IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued) vs. IBM watsonx.ai

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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IBM's Watson Visual Recognition was a machine learning application designed to tag and classify image data, and deployable for a wide variety of purposes. The service was discontinued in early 2021, and is no longer available.N/A
IBM watsonx.ai
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Watsonx.ai is part of the IBM watsonx platform that brings together new generative AI capabilities, powered by foundation models, and traditional machine learning into a studio spanning the AI lifecycle. Watsonx.ai can be used to train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI, foundation models, and machine learning capabilities, and build AI applications with less time and data.
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
$0
ML functionality (20 CUH limit /month); Inferencing (50,000 tokens / month)
Standard
$1,050
Monthly tier fee; additional usage based fees
Essentials
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Usage based fees
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for watsonx.ai includes: model inference per 1000 tokens and ML tools and ML runtimes based on capacity unit hours.
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Community Pulse
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IBM watsonx.ai
Chose IBM watsonx.ai
We selected mostly due to the data security and governance as we are a healthcare organisation this is the utmost important to us
Features
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AI Development
Comparison of AI Development features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
IBM watsonx.ai
5.5
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Machine learning frameworks00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Data management00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Data monitoring and version control00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Automated model training00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Managed scaling00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Model deployment00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Security and compliance00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)IBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
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6.4
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
As I mentioned before, it can only be employed in simple basic visual recognition applications. It can be employed in large projects and relying it on completely is not encouraged. It's better to create your own algorithms rather than using it. If you are from a non-programming background, then I may suggest you rely on this and use it to develop simple apps that can predict a few plants and animals.
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IBM
I have built a code accelerator tool for one of the IBM product implementation. Although there was a heavy lifting at the start to train the model on specifics of the packaged solution library and ways of working; the efficacy of the model is astounding. Having said that, watsonx.ai is very well suited for customer service automation, healthcare data analytics, financial fraud detection, and sentiment analysis kind of projects. The Watsonx.ai look and feel is little confusing but I understand over a period of time , it will improve dramatically as well. I do feel that Watsonx.ai has certain limitations from cross-platform deployment flexibility. If an organization is deeply invested in a multi-cloud environment, Watson's integration on other cloud platforms may not be seamless comported to other AI platforms.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Food recognition
  • High reliability
  • Speed
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IBM
  • It allows specialists to apply several base models for specific subtasks in the field of NLP.
  • Gives the availability of many models developed for AI enhancement for different solutions.
  • Has incorporated functionality for data governance and security to support access to AI tools by multiple users.
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Cons
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  • Not perfect
  • Accuracy is doubted and sometimes it may not predict correctly.
  • I think it should be improved and should add a few more functionalities.
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IBM
  • IBM watsonx.ai is expensive than other platforms.
  • Limited integraions though it has many but still some tools integrations not there for medical usecase
  • Its little difficult to learn as right now not many open reseouces
  • Community is not that strong to get any answer
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Likelihood to Renew
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IBM
I still don't have enough experience, but i have seen a lot of demos and i have made some real world scenarios and so far so long every thing looks fine. I was at IBM Think 2025 and IBM TechXchange 2025 and the labs were really usefull and simple to understand.
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Usability
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I am giving this rating on the basis of its usability in real-time applications and based on the interface to upload negative and positive images to train the AI. But it's not perfect and sometimes its predictions are wrong. On overall usability, it's better if you are planning on working with UI rather than using complex programs and algorithms on your own.
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IBM
I needed some time to understand the different parts of the web UI. It was slightly overwhelming in the beginning. However, after some time, it made sense, and I like the UI now. In terms of functionality, there are many useful features that make your life easy, like jumping to a section and giving me a deployment space to deploy my models easily.
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Support Rating
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IBM
I still don't have enough experience, but i have seen a lot of demos and i have made some real world scenarios and so far so long every thing looks fine. I was at IBM Think 2025 and IBM TechXchange 2025 and the labs were really usefull and simple to understand.
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Alternatives Considered
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IBM
IBM watsonx.ai has been far superior to that of Chat GPT AI. the UI elements prompt responses and overall execution of the AI was much better and more accurate compared to the competition. I can not recommend using this platform enough. Great job IBM. I hope the team behind this project continues to grow and prosper.
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Scalability
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IBM
I still don't have enough experience, but i have seen a lot of demos and i have made some real world scenarios and so far so long every thing looks fine. I was at IBM Think 2025 and IBM TechXchange 2025 and the labs were really usefull and simple to understand.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • High cost if models are trained
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IBM
  • Time saving to set up the infrastructure - without watsonx.ai we would have had to set up everything individually
  • The first point translates directly into cost savings
  • The compliance aspect was a game changer for us and provided us with the confidence to focus all our efforts only on IBM watsonx.ai
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ScreenShots

IBM watsonx.ai Screenshots

Screenshot of the foundation models available in watsonx.ai. Clients have access to IBM selected open source models from Hugging Face, as well as other third-party models, and a family of IBM-developed foundation models of different sizes and architectures.Screenshot of the Prompt Lab in watsonx.ai, where AI builders can work with foundation models and build prompts using prompt engineering techniques in watsonx.ai to support a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) type tasks.Screenshot of the Tuning Studio in watsonx.ai, where AI builders can tune foundation models with labeled data for better performance and accuracy.Screenshot of the data science toolkit in watsonx.ai where AI builders can build machine learning models automatically with model training, development, visual modeling, and synthetic data generation.