IBM watsonx.ai
Cloud model platform · fee not published · checked Sep 23, 2026
Models on IBM watsonx.ai
3 model routes.
Premium: blended price (3 input to 1 output) on this platform against the lab's own API. Regions are separate routes.
About IBM watsonx.ai
IBM's AI studio and inference platform serving IBM Granite and third-party models (Meta, Mistral, OpenAI gpt-oss, others) with pay-as-you-go per-token pricing.
- Fee on tokens
- Not published
- Pricing model
- Per 1M tokens (billed as Resource Units, 1 RU = 1,000 tokens incl. input and output); Essentials plan from USD 0/month, Standard from USD 1110/month
- Bring your own key
- No
- Entry plan
- Usage based
- Hosting
- Hosted
Features stated: none found. Not stated: Fallbacks, Load balancing, Caching, Guardrails, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, Prompts, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key, Data residency, Private networking.
The terms, in their words
- Markup
- Per 1M tokens (billed as Resource Units, 1 RU = 1,000 tokens incl. input and output); Essentials plan from USD 0/month, Standard from USD 1110/month
- Free tier
- Free Toolbox playground: up to 300,000 tokens per month
- Providers
- IBM Granite family plus third-party models from Meta, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, OpenAI and more
- For foundation model inference, charges are based on a Resource Unit (RU) metric equivalent to 1000 tokens (including both input and output tokens).
- Foundation Models : Up to 300,000 tokens per month
- Starting at USD 1110/month*
Source: www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-ai/pricing
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