IBM watsonx API pricing

30 IBM watsonx models: text, speech to text, from price book 2026-10-22.

Billing rules Veqen applies

  • Token models: cached input at the cache-read rate, cache writes at the write rate; batch and service tiers at their own rates where published; long-context rates once the full prompt passes the threshold.
  • Audio models: per second of audio or per character of text, or per token where the model bills tokens.

Also recognized as: ibm.watsonx.ai (framework, gateway and OpenTelemetry names).

Reconcile your bill

IBM watsonx doesn't offer a cost API, so Veqen's ledger is your running record of spend. Enter each month's bill to reconcile it and book it in the close. How reconciliation works.

Prices come from IBM watsonx's pricing page. Negotiated rates or committed-use discounts can be set as custom prices.

Text 29 models

ModelInputOutputCached inputBatch inputContextStatus
ibm/granite-4-h-small$0.0636$0.265——131.1K
ibm/granite-guardian-3-2-2b$0.10$0.10——8.2K
ibm/granite-vision-3-2-2b$0.10$0.10——8.2K
meta-llama/llama-3-2-1b-instruct$0.10$0.10——128K
mistralai/mistral-small-2503$0.10$0.30——32K
mistralai/mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503$0.106$0.318——131.1K
meta-llama/llama-3-2-3b-instruct$0.15$0.15——128K
openai/gpt-oss-120b$0.159$0.636——131.1K
ibm/granite-3-3-8b-instruct$0.20$0.20——8.2K
ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct$0.20$0.20——8.2K
ibm/granite-guardian-3-3-8b$0.20$0.20——8.2K
meta-llama/llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct$0.35$0.35——128K
meta-llama/llama-guard-3-11b-vision$0.35$0.35——128K
mistralai/pixtral-12b-2409$0.35$0.35——128K
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b$0.371$1.484——131.1K
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8$0.371$1.484——131.1K
ibm/granite-ttm-1024-96-r2$0.38$0.38——512
ibm/granite-ttm-1536-96-r2$0.38$0.38——512
ibm/granite-ttm-512-96-r2$0.38$0.38——512
google/flan-t5-xl-3b$0.60$0.60——8.2K
ibm/granite-13b-chat-v2$0.60$0.60——8.2K
ibm/granite-13b-instruct-v2$0.60$0.60——8.2K
meta-llama/llama-3-3-70b-instruct$0.7526$0.7526——131.1K
sdaia/allam-1-13b-instruct$1.80$1.80——8.2K
bigscience/mt0-xxl$1.908$1.908——4.1K
bigscience/mt0-xxl-13b$1.908$1.908——4.1K
meta-llama/llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct$2.00$2.00——128K
mistralai/mistral-large$3.00$10.00——131.1K
mistralai/mistral-medium-2505$3.00$10.00——128K

Speech to text 1 model

ModelPriceStatus
whisper-large-v3-turbo$0.006 per minute