Which IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog deployment option is right for you?
On public cloud
IBM offers three pay-as-you-go tiers on IBM Cloud™ — Lite, Standard and Professional.
Free Lite plan:
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Includes everything you need to try the product
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Allows a limited number of assets and users, but provides access to most features, including profiling, glossary, governance and policy enforcement
Standard plan:
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Builds on the Lite plan and offers a true shop-for-data experience with more assets
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Added capabilities include data and model lineage, IBM InfoSphere® Information Governance Catalog integration and more compute for data wrangling
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Priced at USD 249.00 per instance. Optional charges: USD 500.00 for 250 authorized users; USD 0.5 per capacity unit-hour
Professional plan:
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Provides a full breadth of capabilities, enabling you to take the shop-for-data experience to the enterprise level
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Offers an unlimited number of catalogs and assets, additional connection types and a generous amount of compute for data wrangling
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Priced at USD 5,000.00 per instance. Optional charges: USD 500.00 for 250 authorized users; USD 0.5 per capacity unit-hour
On IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Watson Knowledge Catalog on IBM Cloud Pak™ for Data provides a full breadth of capabilities, enabling you to take the shop-for-data experience to the enterprise level. You get:
- Unlimited number of catalogs and assets
- Access to all connection types
- Availability of all functionality, including data quality, lineage, refinery, reference data management and advanced workflows
Pricing details
Watson Knowledge Catalog is priced according to number of catalogs, users and assets, plus other limits in capabilities. There are three plans available: Lite, Standard and Professional. All three plans include access to governance capabilities and many connection types, but with varying limits based on plan.