How much does SAS cost?

SAS publishes 2 tiers, from Free for SAS OnDemand for Academics up to Free for SAS Viya. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does SAS have a free plan?

Yes. The SAS OnDemand for Academics tier costs nothing and covers academic use, core sas.

What is the difference between SAS OnDemand for Academics and SAS Viya on SAS?

SAS Viya costs Free against Free, and adds full platform, cloud-native, ai/ml.

Which machine learning & data science tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 machine learning & data science tools listed alongside SAS have a free tier: Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning, BigQuery ML.

Does SAS charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these SAS prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare SAS against before paying?

The closest machine learning & data science tools in this directory are Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning. Each has a side-by-side comparison with SAS covering price, platforms and features.

Machine Learning & Data Science · pricing

SAS pricing

SAS publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

SAS plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

SAS pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
SAS OnDemand for Academics	Free	2	Entry tier
SAS Viya	Free	3	+$0/month, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

SAS OnDemand for Academics

Free

The entry tier. It covers academic use, core sas.

SAS Viya

Free

Over SAS OnDemand for Academics, this tier adds:

Full platform
Cloud-native
AI/ML

Where SAS stops being free

SAS OnDemand for Academics, Free

Academic use
Core SAS

No paid tier on record

SAS lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full SAS feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Statistical analysis
Machine learning
Forecasting
Text analytics
Optimization

Integrations

Python
R
Hadoop
Spark
Cloud platforms

Platform

Linux support
Windows support
Web support

People bring SAS in for regulated statistical analysis and clinical reporting, enterprise data management, visualization and decisioning on one licensed platform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SAS are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Machine Learning & Data Science

Too few machine learning & data science tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

SAS entry price against other Machine Learning & Data Science tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
SAS (this page)	Free	subscription	-
Comet ML	Free	freemium	-	vs SAS
BentoML	Free	freemium	-	vs SAS
Anaconda	Free, then $15/month	-	-	vs SAS
Azure Machine Learning	Free	usage-based	-	vs SAS
BigQuery ML	Free	usage-based	-	vs SAS
Alteryx	Free	subscription	-	vs SAS

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the SAS badges page.

Before you pay for SAS

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

SAS runs on linux, windows, web, and is published by SAS Institute of Cary, North Carolina. The full record is on the SAS review, and the rest of the category is under best machine learning & data science tools.

SAS pricing on the vendor's own site

SAS pricing questions

How much does SAS cost?: SAS publishes 2 tiers, from Free for SAS OnDemand for Academics up to Free for SAS Viya. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does SAS have a free plan?: Yes. The SAS OnDemand for Academics tier costs nothing and covers academic use, core sas.
What is the difference between SAS OnDemand for Academics and SAS Viya on SAS?: SAS Viya costs Free against Free, and adds full platform, cloud-native, ai/ml.
Which machine learning & data science tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 machine learning & data science tools listed alongside SAS have a free tier: Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning, BigQuery ML.
What am I actually paying for with SAS?: The record lists 13 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for regulated statistical analysis and clinical reporting, enterprise data management, visualization and decisioning on one licensed platform.
Does SAS charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these SAS prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare SAS against before paying?: The closest machine learning & data science tools in this directory are Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning. Each has a side-by-side comparison with SAS covering price, platforms and features.