Isomorphic Labs IsoDDE vs Exa
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Isomorphic Labs IsoDDE
DeepMind's AI Drug Design Engine that doubles AlphaFold 3 accuracy in...
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Exa
Web search and retrieval API built for AI agents and apps
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | None — no free or academic tier publicly available | 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 partnership only; deals structured around R&D milestones (not per-seat or API) | API search billed at $7 per 1,000 requests (as of March 2026 pricing update) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Not publicly disclosed; access limited to pharma partnership cohort | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2021 |
| Maker | Alphabet Inc. (via Google DeepMind spinoff) | — |
| Verdict | Isomorphic Labs IsoDDE represents a genuine scientific leap in AI-driven drug design — its 50% accuracy on the hardest protein-ligand prediction benchmark, outperformance of physics-based gold standards in binding affini... |
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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