Competitors
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Summary
IBM Watsonx is a comprehensive portfolio of AI products designed to accelerate the impact of generative AI in enterprise workflows. It offers tools for data management, AI model development, automation, and governance, enabling businesses to build, deploy, and manage AI applications with trusted data and responsible practices across various cloud environments.
Feature Matches8/13
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Must Have
5 of 5
Conversational AI
API Access
Safety & Alignment Framework
Fine-Tuning & Custom Models
Enterprise Solutions
Other
3 of 8
Code Generation
Multimodal AI
Research & Publications
Image Generation
Security & Red Teaming
Synthetic Media Provenance
Threat Intelligence Reporting
Global Affairs & Policy
PricingUsage-based
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Gpt-oss-120b
$0.15 per use
- Private on-premises or edge deployment
- Reasoning workflows
- Tool-use (e.g. search, code execution)
- Customizable chain-of-thought
- Structured outputs
- Adjustable reasoning effort
- 128K Context length
Gpt-oss-120b
$0.60 per use
- Private on-premises or edge deployment
- Reasoning workflows
- Tool-use (e.g. search, code execution)
- Customizable chain-of-thought
- Structured outputs
- Adjustable reasoning effort
- 128K Context length
Granite-3-3-8b-instruct
$0.20 per use
Popular- Supports reasoning and planning, questions and answers (Q&A), fill-in-the-middle support, summarization, classification, generation, extraction, RAG and coding tasks.
- 128k Context length
Granite-3-2-8b-instruct
$0.20 per use
- Supports reasoning and planning, Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction, RAG and coding tasks.
- 128k Context length
Granite-vision-3-2-2b
$0.10 per use
- Supports image-to-text use cases for chart, graphs and infographics analysis, and context Q&A.
- 16,384 Context length
Granite-3-2b-instruct (v3.1)
$0.10 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction, RAG and coding tasks.
- 128k Context length
Granite-3-8b-instruct (v3.1)
$0.20 per use
Popular- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction, RAG and coding tasks.
- 128k Context length
Granite-guardian-3-8b (v3.1)
$0.20 per use
- Supports detection of HAP/ or PII,jailbreaking, bias, violence and other harmful content.
- 128k Context length
Granite-guardian-3-2b (v3.1)
$0.10 per use
- Supports detection of HAP or PII,jailbreaking, bias, violence and other harmful content.
- 128k Context length
Granite-13b-instruct
$0.60 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction and RAG tasks.
- 8192 Context length
Granite-8b-code-instruct
$0.60 per use
- Task-specific model for code by generating, explaining and translating code from a natural language prompt.
- 128k Context length
Granite-8b-japanese
$0.60 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in Japanese.
- 4096 Context length
Llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
Custom
- Multimodal reasoning, long-context processing (10M tokens), code generation and analysis,multilingual operations (200 languages supported), STEM and logical reasoning.
- 128k Context length
Llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8
$0.35 per use
- Multimodal reasoning, long-context processing (10M tokens), code generation and analysis,multilingual operations (200 languages supported), STEM and logical reasoning.
- 128k Context length
Llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8
$1.40 per use
- Multimodal reasoning, long-context processing (10M tokens), code generation and analysis,multilingual operations (200 languages supported), STEM and logical reasoning.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-3-70b-instruct
$0.71 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish and Thai.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct
$2.00 per use
- Supports image captioning, image-to-text transcription (OCR) including handwriting, data extraction and processing, context Q&A and object identification.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct
$0.35 per use
- Supports image captioning, image-to-text transcription (OCR) including handwriting, data extraction and processing, context Q&A and object identification.
- 128k Context length
Llama-guard-3-11b-vision
$0.35 per use
- Supports image filtering, HAP or PII detection and harmful content filtering.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-2-1b-instruct
$0.10 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish and Thai.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-2-3b-instruct
$0.15 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish and Thai.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-405b-instruct
$5.00 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish and Thai.
- 128k Context length
Llama-3-405b-instruct
$16.00 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish and Thai.
- 128k Context length
Mistral-medium-2505
$3.00 per use
- Supports coding, image captioning, image-to-text transcription, function calling, data extraction and processing, context Q&A, mathematical reasoning
- 128k Context length
Mistral-medium-2505
$10.00 per use
- Supports coding, image captioning, image-to-text transcription, function calling, data extraction and processing, context Q&A, mathematical reasoning
- 128k Context length
Mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503
$0.10 per use
- Supports image captioning, image-to-text transcription, function calling, data extraction and processing, context Q&A and object identification
- 128k Context length
Mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503
$0.30 per use
- Supports image captioning, image-to-text transcription, function calling, data extraction and processing, context Q&A and object identification
- 128k Context length
Pixtral-12b
$0.35 per use
- Supports image captioning, image-to-text transcription (OCR) including handwriting, data extraction and processing, context Q&A and object identification.
- 128k Context length
Mistral-large-2
$3.00 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English.
- 128k* Context length
Mistral-large-2
$10.00 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, generation, coding, classification, extraction, translation and RAG tasks in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English.
- 128k* Context length
Allam-1-13b-instruct
$1.80 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction, RAG and translation in Arabic.
- 4096 Context length
Jais-13b-chat (Arabic)
$1.80 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction and translation in Arabic.
- 2048 Context length
Flan-t5-xl-3b
$0.60 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction and RAG tasks. Available for prompt-tuning.
- 4096 Context length
Flan-t5-xxl-11b
$1.80 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction and RAG tasks.
- 4096 Context length
Flan-ul2-20b
$5.00 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, classification, generation, extraction and RAG tasks.
- 4096 Context length
Elyza-japanese-llama-2-7b-instruct
$1.80 per use
- Supports Q&A, summarization, RAG, classification, generation, extraction and translation tasks.
- 4096 Context length
Granite-embedding-107m-multilingual
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
Granite-embedding-278m-multilingual
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
Slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
Slate-125m-english-rtrvr
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
Slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
Slate-30m-english-rtrvr
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
All-mini-l6-v2
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 256 Context length
All-minilm-l12-v2
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 256 Context length
Multilingual-e5-large
$0.10 per use
- Retrieval augmented generation, semantic search and document comparison tasks.
- 512 Context length
Rationale
IBM watsonx is a comprehensive AI platform that aligns very closely with the OpenAI Platform concept. It offers conversational AI through watsonx Assistant and Orchestrate, API access for its various models, and a strong emphasis on safety and governance with watsonx.governance. The platform supports fine-tuning and custom models through watsonx.ai, and is clearly positioned as an enterprise solution. It also explicitly mentions code generation with watsonx Code Assistant, multimodal AI capabilities with models like Llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct and Pixtral, and publishes research and insights through its blog and newsroom.
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