CATO is an AI data analysis and literature review tool for biomedical researchers, built by NYRUS AI. GraphPad Prism is the biology lab favorite for t-tests, ANOVA, dose-response curves, and clean figures. The comparison comes down to scope and scale.
Statistics
Prism covers the common biostatistics toolbox well. CATO runs that toolbox and everything beyond it: survival models, mixed models, differential expression, enrichment, power calculations, and anything the Python and R ecosystems support, because CATO writes and executes real code in a sandbox with 200+ scientific libraries.
Figures
Prism's figures are a genuine strength. CATO produces publication-quality figures as well, with a no-code figure editor for labels, palettes, ordering, and versioning, plus export to PNG, SVG, and PDF. Figures in CATO always carry the code that generated them.
Data types
Prism is built around small tabular experiments. CATO reads 50+ formats, from spreadsheets and Prism-adjacent CSVs to FASTQ, VCF, H5AD single-cell matrices, DICOM and NIfTI imaging, and PDB structures, so one workspace covers the whole lab.
Price
Prism is a few hundred dollars per seat per year. CATO Standard is $20 per month and includes literature search, document export to Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and the ability to run up to 3 analyses at once.
You can try CATO at cato.nyrus.ai, or learn more at nyrus.ai/cato.