Flexible Commercials to accelerate your journey
Enterprises globally are grappling with the challenge of accelerating modernization through hybrid cloud and AI, while simultaneously balancing the need to lower overall IT expenditures. IBM Cloud, an enterprise cloud platform for even the most mission critical workloads, offers a commercial model that is designed to be adaptable to clients’ unique goals, budget needs, and operational requirements.
Store more. Spend even less. Lock in up to 75% off a simple, predictable rate on storage, retrieval, API calls, and egress bundled, as low as USD 10/TB per month. Ideal for AI workloads, cloud-native apps, and content-heavy systems. Sign up before 31 December 2025. No code required.
Apply promo code: POWERVS2000 to get USD 2,000 off Power Virtual Server and the various preconfigured service resources required to create an IBM Power Computing environment. Promo code expires on 31 December 2025.
Enjoy 50% off the GPU profiles on NVIDIA L40s and A100 PCIe cards as well as the Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators when you use the code GPU4YOU at checkout. Promotion valid for new clients for 6 months.
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Save up to 83% off Intel Xeon 2174G IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. Use promo code SCALENOW1
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Save up to 60% off with our new Virtual Server for VPC profiles when you use the code BUYVPC at checkout. Promotion valid for new clients for 6 months.
Designed to help clients to migrate to IBM Cloud with confidence while providing financial incentives to offset migration costs.
Bring Your Own Software License’ policy provides clients the flexibility they need to move workloads to IBM Cloud without worrying about additional licensing costs
Designed to help clients assess, plan and migrate their infrastructure to IBM Cloud, while providing financial incentives in the form of IBM Cloud credits for qualified clients, covering up to 100% of ‘Proof of Concept’ costs.
Payment solutions to align your budget and your goals.
Get the hybrid cloud and AI technology financing you need with a flexible loan.
Build your hybrid cloud and AI infrastructure with leasing options to enhance ROI and TCO.
Achieve financial flexibility and accelerate projects with a single-source IT financing option.
Expand your hybrid cloud and AI IT infrastructure on a budget with customized, refurbished IT.
Plenty of cost-effective pricing solutions to suite your requirements. See all IBM Cloud Pricing solutions.
Access the full IBM Cloud catalog, including all Free and Lite plans. Pay only for billable services and monthly commitments. No long-term commitments.
Commit to spend a certain amount on IBM Cloud and receive discounts across the platform. You’re billed monthly, based on your usage, and continue to receive discounts after reaching your committed amount.
Reserve capacity in advance for discounted pricing at 1-or-3-year terms. Your capacity is billed monthly, is guaranteed, and requires no up-front payment.
Get platform-wide discounts while paying only for what you use.
Frequently asked questions
If the answer to your question is not here, look on the IBM Cloud™ billing and usage FAQ page or ask a question in the Stack Overflow forum.
You can build and deploy with any Lite plan service at no cost ever, and you can take advantage of services with Free plans that offer monthly free allowances.
Yes. Your billing and credit card information is used for account security and verification purposes when you register your account. You’re set up with a Pay-as-you-go account, and you can access the full IBM Cloud catalog, including all Free and Lite plans. You receive a USD 200 credit to help get you started, which can be used on IBM Cloud products in your first 30 days. You pay only for billable services that you use, with no long-term contracts or commitments.
The benefits are numerous and include access to the entire IBM Cloud catalog of production-ready services—including Kubernetes, infrastructure and IBM Watson® services. And you can use all Free service plans, not just those designated as Lite plans.
Everyone gets free basic support, which includes our docs, the monitored Stack Overflow community forum, and the ability to create support cases. If you need additional support, you can purchase an advanced or premium support plan.
Service prices vary by plan. Lite plan services are always free. Billable services are charged either with fixed monthly billing, or by usage.
You can choose between a flexible Pay-as-you-go account, where you’re billed monthly for the compute and services that you use, and a Subscription account, where you get discounted pricing for a particular spending commitment.