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watsonx.ai pricing
Explore the pricing tiers for our trial, essentials and standard plans on IBM® watsonx.ai®. For model pricing, explore IBM's foundation and embedding model section, as well as third-party foundation and embedding models pricing.
Includes pay-as-you-go pricing per million tokens and hourly rates for on-demand model hosting and deployment.
Includes IBM and third-party models available for USD 0.10 per million tokens.
Includes third-party models from Meta, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, and more, with pay-as-you-go pricing per million tokens and hourly options for on-demand hosting and deployment.
Includes use case-based pricing for machine learning, text extraction, and model customization, with Essential and Standard package options.
Pricing tiers (SaaS)
Foundation Models: Up to 300,000 tokens per month
Machine Learning Tools: Up to 20 Compute Usage Hours (CUH) per month
Text Extraction: Up to 100 documents per month
Playground UI
Inferencing
Open source models
IBM watsonx® models
Work with foundational models (PromptLab)
Supports retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
Work with agents (AgentLab)
Synthetic data generator
ML functionality**
Text extraction**
LoRA/QLoRA Fine-tuning*
Custom foundation models***
Model hosting***
Deploy on-demand models***
Support
watsonx community and online chatbot
Basic support included: 24x7 access to tech support through cases
Basic support included: 24x7 access to tech support through cases
Options available
Advanced support with SLAs available starting at USD 200 per month
Advanced support with SLAs available starting at USD 200 per month
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
granite-4-h-small
USD 0.06 per 1M tokens input / USD 0.25 per 1M tokens output
Not available
granite-vision-3-3-2b
Not available
granite-vision-3-2-2b1
USD 0.10
Not available
granite-3-2b-instruct (v3.1)1
USD 0.10
Not available
granite-guardian-3-2b (v3.1)1 (Deprecated)
USD 0.10
Not available
granite-guardian-3-8b (v3.1)1
USD 0.20
Not available
granite-timeseries-ttm-r21
USD 0.38
Not available
granite-13b-instruct1 (Deprecated)
USD 0.60
Not available
granite-3-8b-instruct (v3.1)
USD 0.20
Not available
granite-8b-code-instruct
USD 0.20
granite-3-2-8b-instruct
USD 0.20
granite-3-1-8b-base
Not available
granite-20b-code-base-sql-gen1
Not available
granite-20b-code-base-schema-linking1
Not available
granite-3-8b-base1
Not available
granite-7b-lab1
Not available
granite-8b-japanese1
Not available
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Embedding models
All embedding models are USD 0.10 per million tokens. This includes IBM models (-granite-embedding-107m-multilingual, granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2, slate-125m-english-rttrvr, slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2, slate-30m-english-rtrvr) and third-party models (-all-mini-l6-v2, all-minilm-l12-v2, and multilingual-e5=large).
llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-int4
Meta
Not available
llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8
Meta
USD 0.35 tokens input
USD 1.40 tokens output
Not available
llama-3-2-1b-instruct
Meta
USD 0.10
Not available
llama-3-2-3b-instruct
Meta
USD 0.15
Not available
llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct
Meta
USD 2.00
Not available
llama-3-405b-instruct
Meta
USD 5.00 tokens input
USD 16.00 tokens output
Not available
llama-guard-3-11b-vision
Meta
USD 0.35
Not available
mistral-medium-2505
Mistral AI
USD 3.00 input
USD 10.00 tokens output
Not available
mistral-large-22 (Deprecated)
Mistral AI
USD 3.00 tokens input
USD 10.00 tokens output
Not available
mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-25032
Mistral AI
USD 0.10 input
USD 0.30 output
Not available
pixtral-12b2 (Deprecated)
Mistral AI
USD 0.35
Not available
llama-3-3-70b-instruct
Meta
USD 0.71
flan-t5-xl-3b
USD 0.60
allam-1-13b-instruct
SDAIA
USD 1.80
gpt-oss-120b
Open AI
USD 0.15 tokens input
USD 0.60 tokens output
llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct
Meta
USD 0.35
llama-3-13b-chat (Deprecated)
Meta
USD 0.0006 /1,000 tokens for input and output
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
DeepSeek
Not available
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b
DeepSeek
Not available
eurollm-1-7b-instruct
Utter Project
Not available
eurollm-9b-instruct
Utter Project
Not available
llama-2-70b-chat
Meta
Not available
llama-3-1-70b
Meta
Not available
llama-3-1-8b
Meta
Not available
llama-3-3-70b-instruct-hf
Meta
Not available
mistral-large-instruct-24112
Mistral AI
Not available
mistral-nemo-instruct-24072
Mistral AI
Not available
mixtral-8x7b-base2
Mistral AI
Not available
poro-34b-chat
LumiOpen
Not available
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Machine learning models
0.52 USD / Capacity Unit-Hour
0.42 USD / Capacity Unit-Hour
Text extraction3
0.038 USD / Page
0.03 USD / Page
LoRA fine-tuning
Not available
NVIDIA 1 x A100 GPU: 5.88 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 1 x H100 GPU: 13.86 USD / Hour
Model hosting/Deploy on demand
Not available
NVIDIA 1 x L40S GPU: 4.43 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 2 x L40S GPU: 8.86 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 1 x A100 GPU: 5.8 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 2 x A100 GPU: 11.6 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 4 x A100 GPU: 23.2 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 8 x A100 GPU: 46.4 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 1 x H100 GPU: 14.5 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 2 x H100 GPU: 29 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 4 x H100 GPU: 58 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 8 x H100 GPU: 116 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 1 x H200 GPU: 16 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 2 x H200 GPU: 32 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 4 x H200 GPU: 64 USD / Hour
NVIDIA 8 x H200 GPU: 128 USD / Hour
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Footnotes
1 For foundation model inference, charges are based on a Resource Unit (RU) metric equivalent to 1000 tokens (including both input and output tokens).
2 Mistral commercial models have a GPU hosting fee and a model access fee. For more information, view the documentation.
* Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
^ Capacity Unit Hour pricing depends on the environment and tools utilized within a billing month.
3 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.