IBM software · AI agents
Every AI agent you run, under one set of rules. Your price in one business day.
For the teams who answer for AI at scale: IBM watsonx Orchestrate, sized to your users and messages by our engineering team and priced before you commit.
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IBM’s facts and published customer results are printed below.
One control plane for every agent.
- It brings agents from supported third-party environments, Amazon Bedrock among them, into one view.
- It applies one set of access, policy and guardrails across agents, tools and workflows.
- It shows where agent activity drives AI consumption, down to token usage and LLM calls.
The assistants and automations you run today may be serving you well. This is what one control plane adds.
We size it with you. You see your price first, within one business day. Where you want to try it first, IBM offers a 30-day trial, and one of our engineers sets it up beside you.
Find, route, govern.
Find the agents you already run.
IBM says Orchestrate connects supported third-party agent environments, scans them for agents and brings those agents into its control plane, Amazon Bedrock among them.
Send work to the right agent.
It coordinates native and external agents, tools and workflows, so the right agent or system acts at the right time.
Build from no-code to pro-code.
Guided flows, templates and reusable tools for business teams; the Agent Development Kit, with Python, a CLI and APIs, for developers.
Source: IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate page, opened October 23, 2026.
Three facts IBM states.
A 30-day free trial.
IBM’s Trial plan covers agent building, the chat interface, the tools catalog, the control plane, and evaluation and observability.
Cloud or on premises.
IBM runs it as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or AWS, or you run it in your own on-premises environment.
Counted by users and messages.
IBM’s plans set limits on monthly active users and on messages per month. We take that count with you before the quote.
Each fact is from IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate page and its plans page, opened October 23, 2026. Neither page shows a date.
Source: IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate page, opened October 23, 2026.
Where agents go to work.
IBM names seven places to start: customer service, HR and employee service, procurement, knowledge and content, finance, sales and IT. Its integrations catalog lists the business applications the agents connect to.
Source: IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate page, opened October 23, 2026.
What you get.
If you run IT operations.
You get one place to orchestrate, govern and scale agents, instead of one environment at a time. Agents built elsewhere, Amazon Bedrock among them, come into the same view. Our engineering team stays with you into production.
If you own security and compliance.
You get one set of access, policy and guardrails across agents, tools and models, with controls for sensitive or personally identifiable information enforced as the work runs, and every agent’s activity traced.
If you lead data and AI.
You get a path from pilot to production. IBM says successful pilots become reusable, governed capabilities across business units, with each agent’s response reliability and tool-call success tracked.
If you are the CIO.
You get one view of agents, owners, dependencies, activity and cost, and the number before you commit. 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 assistants you have.
Nothing to buy. Nothing to move. What one control plane adds 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 users and messages, how soon you see the price, and who stays with you into production.
Choose a different agent platform.
Right when your teams already build every agent on it. Compare three things: agents from other environments in one view, one set of policies, and token use you can see.
Use one cloud provider’s agent service.
Right when every agent you run lives in that one cloud and its own service already governs them.
Buy it through us.
You get the same IBM software. And you get our engineering team: the 30-day trial with one of our engineers beside you, your price first, and the same team into production.
IBM builds the control plane. We size it with you.
You see your price first.
Tell us what you’re after. One business day later you have a price, sized to fit, with nothing in it you don’t need.
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.
It is our pleasure to meet you.
230 briefing centers in 113 cities. Pick one; one of our engineers brings the coffee. Or meet us online.
Our engineering team picks the first tasks worth automating with you, sizes the plan to your users and messages, gets the licensing right, then sets up your agents and supports them as you add more.
It would be our pleasure to size yours.
How our engineering team delivers
Get it running.
Our engineering team, with IBM Expert Labs (formerly IBM Lab Services)
Plan.
We look at what you run today and agree the order of work with you.
Build.
We design it, install it and move your workloads across, then hand it over working. Delivered remotely.
Stay connected.
After go-live, IBM’s specialists stay on call beside our IBM engineers.
One statement of work and one invoice, from us.
One of our engineers replies within one business day.
The proof.
IBM’s published results
Source: IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate page, opened October 23, 2026.
Our trusted and valued customers are shown on our home page. It is our privilege to work for them. See our customers
We would rather tell you now. watsonx Orchestrate is not the fit if you run one assistant for one team and plan no more, or if what you need is a place to build and tune your own models rather than run agents. For that, ask us about watsonx.ai. See IBM watsonx.ai
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