Watson Studio service plans

Watson Studio current plans

IBM Cloud account owners can choose between the Lite (unpaid) and Professional (paid) plan.

Under the Professional plan, you can provision multiple Watson Studio instances in an IBM Cloud account. The Professional plan allows unlimited users and charges for compute usage which is measured in capacity unit hours (CUH). The Professional plan is the only paid plan option.

Under the Lite plan, you can provision one Watson Studio instance per IBM Cloud account. The Lite plan allows only one user and limits the CUH to 10 hours per month. Collaborators in your projects must have their own Watson Studio Lite plans.

Both Watson Studio plans contain these features without additional services:

• Watson services APIs to run in notebooks.
• Jupyter notebooks to analyze data with Python or R code.
• RStudio to analyze data with R code.
• SPSS Modeler to develop predictive models on a graphical canvas.
• Data Refinery to shape and cleanse data.
• Orchestration Pipelines to orchestrate an end-to-end flow of assets from creation through deployment.
• Small runtime environments as compute resources for analytical tools.
• Spark runtime environments. The maximum number of Spark executors that can be used is restricted by the service plan.
• Environments with the Watson Natural Language Processing library with pre-trained models for language processing tasks that you can run on unstructured data.
• Environments with Decision Optimization libraries to model and solve decision optimization problems that exceed the complexity that is supported by the Community Edition of the libraries in the other default Python environments.
• Connectors to data sources.
• Collaboration in projects and deployment spaces.
• Resource hub for resources to help you learn and samples that you can use.

Both Watson Studio plans contain these features that also require the Watson Machine Learning service:

• Machine learning models to build analytical models.
• AutoAI to automatically create a set of model candidates.
• Federated learning to collaboratively train a model with multiple remote parties without sharing data.
• Decision Optimization to build models that solve business problems.

The Watson Studio Professional plan includes features that are not available in the Lite plan, including the following:

• Encrypt your IBM Cloud Object Storage instance with your own key.
• Large runtime environments with 8 or more vCPUs as compute resources for analytical tools.
• GPU environments for running notebooks.
• Export projects.

The Professional plan charges for compute usage consumed per month. Compute usage is measured in capacity unit hours (CUH). For details on computing resource allocation and consumption, see Runtime usage.

Watson Studio Standard and Enterprise legacy plans

The Standard and Enterprise plans for Watson Studio are not an option for new accounts. Existing accounts can keep the Standard and Enterprise plans indefinitely, or can change to the Professional plan. The Professional plan includes all the features that are available with the Enterprise plan, but does not include instance or authorized user fees.

If you want to change to the Professional plan, follow the steps for Managing services.

The Standard and Enterprise plans include a set number of authorized users, which are project collaborators who have the Admin or Editor role, plus an unlimited number of collaborators who have the Viewer role. You can pay to have more collaborators with the Admin or Editor roles. You adjust the number of authorized users on the Authorized Users page. See Manage authorized users.

A set amount of compute usage is included in each plan. Compute usage is measured in capacity unit hours (CUH). With the Standard and Enterprise plans, you can pay for more compute usage. For details on computing resource allocation and consumption, see Runtime usage.

Learn more

• Watson Studio service overview
• Getting started
• Analyzing data and building models
• Upgrade your plan.

Parent topic: Watson Studio