Decart vs IBM

Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  IBM — Application · Public · $216.6B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Cogito and IBM watsonx.ai both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content and serve a model in production; larger scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

3 of 8 capabilities — Shares model inference, model training and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship API service and application.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — IBM: $216.6B market cap, against Decart's $4B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldDecartIBM
Size$4B valuation$216.6B mkt cap different basis
Employees—264,300
Founded20231911 112 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model APIAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersTel Aviv, IsraelArmonk, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Model inferenceModel trainingText generation

Not verified for IBM · 5

GPU programmingImage editingModel hostingVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for Decart. IBM’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Decart · 18

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewCode searchCustomer supportData analysisData securityDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText to speechThreat detection and responseVector searchVoice agentWorkflow automation

Recorded for IBM. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

IBM

Application

IBM Guardium AI SecurityApplication

Protects enterprise data across AI agents, applications and endpoints against agentic-AI, regulatory and post-quantum risks.

IBM InstanaApplication

Full-stack application and infrastructure observability powered by agentic AI, including automatic discovery/mapping of GenAI workflows and AI-driven Smart Alerts to reduce alert fatigue.

IBM Robotic Process AutomationApplication

AI-driven robotic process automation for building intelligent bots that automate business processes, with AI-embedded resilience built into the RPA runtime.

IBM SPSS ModelerApplication

Visual data-science and machine-learning platform for building predictive models, with advanced algorithms, model deployment and open-source framework integration.

IBM Watson DiscoveryApplication

Document intelligence platform using OCR, NLP enrichments (entity/sentiment/emotion/category extraction) and LLM integration to automate information discovery from enterprise documents.

API service

IBM Watson Natural Language UnderstandingAPI service

Deep-learning text analytics service extracting entities, sentiment, emotion, concepts, semantic roles and custom classifications from unstructured text.

IBM Watson Speech to TextAPI service

A speech recognition API that converts audio into real-time or batch text for transcription, captioning and voice-analytics use cases.

IBM Watson Text to SpeechAPI service

A text-to-speech API that converts text into multilingual synthesized speech using neural voices.

No counterpart

Decart sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for IBM yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.

IBM sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Decart yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

IBM Watson AssistantAgent platform

A conversational AI platform for building customer-support chatbots and virtual assistants deployed across voice and digital channels.

IBM watsonx OrchestrateAgent platform

Platform for building and running AI agents that call enterprise applications on a user's behalf.

Developer tool

IBM BobDeveloper tool

An AI coding agent that automates planning, code generation, review and verification across the software development lifecycle, including IBM Z mainframe modernization workflows.

IBM watsonx Code Assistant for ZDeveloper tool

A generative AI assistant for IBM Z mainframe application discovery, code generation, refactoring and modernization.

Platform

IBM ConcertPlatform

An agentic AI IT-operations platform that unifies observability, optimization and automated remediation across applications, infrastructure and networks.

IBM watsonx.aiPlatform

Studio for building, tuning and deploying model-based applications on IBM and third-party foundation models.

IBM watsonx.governancePlatform

A governance platform providing real-time visibility, policy enforcement and accountability tracking for AI models and agents across the AI lifecycle.

Data service

IBM watsonx.dataData service

An open hybrid data lakehouse including a built-in Milvus vector database that unifies data access and automates governance for AI and analytics workloads.