Open Source SAS AlternativesStatistical Analyzers and other similar apps like SAS

The best open source alternative to SAS is R (programming language). If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to SAS and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to SAS are JASP, PyPI, jamovi and Polars.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
SAS alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be consider.

    97 R (programming language) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    |
    2
    10
    Comments about R (programming language) as an Alternative to SAS
    sombrenote
    Positive
    1

    I use both, I think R is superior in almost every way, safe a few automated systems.

    IanShannon
    Negative
    0

    Need to recode completely.

    Does not have anything like the output delivery system (ODS).

    The documentation is highly variable and in some cases, to determing the processing steps it is necessary to read the source code.

    SAS Icon
    R (programming language) icon
    • Most users think R (programming language) is a great SAS alternative.

    • R (programming language) is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SAS.

    • R (programming language) is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SAS.

    • R (programming language) is Free and Open SourceSAS is Paid and Proprietary
    • R (programming language) is Customizable and LightweightSAS is not according to our users
  2. JASP icon
     33 likes

    JASP is a free and open-source graphical program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam. It is designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS. It offers standard analysis procedures in both their classical and Bayesian form.

    30 JASP alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Flathub
     
  3. PyPI icon
     8 likes

    The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. PyPI helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Package authors use PyPI to distribute their software.

    51 PyPI alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • PyPI is the most popular Web-based alternative to SAS.

    • PyPI is Free and Open SourceSAS is Paid and Proprietary
  4. jamovi icon
     16 likes

    jamovi is a free and open statistical platform which is intuitive to use, and can provide the latest developments in statistics.

    18 jamovi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Online
     
  5. Polars icon
     1 like

    Polars is a highly performant DataFrame library for manipulating structured data. The core is written in Rust, but the library is also available in Python. Its key features are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  6. pandas icon
     6 likes

    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  7. SharpDevelop Reports (SDR) is the open source .NET reporting solution shipping with SharpDevelop. SDR supports Windows (WPF or Windows Forms) as well as Web (ASP.NET) applications thanks to its ability to use printers or output directly to PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Stan icon
     3 likes

    Stan is a probabilistic programming language for data analysis, enabling automatic inference for a large class of statistical models.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • R (programming language)
    • Julia
    • MATLAB
     
  9.  1 like

    MonteCarlito is a free Excel-add-in to do Monte-Carlo-simulations. Apart from these it can also do statistical analysis like mean, median, standard error, variance, skewness, kurtosis. It can create histograms. The code is open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
     
  10. BioSciTools icon
     1 like

    BioSciTools (Bioinformatics Science Tools), a desktop program developed based on Java 11, aims to make new exploration and contribution to the development of bioinformatics, and realize data analysis and visualization in the fields of sequence analysis, multi-omics...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Colombian Report Designer (CRD) is a report solution like Jasper Report, Crystal Reports or FastReport, but based on Javascript framework. It can be easily used with any CrossPlatform application.

    100% Javascript Report Designer and Preview Print..

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Preset.io icon
     Like

    Preset is a modern cloud based data exploration and visualization platform powered by Apache Superset, the leading open source analytics tool. Preset delivers a simple, yet powerful interface to quickly visualize and analyze your data, empowering everyone in your organization to...

    49 Preset.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
12 of 14 SAS alternatives