Cradle vs Profluent
A side-by-side comparison of Cradle and Profluent, two Science tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
Compared from listings verified as of
At a glance
The honest brief
Cradle
Self-serve web SaaS for protein engineering with per-customer models and an in-house wet lab — a usable product where most rivals are partnership-only.
- Self-serve web platform
- Multi-property optimization
- Per-customer models on your lab data
- Customers keep IP, no royalties
- Enterprise sales-led pricing
- No public free tier
- Needs customer wet-lab data
- Not a downloadable model
Profluent
Pairs frontier protein LLMs with openly released designs like OpenCRISPR-1, while most peers keep AI-designed molecules proprietary.
- ProGen protein-LLM lineage
- Open-released gene editor
- Nature-published work
- Eli Lilly and IDT partnerships
- Partnership/licensing only
- No self-serve platform
- Open releases are sequences, not a service
- Opaque pricing