Best free Boltz alternatives

Looking for a free alternative to Boltz? Here are 9 science & research ai worth trying — 8 with a free tier. Boltz itself is free.

ToolBoltz (you searched)AlphaFold ServerBiomniChai-1 (Chai Discovery)
Pricingfreefreefreefreemium
Best forFirst fully open-source model to approach AlphaFold3-level structure prediction, MIT-licensedFree browser-based access to AlphaFold 3-class structure prediction for non-commercial researchGeneral-purpose biomedical agent combining LLM planning with code executionChai-1 is free, Apache-2.0-licensed for academic and commercial use — a genuinely open structure-prediction model
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Boltz alternatives — straight answers

What is the best free alternative to Boltz?

AlphaFold Server is the closest free alternative to Boltz: same Science & Research AI sub-category, and it is free. Free browser-based access to AlphaFold 3-class structure prediction for non-commercial research

Are there free Boltz alternatives?

Yes — 8 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: AlphaFold Server, Biomni, Chai-1 (Chai Discovery), Evo 2, AI Scientist-v2. The other 1 are trial or paid.

Is Boltz free?

Boltz is free. There is no paid plan attached to it in the catalog.

How were these Boltz alternatives chosen?

They are the other tools in Science & Research AI, then the rest of Research & Learning, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.

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AlphaFold Server

Science & Research AI
free

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Free browser-based access to AlphaFold 3-class structure prediction for non-commercial research.

  • Free browser-based access to AlphaFold 3-class structure prediction for non-commercial research
  • Predicts structure/interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands in one model
  • Backed by the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database of 200M+ predicted structures

Biomni

Science & Research AI
freeNew

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — General-purpose biomedical agent combining LLM planning with code execution.

  • General-purpose biomedical agent combining LLM planning with code execution
  • Integrates 150+ bioinformatics tools and 59 databases
  • Web interface so biologists can use it without coding
  • Open-source from Stanford SNAP lab

Chai-1 (Chai Discovery)

Science & Research AI
freemium

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Chai-1 is free, Apache-2.0-licensed for academic and commercial use — a genuinely open structure-prediction model.

  • Chai-1 is free, Apache-2.0-licensed for academic and commercial use — a genuinely open structure-prediction model
  • Chai-2 (paid, enterprise) generates de novo antibodies directly from target epitopes, used by Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Autonomous AI agent that runs literature review + data analysis cycles, condensing ~6 months of research into a day per vendor.

  • Autonomous AI agent that runs literature review + data analysis cycles, condensing ~6 months of research into a day per vendor
  • Publicly available via web interface and API, not an internal-only research demo
  • Kosmos itself requires a paid subscription; the free plan covers only standard agents.

Evo 2

Science & Research AI
freeNew

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — DNA language model at single-nucleotide resolution with 1M base-pair context.

  • DNA language model at single-nucleotide resolution with 1M base-pair context
  • Variant effect prediction, sequence completion and genome design
  • Free hosted 40B access via NVIDIA build.nvidia.com
  • Apache 2.0 code, weights and training data open; published in Nature

AI Scientist-v2

Science & Research AI
freeNew

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Agentic tree search proposes ideas, runs experiments and writes papers.

  • Agentic tree search proposes ideas, runs experiments and writes papers
  • No human-authored templates needed
  • Open code from Sakana AI
  • Requires disclosure of AI use in resulting papers

Scira

AI Search & Answer Engines
free

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Free, no credit card required.

  • Free, no credit card required
  • Open-source (git.new/scira)
  • Multi-mode search: web, Reddit, academic papers, video, fact-check

Morphic

AI Search & Answer Engines
free

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine.

  • Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine
  • 9k+ GitHub stars, actively maintained
  • Pluggable model (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/Ollama) and search backends (Tavily/Brave/Exa)

Metaso AI Search (Mita)

AI Search & Answer Engines
freeNew

✦ WhyA Boltz alternative — Ad-free AI search with direct answers.

  • Ad-free AI search with direct answers
  • Built-in slide presentation and video generation
  • File upload and API access
  • Free to use

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