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Feedzai vs IBM watsonx.governance
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Feedzai if…
- you're in its core audience: retail and commercial banks, payment service providers
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Choose IBM watsonx.governance if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: enterprise risk and compliance teams, internal audit teams
Side by side
Feature Feedzai IBM watsonx.governance
Pricing modelContact for pricingFree trial
Starting price—$3500/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retentionAnti-fraud personal data retained at most 12 months—
Payment fraud screening—
PlatformsWebWeb, Self-hosted
CategorySecurity & FraudSecurity & Fraud
CompanyFeedzai – Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A.IBM Corporation
Based inPortugalUnited States
Founded20081911
Part of—Berkshire Hathaway
Key features
F Feedzai
- Real-time transaction fraud detection across channels
- Scam prevention using behavioral and device intelligence
- AML transaction monitoring and watchlist screening
- Farol AI agent for rules, alerts and SARs
- Feedzai IQ network intelligence and risk score
- Secure onboarding and new account fraud detection
- Risk management for merchant acquirers
I IBM watsonx.governance
- Governance graph linking AI systems, risks, controls and policies
- Shadow AI detection across the organization
- Automated policy enforcement and compliance evidence capture
- Continuous monitoring of AI systems for risk and compliance
- Model inventory, documentation and evaluation
- AI risk assessment and identification
- Regulatory and risk content library for many frameworks
- Embedded AI assistants for use case onboarding
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Feedzai
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
IBM watsonx.governance
TrialFree
Model ManagementStarting at $0.64
Risk & Compliance - BasicStarting at $3,500
Risk & Compliance - AdvancedStarting at $6,450
watsonx.governance on AWSStarting at $42,000
Strengths and limitations
Feedzai
- Fraud, identity and AML in one platform
- Says it processes 140 billion events per year
- Named a leader in the Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrant for fraud platforms
- Selected by the ECB to secure the digital euro
- No public pricing; access only through a sales demo
- Built for financial institutions, not small businesses
IBM watsonx.governance
- 14-day free trial with included credits
- Deploys on IBM Cloud, AWS or as on-premises software
- Named a Leader in Gartner, IDC and Forrester AI governance reports
- Large library of regulatory and risk content
- Risk & Compliance plans start at $3,500 per month
- Base plans include only 1 concurrent user
- Listed prices are indicative and vary by country
- Software edition pricing is based on VPCs and not published
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