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IBM watsonx.governance

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Price from$0.64/moFree
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WebYesYes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
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Spec score · Model Registry Software6.4 (#26)7.7 (#11)

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IBM watsonx.governance

  • TrialPriced on request
  • Model Management$0.64 a month
  • Risk & Compliance - Basic$3,500 a month
  • Risk & Compliance - Advanced$6,450 a month
  • watsonx.governance on AWS$42,000 a month

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MLflow Model Registry

  • Open SourceFree

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MLflow Model Registry

MLflow Model Registry is a model store, API and interface for managing machine-learning models through their lifecycle. It tracks model versions and connects each version to the MLflow run, logged model or notebook that produced it. Teams can organize models with aliases, tags and annotations, register models, add descriptions, and move them between stages such as Staging and Production. On a remote tracking server, MLflow supports basic HTTP authentication and role-based permissions for registered models; basic authentication requires a configured secret key and an admin password of at least 12 characters. When used with Databricks Unity Catalog, the registry supports centralized governance, access controls, cross-workspace access and model lineage. An official Helm chart supports self-hosted Kubernetes deployment. MLflow lists integrations with more than 100 tools, including LangChain, OpenAI and PyTorch, plus support for Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, R and OpenTelemetry. The free Open Source plan uses the Apache 2.0 license. Artifact storage is not supported.

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