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OpenLink Endur vs RapidMiner

OpenLink Endur logo

OpenLink Endur

Energy

Enterprise trading and risk management

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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RapidMiner

Machine Learning

Visual workflow data science platform, now sold by Altair as AI Studio

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only RapidMiner has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: OpenLink Endur no pricing published on vendor website; enterprise product requires direct contact with ION Group sales; RapidMiner processes are stored as the product's own XML, so they cannot be meaningfully diffed, reviewed in a pull request or executed anywhere else, and a team's accumulated work is not portable in any practical sense.
  • They diverge on capability: OpenLink Endur covers Deal capture, RapidMiner covers Visual process canvas.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which OpenLink Endur and RapidMiner actually diverge.

Attributes where OpenLink Endur and RapidMiner differ
AttributeOpenLink EndurRapidMiner
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelquotefreemium
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsDesktop, Web, ApiLinux, Mac, Windows, Web
CategoryEnergyMachine Learning
Founded19992007

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in OpenLink Endur

  • Deal capture
  • Position management
  • Risk analytics
  • Credit management
  • Logistics
  • Settlement
  • Accounting integration
  • Regulatory compliance

Only in RapidMiner

  • Visual process canvas
  • Operator library
  • Automatic modelling
  • Python and R operators
  • Validation operators
  • Text and time series extensions
  • AI Hub server
  • Altair portfolio integration

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

OpenLink Endur

  • Energy tradingnot RapidMiner
  • Risk managementnot RapidMiner
  • Commodity logisticsnot RapidMiner
  • Regulatory compliancenot RapidMiner
  • Settlementnot RapidMiner

RapidMiner

  • Modelling work in an engineering organisation where the analysis must be reviewable by people who do not codenot OpenLink Endur
  • Teaching data science concepts, where seeing the validation split as a visible connection is more instructive than reading a function callnot OpenLink Endur
  • Companies already holding Altair licences, where adding this draws on units already purchased rather than a new procurementnot OpenLink Endur
  • Business analysts building predictive workflows without a data science team to hand the problem tonot OpenLink Endur

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

OpenLink Endur

  • No pricing published on vendor website; enterprise product requires direct contact with ION Group sales

RapidMiner

  • Processes are stored as the product's own XML, so they cannot be meaningfully diffed, reviewed in a pull request or executed anywhere else, and a team's accumulated work is not portable in any practical sense.
  • The operator library is the ceiling, and anything beyond it means dropping into an embedded Python or R operator, at which point the code sits inside a visual container that provides none of the version control, testing or debugging a normal repository would.
  • Two changes of ownership in three years, Altair in 2022 and Siemens thereafter, have already moved the product's name, packaging and licensing, so a buyer is committing to a roadmap decided inside a much larger engineering software business.
  • Licensing draws on Altair's shared units pool, so running heavy modelling work consumes capacity that other teams in the organisation were relying on for different products, which makes cost attribution and capacity planning awkward.
  • Scheduling and deployment require AI Hub as a separate server product to install, license and operate, so a model built on the desktop is not in production until another purchase and another installation have been completed.

Pricing, plan by plan

OpenLink Endur

On request
  • Trading$undefined/custom
    • Deal capture
    • Position management
    • P&L analytics
  • Risk$undefined/custom
    • VaR and PaR
    • Credit risk
    • Limit monitoring
  • Enterprise$undefined/custom
    • Full ETRM suite
    • Multi-commodity
    • Global support

RapidMiner

Free
  • FreeFree
    • 10,000 data rows
    • 1 logical processor
  • ProfessionalFree
    • Unlimited data
    • Full features
    • Support

Which should you pick?

Choose OpenLink Endur if

  • You need deal capture.
  • You work on Desktop, Web, Api.
  • You also want position management.
OpenLink Endur review

Choose RapidMiner if

  • You need visual process canvas.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Linux, Mac, Windows, Web.
  • You also want operator library.
RapidMiner review

Questions people ask

Is OpenLink Endur or RapidMiner better?
Neither clearly leads. OpenLink Endur starts at On request and RapidMiner at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, OpenLink Endur or RapidMiner?
RapidMiner has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for OpenLink Endur and Free for RapidMiner.
Does OpenLink Endur or RapidMiner run on more platforms?
OpenLink Endur runs on Desktop, Web, Api. RapidMiner runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, Web.
Can I use RapidMiner for free?
Yes. RapidMiner has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. OpenLink Endur starts at On request.
What is OpenLink Endur best used for?
OpenLink Endur is most often used for energy trading, risk management, commodity logistics, regulatory compliance. Of those, energy trading and risk management are not what RapidMiner is typically brought in for.
What can OpenLink Endur do that RapidMiner cannot?
OpenLink Endur covers Deal capture, Position management, Risk analytics, Credit management. RapidMiner covers Visual process canvas, Operator library, Automatic modelling, Python and R operators.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

OpenLink Endur: How much does OpenLink Endur cost?

OpenLink Endur does not publish pricing on the ION Group website. This is an enterprise product requiring direct contact with ION Group sales for custom pricing.

Source
RapidMiner: Is it still called RapidMiner?

The desktop product is now Altair AI Studio and the server is Altair AI Hub. The RapidMiner name persists in documentation, community material and most search results, which makes finding current information harder than it should be.

OpenLink Endur: How can I get pricing for OpenLink Endur?

Contact ION Group directly through their contact forms, request a demo, or work with their sales team to receive a custom quote for OpenLink Endur.

Source
RapidMiner: Is there a free version?

Altair has offered free and academic editions with usage limits, but the terms have moved with each ownership change, so check what is currently on offer rather than relying on what the free tier allowed a few years ago.

RapidMiner: Do I need to write code?

No, which is the point of it. You will write some once you hit the edge of the operator library, and at that stage the tool works against you rather than for you.

RapidMiner: Can I put a model into production?

Through AI Hub, which is a separate licensed server. The desktop tool builds and validates; it does not schedule or serve.

RapidMiner: How does licensing work?

Through Altair's units model, where a pool of purchased units is drawn on by whichever Altair products your organisation runs, rather than a per-seat licence specific to this product.

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