A high-fidelity, spin-aware machine learning interatomic potential family that delivers DFT-level adsorption energy accuracy for industrially relevant catalysts at up to 20,000x the speed of physics-based calculations.
AQCat is a family of spin-aware machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) built for heterogeneous catalysis screening and chemical discovery. AQCat supports both direct model inference for structural energies and forces and an adsorption workflow for estimating minimum adsorption energies across candidate catalyst surfaces. It is designed to deliver DFT-level adsorption energy accuracy at up to 20,000x the speed of physics-based calculations. Developed for materials scientists, catalyst researchers, computational chemists, and R&D teams in industries including chemicals, energy, oil and gas, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals, it enables users to evaluate catalyst candidates faster while keeping proprietary structures and workflows inside their own environment.
The AQCat25-EV2 model is trained on the AQCat25 dataset with 13.5 million high-fidelity DFT calculations. For organizations seeking a machine learning force field (MLFF) for adsorption energy prediction, transition-state exploration, and virtual screening, AQCat is designed to reduce the tradeoff between quantum-chemistry accuracy and computational throughput.
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Highlights
In-Silico Virtual Screening: Pre-screen massive, high-risk chemical design spaces and novel bulk compounds in days instead of months to optimize R&D budgets before physical synthesis.
Isolated, Secure Workloads: Run highly proprietary molecular structures and catalyst designs with absolute data privacy. Because the model deploys via Amazon SageMaker inside your own isolated AWS tenant, your input data, inference payloads, and chemical structures are never exposed to external networks, never shared with SandboxAQ, and never used for retraining.
Unlocking Sustainable Energy and Chemicals: Accelerate the discovery of optimal active sites and intermediates for green hydrogen production (water splitting), carbon capture utilization (CO2-to-fuels), fuel cells, sustainable fertilizer production, and methane-to-methanol conversion.
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You pay based on usage, with no upfront commitment. Two dimensions bill by host hour for running model inference in batch mode. One uses the ml.g5.xlarge instance type, the other uses the ml.g4dn.xlarge instance type. Your choice of instance affects the hourly rate, so you select the one that fits your workload. A third dimension bills per inference request, charging you for each prediction the model returns. Together, these let you pay either for the time an instance runs or for the number of requests you make.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does one host hour mean for the batch inference dimensions?
A host hour meters the running time of one inference instance in batch mode. You are charged for each hour the ml.g5.xlarge or ml.g4dn.xlarge instance runs. Your choice of instance sets the hourly rate, so time running and instance type together drive your batch cost.
What counts as one request under the inference request dimension?
Each request is one prediction the model returns, such as an adsorption energy or binding configuration result for a catalyst system. You are charged per request, so cost scales with how many predictions you run rather than with how long any instance stays active.
How do the host-hour charges combine with the per-request charges on my bill?
The batch host-hour dimensions and the per-request dimension bill independently. Host-hour charges accrue while an instance runs in batch mode. Request charges accrue per prediction returned. You pay only for the dimensions you use, so time-based and request-based costs appear separately rather than stacking on the same workload.
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Constraints are honoured when relax is set — an unconstrained slab relax would move the held atoms and return an energy not comparable to the workflow path. They remain ignored for a single-point pass, where they cannot affect the result.
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There are two modes that the model can be run in. More details and input samples can be found in the docs here.
For mode: "mlp" (default, docs here), the model expects application/json input with an instances array of one or more atomic structures, where each structure is provided as a JSON-serialized ASE Atoms object. Multiple structures can be included in the same instances array to create a mini-batch within a single request.
For mode: “min-adsorption-energy-workflow” (docs here): The model expects application/json input with an instances array of one or more screening requests, where each instance represents a bulk/facet/adsorbate combination for catalysis screening.
For both modes, the real-time endpoint is the primary and recommended invocation path. Batch transform is possible and uses the same JSON schema.
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