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AgencyAnalytics vs modeltime
A side-by-side editorial comparison of AgencyAnalytics and modeltime — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
AgencyAnalytics vs modeltime: at a glance
What is AgencyAnalytics?
AgencyAnalytics is turning its assistant into scheduled agency staff work, not a chat box.
The release cadence is weekly and heavily weighted toward AgencyAI. Skills landed in early August as named, runnable agency tasks; scheduling followed, letting those requests run on a cadence and post results into the client's conversation. Around them sit portfolio-management improvements — client tags, report share history, advanced metric filtering — and a consolidated Data tab feeding the assistant's context.
What is modeltime?
modeltime built conformal intervals in, then went quiet on features.
modeltime is at 1.3.3, a single change making the package robust to xgboost version shifts. The feature weight sits in 1.3.2, which added a future-based parallel backend, the maape() accuracy metric and dials helpers for ADAM engine tuning, and further back in the 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 pair that introduced conformal prediction intervals and then carried them through the nested forecasting workflow.
AgencyAnalytics vs modeltime: editorial side-by-side
AgencyAnalytics
6.3ANALYTICS
AgencyAnalytics is turning its assistant into scheduled agency staff work, not a chat box.
◆ Current state
The release cadence is weekly and heavily weighted toward AgencyAI. Skills landed in early August as named, runnable agency tasks; scheduling followed, letting those requests run on a cadence and post results into the client's conversation. Around them sit portfolio-management improvements — client tags, report share history, advanced metric filtering — and a consolidated Data tab feeding the assistant's context.
◆ Where it's heading
Every recent release either gives AgencyAI more to read or more autonomy in when it runs. The Data tab consolidation, the AI Tracker add-on for AI search visibility, and now scheduling all point the same way: the platform is being positioned to produce the recurring client deliverables an agency would otherwise assign to a junior analyst.
◆ Prediction
Expect scheduled AgencyAI output to gain delivery paths beyond conversation history — into reports or client-facing sends — given the existing report scheduling and share infrastructure.
modeltime
0.0ANALYTICS
modeltime built conformal intervals in, then went quiet on features.
◆ Current state
modeltime is at 1.3.3, a single change making the package robust to xgboost version shifts. The feature weight sits in 1.3.2, which added a future-based parallel backend, the maape() accuracy metric and dials helpers for ADAM engine tuning, and further back in the 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 pair that introduced conformal prediction intervals and then carried them through the nested forecasting workflow.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc runs from uncertainty quantification to execution. Conformal intervals arrived first and were then threaded through nested fitting, refitting and the printed forecast tables so users can see which confidence method produced an interval. The later work moves down a layer to how forecasts are computed — a portable future backend replacing foreach tuning — rather than what they express.
◆ Prediction
With only an xgboost compatibility fix since the 1.3.2 feature release, the entries do not support a confident prediction about what comes next beyond continued dependency maintenance.
Alternatives to AgencyAnalytics and modeltime
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either AgencyAnalytics or modeltime.
Omni
Omni ships weekly, and almost every week the headline item is an AI feature.
silx
silx settles into maintenance a release after its PySide6 migration
Plotly
Plotly is turning its cloud into a metered compute platform with an enterprise on-ramp.
aniread
aniread stops asking you to know which tracker wrote the file
Rho
Rho's release machinery finally produced a stable build — and it shipped no new product.
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Recent activity from AgencyAnalytics and modeltime
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoAgencyAnalyticsSchedule your AgencyAI prompts
- 6d agoAgencyAnalyticsAdvanced filtering for custom metrics and KPIs
- 6d agoAgencyAnalyticsOrganize your clients your way with tags
- 11d agoAgencyAnalyticsReport Shares View
- 11d agoAgencyAnalyticsSkills in AgencyAI ⚡
- 21d agoAgencyAnalyticsEverything about your client's data, now in one tab
- 8mo agomodeltimeRobustness to xgboost version changes
- 11mo agomodeltimefuture parallel backend, maape() metric and ADAM tuning helpers
- 2y agomodeltimeConformal intervals reach the nested forecasting workflow
- 2y agomodeltimeConformal prediction intervals introduced
- 3y agomodeltimeFixes the Smooth es() model
- 3y agomodeltimeFixes failing developer-tools tests
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between AgencyAnalytics and modeltime?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. AgencyAnalytics is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 0.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is AgencyAnalytics better than modeltime?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. AgencyAnalytics is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 0.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to AgencyAnalytics?
Top AgencyAnalytics alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "AgencyAnalytics alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/agencyanalytics for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to modeltime?
Top modeltime alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "modeltime alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/modeltime for the full list with editorial commentary on each.