IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding Alternatives (January 2026)

IBM Watson Discovery is an API to search and answer questions about business documents using custom NLP and Large Language Models from IBM Research. It is available as SaaS or for self-hosting within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Analyze text with AI using pre-trained API or custom AutoML machine learning models to extract relevant entities, understand sentiment, and more.

IBM Watson Studio is an IDE to build, run and manage AI models. It is available as SaaS or for self-hosting as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

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Microsoft Translator Text API is a cloud-based aka machine translation service used to build applications, websites, and tools.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a modular set of integrated software components for data analysis, organization and management.

IBM Knowledge Catalog is software to manage and curate data, knowledge assets and their relationships. It is available as managed SaaS or within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

IBM Turbonomic software uses AI to optimize the performance, cost and compliance of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.

Watson Speech to Text is an API that transcribes speech to text in a variety of languages. It’s available as SaaS or for self-hosting.