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watsonx.governance pricing
Regardless of where your artificial intelligence (AI) is deployed, IBM® watsonx.governance™ empowers you to accelerate responsible, transparent and explainable AI workflows to adopt AI at scale.
See the watsonx.governance pricing tiers to get started with an integrated solution to direct, manage and monitor your generative AI and machine learning models, deployed anywhere, on cloud or on- premises.
Pricing plans — multiple payment options available
Predictive and foundational model evaluation and monitoring, lifecycle tracking and automatic documentation of facts.
Predictive and foundational model evaluation and monitoring, lifecycle tracking and automatic documentation of facts.
Model evaluation
Free
Up to approximately 100 evaluations
$0.64 per evaluation. No max
Maximum 50k records per evaluation
Global explanation
Free
Up to approximately 100 explanations
500 local explanations per global explanation
$0.64 per explanation. No max
500 local explanations per global. No max
Local explanation
Free
Up to approximately 50k local explanations
$0.64 per 500 explanations
No max
Template evaluation
Free
Up to approximately 100 evaluations
$0.64 per evaluation. No max
Maximum 3k records per evaluation
Message evaluation
Free
Up to 20k messages
20 metrics each
$0.64
Per 200 messages. No max
20 metrics each
Use case inventory
1 inventory
500 inventories
Use cases
3 use cases
Unlimited
Custom attributes
3 per use case
Unlimited
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Onboard AI use cases, assess risk, evaluate regulatory applicability
Onboard AI use cases, assess risk, evaluate regulatory applicability
Instance
$795
$3,710
Solution
$2,650 (per solution)
Maximum 1 solution
$2,650 (per solution)
Maximum 5 solutions
User
$53 (per concurrent user)
Maximum 25 concurrent users
$53 (per concurrent user)
Maximum 200 concurrent users
*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
Up to 100 actions per month, shared across features. 1 action = 1 evaluation, 1 global explanation, 500 local explanations, or 200 agent messsage evaluations
Running more than 20 metrics requires an additional resource unit
Models
Evaluation frequency
Evaluation types
Evaluations performed
Global explanations
Local explanations
1 (40,000 records each)
1 per month
2 (quality and fairness)
2
0
0
$1.28 per month
4 (40,000 records each)
30 per month
2 (quality and fairness)
4 × 30 × 2 = 240
10
1,000
$161.28 per month
8 (40,000 records each)
360 per month
3 (quality, fairness, and drift)
8 × 360 × 3 = 8,640
50
5,000
$5,529.60 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.
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Governance Console / Model Risk Governance
1 instance
Model evaluation
12,000 evaluations per year
AI Use Cases
5
Concurrent users
25
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Software pricing
IBM watsonx.governance is available as software today. Pricing for watsonx.governance software is based on the number of virtual processor cores (VPC). Software capabilities include Essentials SaaS tier.
Footnotes
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Global Explanation identifies features that have the most impact on the behavior of your model.
Local 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.