watsonx Pricing
Watsonx is our enterprise-ready AI and data platform designed to multiply the impact of AI across your business.
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Leverage our next-generation studio to train, tune, validate and deploy models, and fit-for-purpose data store for scaling AI workloads based on an open data lakehouse architecture.

Get started with your governance strategy to direct, manage and monitor your organization’s AI activities.

Check out the different pricing tiers for the watsonx subscription to get started building AI applications for production‐grade use, built on top of our hybrid cloud platform.

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From now until the end of December 2023, new IBM Cloud clients can receive up to USD 60,000 in IBM Cloud credits.

Pricing tiers (SaaS)
Trial  Free Getting started

 

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Essentials Individuals, POCs

 

Watsonx brings together new generative AI capabilities, powered by foundation models, and traditional machine learning across the AI lifecycle.

Standard Enterprise, Production use

 

A powerful platform built on an open, hybrid, and governed data store.

watsonx.ai

Model Inference per 1000 Tokens2

ML Tools and ML runtime based on Capacity Unit Hours1

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ML functionality (20 CUH/month)1

Inferencing (50000 token limit/month)2

Prompt Lab

Open source models

IBM-developed watsonx models

Synthetic Data Generator

 

USD 0 per month - Tier fee

ML functionality

Inferencing

Prompt Lab

Open source models

IBM-developed watsonx models

Synthetic Data Generator

 

USD 1050 per month - Tier fee

ML functionality

Inferencing

Prompt Lab

Open source models

IBM-developed watsonx models

Synthetic Data Generator

Future availability3:

Prompt tuning

Model hosting

Bring-your-own-model

watsonx.data

Supporting services - USD 3 per hour

Cache optimized node (16 vCPU w/ 3.8TB NVMe) - USD 2.80 per hour

Compute optimized node - (72 vCPU w/ 1.8TB NVMe) - USD 6.50 per hour

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USD 1500 of free credits, limited to 30 days

Hive metastore and Iceberg catalog

Infrastructure manager and query editor

Presto, Spark, Db2 Warehouse, and Netezza integration

 

Hive metastore and Iceberg catalog

Infrastructure manager and query editor

Presto, Spark, Db2 Warehouse, and Netezza integration

 

watsonx.governance

Future availability3

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Software pricing

watsonx.ai is available as software today.  Pricing for watsonx.ai is based on the number of virtual processor cores (VPC). Software capabilities include Essentials SaaS tier.

watsonx.data is available as software today. Pricing for watsonx.data software is based on the number of virtual processor cores (VPC).  Software capabilities include Standard SaaS tier plus bundled IBM Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark, IBM Storage Fusion, IBM Storage Ceph, IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform software, Red Hat OpenShift and more.

watsonx.governance software is planned for general availability in 1Q’24. Pricing for watsonx.governance software is based on the number of virtual processor cores (VPC). Software capabilities include Essentials SaaS tier.

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Footnotes

1Capacity Unit Hour pricing depends on the environment and tools utilized within a billing month.

2For foundation model inference, charges are based on a Resource Unit (RU) metric which is equivalent to 1000 token (including both input and output tokens). 

3IBM’s statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at IBM’s sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.

4Global Explanation identifies features that have the most impact on the behavior of your model.

5Local Explanation explains an individual transaction of a predictive ML model.

Unless otherwise specified under Software pricing, all features, capabilities, and potential updates refer exclusively to SaaS. IBM makes no representation that SaaS and software features and capabilities will be the same.

SaaS tiers apply to each platform component individually.