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

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Trust score · Verified

2 data points checked · 2026-09-07

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

Current version

ESM3

Entry cost

Available through the Biohub Platform API, with an open-source version (ESM3-open) available on GitHub.

Changes / 30d

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The short answers · verified September 12, 2026

What is the latest version of ESM3?
The current shipped version of ESM3 is ESM3, as of September 12, 2026.
How much does ESM3 cost?
ESM3 has no published flat entry price. Available through the Biohub Platform API, with an open-source version (ESM3-open) available on GitHub.
What AI model does ESM3 use?
ESM3 runs primarily on ESM Cambrian.

Source: EvolutionaryScalewww.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

Pricing

  • ESM3-open (GitHub)

    Available under a non-commercial license

    Free

  • Forge API / Closed Beta

    Pricing not disclosed. Apply for access.

    Free

Entry price over time

8/7/2026 · $09/12/2026 · $0

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • ESM Cambrian

    EvolutionaryScale

    disclosed
  • ESM3

    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 (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

  • capability

    New capabilities: generative design

    45 tracked46 tracked · +generative design

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal reasoning

    44 tracked45 tracked · +multimodal reasoning

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  • capability

    New capabilities: generative, functional modeling

    42 tracked44 tracked · +generative, functional modeling

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  • 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
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative protein design, Sequence, structure, and function reasoning, Representation learning

    18 tracked21 tracked · +Generative protein design, Sequence, structure, and function reasoning, Representation learning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Sequence design, Structure design, Function design

    14 tracked18 tracked · +Sequence design, Structure design, Function design, Chain-of-thought prompting

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: structure modeling, function modeling

    12 tracked14 tracked · +structure modeling, function modeling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: generative protein design, sequence, structure, and function reasoning, representation learning

    9 tracked12 tracked · +generative protein design, sequence, structure, and function reasoning, representation learning

    source
  • model

    ESM3 added ESM Cambrian, ESM3-open to its model stack

    ESM3ESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3-open

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence modeling, structure generation, function design

    4 tracked9 tracked · +sequence modeling, structure generation, function design, protein generation, chain-of-thought prompting

    source
  • model

    ESM3 added ESM3 (Small, Medium, Large) to its model stack

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

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence generation, structure generation, functional prediction

    5 tracked8 tracked · +sequence generation, structure generation, functional prediction

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein design, representation learning, generative biology

    5 tracked8 tracked · +protein design, representation learning, generative biology

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence modeling, structure modeling, function modeling

    6 tracked10 tracked · +sequence modeling, structure modeling, function modeling, generative protein design

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein generation, chain-of-thought prompting

    6 tracked8 tracked · +protein generation, chain-of-thought prompting

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: sequence reasoning, structure reasoning, function reasoning

    5 tracked8 tracked · +sequence reasoning, structure reasoning, function reasoning

    source
  • model

    ESM3 added ESM Cambrian, ESM3 to its model stack

    ESM3-large, ESM3-medium, ESM3-open, ESM3-smallESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3-large, ESM3-medium, ESM3-open, ESM3-small

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein sequence modeling, representation learning, generative protein design

    5 tracked9 tracked · +protein sequence modeling, representation learning, generative protein design, reasoning over sequence, structure, function

    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-open, ESM3-small

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein generation, sequence modeling, structure modeling

    7 tracked11 tracked · +protein generation, sequence modeling, structure modeling, function modeling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: representation learning, generative protein design, chain-of-thought prompting

    4 tracked11 tracked · +representation learning, generative protein design, chain-of-thought prompting, multimodal reasoning, sequence prediction, structure prediction, function prediction

    source
  • model

    ESM3 added ESM Cambrian to its model stack

    ESM3, ESM3-openESM Cambrian, ESM3, ESM3-open

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative protein design, Chain-of-thought prompting, Multimodal reasoning (sequence, structure, function)

    4 tracked8 tracked · +Generative protein design, Chain-of-thought prompting, Multimodal reasoning (sequence, structure, function), Representation learning

    source
  • model

    ESM3 added ESM3 to its model stack

    ESM3 Large, ESM3 Medium, ESM3 Small, ESM3-openESM3, ESM3 Large, ESM3 Medium, ESM3 Small, ESM3-open

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: protein generation, sequence reasoning, structure reasoning

    3 tracked7 tracked · +protein generation, sequence reasoning, structure reasoning, function reasoning

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Generative protein design, Sequence, structure, and function reasoning, Chain-of-thought prompting

    4 tracked7 tracked · +Generative protein design, Sequence, structure, and function reasoning, Chain-of-thought prompting

    source
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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 2026-09-13, 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: 2026-09-13}
}