links with external people

Yes

No

Commenting

No

Interactive project-level reports

No

No

Model Registry

Model versioning chevron
Code versions (used for training)

Yes

No

Environment versions

No

No

Parameters

Yes

No

Dataset versions

Yes

No

Results (metrics, visualizations)

Yes

No

Explanations (SHAP, DALEX)

No

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

Yes

Model lineage and evaluation history chevron
Models/experiments created downstream

No

History of evaluation/testing runs

No

Support for continuous testing

No

No

Users who created a model or downstream experiments

No

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

Yes

Yes

Custom stage tags

No

Yes

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)

Limited

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

No

No

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

Yes

One model one file or flexible structure

No

Flexible

Integrations with packaging frameworks

No

Yes

Integrations and Support

Languages chevron
Java

No

No

Julia

No

No

Python

Yes

Yes

R

No

REST API

No

Model training chevron
Catalyst

Yes

No

CatBoost

No

No

fastai

Yes

Yes

FBProphet

Yes

No

Gluon

No

No

HuggingFace

Yes

Yes

H2O

No

No

LightGBM

Yes

Yes

Paddle

No

No

PyTorch

Yes

No

PyTorch Ignite

Yes

PyTorch Lightning

Yes

Yes

Scikit Learn

Yes

Yes

Skorch

Yes

No

Spacy

No

No

Spark MLlib

No

Statsmodel

No

No

TesorFlow / Keras

Yes

Yes

XGBoost

Yes

Yes

Hyperparameter Optimization chevron
Keras Tuner

No

Optuna

Yes

No

Ray Tune

No

No

Scikit-Optimize

No

Model visualization and debugging chevron
DALEX

Yes

No

Netron

No

Yes

SHAP

No

No

TensorBoard

Yes

IDEs and Notebooks chevron
JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook

Yes

Yes

Google Colab

Yes

No

Deepnote

Yes

No

AWS SageMaker

Yes

No

Data versioning chevron
DVC

Yes

Yes

Orchestration and pipelining chevron
Airflow

No

Yes

Argo

No

Yes

Kedro

Yes

No

Kubeflow

No

Yes

ZenML

Yes

No

Experiment tracking tools chevron
MLflow

No

Sacred

Yes

No

TensorBoard

Yes

CI/CD chevron
GitHub Actions

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
  • 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

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

quote
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
quote
(…) 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
quote
This thing is so much better than Tensorboard, love you guys for creating it!
Dániel 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
quote
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.
Víctor Peinado Senior NLP/ML Engineer

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