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name: watsonx-code-assistant-ansible-pricing
title: IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed pricing plans
description: Watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is available on IBM Cloud in three different pricing plans, each of which offers different features and is subject to different resource constraints. All three plans require that you have entitlement to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, which is sold by Red Hat.
last-updated: 2025-12-01
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# IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed pricing plans
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[Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed]{: tag-red}

Watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is available on IBM Cloud in three different pricing plans, each of which offers different features and is subject to different resource constraints. All three plans require that you have entitlement to the [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible){: external}, which is sold by Red Hat.
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When you provision an instance of watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, you can choose from the following plans. Resource usage in these plans is allocated by code tokens. For each plan, you can track your token usage from the watsonx Code Assistant resource page in IBM Cloud.

## Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed Trial plan
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The Trial plan is a 90 day, no-cost trial of the capabilities that are available in the Essentials plan, with no resource limits. The plan includes task prompt capabilities and a preset limit of code tokens. To use the Trial plan, see [Activate Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant](https://www.redhat.com/en/products/interactive-walkthrough/install-ansible-lightspeed){: external}.

## Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed Essentials plan
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The Essentials plan is a pay-as-you-go plan with no preset limit that includes task prompt capabilities. With this plan, you can create task prompts from natural language requests to generate Ansible code.

## Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed Standard plan
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The Standard plan is a prepaid monthly plan. With this plan, you can create task prompts from natural language requests to generate Ansible code.

The Standard plan isn't available in the Sydney (`au-syd`) data center. You need to choose either the Dallas (`us-south`) or Frankfurt (`eu-de`) data centers.
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## Provisioning a plan
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Provision an instance of watsonx Code Assistant through the [IBM Cloud catalog](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/ibm-watsonx-code-assistant){: external} page or by working with an IBM sales representative.