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Lite
Doesn’t require a credit card and offers free access to over 40 IBM Cloud services including IBM Watson®.
Pay-as-you-go
You are only billed for the resources that you use without the hassle of commitments.
Reserved instances
Comes with 1-year or 3-year term commitments and offers discounted pricing and guaranteed capacity.
Subscription
Offers predictable billing and discounted rates in exchange for longer-term commitments.
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Popular products in IBM Cloud
Bare metal servers
High-performance cloud servers configurable in hourly and monthly options — now including up to 20 TB of bandwidth
Object storage
Unstructured data storage designed for durability, resiliency and security
Kubernetes service
Orchestrate intelligent scheduling, self-healing, and horizontal scaling
IBM Cloudant®
A NoSQL JSON document store for heavy loads of concurrent reads and writes
Blockchain platform
Accelerate development and governance of a multi-institution network
Natural language understanding
Analyze text to extract metadata such as concepts, entities and sentiment
Cloud credits for start-ups and academic institutions
Start-ups
Earn between USD 12,000 and USD 120,000 in cloud credits for qualified start-ups.
Academic institutions
Can receive free, self-serve access to IBM Cloud for students and faculty of accredited institutions for non-commercial applications.
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