aid: ginkgo
name: Ginkgo Bioworks
description: >-
  Ginkgo Bioworks is a synthetic biology company operating autonomous labs and
  a horizontal platform for engineering biology. Its public developer surface is
  the Ginkgo AI Model API (api.ginkgobioworks.ai), which runs inference on public
  and Ginkgo-proprietary biological foundation models — protein and DNA masked
  language models and embedding models such as ESM2 (650M/3B), ginkgo-aa0-650M,
  and ginkgo-maskedlm-3utr-v1. The API is an async, job-polling REST service:
  callers POST a transform request, receive a job result URL, and poll until the
  job completes. Authentication is via an x-api-key header, credits and keys are
  issued from the models portal, and an official Python client (ginkgo-ai-client)
  is published to PyPI. Ginkgo was surfaced as a Felicis portfolio company and
  enriched into the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ginkgo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- felicis
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/favicon.ico
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Synthetic Biology
- Biotechnology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Protein Models
- Bioinformatics
- Inference API
apis:
- name: Ginkgo AI Model API
  description: >-
    Async, job-polling REST API for running inference on public and
    Ginkgo-proprietary biological foundation models — protein/DNA masked
    language modeling and mean-embedding generation. Authenticated with an
    x-api-key header; an official Python client is published on PyPI.
  humanURL: https://ginkgobioworks.github.io/ginkgo-ai-client/
  baseURL: https://api.ginkgobioworks.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Protein Models
  - Inference API
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ginkgobioworks.github.io/ginkgo-ai-client/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ginkgo-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ginkgo-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ginkgo-error-codes.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ginkgo-lifecycle.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/ginkgo-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ginkgobioworks.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://ginkgobioworks.github.io/ginkgo-ai-client/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ginkgobioworks.github.io/ginkgo-ai-client/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://ginkgobioworks.github.io/ginkgo-ai-client/api_reference.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://ginkgobioworks.github.io/ginkgo-ai-client/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://models.ginkgobioworks.ai/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ginkgobioworks
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ginkgo-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ginkgo-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ginkgo-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ginkgo-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ginkgo-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ginkgo-lifecycle.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/ginkgo-mcp.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ginkgo-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ginkgo-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence