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IBM watsonx.ai

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by IBM

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

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The pricing page names a Free plan capped at 300,000 tokens a month, an Essentials pay-as-you-go plan starting at USD 0/month and a Standard plan starting at USD 1,110/month, with per-million-token and per-capacity-unit-hour rates.

What it does

• Model inference
• Model training
• Evaluation and observability
• Text generation

How it compares

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Pricing

Pricing page · 23 Aug 2026

The pricing page names a Free plan capped at 300,000 tokens a month, an Essentials pay-as-you-go plan starting at USD 0/month and a Standard plan starting at USD 1,110/month, with per-million-token and per-capacity-unit-hour rates.

Sold within

Pricing page · 6 Sep 2026

IBM publishes this product's own price on its own pricing page, read 2026-09-06, with a 'Buy now' route — bought on its own rather than inside a watsonx bundle.

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