IBM's agentic coding platform now runs on-premises, so code stays in-house
IBM Bob's self-hosted deployment is generally available, letting regulated enterprises run agentic software development in air-gapped networks with their own licensed models; pricing is undisclosed.
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IBM announced on October 1 that self-hosted deployment of IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, is generally available. Enterprises can now run it on-premises, in private or sovereign clouds, and in air-gapped networks.
Bob covers the full development lifecycle: understanding code, planning work, executing changes and validating results. Most comparable tools require sending code and context to an external service, which has kept regulated industries out; the self-hosted version lets code, development context and build artifacts stay inside the customer's environment.
The platform ships without a model and uses bring-your-own-license: fully isolated deployments run NVIDIA Nemotron or Poolside Laguna, while hybrid configurations can route selected workloads to external Claude, Gemini or GPT models. Optional paid packages target Java, IBM i and mainframe modernization. IBM has not published pricing; buyers are routed to sales.