25 Best Text Classification Tools Compared

Welcome to the definitive source for selecting the best text analytics tool. We’ve performed comprehensive research to identify all text classification solutions that allow manual classification, either alone or in combination with automated classification.

We didn’t include tools that only advertise a machine learning solution. This is because in our experience, the very best text analysis techniques still require niche, domain-specific knowledge that neural networks can’t extract. At least, not yet (GPT-4 anyone?).

With the amount of time and resources companies pour into automatic analysis of unstructured data, it pays to spend a few hours, a few days, or even a few weeks researching the most optimum workflows for your industry and application. We hope this publication will save you dozens of hours of research in your quest for the best text analytics tool.

Text analytics combines well with Data Visualization. Check out our data visualization research here: Data Visualization Tools. You can also segue from well annotated text into video editing with specialty text-based video editing tools like Type Studio. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

We reached out to a cohort of industry experts to get some initial feedback on what features are most important in text analytics tools. We’ve ranked the top ten tools in our research according to their responses. This top ten list is continually updated as we get more feedback. But we highly suggest you participate in our custom text classification survey so you can layer in your own importance prioritization for each feature:

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Top Ten
Text Analytic Tools
as of April 2021

SAS Text Miner
Google AutoML NLP
QDA Miners WordStat
Text2Data
MeaningCloud
IBM Watson Studio
Intellexer
Microsofts Cognitive Services Suite
Semantria
SmartLogic

Our analysts have done comprehensive research on 24 text analytics tools. They collected over 190 data points, and more than 300 feature points. We also put together a scatter plot that ranks each text analytics software based on two dimensions: Text Analytics Feature Strength and Text Analytics Business Strength.

Text Analytics Feature Strength is a number that was calculated by looking at how many features each text analytics tool had, and the relative, subjective importance of each feature. You’ll definitely want to take our survey to layer in your own feature importance scoring before deciding on a solution.

Likewise, Text Analytics Business Strength is a number that was derived from certain business-related qualities of each company, and our own (subjective) scoring of the importance of those qualities. There too, you’ll want to give your own importance rating to derive your own, custom scatter plot:

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Note: If we mark a specific solution as not having a particular feature, that only means we did not see that feature advertised in their public marketing content. We focus almost exclusively on publicly verifiable facts in our research.

Of special importance is the field titled, Top Five Other Text Analytics Tools with Most Similar Features, in Order. For each tool, we looked at the feature sets of competitors to come up with their top closest competitors from a data-driven, feature-focused perspective.

You can also click here to jump straight to the list of features that we’ve uncovered for each text analytics platform.

We want this research report to be mobile-friendly, so we’ve nested five different methods of ranking these text analytics tools. Click on each to expand the ordered list:

Approximate Age of Software/Company

Tool	Age
Intellexer	16.3 Yrs
MuText	15.3 Yrs
SmartLogic	9.8 Yrs
Ascribe	8.8 Yrs
QDA Miner's WordStat	8.7 Yrs
NetOwl	7.6 Yrs
Luminoso	7.0 Yrs
Semantria	5.2 Yrs
Google AutoML NLP	4.9 Yrs
RapidMiner Studio	4.4 Yrs
MeaningCloud	4.3 Yrs
Etuma	4.3 Yrs
IBM Watson Studio	4.2 Yrs
Microsoft's Cognitive Services Suite	3.9 Yrs
SAS Text Miner	3.7 Yrs
Amazon Comprehend	3.5 Yrs
Dcipher Analytics	3.1 Yrs
Textalytic	2.8 Yrs
Text2Data	2.5 Yrs
MonkeyLearn	2.2 Yrs
Confirmit Genius	2.2 Yrs
DiscoverText	2.2 Yrs
Lionbridge	2.0 Yrs
Megaputer	1.8 Yrs
Bitext	11 Mo

Domain Authority

Tool	Score
Amazon Comprehend	96
Microsoft's Cognitive Services Suite	96
IBM Watson Studio	92
Google AutoML NLP	91
SAS Text Miner	85
Confirmit Genius	76
RapidMiner Studio	73
MonkeyLearn	71
Semantria	60
Luminoso	60
SmartLogic	60
Bitext	56
QDA Miner's WordStat	53
MeaningCloud	53
Text2Data	52
DiscoverText	51
Etuma	51
MuText	51
Lionbridge	45
Intellexer	43
Megaputer	37
NetOwl	29
Textalytic	28
Ascribe	27
Dcipher Analytics	14

Raw Feature Count

Tool	Count
Google AutoML NLP	9
SAS Text Miner	9
MeaningCloud	8
Text2Data	8
Dcipher Analytics	8
Semantria	7
IBM Watson Studio	7
DiscoverText	7
QDA Miner's WordStat	7
Lionbridge	6
Amazon Comprehend	6
NetOwl	6
SmartLogic	6
Intellexer	6
Microsoft's Cognitive Services Suite	6
MonkeyLearn	5
RapidMiner Studio	5
Textalytic	5
Luminoso	5
Bitext	5
Ascribe	5
Etuma	4
MuText	4
Megaputer	4
Confirmit Genius	2

Business Score

Tool	Score
QDA Miner's WordStat	13.59
Intellexer	13.29
IBM Watson Studio	13.26
Google AutoML NLP	13.23
SAS Text Miner	13.05
Microsoft's Cognitive Services Suite	12.38
MeaningCloud	12.09
MonkeyLearn	11.88
Luminoso	11.8
SmartLogic	11.8
RapidMiner Studio	11.69
MuText	11.53
Amazon Comprehend	11.38
Text2Data	11.31
Ascribe	10.81
Semantria	10.3
Confirmit Genius	10.03
Dcipher Analytics	9.92
Bitext	9.68
Megaputer	8.11
Etuma	7.03
NetOwl	6.87
DiscoverText	6.78
Lionbridge	5.1
Textalytic	2.59

Software Score

Tool	Score
SAS Text Miner	31
Dcipher Analytics	29.5
Google AutoML NLP	29
Text2Data	27
MeaningCloud	25
Semantria	23
QDA Miner's WordStat	23
IBM Watson Studio	22
DiscoverText	22
Lionbridge	21
NetOwl	20
Intellexer	20
Amazon Comprehend	19
SmartLogic	19
Microsoft's Cognitive Services Suite	19
Ascribe	19
RapidMiner Studio	18
Textalytic	18
MonkeyLearn	17
Luminoso	16
Bitext	16
Megaputer	15
MuText	14
Etuma	13
Confirmit Genius	7

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FEATURE DESCRIPTIONS
Sentiment Analysis Looks at the positivity or negativity within a document or classifier. The process of computationally identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in a piece of text. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 25
Named Entity Recognition / Extraction Also known as named-entity recognition (NER), or entity identification, it identifies and classifies key elements from text into predefined categories. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 20
Intent Detection Intent classification is the automated association of text to a specific purpose or goal. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 18
Multi-language Support Can perform text analysis on many languages. Translation Application Programming Interface's recognition engine supports a wide variety of languages for the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 18
Create / Edit N-Gram Classifiers Has an interface that allows a user to manually create, edit or fine-tune n-gram classifiers. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 14
Application Programming Interface The application programming interface is a computational interface that determines the interactions between multiple software intermediaries. It defines the types of calls or requests that can be made, how they are created, the data types to be used, the rules to be followed, etc. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 12
Text Data Mining Also known as text analytics, or text data mining, it is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 11
Natural Language Processing Involves Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Linguistics. The process extracts information to clarify document contents. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 7
Custom Reports Create and manage Custom Reports. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 6
Word-Representation Cloud Tool Also known as word collage, wordle, or tag cloud, Word Cloud can visually represent words by making some words, in the word cloud, larger according to how frequently they are used in the text. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 5
Dataset Support Unlock complex use cases with support for large classification labels, documents, and document size. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 5
Custom Workflows Allows users to create a unique workflow plan and diagram, consisting of a sequence of actions, according to a user's resources, and project tasks to be done. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 4
PDF Support PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format developed by Adobe for documents, including text and image formats, independent of the software, hardware, and operating systems being used. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 3
HTML Support Uses Hypertext Markup Language, a standard tagging system for text files to get font, color, graphics and hyperlink effects on web pages. Number of Text Analytic Tools that have this feature: 2

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25 Best Text Classification Tools Compared

Top Ten Text Analytic Tools as of April 2021

Approximate Age of Software/Company

Domain Authority

Raw Feature Count

Business Score

Software Score

Text Analytics Tools are listed below in no particular order:

MonkeyLearn

MonkeyLearn Comparison Details

List of 5 MonkeyLearn Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 5 MonkeyLearn Features in order of popularity

Lionbridge

Lionbridge Comparison Details

List of 32 Lionbridge Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 6 Lionbridge Features in order of popularity

Semantria

Semantria Comparison Details

List of 7 Semantria Features in order of popularity

Google AutoML NLP

Google AutoML NLP Comparison Details

List of 9 Google AutoML NLP Features in order of popularity

RapidMiner Studio

RapidMiner Studio Comparison Details

List of 1 RapidMiner Studio Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 5 RapidMiner Studio Features in order of popularity

Confirmit Genius

Confirmit Genius Comparison Details

List of 1 Confirmit Genius Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 2 Confirmit Genius Features in order of popularity

IBM Watson Studio

IBM Watson Studio Comparison Details

List of 7 IBM Watson Studio Features in order of popularity

Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend Comparison Details

List of 6 Amazon Comprehend Features in order of popularity

Textalytic

Textalytic Comparison Details

List of 1 Textalytic Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 5 Textalytic Features in order of popularity

DiscoverText

DiscoverText Comparison Details

List of 2 DiscoverText Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 7 DiscoverText Features in order of popularity

QDA Miner's WordStat

QDA Miner's WordStat Comparison Details

List of 7 QDA Miner's WordStat Features in order of popularity

MeaningCloud

MeaningCloud Comparison Details

List of 1 MeaningCloud Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 8 MeaningCloud Features in order of popularity

SAS Text Miner

SAS Text Miner Comparison Details

List of 9 SAS Text Miner Features in order of popularity

Luminoso

Luminoso Comparison Details

List of 5 Luminoso Features in order of popularity

Bitext

Bitext Comparison Details

List of 5 Bitext Features in order of popularity

NetOwl

NetOwl Comparison Details

List of 6 NetOwl Features in order of popularity

SmartLogic

SmartLogic Comparison Details

List of 6 SmartLogic Features in order of popularity

Text2Data

Text2Data Comparison Details

List of 8 Text2Data Features in order of popularity

Etuma

Etuma Comparison Details

List of 4 Etuma Features in order of popularity

MuText

MuText Comparison Details

List of 4 MuText Features in order of popularity

Intellexer

Intellexer Comparison Details

List of 6 Intellexer Features in order of popularity

Megaputer

Top Ten
Text Analytic Tools
as of April 2021