IBM has made a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob generally available. Bob is IBM’s agentic software development platform. It covers the full lifecycle: understanding code, planning work, executing changes and validating results. The new option lets enterprises run Bob on premises, in private or sovereign clouds, and in air-gapped networks. Is it deployable today? Yes. The self-hosted option is generally available to enterprise customers. You must source, license and host a supported model yourself. IBM has not published pricing and routes buyers to a demo request . What IBM Shipped at GA The self-hosted deployment includes: Bob running in customer-managed enterprise environments. Core Bob capabilities: the IDE experience, BobShell, parallel tool calling, the agent harness, skills and modes. Self-hosted, air-gapped and hybrid model configurations. Bring-your-own-license (BYOL) for eligible models on IBM’s supported list. Integration with supported IDE and infrastructure environments. Optional Premium Packages for Java Modernization, IBM i and IBM Z. The Model Layer Decides Where Inference Runs Bob self-hosted does not bundle a model. Customers bring one from IBM’s supported list. IBM groups the list by deployment method: Deployment method Who hosts the model Supported models at GA Self-hosted Customer, on its own infrastructure NVIDIA Nemotron, Poolside Laguna Hybrid or private SaaS External service via an approved private connectivity pattern Claude Sonnet 5.0, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI GPT 5.6 Sol This choice determines where code and context get pr
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