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Shadow AI found and brought under governance.* Your price in one business day.
For the teams who answer for AI: IBM watsonx.governance and IBM Guardium AI Security, sized to your models and agents by our engineering team and priced before you commit.
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Every model and agent, mapped and governed.
- It keeps a living map of the AI models and agents you run.
- It enforces your policies and captures compliance evidence, continuously.
- It detects malicious prompts and blocks sensitive data from reaching your models.
The way you oversee AI today may be serving you well. This is what watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security add.
We size it with you. You see your price first, within one business day. Where you want to try it first, IBM offers a 14-day trial of watsonx.governance, and one of our engineers sets it up beside you.
Discover it, govern it, secure it.
Every model and agent, found.
IBM says Guardium AI Security discovers both known and unknown AI assets and agents and keeps a centralized AI inventory. Shadow AI it detects is brought into watsonx.governance.*
Policy, enforced continuously.
IBM says watsonx.governance automates policy enforcement, obligation mapping and compliance evidence capture, continuously, and shows how AI systems, risks, controls and policies relate.
What reaches the model, checked.
IBM says Guardium AI Security identifies vulnerabilities across interactions among models, data and applications, detects malicious input prompts and blocks sensitive data from being sent to your models.
Source: IBM’s watsonx.governance page, opened October 24, 2026.
Three of IBM’s own figures.
A 14-day trial.
IBM offers a free 14-day trial of watsonx.governance, with included credits to get started.
30 days for Model Management.
IBM’s Model Management plan for watsonx.governance comes with a 30-day trial, then pay as you go.
Three frameworks by name.
IBM says Guardium AI Security supports regulatory compliance with frameworks like the EU AI Act, NIST, ISO 42001 and more.*
* IBM’s words and figures, from its watsonx.governance page, its watsonx.governance pricing page, its Guardium AI Security announcement and its announcement on governance and security together (“When shadow AI is detected by Guardium AI Security, it is brought into watsonx.governance.”), read October 24, 2026. IBM names the three frameworks for Guardium AI Security and adds “and more”; IBM states no test conditions for these figures.
Source: IBM’s watsonx.governance page, opened October 24, 2026.
Count the units first.
IBM prices watsonx.governance software by virtual processor cores. On IBM Cloud its plans count instances, modules and concurrent users; on AWS, AI use cases and evaluations too. We work out your count with you before you order.
Guardium AI Security, confirmed with IBM.
IBM’s pages state no license unit for Guardium AI Security, so our engineering team confirms the current offering with IBM before your quote. Where there is a cheaper route, we name it.
Source: IBM’s watsonx.governance page, opened October 24, 2026.
What you get.
If you answer for AI risk and compliance.
You get a living map of your AI models and agents, with policy enforced and compliance evidence captured continuously.* Our engineering team connects it to the AI platforms you run.
If you lead security.
You get known and unknown AI assets and agents found, malicious prompts detected and sensitive data blocked before it reaches a model. Our engineering team sets it up beside your security team.
If you are the CIO.
You get one set of metrics for business and security teams to look at AI risk, as SaaS or software, counted before you order. Pay only for what you need. See your price first, within one business day.
You have real choices. Here is each one, plainly.
Keep the oversight you have.
Nothing to buy. Nothing to move. What watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security add will still be here when you are ready.
Buy from IBM itself.
IBM sells directly to fewer than about 100 companies and organizations in the United States. Everyone else buys through an IBM Business Partner. So the real choice is which partner.
Buy through another IBM Business Partner.
Same IBM software. Same IBM programs. Ask three things: who counts your cores, users or use cases, how soon you see the price, and who stays with you through your first governed models.
Choose a different governance tool.
Right when your team already runs it everywhere. Compare three things: shadow AI brought into governance, compliance evidence captured continuously, and malicious prompts detected before they reach a model.
Use your AI platform’s own controls.
Right when every model and agent you run lives on that one platform. Not when they span clouds, your data center and the tools your teams adopt on their own.
Buy it through us.
You get the same IBM software. And you get our engineering team: we count your licenses with you, show you your price first, and stay with you through setup and support.
IBM builds watsonx.governance. We size it with you.
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Our engineering team owns it.
The engineers who size it set it up and stay through support. IBM Business Partner since 2008, 29 of 29 IBM proficiencies, one team the whole way.
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How our engineering team delivers
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The proof.
IBM’s published results
Source: IBM’s watsonx.governance page, opened October 24, 2026.
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We would rather tell you now. watsonx.governance is not the fit if no AI model or agent of yours has reached production yet, or if what you need to protect is the data itself, in your databases and files, rather than the AI that uses it. For that last one, ask us about IBM Guardium Data Security Center. See IBM Guardium Data Security Center
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