Free alternatives to SPSS

IBM's statistics package, widely taught in social sciences and psychology. Here are 5 free options, most popular first.

RStudio Desktop

Statistics

Popular open-source IDE for R and Quarto

Stars
5.1k
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Status
Open source

Alternative to SPSS, Stata

JASP

Statistics

Point-and-click statistics with classical and Bayesian tests

Stars
1k
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Status
Open source

Alternative to SPSS, GraphPad Prism

jamovi

Statistics

Spreadsheet-style statistics app built on R

Stars
790
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Status
Open source

Alternative to SPSS, Stata

GNU PSPP

Statistics

Free program for statistical analysis of sampled data, modelled on SPSS

Licence
GPL-3.0
Status
Open source

Alternative to SPSS

R

Statistics

The open-source language and environment for statistical computing

Licence
GPL-2.0
Status
Open source

Alternative to SPSS, Stata

Free tools are not always drop-in replacements. Check that a tool supports the file formats, tests and methods your supervisor, journal or ethics board expects before switching mid-project.

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