Salpa Compute · Free tier

AI models as nodes in your workflow, on hardware we run

Your workflow stays on your machine; its cloud nodes run on ours. Five open models for structure prediction, docking, protein design and genomics, four of them on GPUs, with a free tier: no cloud account, no setup.

Five models · one GPU-hour a month free · no cloud account

Local workflow, remote hardware

One workflow, run in two places

Build and run your workflow on your own machine, as you do today. Add one of the cloud nodes and only that step runs on Salpa Compute; its results come back into your workflow for the next node.

  1. Your node on your machine
  2. Cloud node on Salpa Compute
  3. Your node on your machine

The models

Five open models, each a node you place in a workflow.

Structure prediction

Boltz-2

Predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its sequence.

Runs on
Modal · USA
Hardware
H100 GPU
Structure prediction

Chai-1

Predicts the 3D structure of complexes: proteins with ligands or nucleic acids.

Runs on
Modal · USA
Hardware
H100 GPU
Docking

DiffDock

Blind protein–ligand docking: finds binding poses without a predefined pocket.

Runs on
Modal · USA
Hardware
A10G GPU
Genomics

Evo2

A DNA foundation model: score, embed or generate genomic sequences.

Runs on
Google Cloud · Belgium
Hardware
L4 GPU
Protein design

ProteinMPNN

Inverse folding: designs amino-acid sequences that fold to a given backbone.

Runs on
Google Cloud · USA
Hardware
CPU, no GPU needed
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Getting started

No waitlist and no approval: sign in and run.

Step 1 of 4

Sign in from Salpa

With Google or an email address. No cloud account of your own, no waitlist.

Step 2 of 4

The free tier is set up

The first time you run a cloud node, your account is created on the free tier.

Step 3 of 4

Add a cloud node

Place it in your workflow like any other node. It runs on our hardware.

Step 4 of 4

Results come back

Its outputs return into your workflow, on your machine, for the next node to use.

The free tier

The terms ↗
Allowance
One GPU-hour a month
At a time
Two GPU jobs in progress
Beyond it
Jobs are refused, never billed
More capacity
By arrangement: write to us
Your data
Kept only for the job

A large result waits at most 24 hours for you to download it. Nothing you send is used to train models. If your data should not leave the EU, keep to local nodes: every cloud node is optional. Where each model runs, and what is kept for how long: the privacy notice ↗

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