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Chai-1 (Chai Discovery)

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

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What Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) does

  • 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

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What is Chai-1 (Chai Discovery)?

Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) is listed under Science & Research AI, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Chai-1 is free, Apache-2.0-licensed for academic and commercial use — a genuinely open structure-prediction model. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at chaidiscovery.com.

Is Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) free?

Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) do?

Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) does two things the catalog singles out: 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.

What is the best free alternative to Chai-1 (Chai Discovery)?

AlphaFold Server is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Science & Research AI sub-category and is free. Boltz and Kosmos (Edison Scientific / FutureHouse) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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AlphaFold Server

Science & Research AI
free
  • 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
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Boltz

Science & Research AI
free
  • First fully open-source model to approach AlphaFold3-level structure prediction, MIT-licensed
  • Boltz-2 adds binding-affinity prediction, not just structure
  • Hostable free via community web apps (e.g. Tamarind Bio) or run locally
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freemium
  • 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
  • Generous free tier committed by Edison Scientific, the commercial spinout now running the platform
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Perplexity

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Cited, real-time answers (1B+ queries/quarter)
  • Focus modes and file uploads
  • Comet browser and Spaces
  • Strong free tier
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ChatGPT Search

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Real-time web answers inside ChatGPT
  • Inline citations and follow-ups
  • Combines search with reasoning
  • Available on the free tier
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Grok DeeperSearch

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Live search across X and the open web
  • Best for breaking news and trends
  • Reasoned, sourced summaries
  • Free daily queries
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