lobster

The premium Open Source alternative to EvolutionaryScale (ESM)

🎯 Best for:Teams building custom AI models for protein engineering and evolution.

What is lobster?

Replaces closed-source protein embedding services with a scalable training and inference framework. Utilizes masked language modeling to capture evolutionary information from massive sequence databases for downstream prediction.

Tech Stack
PythonAI, ML & Data

Why lobster?

  • Optimized for large-scale sequence training
  • Modular architecture for different tasks
  • Captures deep evolutionary representations

Limitations

  • Extremely high compute requirements
  • Requires expertise in deep learning
  • Data preprocessing is resource-intensive
2/26/2026
Last Update
32
Forks
29
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on EvolutionaryScale (ESM))
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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