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Watsonx.data
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IBM's open, hybrid data lakehouse that connects, governs and optimizes enterprise data to make it AI-ready across clouds and on-premises.
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Palantir
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Big-data and AI platform (Foundry, Gotham, AIP) for integrating and analyzing large datasets across government and enterprise.
Pricing
DEVELOPER: FREE
STARTER: $119 / month
GROWTH: $599 / month
ENTERPRISE: Starting at $1,800 / month
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Developer-first platform for AI-powered integrations
- ✦Secure, isolated sandboxes for running JavaScript/Python code
- ✦Automatic management of npm/PyPI dependencies
- ✦Built-in platform plumbing: secrets, webhooks, scheduling, logs, and audit
- ✦Yep Agent (prompt → runnable processes)
- ✦MCP Server/Tools (convert code into AI agent tools)
- ✦Serverless runtime (YepCode Run) and SDK access
- ✦Open hybrid data lakehouse
- ✦Connects data across clouds and on-prem
- ✦Governance, lineage and access controls
- ✦Business-context enrichment
- ✦AI-ready data for analytics and models
- ✦Digital Asset Management (DAM)
- ✦Media Asset Management (MAM)
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments
- ✦Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, Cinema 4D, Sketch, and more
- ✦Version control
- ✦Fast search
- ✦Custom brand portals
- ✦Analytics
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- ✦Gotham platform for government/defense
- ✦Foundry enterprise data integration
- ✦AIP for operational AI and LLMs
- ✦Large-scale data integration and modeling
- ✦Analytics and decision support
- ✦Data security and governance
Use cases
- →Building complex API integrations that require custom code and logic beyond what no-code tools offer.
- →Safely running AI-generated scripts in isolated environments with secrets management.
- →Automating workflows that require large datasets, loops, branching, or custom dependencies.
- →Connecting AI agents to external databases, APIs, and services using MCP tools.
- →Unifying fragmented enterprise data
- →Governing data for AI workloads
- →Moving AI pilots to production
- →Powering analytics with trusted data
- →Managing work-in-progress images, graphics, layouts, and documents.
- →Automating video workflows, including transcoding and archiving.
- →Identifying objects, faces, logos, and scenes in media using AI.
- →Generating speech-to-text for search and closed captioning.
- →Creating rough video cuts instantly with AI.
- →Managing campaign assets and distributing them to various endpoints.
- →Enabling secure collaboration for remote and on-premises teams.
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- →Government, defense and intelligence analytics
- →Enterprise data integration
- →Operational decision-making
- →Deploying AI on proprietary data
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