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Watson Discovery

Add a cognitive search and content analytics engine to applications.

  • Date of last update: 03/13/2025
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  • 03/13/2025
  • AI / Machine Learning
  • EU Supported
  • HIPAA Enabled
  • IAM-enabled
  • Service Endpoint Supported
  • Sydney (au-syd)
  • Frankfurt (eu-de)
  • London (eu-gb)
  • Dallas (us-south)
  • Tokyo (jp-tok)
  • Washington DC (us-east)
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Pricing plans

Prices shown are for country or location: United States
PlanFeatures and capabilitiesPricing
Plus
  • Find targeted answers and insights across many document types. (The first Plus plan created includes a 30-day free trial and each additional Plus plan is billed)
  • Includes 10,000 documents per month
  • Includes 10,000 queries per month
  • Up to 5 queries per second
  • $50 for every additional 1,000 documents per month
  • $20 for every additional 1,000 queries per month
  • ---Features---
  • - 30 Day free trial for the first Plus plan created. Each additional Plus plan is billed
  • - Optical Character Recognition(OCR)
  • - Out of the box data source connectors
  • - Table Retrieval
  • - Custom NLP models
  • - Custom Relevance Model
  • - Advanced Rules Models
  • - Entity Extractor Models
  • ---Limits---
  • Up to 500,000 queries per month
  • Up to 500,000 documents
  • Up to 20 projects
  • Up to 40 collections
  • Up to 5 collections per project
  • Up to 10MB document size
  • Up to 3 custom Watson Knowledge Studio machine learning models
  • Up to 3 Entity Extractor models
  • $500.00 USD/instance/month
  • $0.05 USD/documents/month
  • $0.02 USD/queries/month

Learn more about plan billing and limits here https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-pricing-plans.
Plus plan instances can't be downgraded to lower-tier plans.

  • Find targeted answers and insights across many document types. (The first Plus plan created includes a 30-day free trial and each additional Plus plan is billed)
  • Includes 10,000 documents per month
  • Includes 10,000 queries per month
  • Up to 5 queries per second
  • $50 for every additional 1,000 documents per month
  • $20 for every additional 1,000 queries per month
  • ---Features---
  • - 30 Day free trial for the first Plus plan created. Each additional Plus plan is billed
  • - Optical Character Recognition(OCR)
  • - Out of the box data source connectors
  • - Table Retrieval
  • - Custom NLP models
  • - Custom Relevance Model
  • - Advanced Rules Models
  • - Entity Extractor Models
  • ---Limits---
  • Up to 500,000 queries per month
  • Up to 500,000 documents
  • Up to 20 projects
  • Up to 40 collections
  • Up to 5 collections per project
  • Up to 10MB document size
  • Up to 3 custom Watson Knowledge Studio machine learning models
  • Up to 3 Entity Extractor models

Learn more about plan billing and limits here https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-pricing-plans.
Plus plan instances can't be downgraded to lower-tier plans.

Enterprise
  • Scale and secure your Discovery application with enterprise-grade support and performance and address more use cases including contract analysis and content mining to explore insights across documents
  • Includes 100,000 documents per month
  • Includes 100,000 search or analyze API queries per month
  • Includes 300 collections
  • Includes 3 custom models per month (Any combination of Watson Knowledge Studio machine learning or Entity Extractor models)
  • Supports more than 5 queries per second
  • $5 for every additional 1,000 documents per month
  • $5 for every additional 1,000 queries per month
  • $500 for every additional 100 collections per month
  • ---Features---
  • - Everything available in Plus
  • - Content Intelligence
  • - Content Mining
  • - Analyze API
  • ---Limits---
  • Unlimited documents per month (for more than 1M documents per month contact sales)
  • Unlimited queries per month (for more than 1M queries per month contact sales)
  • Up to 100 projects
  • Up to 500 collections
  • Up to 5 collections for all project types except Content Mining, which supports 1
  • Up to 10MB document size
  • Up to 10 custom Watson Knowledge Studio machine learning models
  • Up to 10 Entity Extractor models
  • $5,000.00 USD/instance/month
  • $0.005 USD/additional documents/month
  • $0.005 USD/additional queries/month
  • $500.00 USD/additional custom models/month
  • $500.00 USD/additional collections/month
Premium
  • For large scale use case of 100,000 documents or more, additional security, performance, data and compute isolation are available for the highest level of scale, performance and security.
  • Instance and Document Tier pricing with enhanced features
  • Projects based experience optimized for use case
  • Advanced text analytics using Content mining
  • Reusable UI components to quickly embed Discovery in your own applications
  • Simplified NLP customization for deeper insights
  • Complex business document search with Table understanding and retrieval
  • High Availability and Service Level Uptime Guarantee
  • Usage and Training Data is Private + Stored in an Isolated Single Tenant Environment
  • HIPAA Enabled in Washington DC (US-East) & Dallas (US-South)
  • EU Supported available in Frankfurt (EU-DE)
    • Service
    • IBM
    • 03/13/2025
    • AI / Machine Learning
    • EU Supported
    • HIPAA Enabled
    • IAM-enabled
    • Service Endpoint Supported
    • Sydney (au-syd)
    • Frankfurt (eu-de)
    • London (eu-gb)
    • Dallas (us-south)
    • Tokyo (jp-tok)
    • Washington DC (us-east)
    • API docs
    • Docs
    • Terms

    Summary

    Add a cognitive search and content analytics engine to applications to identify patterns, trends and actionable insights that drive better decision-making. Securely unify structured and unstructured data with pre-enriched content, and use a simplified query language to eliminate the need for manual filtering of results.

    Features and capabilities

    Rapid results

    Spend less time struggling with your data. Automated ingestion and integrated natural language processing in a fully managed cloud service removes the complexity from dealing with natural language content.

    Domain intelligence

    Adapt Discovery’s understanding of your corpus with integrated machine learning to find the most relevant answers. Teach Discovery to apply knowledge of unique entities and relations in your industry or organization with Watson Knowledge Studio.

    AI ready for business

    Uncover deep connections throughout your data by using advanced AI functions out of the box, such as natural language queries, passage retrieval, relevancy training, relationship graphs and anomaly detection.

    Cloud Native, Enterprise Grade and Secure

    Take advantage of enterprise-grade security and support, such as data isolation, end to end encryption, GDPR compliance and support for non-regulated PII data, built to scale on the cloud.

    Getting support


    If you're experiencing issues with this product, go to the IBM Cloud Support Center and navigate to creating a case. Use the All products option to search for this product to continue creating the case or to find more information about getting support. Third party and community supported products might direct you to a support process outside of IBM Cloud.

    Summary

    Watson Discovery

    • Plan: Plus
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