# IBM Watson Discovery Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 IBM Watson Discovery Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on February 15, 2026

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IBM Watson Discovery

## What is IBM Watson Discovery?

AI-powered enterprise search software designed for businesses in the insurance, legal, banking, financial markets, life sciences, healthcare, sports, entertainment, and engineering industries. It helps businesses with enhancing chatbots, pinpointing answers, and finding trends in data. Features of the platform include visual discovery, natural language search, cataloging, grouping, categorization, sentiment analysis, tagging, machine learning, topic classification, and specific passage responses.

## What is IBM Watson Discovery used for?

[Natural Language Processing (NLP)](https://www.capterra.com/natural-language-processing-software/)[Data Discovery](https://www.capterra.com/data-discovery-software/)[Enterprise Search](https://www.capterra.com/enterprise-search-software/)

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Overall rating

Based on 1 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

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Starting price

$500

Per User, Per Month

Free trial  
available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### IBM Watson Discovery

5.0 (1)

VS.

[4.7 (24,035)](https://www.capterra.com/p/135003/Slack/reviews/)

Starting Price

$500

per user, per month

Starting Price

$8.75

Per User, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

5.0 (1)

Ease Of Use

4.6 (110)

Value For Money

0.0 (0)

Value For Money

4.5 (106)

Customer Service

0.0 (0)

Customer Service

4.4 (107)

## IBM Watson Discovery alternatives

[4.7 (25)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172500/AddSearch/reviews/)

Starting price

$119.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

96%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

Highest Rated

[Luigi's Box](https://www.capterra.com/p/186030/Luigi-s-Box/)

[4.9 (110)](https://www.capterra.com/p/186030/Luigi-s-Box/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/186030/Luigi-s-Box/)

[Guru](https://www.capterra.com/p/224830/Guru/)

[4.8 (639)](https://www.capterra.com/p/224830/Guru/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

99%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/224830/Guru/)

[M-Files](https://www.capterra.com/p/122215/M-Files/)

[4.4 (274)](https://www.capterra.com/p/122215/M-Files/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

86%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/122215/M-Files/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Catalog Management

Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price

Data Extraction

Automatically retrieve and pull information from documents, websites, images, data sets, and other sources

Data Visualization

Graphical representation of data

Faceted Search/Filtering

Faceted Search/Filtering

Machine Learning

Enable businesses to implement machine learning algorithms on business data such as sales and revenue

Natural Language Search

Ability to interact with the application using human languages such as English

IBM Watson Discovery 12 features

Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price

Automatically retrieve and pull information from documents, websites, images, data sets, and other sources

Graphical representation of data

Faceted Search/Filtering

Enable businesses to implement machine learning algorithms on business data such as sales and revenue

Ability to interact with the application using human languages such as English

Ability to recognize printed or written text within digital images or scanned documents

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Categorize emotions expressed in written text or images and identify if they are positive, negative or neutral

Attach digital tags to documents and assets for identification, search, or monitoring purposes

Process of extracting and classifying information from text, such as tweets, emails, product reviews, etc

Identify recurrent themes or topics

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Features

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

## Pricing

Free Trial

Basic

$500.00

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## Support, customer service and training options

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

## User reviews

Overall rating

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

Filter by rating

5(1)

4(0)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

SA

Saif A.

Director

Information Technology and Services

### "Great tool for NLP and data extraction"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

September 28, 2022

Pros

I am using IBM Watson discovery to crawl custom model webpages, this helps us to save lots of time crawling each page manually and extracting data. Also, IBM Discovery provides us enrich option in which it tells us the most used keywords and accuracy by using NLP so that we got an idea about what web page it is.

Cons

As such now, there is no issue with using IBM Watson Disovery

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