watsonx.data pricing

The only hybrid, open data lakehouse for enterprise AI and analytics.

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Get started with IBM® watsonx.data™, our ​hybrid, open data lakehouse to power artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics with all your data, anywhere. Deployable across any cloud or on-premises environment.

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Power Gen AI

Scale and automate the preparation of structured and unstructured data to build more reliable generative AI applications.
Open and hybrid by design

Access data and deploy across on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments.
Optimize price performance for any workload

Select from multiple, fit-for-purpose query engines to optimize your workloads for the right balance of cost and performance.
Enterprise-grade security and governance

Secure, compliant, and audit-ready with enterprise-grade governance, lineage tracking, version control, access policies and more.

Flexible and hybrid deployment options for any business

We offer multiple deployment options to fit your needs with fexibility across

- SaaS - Fully managed cloud service and bring your own cloud (BYOC)

- Software - On-premises software
Pricing and packaging
Lite Getting started

2000 free resource units (usually used in 7-12 days)


- Hive metastore and Iceberg catalog
- Infrastructure manager and query
- Presto, Presto C++, Spark, Milvus
- IBM® Db2® Warehouse and IBM® Netezza® integrations

 SaaS Enterprise production use

Easily unify and prepare enterprise data for AI and analytics —all in the cloud.

  • Gen AI ready with ability to utilize unstructured and structured data
  • Support for vector databases, including Milvus
  • Hive Metastore and Iceberg catalog
  • Infrastructure manager
  • Multiple open-source query engines including Presto, Presto C++, Spark, and Gluten
  • Integration with IBM Db2 Warehouse and Netezza
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Everything included in SaaS and more.

  • All capabilities included with SaaS
  • Bundled IBM Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • IBM® Storage Fusion
  • IBM® Storage Ceph®
  • IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform software
  • Red Hat® OpenShift®

 

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.

On-premise software pricing

IBM watsonx.data is available as software today in Standard and Premium editions.

Standard
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®.

Premium
Includes all the standard capabilities in addition to limited entitlements for watsonx.ai, watsonx.data intelligence and watsonx.data integration.

Flexible cloud pricing with multiple fit for purpose engines

We offer simple and transparent cloud pricing with a consumption-based model for our fully managed service on SaaS and bring your own cloud (BYOC) option.

Pricing for fully managed service on SaaS. Our fully managed service allows you to optimize your workloads with multiple fit-for-purpose engines.

Explore details for each of our offerings below.

 
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 1.00 RUs/hr

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium at 2.00 RUs/hr

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large at 3.69 RUs/hr

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 1.00 RUs/hr

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium at 2.00 RUs/hr

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large at 3.69 RUs/hr

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.25 RUs/hr*

1 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (384 to match IBM models) [Default size for trial].

 Contact sales Small at 2.75 RUs/hr

10 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Medium at 9.75 RUs/hr

50 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Large at 16.50 RUs/hr

100 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).
Starting at 5.60 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 11.20 RUs/hr

4 cache nodes

 Medium at 19.60 RUs/hr

7 cache nodes

 Large at 36.40 RUs/hr

12 cache nodes
Starting at 8.40 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 16.80 RUs/hr

4 cache nodes

 Medium at 29.40 RUs/hr

7 cache nodes

 Large at 54.60 RUs/hr

12 cache nodes

Transactional Workloads Contact sales Small

27.6K/sec​ Transactions , 0.5 TB Cache,  1 TB Data Storage, and Standard Multi-tenant Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Medium

82.8K/sec​ Transactions, 6.6 TB ​Cache, 5 TB Data Storage, and Cache Optimized Multi-tenant Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Large

165.6K/sec​ Transactions, 13.2 TB Cache, 10 TB Data Storage, and Cache Optimized Dedicated Capacity Unit Configuration.

 GenAI Workloads Contact sales Small

10M (1024 dimensions)​ Vector embeddings, 1,000 op/s Transactions, 500 GB Cache, and Cache Optimized Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Medium

20M (1024 dimensions)​ Vector embeddings, 1,500 op/s Transactions, 2 TB Cache, and Cache Optimized Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Large

60M (1024 dimensions)​ Vector embeddings, 3000 op/s Transactions, 4 TB Cache, and Cache Optimized Capacity Unit Configuration.
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 1.00 RUs/hr

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium at 2.00 RUs/hr

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large at 3.69 RUs/hr

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.00 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 1.00 RUs/hr

8vCPU, 32GB memory and 300GB secondary storage.

 Medium at 2.00 RUs/hr

16vCPU, 64GB memory with 900GB secondary storage. 

 Large at 3.69 RUs/hr

32vCPU, 128GB memory with 1600GB secondary storage. 
Starting at 1.25 RUs/hr*

1 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (384 to match IBM models) [Default size for trial].

 Contact sales Small at 2.75 RUs/hr

10 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Medium at 9.75 RUs/hr

50 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).

 Large at 16.50 RUs/hr

100 million vectors, Index Type- IVF_FLAT,  Index Parameters – 64, Segment size (1024), Dimensions (at 384).
Starting at 5.60 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 11.20 RUs/hr

4 cache nodes

 Medium at 19.60 RUs/hr

7 cache nodes

 Large at 36.40 RUs/hr

12 cache nodes
Starting at 8.40 RUs/hr* Contact sales Small at 16.80 RUs/hr

4 cache nodes

 Medium at 29.40 RUs/hr

7 cache nodes

 Large at 54.60 RUs/hr

12 cache nodes

Transactional Workloads Contact sales Small

27.6K/sec​ Transactions , 0.5 TB Cache,  1 TB Data Storage, and Standard Multi-tenant Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Medium

82.8K/sec​ Transactions, 6.6 TB ​Cache, 5 TB Data Storage, and Cache Optimized Multi-tenant Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Large

165.6K/sec​ Transactions, 13.2 TB Cache, 10 TB Data Storage, and Cache Optimized Dedicated Capacity Unit Configuration.

 GenAI Workloads Contact sales Small

10M (1024 dimensions)​ Vector embeddings, 1,000 op/s Transactions, 500 GB Cache, and Cache Optimized Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Medium

20M (1024 dimensions)​ Vector embeddings, 1,500 op/s Transactions, 2 TB Cache, and Cache Optimized Capacity Unit Configuration.

 Large

60M (1024 dimensions)​ Vector embeddings, 3000 op/s Transactions, 4 TB Cache, and Cache Optimized Capacity Unit Configuration.

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale. Pricing includes compute costs only and does not include the core support services cost per account of 3.00 RUs/hr. Usage/metering is tracked at a per-minute level. Learn more here
Resource units (RU) is our unit of measure for compute consumption and is available at a list price of USD 1 per RU, metered on a per-second basis with a 1-minute minimum charge
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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.