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Pricing

Pricing provided by IBM Watson Discovery.

1. LITE

Free

2. ADVANCED

Starting at $500 USD

User Insights

Average based on 97 real user reviews.

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Mitanshu R.
MR
Mitanshu R.
Product Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best tool to fetch insights from your key documents"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

It is my go to tool for analysing large amounts of targetted data from docs that are essential to my day to day tasks. I even cross checked the accuracy and it turned out to be absolutely precise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

It becomes a bit slow, while processing very large content documents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vivek M.
VM
Vivek M.
SDE 1
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Watson: The clever AI"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

The integration it provides with different levels of application, the various options, it's effective answer giving capability and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

As of now nothing to dislike, but UI can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen P.
NP
Naveen P.
Member of Innovation lab
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Watson discovery"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

I have used Watson Discovery during these first releases. It was working fine. I had uploaded an online computer book, and it was working very well to search and show results from the documents. It was a nice experience to get an overview of how AI works. Good NLU in Watson Discovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

I didn't find many dislikes, but sometimes I felt like the answer was not that precise if it got duplicate answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SHREEKARKOLANU R.
SR
SHREEKARKOLANU R.
Software Engineering Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"A Powerful AI based platform to extract information"
4/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

Helps us to scale our chatbot with large data and insights trained into it. It can easily identify and retrieve information from Structured and non-structured documents. Optimization of text data and generating insights from large data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

It offers a trial plan with limited documents and queries to extract. Sometimes it might cause an error if large requests are given at a time. Can decrease the time to train. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

shivam k.
SK
shivam k.
AI Technical Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Watson Discovery"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

You can do many things using this you can search and find anything inside any document you just have to pass some text it will give you a response from the document

You can use any file format like PDF, DOC or even HTML Page

You can integrate with your IBM chatbot through Webhook you just have to create an API for it

You can also use it inside your application it supports both python and javascript through the discovery package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

I don't dislike anything it is one of the best things I have ever seen

It works perfectly

You can be trained with more data if you are using AI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

amit d.
AD
amit d.
Account Executive- Salesforce/Pega/Appian
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Truly Intelligent search and text-analytics platform"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

Extraction of the most relevant business insights from web pages, documents, videos and audio files. Natural language processing service can analyse target phras for more focused sentiment results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

It requires a lot of training sessions to fully understand and utilize the solution to the fullest. The lite version has limited capabilities but that is acceptable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Hardware
TC
Verified User in Computer Hardware
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It was great and interesting"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

Creating chatbots with natural language processing with more comfortable tools. An optimized environment makes it more fascinating. Compared to other products watson discovery provides a more user-friendly environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

Actually, if the capability of uncertain term handling could be improved, It is an essential aspect of human conversation to understand uncertain terms such as little, far, and near. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parikshit K.
PK
Parikshit K.
Founder & CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I think it is the most intuitive tool for non-coders"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

Even if you do not have a coding backgro Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

Even if you do not have a coding background, you can build tools like chatbot and use them for your organisation or self-owned business. It works best with websites and apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lakshmikanth R.
LR
Lakshmikanth R.
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Review for IBM Watson discovery"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

Ibm Watson discovery provides the best features like AI, content mining, text mining, and NLP Features. Natural language processing helps in reducing the efforts of the users and gives the correct information without any hiccups. We have pre-built NLP models which will be very helpful to get the proper information. It is connected with cloud services such as IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

Sometimes when we try to convert the document it will throw some error. It will say it's because of illegal characters and all. For us, it doesn't seem like there are any illegal characters and expects us to replace the characters. That is one of the drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Training the system on document is easier"
3/5
What do you like best about IBM Watson Discovery?

Training the system on document content is easier than expected, supporting self-service by business users rather than change requests to IT specialists. NLP, and matching to the correct section in the document, is strong and continually improving with IBM's newer versions. And the ability to ingest newer (though different) versions of a document rarely requires any retraining - the software is sufficiently flexible to adapt to the differences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Discovery?

Though document ingestions are generally smooth and trouble-free, when there is a problem, additional diagnostics and error identification would be helpful. More reporting would also be valuable: why did a question bring up this response? how many times has that paragraph/page/document been retrieved? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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1. LITE

Free

2. ADVANCED

Starting at $500 USD

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Starting at $20,000 USD
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