KNIME

What KNIME does

KNIME is an open-source data science and AI platform company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2006. Its core product, the KNIME Analytics Platform, is a free, visual workflow-based tool that enables users to build data processing pipelines by connecting drag-and-drop nodes for ETL, analytics, predictive AI, and data-aware agent building without requiring extensive programming. The platform integrates 300+ connectors to data sources including Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, SAP, and all major AI model providers, and supports extensions for Python scripting, geospatial analysis, LLM integration, and reporting. KNIME serves approximately 300,000 users globally, including employees at 150+ Fortune 500 companies and nearly 400 enterprise customers spanning manufacturing (Siemens, Continental, Würth, Kärcher), financial services (ING, Rabobank, Sparkasse KölnBonn), telecommunications (Deutsche Telekom), and technology (Seagate).

The company's commercial offering centers on KNIME Business Hub (available as on-premises or SaaS since November 2025), which adds enterprise collaboration, governance, workflow scheduling, deployment, and audit trails, plus KNIME Pro (a cloud-based individual plan launched September 2025) and KNIME Team Plan for small team collaboration. Revenue is generated through subscription licensing on the commercial tiers, complemented by training, certification, and partner channel revenue. Distribution combines product-led growth via free downloads, direct enterprise sales for Business Hub deployments, and a tiered partner program (Elite, Trusted, Standard, Tech) with regional and industry-focused resellers. Trevor Kaufman serves as CEO following his January 2026 appointment.

KNIME has raised a total of $50 million in disclosed funding, with longtime investor Invus contributing both a 2017 round and a $30 million follow-on in August 2024 earmarked for AI governance and ModelOps development. The company reported €30 million in revenue as of August 2024, with 30-40% annual growth sustained since 2017, and employs 200-220 staff across offices in Zurich, Konstanz, Berlin, and the United States. Strategic positioning emphasizes transparent, governed AI — exemplified by K-AI and Agent Chat nodes that surface AI reasoning and errors for human review — distinguishing KNIME in regulated enterprise use cases.

Name

KNIME

Legal name

KNIME AG

Website

https://knime.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

KNIME provides an open-source, visual workflow-based data science and AI platform serving 300,000+ users and nearly 400 enterprise customers including Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and ING. The company monetizes through commercial tiers (Business Hub, Pro, Team Plan) while offering the core Analytics Platform free under a freemium model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Science and Analytics Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

akta.pro primary industry

Dashboarding & KPI/Performance Management (HDAEAMAF)

Keywords

• Data science platform
• Visual analytics workflows
• ETL data integration
• Open source analytics
• Predictive AI modeling

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Subscriptions (KNIME Business Hub): Commercial licensing of KNIME Business Hub for enterprise teams requiring collaboration, governance, deployment, and centralized workflow management. Available as on-premise or SaaS deployment.
2. KNIME Pro: Cloud-based individual plan bridging KNIME Analytics Platform and Team Plan, offering workflow scheduling, data apps, K-AI assistant, versioning, secret management, and REST services.
3. KNIME Team Plan: Commercial team subscription for the KNIME Community Hub enabling workflow sharing, collaboration, and team-based analytics deployment.
4. Free/Open Source Platform: KNIME Analytics Platform is free and open-source, driving adoption and community growth that converts to commercial tiers.
5. Training & Certification: Revenue from online courses, certifications, and educational materials through KNIME's learning platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

KNIME provides an open-source, visual workflow-based data science platform for ETL, data analytics, predictive AI, and agent building. The free KNIME Analytics Platform is complemented by commercial offerings including KNIME Business Hub (enterprise governance and collaboration), KNIME Pro (cloud-based individual plan), and KNIME Team Plan. Users connect 300+ data sources and AI models through drag-and-drop nodes, with the K-AI assistant enabling natural language workflow creation and agentic AI capabilities.

Product overview

KNIME offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on its open-source KNIME Analytics Platform (free, visual workflow-based data science tool) complemented by commercial offerings: KNIME Business Hub (enterprise collaboration and governance platform available as on-premises or SaaS), KNIME Pro (cloud-based plan with scheduling and deployment features), KNIME Team Plan (small team collaboration), and KNIME Community Hub (public sharing platform). AI capabilities are delivered through K-AI (conversational workflow assistant), the LLM Extension (nodes for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and compatible models), Agent Chat View/Widget nodes (autonomous agent interfaces), and Gemini Image Generator node (image generation/editing). Specialized functionality is extended via installable extensions for Python scripting, reporting, geospatial analysis, and domain-specific workflows. The company serves 300,000+ users globally including users at 150+ Forbes 500 companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KNIME Analytics Platform: Free and open-source platform enabling anyone to work with data through visual workflows, supporting ETL, data analytics, predictive AI, and data-aware agent building.
• KNIME Business Hub
• KNIME Hub
• KNIME Community Hub
• K-AI
• KNIME Pro

Products and services

• KNIME Analytics Platform Free, open-source visual workflow-based platform enabling users from business, technical, or data backgrounds to perform ETL, data analytics, predictive AI, and data-aware agent building through a drag-and-drop node-based interface with 300+ connectors.
• KNIME Business Hub Commercial enterprise platform for collaboration, governance, workflow scheduling, data app deployment, and centralized secret management on data science workflows. Available as on-premises or SaaS deployment.
• KNIME Pro Cloud-based individual plan offering workflow scheduling, data apps deployment, K-AI assistant with expanded AI access, versioning with revert/compare, secret management, and REST services for API endpoint deployment.
• KNIME Team Plan Team collaboration plan on KNIME Community Hub enabling small teams to share workflows, collaborate on data science projects, and manage user accounts with billing and subscription management.
• KNIME Community Hub Public platform for sharing KNIME workflows, extensions, and community-contributed nodes, with access to Verified Components templates, Innovation Notes, and partner Success Stories.
• KNIME Self-Paced Courses Online learning platform offering self-paced training courses for KNIME Analytics Platform, data science, and AI skills development, including KNIME certification programs issued via Credly.

Quantifiable outcome

• Engineers can go from complete beginners to analytics practitioners within a few months using KNIME in corporate Citizen Data Scientist training programs
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration51 records

AI capability11 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AtoscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAtos is a KNIME Elite partner providing digital transformation and analytics consulting services. Head of Analytics at Atos has publicly endorsed the KNIME Partner Program.
• OpenAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenAI is integrated as a data processor for K-AI, KNIME's AI assistant. Processing governed by DPA including Controller-to-Processor Standard Contractual Clauses.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Alteryx: Alteryx offers a visual analytics and data science automation platform serving similar enterprise data prep, blending, and analytics use cases. Highly comparable on product category, customer base (Fortune 500 enterprises), and visual workflow-based approach, making it the closest public peer to KNIME.
• RapidMiner: RapidMiner provides a visual data science platform for predictive analytics and machine learning with similar node-based workflow design philosophy. Closely aligned on product architecture, citizen data scientist value proposition, and open-source heritage (KNIME and RapidMiner are often compared head-to-head).
• Dataiku: Dataiku is an enterprise AI and machine learning platform with visual workflow capabilities serving data scientists and business users in regulated industries. Directly comparable in target customers (financial services, manufacturing), AI governance positioning, and PLG-to-enterprise motion.
• Domino Data Lab: Domino Data Lab is an enterprise MLOps platform enabling data science teams to build, deploy, and monitor models at scale. Comparable in serving enterprise data science teams in regulated industries with strong governance requirements, though Domino is more code-first and less visual.
• Anaconda: Anaconda is a Python data science platform with both open-source community and commercial offerings for enterprise data science and AI workflows. Comparable on open-source-led GTM, Python-based extensibility, and enterprise data science user base.

Broad incumbents

• Databricks: Databricks is a unified data and AI platform offering data engineering, ML, and analytics at scale. While broader than KNIME and far larger, it increasingly competes for the same enterprise data science budget with embedded ML and AI workflow capabilities.
• Palantir Foundry: Palantir Foundry is an enterprise data integration and analytics platform serving large organizations in heavily regulated industries. Comparable in serving regulated enterprise data needs with strong governance, but positioned at higher price points and larger deployments.
• SAS: SAS is a long-standing analytics and AI platform with deep penetration in regulated industries (banking, life sciences, government). Competes for similar enterprise analytics budget and offers comparable governance/audit capabilities, though as a much broader and older platform.
• Tableau: Tableau (Salesforce) is a leading data visualization and BI platform serving similar enterprise analytics users. Overlaps with KNIME's analytics and BI use cases, particularly for business users and reporting, but lacks the deep ML/AI workflow capabilities.
• Microsoft Power BI: Microsoft Power BI is a broadly deployed BI and analytics platform with AI capabilities, embedded in the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. Competes for analytics and reporting budget within the same enterprise IT organizations but offers a narrower data science workflow story.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/KNIMETV
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/knime
• Instagraminstagram.com/knimesoftware
• TikToktiktok.com/@knime
• Xx.com/knime
• Facebookfacebook.com/KNIMEanalytics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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