Pay for the compute you use
Top up a USD wallet, run jobs, see the cost. New accounts start with $5 of compute credit on signup. No subscriptions, no seats, no tiers, no minimum monthly spend.
A wallet, not a subscription
The model is the one you already use on Modal, OpenAI, and Anthropic. You hold a USD balance, jobs debit it at the actual cost of the compute they used, and you top up when it runs low. The whole pricing surface is one number.
1. Sign up free
Create an account at tools.ranomics.com. Get $5 of compute credit immediately, plus unlimited zero cost smoke runs to verify any tool works on your inputs.
2. Top up in any amount
Minimum $20. Suggested amounts in Checkout: $20, $50, $200, $500, $2,500. No fixed packages. Tax is added at Checkout where applicable.
3. Run jobs, see the cost
Every tool form shows the estimated cost and your balance after the job. Submit, run, see the actual debit on completion. If a job ends up cheaper than estimated, the surplus returns to your wallet.
4. Auto reload, optional
Save a card to auto reload when balance drops below a threshold. Default off. Limited to one auto reload per 24 hours plus a monthly cap you set, so a runaway loop cannot drain your card.
Per run, at default parameters
Costs scale with the size of the run. A 5000 design BindCraft campaign on a real target lands around $440. A single ProteinMPNN inference is closer to a nickel.
Every job displays an estimated cost before you submit. You confirm or cancel. The estimate updates as you change parameters.
| Tool | Cost per run |
|---|---|
| Epitope Scout | under $0.10 |
| ProteinMPNN | around $0.05 |
| AlphaFold 2 (single fold) | around $0.50 |
| ColabFold (MSA + fold) | around $0.80 |
| RFdiffusion pilot (real target) | around $1.60 |
| BindCraft pilot | around $4.40 |
| RFAntibody pilot | around $4.40 |
| BoltzGen pilot | around $3.20 |
Match the deposit to the scope of work
About 40 ProteinMPNN runs. Good for first exploration after the trial credit.
One small project. Tens of folds, a single round of MPNN sequence design on a 100-backbone batch.
Multi target exploration. Run several design loops across two or three targets.
One full pilot campaign. Thousands of RFdiffusion backbones, sequence design, and structure validation on a single binder target.
Production scale. At this level a Binder Pilot service engagement is often more efficient. Talk to us.
No surprise bills
The point of metered billing is transparency. The point of these guardrails is making sure transparency does not turn into a runaway charge while you are asleep.
Per tool hard caps
Every tool has a maximum cost ceiling per job, scaled to the parameters you pick. A BindCraft run is capped at $500 even at full campaign scale. Above $1,000 estimated cost on a single job, we route you to a Binder Pilot conversation.
Daily spend cap
Your account has a daily spend cap, default $200, that you can raise or remove. Jobs that would push you over the cap are blocked until tomorrow.
Auto reload limits
Auto reload, when enabled, is limited to one charge every 24 hours plus a user set monthly cap (default $1,000). A compromised account or runaway loop cannot drain your card.
Mid run safety
Long running jobs report progress every 15 minutes. If the actual cost runs more than 50 percent past the estimate, you get a warning email. At 100 percent over the hold, the job is killed to protect you from a bad input or an infinite loop.
Failed jobs
You are charged for compute used even on failed jobs, because we pay our compute provider for that time. Per tool hard caps limit how much any single failure can cost.
No refunds
Top ups are final. Unused balance does not expire. Start with a small top up to evaluate the platform if you are unsure.
Spending more than $1,000 a month? Talk to us about a Pilot.
At sustained spend above $1,000 a month, a fixed scope Binder Pilot engagement is usually more cost effective and removes the operational overhead. You get a defined deliverable, wet lab handoff if you want it, and a single point of contact for the campaign.