IBM watsonx.governance on IBM Cloud offering plan options

The watsonx.governance service enables responsible, transparent, and explainable AI.

The features that are available in a plan depend on the region where you are provisioning the service. See Regional availability of services and features.

IBM watsonx.governance Model Management plans

Watsonx.governance offers plans for different workloads and needs. There are two plans available for watsonx.governance:

  • Lite
  • Essential

IBM watsonx.governance Lite plan features

Lite plan features include:

  • Maximum of 200 resource units
  • 1 resource unit per predictive model evaluation
  • 1 resource unit per foundational model evaluation
  • 1 resource unit per global explanation, with a maximum of 500 local explanations
  • 1 resource unit per 500 local explanations
  • Maximum of 1,000 records per evaluation
  • Limit of 3 rows per use case
  • Limit of 3 use cases
  • Limit of 1 inventory

IBM watsonx.governance Essential plan features

Essential plan features include:

  • Maximum of 500 inventories
  • 1 resource unit per predictive model evaluation
  • 1 resource unit per foundational model evaluation
  • 1 resource unit per global explanation, with a maximum of 500 local explanations
  • 1 resource unit per 500 local explanations
  • Maximum of 50,000 records per Predictive Model Evaluation
  • Maximum of 3,000 records per Foundational Model Evaluation

Billing rates

For the Essentials plan, billing is based on a flat rate of $0.60 per resource unit consumed. For billing details, see the IBM Cloud service page for watsonx.governance.

Monitoring resource usage

You can track RU usage for assets you own or collaborate on in a project or space. If you are an account owner or administrator, you can track resource usage for an entire account.

Tracking resource usage in a project or space

To monitor resource consumption in a project or space:

  1. Navigate to the Manage tab for a project or space.
  2. Click Resources to review a summary of resource consumption for assets in the project or space, or to review resource consumption details for particular assets.

Tracking resource usage for an account

You can track the runtime usage for an account on the Environment Runtimes page if you are the IBM Cloud account owner or administrator or the watsonx.ai Runtime service owner. For details, see Monitoring resource.