FutureHouse vs STORM (Stanford) vs Iambic Therapeutics vs Recursion Pharmaceuticals
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
FutureHouse
Eric-Schmidt-backed nonprofit building AI agents to automate scientifi...
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Iambic Therapeutics
San Diego AI-native drug discovery company whose Enchant platform took...
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Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Publicly traded techbio company (NASDAQ: RXRX) industrialising drug di...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — | — | |
| Value for money | — | — | — | |
| Ease of use | — | — | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | — | |
| API quality | — | — | — | |
| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Free public web platform and agents (Crow, Falcon, Owl, Robin) plus a free API tier for researchers. | Free and open source — self-host at no cost | — | — |
| Paid from | Higher-throughput / commercial use via the Edison Scientific spinout | — | Partnerships and internal pipeline (not a self-serve product) | Partnership / collaboration deals (not a self-serve product) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | — | 2020 | 2013 |
| Maker | Sam Rodriques, Andrew White | — | Thomas Miller, Fred Manby | Chris Gibson |
| Verdict | What this is for: Automating literature review, hypothesis generation and multi-step scientific reasoning with citation-grounded AI agents. Who this is for: Academic researchers and scientists in biology, chemistry and... |
STORM is still the reference implementation for grounded, structure-first long-form generation -- its trick of simulating a Wikipedia-writer persona interviewing multiple expert personas before drafting anything produces... |
What this is for: AI-native drug discovery and development, using the Enchant platform to predict molecule properties and speed candidates to the clinic. Who this is for: Pharma and biotech partners, plus the company's... |
What this is for: AI-driven, industrial-scale drug discovery combining large biological datasets, automated experiments and its own supercomputing. Who this is for: Pharmaceutical and biotech partners, plus investors in... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.