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Orchestrate composes multi-agent workflows over IBM's Granite models and third-party frontier models, with watsonx.governance for audit and risk controls.

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Current version

watsonx Orchestrate

Entry cost

Free tier · from $578/mo

Changes / 30d

9

The short answers · verified November 7, 2026

What is the latest version of watsonx Orchestrate?
The current shipped version of watsonx Orchestrate is watsonx Orchestrate, as of November 7, 2026.
How much does watsonx Orchestrate cost?
watsonx Orchestrate starts at $578 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of November 7, 2026.
What AI model does watsonx Orchestrate use?
watsonx Orchestrate runs primarily on GPT-OSS.

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Capabilities

  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Granite open models
  • Agent Catalog
  • watsonx.governance
  • On-prem option
  • Agent Builder
  • Workflow Builder
  • Prebuilt Agents
  • Orchestrate Chat
  • Web Chat Integration
  • MCP Servers
  • Assistant Builder
  • LangGraph Import
  • Workflow builder
  • MCP servers
  • LangGraph integration
  • OpenAPI tools
  • Web chat
  • Conversational search
  • LangGraph Integration
  • OpenAPI Tools
  • Web Chat
  • Voice Agents
  • Document Processing
  • Conversational Search
  • Langflow Import
  • MCP Server Support
  • Multi-Cloud Deployment
  • Agentic Workflows
  • Prebuilt agents
  • LangGraph agents import
  • Web chat integration
  • Knowledge sources
  • Voice integration
  • AI Agents
  • Knowledge base
  • LangGraph agents
  • Phone integration
  • Knowledge source connection
  • AI agents
  • Voice connection
  • Langflow integration
  • Voice agents
  • MCP servers support
  • Document processing
  • No-code/Pro-code Builder
  • Analytics
  • Governance
  • Agentic workflows
  • Unified gateway
  • multi-cloud service
  • workflow builder
  • web chat
  • knowledge source
  • voice integration
  • no-code
  • pro-code
  • API access
  • Enterprise security
  • agents
  • agent builder
  • chat
  • mcp servers
  • integrations
  • analytics
  • agentic workflows
  • prebuilt agents
  • SaaS option
  • Multi-cloud service
  • no-code / pro-code
  • assistant builder
  • Voice channels
  • Slack integration
  • Teams integration
  • Webchat integration
  • RAG
  • Collaborator agents
  • eCommerce pilot
  • Webchat
  • Voice
  • Microsoft Teams integration
  • Langflow / LangGraph integration
  • Voice channel
  • Premier LLM
  • Integrations (Slack, Teams)
  • Agent building/orchestration
  • Workflow and doc processing
  • Custom tool creation
  • Core AI and LLMs
  • Security and access control
  • Custom Channels
  • document processing
  • custom extensions
  • integrations catalog
  • Agent building
  • Agent orchestration
  • Custom tools
  • Web chat channel
  • RAG / Knowledge source
  • Voice Integration
  • Slack Integration
  • Teams Integration
  • Workflow processing
  • APIs
  • agent orchestration
  • doc processing
  • custom tools
  • slack integration
  • teams integration
  • knowledge sources
  • Workflow automation
  • web chat integration
  • Agents and tools catalog
  • Data isolation
  • HIPAA-ready option
  • Intuitive chat interface
  • Tools/integrations catalog
  • Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams channels
  • Orchestration
  • Integrations catalog
  • Tools catalog
  • workflows
  • rag
  • voice
  • Voice support
  • agent building
  • web chat channel
  • orchestration
  • agents and tools catalog
  • custom tool creation
  • webchat
  • Control plane
  • Evaluation/observability
  • Evaluation and observability
  • Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams
  • Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams integration
  • Prebuilt domain agents
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI capabilities
  • RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation)
  • control plane
  • observability
  • Observability
  • tools catalog
  • Agentic control plane
  • workflow automation
  • chat interface
  • Webchat channel
  • Slack channel
  • Teams channel
  • Evaluation

Pricing

  • Trial

    30-day free period

    Free

  • Essentials

    Starting price per month

    $578

  • Standard

    Starting price per month

    $6360

  • Premium

    Contact us for pricing

    Free

Entry price over time

2 of 67 points reconstructed from Internet Archive captures (hollow dots) — dated by capture, not by when we first saw the page. View a capture

12/29/2024 · $50011/7/2026 · $578

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • GPT-OSS

    OpenAI

    disclosed
  • Granite 4

    IBM

    disclosed
  • Llama

    Meta

    disclosed
  • LLMs

    IBM

    inferred
  • Mistral

    Mistral

    disclosed
  • Premier LLM

    IBM

    disclosed
  • watsonx

    IBM

    disclosed
  • watsonx LLMs

    IBM

    inferred
  • watsonx.ai

    IBM

    inferred
  • watsonx.ai foundation models

    IBM

    inferred
  • watsonx.ai models

    IBM

    inferred

Context window

128K

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • LangGraph
  • Langflow
  • Elasticsearch
  • Milvus
  • Astra DB
  • OpenSearch
  • AWS
  • Genesys
  • Salesforce
  • Zendesk
  • Twilio Flex

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

Public market scorecard

IBM investor relations

IBM trades as NYSE: IBM. Figures below are as reported for Q2 2026 on Jul 22, 2026; market levels are the close on Aug 6, 2026 and are a reference marker, not a live quote.

Q2 2026 revenue

~$17B

+6% YoY

Software segment
~$7.5B
watsonx + Red Hat
Gen-AI book of business
$8B+ inception to date

Market reference

Share price~$280
12-month change+12%
Market cap~$260B
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Change history

  • capability

    New capabilities: Evaluation

    150 tracked151 tracked · +Evaluation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Slack channel, Teams channel

    148 tracked150 tracked · +Slack channel, Teams channel

    source
  • pricing

    Entry price decreased to $578/mo

    $6360$578

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Webchat channel

    147 tracked148 tracked · +Webchat channel

    source
  • version

    watsonx Orchestrate moved to watsonx Orchestrate

    SaaSwatsonx Orchestrate

    source
  • pricing

    Entry price increased to $6360/mo

    $530$6360

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: workflow automation, chat interface

    145 tracked147 tracked · +workflow automation, chat interface

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Agentic control plane

    144 tracked145 tracked · +Agentic control plane

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: tools catalog

    143 tracked144 tracked · +tools catalog

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Observability

    142 tracked143 tracked · +Observability

    source
  • model

    watsonx Orchestrate added LLMs to its model stack

    GPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, Premier LLM, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation models, watsonx.ai modelsGPT-OSS, Granite 4, LLMs, Llama, Mistral, Premier LLM, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation models, watsonx.ai models

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: control plane, observability

    140 tracked142 tracked · +control plane, observability

    source
  • version

    watsonx Orchestrate moved to SaaS

    watsonx OrchestrateSaaS

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation)

    139 tracked140 tracked · +RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative AI capabilities

    138 tracked139 tracked · +Generative AI capabilities

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Prebuilt domain agents, LLMs

    136 tracked138 tracked · +Prebuilt domain agents, LLMs

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams integration

    135 tracked136 tracked · +Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams integration

    source
  • version

    watsonx Orchestrate moved to watsonx Orchestrate

    2026watsonx Orchestrate

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams

    134 tracked135 tracked · +Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Evaluation and observability

    133 tracked134 tracked · +Evaluation and observability

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Control plane, Evaluation/observability

    131 tracked133 tracked · +Control plane, Evaluation/observability

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: orchestration, agents and tools catalog, custom tool creation

    127 tracked131 tracked · +orchestration, agents and tools catalog, custom tool creation, webchat

    source
  • model

    watsonx Orchestrate added watsonx.ai models to its model stack

    GPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, Premier LLM, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation modelsGPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, Premier LLM, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation models, watsonx.ai models

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: agent building, web chat channel

    125 tracked127 tracked · +agent building, web chat channel

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Voice support

    124 tracked125 tracked · +Voice support

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: workflows, rag, voice

    121 tracked124 tracked · +workflows, rag, voice

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tools catalog

    120 tracked121 tracked · +Tools catalog

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Integrations catalog

    119 tracked120 tracked · +Integrations catalog

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Orchestration

    118 tracked119 tracked · +Orchestration

    source
  • model

    watsonx Orchestrate added Premier LLM to its model stack

    GPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation modelsGPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, Premier LLM, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation models

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams channels

    117 tracked118 tracked · +Webchat, voice, Slack, Teams channels

    source
  • model

    watsonx Orchestrate added watsonx LLMs to its model stack

    GPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, watsonx, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation modelsGPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, watsonx, watsonx LLMs, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation models

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Intuitive chat interface, Tools/integrations catalog

    115 tracked117 tracked · +Intuitive chat interface, Tools/integrations catalog

    source
  • model

    watsonx Orchestrate added watsonx to its model stack

    GPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation modelsGPT-OSS, Granite 4, Llama, Mistral, watsonx, watsonx.ai, watsonx.ai foundation models

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Agents and tools catalog, Data isolation, HIPAA-ready option

    112 tracked115 tracked · +Agents and tools catalog, Data isolation, HIPAA-ready option

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: web chat integration

    111 tracked112 tracked · +web chat integration

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Workflow automation

    110 tracked111 tracked · +Workflow automation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: agent orchestration, doc processing, custom tools

    104 tracked110 tracked · +agent orchestration, doc processing, custom tools, slack integration, teams integration, knowledge sources

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Workflow processing, APIs

    102 tracked104 tracked · +Workflow processing, APIs

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Voice Integration, Slack Integration, Teams Integration

    99 tracked102 tracked · +Voice Integration, Slack Integration, Teams Integration

    source
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Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ibm-watsonx-orchestrate

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). watsonx Orchestrate — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ibm-watsonx-orchestrate
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-ibm-watsonx-orchestrate,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {watsonx Orchestrate — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ibm-watsonx-orchestrate}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}