Always-free quotaHigh confidence
IBM watsonx.ai Runtime
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Free accessAlways-free quota
Payment cardYes
AccountRequired
Sources4 first-party links
API endpoint
https://{region}.ml.cloud.ibm.com/ml/v1Catalog snapshot
4Models mentioned
granite-4-h-smallgranite-4-h-tinygranite-4-h-microgranite-3-1-8b-baseLimits and terms
- Foundation Tokens Per Month
- 300,000
- Requests Per Second
- 2
- Capacity Unit Hours
- 20
- Extraction Pages
- 100
- Plan
- Lite
- Inactivity
- A Lite service can be deleted after 30 days of inactivity.
Eligibility
- Account Required
- Yes
- Payment Method Required For New Accounts
- Yes
- Caveat
- New IBM Cloud accounts require a card for identity verification even when using Lite services.
History
- Date
- 2023-05-09
- Event
- IBM announced the watsonx platform
Receipts
4Primary sources
Official Docswatsonx.ai Runtime planshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=cloud-watsonxai-runtime-plansOfficial Catalogwatsonx.ai Runtime servicehttps://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/pm-20Official DocsList foundation models programmaticallyhttps://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/fm-prompt-notebook-list-models.html?context=wxAnnouncement · 2023-05-09IBM unveils watsonxhttps://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-05-09-IBM-Unveils-the-Watsonx-Platform-to-Power-Next-Generation-Foundation-Models-for-Business