For companies and labs

Chemistry drawing for your company, free for commercial work

Athanor is free for commercial work and publication, opens and saves ChemDraw CDX and CDXML both ways, and runs in the browser and on Windows. Your team keeps working with partners on ChemDraw, and nobody needs a seat license to draw.

ChemDraw files, both ways

Open CDX and CDXML as they are and save them back, with 21 journal document styles including ACS Document 1996. Convert single files in the browser with the ChemDraw converters, and see how ChemDraw’s shortcuts carry over.

Retrosynthesis with hazards

With a free arbastro account, Athanor plans routes back to buyable starting materials as you draw, and shows sourced hazards for every compound along a route. Every AI-generated structure and route is screened against the Chemical Weapons Convention schedules and the Australia Group list.

In your pipelines and tools

Assistants and scripts can use Athanor’s engine through its free MCP server, and your ELN or registration system can embed the editor with one script.

Your data

Signed out, drawings stay on the device; signed in, they sync to your own account. The .athanor file format is open and documented, so your structures are never locked in. See Trust and Privacy.

For a whole team

arbastro Suite Ultra covers a school, department, lab or company: $99.99 a month, or $999.99 a year. Compare the plans.

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