Overview
Choose your pricing plan
Surface rich insights and answers from your enterprise data with any of our three IBM Watson® Discovery pricing plans. Start as low as USD 500 per month or upgrade to the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data cartridge with unlimited features. Talk to an IBM sales representative to learn more.
Pricing plans
Plus
30-day no cost trial
Build advanced NLP apps or integrate with IBM Watson® Assistant
Premium
Use one or more IBM Watson® services for better isolation and security
IBM Cloud Pak for Data cartridge
Deploy anywhere and build on any cloud or on premises
Pricing details
Select from three unique pricing plans to find the best-fit for your business.
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Starting at USD 500
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Documents, queries
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Install, documents
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Install, documents
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| Free trial |
30 days
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| Documents included |
10,000
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100,000
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| Queries included |
10,000
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100,000
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| Document limit |
500,000
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Queries limit |
500,000
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Passage retrieval | |||
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| WKS model integration | |||
| Project-based UI (v2) | |||
| Content mining | |||
| Table identification & retrieval | |||
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| Reading comprehension (Beta) | |||
| Custom dictionaries/regex/patterns | |||
| Real-Time/ Analyze API | |||
| Contract understanding | |||
| Concurrent call capacity | |||
| Availability SLA |
N/A
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99.90%
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N/A
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| Data isolation | |||
| Mutual authentication | |||
| Compute isolation | |||
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Language support
Watson Discovery supports up to 22 languages depending on the plan and features.
Frequently asked questions
Get answers to common questions and links to learn more.
How do Watson Discovery and Watson Assistant work together?
Watson Assistant uses a search skill to route complex inquiries to Watson Discovery. Watson Discovery treats the user input as a search query. The platform finds information relevant to the query from data inside its collections and returns that information to Watson Assistant.
How can I calculate pricing based on my usage?
Please visit our pricing calculator which gives a monthly estimate of your costs based on your chosen plan.
How can I upgrade my plan?
Please visit the Watson Discovery subscription page, which provides the opportunity to upgrade your plan.
How can I customize Watson Discovery?
Watson Discovery offers many features for you to modify the platform to meet your needs, including natural language processing (NLP), relevancy model, and ingestion pipeline customizations.
What data types are supported?
The Premium and IBM Cloud Pak for Data cartridge plans aim to support the following data types: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PNG, TIFF, JPG, JSON and HTML.
What are some pre-built connectors and supported data sources?
For the IBM Cloud®, the platform supports Box, Salesforce, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft SharePoint 2016 (on-premises, IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM FileNet, IBM AppConnect, and Web Crawl.
For IBM Cloud Pak for Data, the platform supports: Box, Salesforce, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft SharePoint 2016 (on-premises, Web Crawl, Database, Windows File System, Local File System, FileNet P8, upload your data and Cloud Pak for Data custom connector.
What are the Plus plan pricing details?
The Plus plan comes with a 30-day no cost trial for the first instance created in an account. Any additional instances will not be eligible for the no cost trial.
The Plus plans start at USD 500 per month for up to 10,000 documents and 10,000 queries per month. Per additional thousand documents, the rate is USD 50.
Per additional thousand queries per month, the rate is USD 20.
What counts towards documents?
The document usage metric counts the number of documents that are stored in Watson Discovery during the month. For example, an instance that stores 20,000 documents for the entire month would see USD 5 * (20,000-10,000 included)/1000 = USD 50 in additional documents costs plus the base rate.
What counts towards Queries?
A query is any application programming interface (API) call made to the query endpoint. Use case queries are closely tied to the number of users of your end application. To estimate, consider the number of monthly users you expect and the number of operations for retrieving answers you expect each to do. Queries run through the Watson Discovery user interface for testing don't count towards the pricing.
Next steps
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