# IBM Watson

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ibm-watson/  
**Website:** https://www.ibm.com/watson  
**APIs profiled:** 4

IBM Watson is IBM's AI and machine learning platform offering a suite of cloud-based services including natural language processing, speech recognition, visual recognition, and other AI-powered capabilities for building intelligent applications.

## Kin Score — 20.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **IBM Watson Speech to Text** — Convert speech into text using AI-powered speech recognition and transcription. The service uses machine learning to combine knowledge of grammar, language structure, and audio ...
- **IBM Watson Text to Speech** — Convert written text to natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices. The service synthesizes natural language text to audio using deep learning AI for lifelike s...
- **IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding** — Analyze text to extract metadata from content such as concepts, entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, relations, and semantic roles.
- **IBM Watson Assistant** — Build, train, and deploy conversational interactions into any application, device, or channel. Create AI-powered virtual agents that understand natural language and provide help...

## Security (2)

- **Ibm Watson Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Ibm Watson Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Ibm Watson Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, IBM, Machine-Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ibm-watson/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.