IBM watsonx.ai

IBMAI & MLFree tier available

Enterprise AI studio for training, validating, tuning, and deploying foundation models and traditional ML models, with IBM's Granite model family, Hugging Face integration, prompt lab, synthetic data generation, and governance via watsonx.governance

Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ
USArmonk, USA

Subject to CLOUD Act, FISA-702, DPF

Region locations
APACEUUKUSOther14 regions across 5 jurisdictions
Sovereign option
Yes — 1 sovereign-flagged region available

Attributes

Multi Model Catalog
Yes

Sub-services (4)

Prompt Lab

Interactive workspace for engineering and evaluating prompts across models

Tuning Studio

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA and full fine-tuning for foundation models

Granite Models

IBM-built open-source foundation models for code, language, and time-series

Synthetic Data Generator

Generate labelled training data to augment limited datasets

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

Where this runs

14 regions
9 countries
1sovereign
Sovereign regions (1)
  • Frankfurt (Financial Services) · FrankfurtIBM Cloud for Financial Services
Commercial regions (13)

Europe (4)

  • Frankfurt
  • Frankfurt 2
  • Madrid
  • London

North America (4)

  • Montreal
  • Toronto
  • Dallas
  • Washington DC

South America (1)

  • São Paulo

Asia (3)

  • Chennai
  • Osaka
  • Tokyo

Oceania (1)

  • Sydney

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Pricing

Pricing model:pay-per-token