The open-source AI workbench for scientific research
OpenScience is an open-source AI agent for scientific research. It reads papers, writes and runs code, works in notebooks and a terminal, and sends long jobs to Modal, your own servers, or a Slurm/PBS cluster. Give it a metric and Autoresearch runs experiments, logs every one, and keeps hill-climbing. Use 30+ models through one wallet, sign in with ChatGPT, or run a local model. It ranks #1 on agentic scientific research benchmarks. Free and open source.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Ishaan, one of the people building OpenScience.
We started this because doing research with AI meant copying things back and forth between a chat window, a terminal, a notebook, and whatever cluster you had access to. OpenScience puts all of that in one place and lets an agent work across it.
We also think scientific tools should be open. However, the strongest models and products increasingly come with restrictions set by the labs that train them: which fields they'll help with, who gets access, and on what terms. So OpenScience is open source and model-agnostic. Pick any model, swap it mid-project, or run it locally on your own hardware.
OpenScience is currently #1 on agentic scientific research benchmarks, including Terminal Bench Science, TerminalBench 4.0 (Science subset), BiomniBench, and our internal OpenScience Bench.
What's in this launch: 1. New IDE: a faster, redesigned workspace with papers, code, notebooks, a LaTeX editor, a terminal, and 3D protein and genomics viewers next to the agent
2. Autoresearch: experiment loops that run on Modal GPUs, your own servers, or Slurm and PBS clusters 3. OpenScience Ace: 30+ models (GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3 and more) through one pay-as-you-go wallet, or bring your own keys, your ChatGPT/Codex login, or a local model 4. Updated tooling: 300+ research skills, 50+ scientific tools and databases, and NVIDIA BioNeMo support
Not a scientist? Autoresearch is probably what you'll care about. Give it a metric, like validation loss, p99 latency, or build time, and it forms hypotheses, runs experiments, and logs every attempt so you can see what worked.
OpenScience is built for computational research across ML, biology, chemistry, physics, and data science. Researchers at 30+ universities and labs used the beta, and now it's open to everyone. Sign up with a .edu email for $5 in free Ace credit.
I'll be in the comments all day, would love to hear what you think!
About OpenScience on Product Hunt
“The open-source AI workbench for scientific research”
OpenScience launched on Product Hunt on September 27th, 2026 and earned 74 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. OpenScience is an open-source AI agent for scientific research. It reads papers, writes and runs code, works in notebooks and a terminal, and sends long jobs to Modal, your own servers, or a Slurm/PBS cluster. Give it a metric and Autoresearch runs experiments, logs every one, and keeps hill-climbing. Use 30+ models through one wallet, sign in with ChatGPT, or run a local model. It ranks #1 on agentic scientific research benchmarks. Free and open source.
On the analytics side, OpenScience competes within Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and Science — topics that collectively have 550.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how OpenScience performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted OpenScience?
OpenScience was hunted by Ishaan Gangwani and Garry Tan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of OpenScience including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ishaan Gangwani,
Garry Tan
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Ishaan, one of the people building OpenScience.
We started this because doing research with AI meant copying things back and forth between a chat window, a terminal, a notebook, and whatever cluster you had access to. OpenScience puts all of that in one place and lets an agent work across it.
We also think scientific tools should be open. However, the strongest models and products increasingly come with restrictions set by the labs that train them: which fields they'll help with, who gets access, and on what terms. So OpenScience is open source and model-agnostic. Pick any model, swap it mid-project, or run it locally on your own hardware.
OpenScience is currently #1 on agentic scientific research benchmarks, including Terminal Bench Science, TerminalBench 4.0 (Science subset), BiomniBench, and our internal OpenScience Bench.
What's in this launch:
1. New IDE: a faster, redesigned workspace with papers, code, notebooks, a LaTeX editor, a terminal, and 3D protein and genomics viewers next to the agent
2. Autoresearch: experiment loops that run on Modal GPUs, your own servers, or Slurm and PBS clusters
3. OpenScience Ace: 30+ models (GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3 and more) through one pay-as-you-go wallet, or bring your own keys, your ChatGPT/Codex login, or a local model
4. Updated tooling: 300+ research skills, 50+ scientific tools and databases, and NVIDIA BioNeMo support
Not a scientist? Autoresearch is probably what you'll care about. Give it a metric, like validation loss, p99 latency, or build time, and it forms hypotheses, runs experiments, and logs every attempt so you can see what worked.
OpenScience is built for computational research across ML, biology, chemistry, physics, and data science. Researchers at 30+ universities and labs used the beta, and now it's open to everyone. Sign up with a .edu email for $5 in free Ace credit.
I'll be in the comments all day, would love to hear what you think!