About SPSS Statistics.
IBM SPSS Statistics is a statistics package widely used in social-science and health research. It analyzes study data; it is not a practice business-intelligence or ABA reporting system.
How SPSS Statistics works.
SPSS Inc. was founded in 1968 by Norman Nie, Dale Bent, and Hadlai Hull, and was acquired by IBM in 2009 for $1.2 billion. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2015, the software has been branded as IBM SPSS Statistics and remains a leading platform for statistical analysis and predictive analytics.
The software is a general-purpose statistical analysis tool used across multiple industries and disciplines. Primary users include academic and market researchers, health researchers, survey organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, and data analytics professionals. SPSS provides accessible tools for data manipulation, statistical testing, and interpretation, making advanced analytics available to users without extensive programming expertise.
While SPSS is sometimes used by Applied Behavior Analysis researchers for statistical analysis of research data, the software is not designed as or marketed as a clinical practice management or behavior analysis-specific platform. It functions as a general statistical package applicable across many fields and industries.
What SPSS Statistics costs.
Pricing, deployment and integrations are self-reported by the vendor and re-attested each time the profile is updated. The figure below carries the month it was last confirmed.
- Starting price
- $105/moas of May 2026
- Deployment
- HybridWhere the product runs
- Free tier
- NoNo free plan
- Pricing notes
- Starts at $105/month (Base subscription). Annual subscription from $1,188/yr. Perpetual license from $3,830 (one-time). Tiers: Base, Standard, Professional, Premium. Student/faculty GradPack pricing available. Free trial offered.
- Integrations14 LISTED
- IBM SPSS ModelerIBM Cloud Pak for DataIBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment ServicesIBM SPSS AmosPythonRMicrosoft Excel (.xls/.xlsx)SAS (.sas) Data FilesIBM Watson StudioScikit-learnTensorFlowApache SparkHadoopdata.world
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