by Tamarind Bio, Inc.
Hosted platform for AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, Boltz and hundreds of other biology tools via web app, API and MCP, with a Free plan to start on.
Pick Tamarind if your lab or biotech needs protein and antibody design tools without running its own GPUs, and can start on the Free plan. It replaces separate installs and cluster set-up. Look elsewhere if you need prices published beyond the Free plan, or a platform that learns from your own assay data.
One uniform job API over hundreds of published biology tools, so a team integrates once and can swap models as new ones appear.
The hosted catalog, benchmarks and routing save integration work, but the underlying models are published, so a team with its own GPUs can run them directly.
Main trade-off
Premium and Enterprise prices are not published.
| Plan | Monthly price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 jobs a month, Access to all models, Unlimited job data storage, Email support, Job runtime limits |
| Academic | Custom | More jobs a month than Free, by application, Needs a university, government or nonprofit email, More volume or features depending on the use case |
| Premium | Custom | Quoted after a sales meeting, Unlimited job runtime and Open API Access, Org-wide admin controls and high priority support, Rigorous, proprietary data security |
| Enterprise | Custom | Quoted after a sales meeting, Everything in Premium, Custom model hosting and custom security audits, SLA agreement and SAML SSO |
Free: $0 with 10 jobs a month, the whole model catalog, unlimited storage for job data, email support and runtime caps. Academic: an extended plan with more jobs a month for university, government or nonprofit emails, by application. Premium and Enterprise: no published price, booked through a sales meeting; Enterprise adds custom model hosting, custom security audits, an SLA and SAML SSO. Read on tamarind.bio/pricing in November 2026.
Part of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, Tamarind Bio lets scientists run AlphaFold, Boltz, RFdiffusion and similar published models from one web app, REST API and MCP server, with the GPU work handled for them. Its keyless catalog listed 394 tools in November 2026.
Tool catalog
Lists 394 submittable tools in its keyless catalog, spanning structure prediction, binder and antibody design, docking, binding affinity and molecular dynamics.
Pipelines and Batch
Pipelines chain tools into one automated run, such as generating sequences, filtering by a confidence score and running molecular dynamics; Batch runs one tool across a list of inputs.
Model Router
Recommends a structure-prediction tool for an input from Tamarind's FoldBench benchmark evidence in about 15 to 25 seconds, and is enabled per account.
MCP server, API and CLI
A hosted MCP server over streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1 or an API key, a REST API with an OpenAPI specification, and a command line tool installed with uv.
Protein Design Agent
Runs batch de novo binder campaigns across tools such as BindCraft, RFdiffusion and BoltzGen, following the workflow Anthropic published, according to Tamarind's blog.
Custom tools
Builds a docker container from private GitHub code and publishes it to your organization across the web app, API, Pipelines, assistant and MCP (changelog, 1 May 2026).
Assay portal
Submits wet-lab assays from Adaptyv, Ginkgo and A-Alpha in one portal, with turnaround and cost estimates (changelog, 1 May 2026).
Benchmarks
Leaderboards for more than ten co-folding tools across antibody-antigen, protein-ligand and protein-protein sets, using datasets such as FoldBench and Cofoldarena.
The nearest AI tools on Hokai for the same job.
| Tool | Price from | Free plan | Runs on | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -- | Yes | Web | 3.8 | |
| -- | Yes | Web | 4.4 | |
| Free | Yes | Web | 4.3 | |
| Free | Yes | Web | 4.0 |
Proprietary
The Free plan is $0 with 10 jobs a month, every model, unlimited job data storage and email support. Premium and Enterprise have no published price: both are booked through a sales meeting, and a directory listing (Toolmage, read in November 2026) says Premium starts from $50,000 a year, which Tamarind does not confirm. Paying organizations get an annual budget of compute hours weighted to an hour on a T4 GPU, and only a job's final successful run counts, while a run that fails on invalid inputs does.
Yes for light use: the Free plan gives every model in the catalog at 10 jobs a month. Academics, government researchers and nonprofits with a matching email can apply for an extended Academic plan with more jobs, sized to the use case. Tamarind's developer index says an agent can obtain an API key that carries the free monthly allowance, although the pricing page lists Open API Access under Premium.
On 26 February 2026 Tamarind announced a $13.6 million raise that includes a $12 million Series A led by Dimension Capital, with participation from Y Combinator. The company says it has grown 700% since last year and supports 8 of the top 20 pharma companies, claims that come from its own post.
Its trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2 as compliant, with the 2026 SOC 2 report and an August 2026 penetration test available on request. Its own funding post names Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Adimab, Mammoth Biosciences and Flagship as customers, and a separate post says Eli Lilly selected it as a technology partner for TuneLab2.0.
Yes. Tamarind announced a hosted MCP server on 27 March 2026 that takes an OAuth 2.1 sign-in or an API key, and its command line tool installs with uv. Its developer index also publishes an agent skill file and a keyless catalog of tool names and required settings, so an agent can confirm a tool exists before submitting a job.
Tamarind Bio is a hosted platform that runs published computational biology models behind a web app, a REST API, a command line tool and an MCP server. It is a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company based in San Francisco, started by Deniz Kavi and Sherry Liu, who studied computer science at Stanford, and a February 2026 post from the company says it began by solving one Stanford lab's problem of running these models without a cluster.
You choose a task such as structure prediction, binder design, antibody design or docking, pick a tool, and submit sequences or structures; Tamarind provisions the GPUs and returns the results in the same job shape for every tool. Pipelines chain tools into one automated run, Batch runs a tool across a list of inputs, and a Model Router recommends a structure-prediction tool from the company's own benchmark evidence. On 11 November 2026 its keyless catalog listed 394 submittable tools, including AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, Boltz, Chai, ProteinMPNN, GROMACS and BindCraft. Its docs name Modal among the service providers that may process customer data.
It is built for computational biologists, protein engineers and structural biology groups who already read scores such as pLDDT and ipTM, working on antibodies and nanobodies, enzymes, peptides or small molecules.
Where an alternative wins: Tamarind runs published models, so a team that wants a platform that learns from its own assay data to design proteins should look at Cradle, which sells through a project form (homepage, read in November 2026) and is not on Hokai yet. Engineers who want to write their own GPU code can use Modal directly, Replicate hosts general models outside biology, and Databricks covers broader data and machine learning work. The wider field sits in the generative AI infrastructure shelf.
More recent additions: a hosted MCP server announced on 27 March 2026, and a wet-lab assay portal and custom tools on 1 May 2026, both from the vendor's changelog. Its blog also describes a protein design agent that follows the binder design workflow Anthropic published after showing Claude design de novo binders, and lists a day-zero release of RFD4-Proteina with the Baker Lab and NVIDIA.
Verdict: pick Tamarind if your lab or biotech needs protein and antibody design tools without running its own GPUs and can start on the Free plan. Look elsewhere if you need prices published beyond that plan, a platform that learns from your own assay data, or data processed outside the United States.
Product facts on this page (pricing, plans, integrations, compliance) are read from Tamarind Bio, Inc.'s own pages and documentation. The verdict is Hokai's reading of them, not the vendor's claim.