Insilico Medicine vs Exa

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Insilico Medicine AI that took a drug from concept to Phase III — now backed by Lilly. Visit Exa Web search and retrieval API built for AI agents and apps Visit
RECATOOLS Score 8.7 / 10 7.7 / 10
Capability 9.5 8
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 6.5 8
ASEAN readiness 7.5 6
API quality 7 8
Pricing Enterprise Freemium
Free tier Chemistry42 cloud offers academic/startup access tiers; contact required 20,000 search requests per month on the free plan; startup and education grants of $1,000 in free API credits also available
Paid from Enterprise licensing; upfront deals from $10M milestone to $115M (Lilly) API search billed at $7 per 1,000 requests (as of March 2026 pricing update)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 13 of top 20 global pharma cos; 18.3% YoY subscription growth (2025)
Founded 2014 2021
Maker Insilico Medicine (independent; HKEX: 3696)
Verdict

Insilico Medicine holds a lead no other AI-native drug company currently matches: a molecule it designed from scratch has reached Phase III, with published peer-reviewed efficacy data behind it. The Pharma.AI stack — Pan...

Exa earns its credibility through customer names, not just claims: Cursor, Notion AI, Cognition and OpenRouter all use it in production, and a $250M Series C at a $2.2B valuation (May 2026, led by a16z) backs that up. Th...

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