IBM watsonx.governance offering plan options
The watsonx.governance service enables responsible, transparent, and explainable AI.
The available plans depend on the region where you are provisioning the service from the IBM Cloud catalog.
- In the Dallas region, provision a watsonx.governance plan. If you provision watsonx.ai in Dallas, watsonx.governance is provisioned as well.
- In the Frankfurt region, provision an Watson OpenScale plan.
- Watsonx.governance plans are not available in the Tokyo region.
IBM watsonx.governance plans (Dallas only)
Watsonx.governance offers a free Lite plan and a paid Essentials plan.
With watsonx.governance you can:
- Evaluate machine learning models for dimensions such as fairness, quality, or drift.
- Define AI use cases in a collaborative, open way to define a business problem and track the solution.
- Capture the details for machine learning models, in each stage of their lifecycle, and store the data in factsheets within an associated AI use case.
- Maintain collections of AI uses cases in inventories, where you can manage access.
For Large Language Models in watsonx.ai, you can also:
- Evaluate prompt templates across multiple dimensions such as quality, Personally Identifable Information (PII) in prompt input and outputs, and Abuse or Profanity in Prompt input and ouput.
- Monitor metrics for Large Language Model performance.
- Automatically capture metadata in a Factsheet from development to deployment, for each stage in the lifecycle.
IBM watsonx.governance Lite plan features
Lite plan features include:
- Maximum of 200 resource units
- 1 resource unit per predictive model evaluation
- 1 resource unit per foundational model evaluation
- 1 resource unit per global explanation, with a maximum of 500 local explanations
- 1 resource unit per 500 local explanations
- Maximum of 1,000 records per evaluation
- Limit of 3 rows per use case
- Limit of 3 use cases
- Limit of 1 inventory
IBM watsonx.governance Essential plan features
Essential plan features include:
- Maximum of 500 inventories
- 1 resource unit per predictive model evaluation
- 1 resource unit per foundational model evaluation
- 1 resource unit per global explanation, with a maximum of 500 local explanations
- 1 resource unit per 500 local explanations
- Maximum of 50,000 records per evaluation
Billing rates
For the Essentials plan, billing is based on a flat rate of $0.60 per resource unit consumed. For billing details, see the IBM Cloud service page for watsonx.governance.
Monitoring resource usage
You can track RU usage for assets you own or collaborate on in a project or space. If you are an account owner or administrator, you can track resource usage for an entire account.
Tracking resource usage in a project or space
To monitor resource consumption in a project or space:
- Navigate to the Manage tab for a project or space.
- Click Resources to review a summary of resource consumption for assets in the project or space, or to review resource consumption details for particular assets.
Tracking resource usage for an account
You can track the runtime usage for an account on the Environment Runtimes page if you are the IBM Cloud account owner or administrator or the Watson Machine Learning service owner. For details, see Monitoring resource.
Next steps
Provisioning and launching the watsonx.governance service
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