# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-10-07'
method: searched
source: https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-data/pricing
sources:
- https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-data/pricing
- https://www.datastax.com/pricing/astra-db
provenance:
  tool: all/0-working/economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20261007T104522
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: business-product
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed+licensed
  method: page
  read: '2026-10-07'
  evidence: On-Prem Software Offering Entitlement-based pricing allows you to effectively and predictably
    manage your costs.
  managed_tier: Subscription
published: true
note: IBM watsonx.data pricing page (includes Cassandra/Astra DB engine). Priced in Resource Units (USD
  1 per RU) with engine size tiers in RUs/hr; core support services cost 3.00 RUs/hr per account not included.
  BYOC and on-prem require contacting sales.
plan_count: 4
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Pay Per Use
  price_text: Starting at $1.00 USD Per Resource Unit
  price: 1.0
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: Resource Unit
  included_quota: Instance deployed on AWS. Pay only for what you use.
- name: Subscription
  price_text: Starting at $83.30 USD Per month
  price: 83.3
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: Instance deployed on AWS.
- name: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
  price_text: Contact sales
  period: none
- name: On-Prem Software Offering
  price_text: Contact sales
  period: none
rate_limit_statements:
- Usage/metering is tracked at a per-minute level.
- metered on a per-second basis with a 1-minute minimum charge
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - subscription
  units: []
  plans:
  - name: Pay Per Use
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Subscription
    access: other
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
    access: other
    model: unstated
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods:
    - none
  - name: On-Prem Software Offering
    access: other
    model: unstated
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods:
    - none