State of Play: AI Governance

An annual review of the AI Governance market, with answers from the vendors in it.

November 3, 2026

State of Play 2026: AI Governance

The EU AI Act's high-risk rules now start in December 2027 and August 2028. ServiceNow, Optro and the data platforms sell AI registries beside the specialist vendors. Where the market stands in 2026, the kinds of product, and what each costs where prices are public.

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Evaluate IBM watsonx.governance, Credo AI, Microsoft Purview, ServiceNow, Holistic AI, Fiddler, Arthur, and Monitaur — and decide first whether your gap is governance and compliance or ML observability, because the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF reward the platform wired into how models are built and run.

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