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Generative protein model that reasons jointly over sequence, structure and function.

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2 data points checked · 2026-11-04

Model stack: VerifiedEntry price: UnverifiableVersion: VerifiedHow this works →

Current version

ESM3

Entry cost

ESM3-open is free on GitHub. Other ESM3 model sizes are available via the Biohub Platform API (pricing not listed).

Changes / 30d

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The short answers · verified November 7, 2026

What is the latest version of ESM3?
The current shipped version of ESM3 is ESM3, as of November 7, 2026.
How much does ESM3 cost?
ESM3 has no published flat entry price. ESM3-open is free on GitHub. Other ESM3 model sizes are available via the Biohub Platform API (pricing not listed).
What AI model does ESM3 use?
ESM3 runs primarily on ESM Cambrian.

Source: EvolutionaryScale — www.evolutionaryscale.ai · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Protein generation
  • Sequence-structure-function
  • Open weights
  • Forge API
  • sequence modeling
  • structure generation
  • function design
  • protein generation
  • chain-of-thought prompting
  • generative protein design
  • sequence, structure, and function reasoning
  • representation learning
  • structure modeling
  • function modeling
  • Sequence design
  • Structure design
  • Function design
  • Chain-of-thought prompting
  • Generative protein design
  • Sequence, structure, and function reasoning
  • Representation learning
  • structure reasoning
  • function reasoning
  • Sequence modeling
  • Structure modeling
  • Function modeling
  • protein sequence modeling
  • multimodal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)
  • structure prediction
  • functional prompting
  • multi-modal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)
  • protein design
  • sequence generation
  • functional annotation
  • reasoning over sequence, structure, and function
  • generative biology
  • sequence structure and function reasoning
  • Sequence reasoning
  • Structure reasoning
  • Function reasoning
  • functional prediction
  • protein modeling
  • generative
  • functional modeling
  • multimodal reasoning
  • generative design
  • sequence structure function reasoning
  • functional design
  • sequence prediction
  • function prediction
  • reasoning over sequence structure function
  • sequence reasoning
  • generative AI
  • reasoning over sequence, structure, function
  • protein structure prediction
  • Generative AI
  • Protein Sequence Modeling
  • Representation Learning
  • Open weights (ESM3-open)
  • open source weights
  • Sequence prediction
  • Structure prediction
  • Function prediction
  • Generative biology
  • Protein design
  • Protein sequence modeling
  • Generative design
  • function generation
  • Generative Protein Design
  • Structure Reasoning
  • Function Reasoning
  • API Access
  • Open Weights Model
  • Sequence generation
  • Structure generation
  • Function generation
  • API access
  • Open source weights (ESM3-open)
  • sequence-to-structure
  • open weights
  • Open weights model (ESM3-open)
  • api access
  • open weights (ESM3-open)
  • Generative protein modeling

Pricing

  • ESM3-open

    Weights and source code available on GitHub under an MIT license

    Free

Entry price over time

8/7/2026 · $011/7/2026 · $0

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • ESM Cambrian

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3 (98B)

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3 (Large)

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3 (Medium)

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3 (Small)

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3-open

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • ESM CambrianEvolutionaryScale · 1 product
  • ESM3EvolutionaryScale · 1 product
  • ESM3 (98B)EvolutionaryScale · 1 product
  • ESM3 (Large)EvolutionaryScale · 1 product
  • ESM3 (Medium)EvolutionaryScale · 1 product
  • ESM3 (Small)EvolutionaryScale · 1 product
  • ESM3-openEvolutionaryScale · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • model

    ESM3 added ESM3 (98B) to its model stack

    ESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3 (Large), ESM3 (Medium), ESM3 (Small), ESM3-openESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3 (98B), ESM3 (Large), ESM3 (Medium), ESM3 (Small), ESM3-open

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative protein modeling

    83 tracked84 tracked · +Generative protein modeling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: api access, open weights (ESM3-open)

    81 tracked83 tracked · +api access, open weights (ESM3-open)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Open weights model (ESM3-open)

    80 tracked81 tracked · +Open weights model (ESM3-open)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: open weights

    79 tracked80 tracked · +open weights

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence-to-structure

    78 tracked79 tracked · +sequence-to-structure

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Open source weights (ESM3-open)

    77 tracked78 tracked · +Open source weights (ESM3-open)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: API access

    76 tracked77 tracked · +API access

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Sequence generation, Structure generation, Function generation

    73 tracked76 tracked · +Sequence generation, Structure generation, Function generation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative Protein Design, Structure Reasoning, Function Reasoning

    68 tracked73 tracked · +Generative Protein Design, Structure Reasoning, Function Reasoning, API Access, Open Weights Model

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: function generation

    67 tracked68 tracked · +function generation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Protein sequence modeling, Generative design

    65 tracked67 tracked · +Protein sequence modeling, Generative design

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Sequence prediction, Structure prediction, Function prediction

    60 tracked65 tracked · +Sequence prediction, Structure prediction, Function prediction, Generative biology, Protein design

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: open source weights

    59 tracked60 tracked · +open source weights

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Open weights (ESM3-open)

    58 tracked59 tracked · +Open weights (ESM3-open)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative AI, Protein Sequence Modeling, Representation Learning

    55 tracked58 tracked · +Generative AI, Protein Sequence Modeling, Representation Learning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein structure prediction

    54 tracked55 tracked · +protein structure prediction

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: reasoning over sequence, structure, function

    53 tracked54 tracked · +reasoning over sequence, structure, function

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: generative AI

    52 tracked53 tracked · +generative AI

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence reasoning

    51 tracked52 tracked · +sequence reasoning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: reasoning over sequence structure function

    50 tracked51 tracked · +reasoning over sequence structure function

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence prediction, function prediction

    48 tracked50 tracked · +sequence prediction, function prediction

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: functional design

    47 tracked48 tracked · +functional design

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence structure function reasoning

    46 tracked47 tracked · +sequence structure function reasoning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: generative design

    45 tracked46 tracked · +generative design

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal reasoning

    44 tracked45 tracked · +multimodal reasoning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: generative, functional modeling

    42 tracked44 tracked · +generative, functional modeling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein modeling

    41 tracked42 tracked · +protein modeling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: functional prediction

    40 tracked41 tracked · +functional prediction

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Sequence reasoning, Structure reasoning, Function reasoning

    37 tracked40 tracked · +Sequence reasoning, Structure reasoning, Function reasoning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence structure and function reasoning

    36 tracked37 tracked · +sequence structure and function reasoning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: generative biology

    35 tracked36 tracked · +generative biology

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: reasoning over sequence, structure, and function

    34 tracked35 tracked · +reasoning over sequence, structure, and function

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein design, sequence generation, functional annotation

    31 tracked34 tracked · +protein design, sequence generation, functional annotation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multi-modal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)

    30 tracked31 tracked · +multi-modal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: structure prediction, functional prompting

    28 tracked30 tracked · +structure prediction, functional prompting

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein sequence modeling, multimodal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)

    26 tracked28 tracked · +protein sequence modeling, multimodal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Sequence modeling, Structure modeling, Function modeling

    23 tracked26 tracked · +Sequence modeling, Structure modeling, Function modeling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: structure reasoning, function reasoning

    21 tracked23 tracked · +structure reasoning, function reasoning

    source
  • model

    ESM3 added ESM3-Large, ESM3-Medium, ESM3-Small to its model stack

    ESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3-openESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3-Large, ESM3-Medium, ESM3-Small, ESM3-open

    source
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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/esm3

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). ESM3 — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/esm3
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-esm3,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {ESM3 — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/esm3}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}