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Alternatives to OpenClinica
20 healthcare tools sit alongside OpenClinica in this directory. Below is what separates each from OpenClinica on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 20
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- OpenClinica starts at
- On request
Why people look past OpenClinica
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the OpenClinica entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for OpenClinica carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 20 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Open source hospital information system and EMR for low-resource hospitals, built on OpenMRS
- Can be used without paying; OpenClinica cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
- 1 tier to OpenClinica's 2.
Period and cycle tracking app that settled with the US FTC in 2021 over sharing health data with third parties despite promising not to
- Can be used without paying; OpenClinica cannot.
- Sold on a Free with a Premium subscription model rather than quote.
- 1 tier to OpenClinica's 2.
Open source electronic medical record platform for low-resource settings, with no vendor and paid implementers instead
- Can be used without paying; OpenClinica cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
- 1 tier to OpenClinica's 2.
Period and cycle tracking app owned by German company Biowink, positioned around science based tracking and a published stance against sharing data with law enforcement
- Can be used without paying; OpenClinica cannot.
- Sold on a Free with a Plus subscription model rather than quote.
- 1 tier to OpenClinica's 2.
Free hospital and health information system from a small NGO, built on the Tryton framework
- Can be used without paying; OpenClinica cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Open source health information platform run from the University of Oslo and used by national ministries
- Can be used without paying; OpenClinica cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to OpenClinica's 2.
Every OpenClinica alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenClinica (this page) | On request | Quote | 2 | |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| OpenMRS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Clue | Free | Free with a Plus subscription | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| GNU Health | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs OpenClinica |
| DHIS2 | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 3 | vs OpenClinica |
| Annalise.ai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Included Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Ambra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Lunit | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Fujifilm Synapse | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Gleamer | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Aidoc | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Lyra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Koa Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Meru Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| PathAI | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Paige | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
| Beckman Coulter DxONE | On request | Quote | 1 | vs OpenClinica |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the OpenClinica badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
OpenClinica is most often brought in for an academic coordinating centre running investigator-initiated trials that needs part 11 compliant capture without an enterprise eclinical budget, a registry or observational cohort study collecting structured data across many sites over years, a small device sponsor that needs econsent and epro in the same system as its case report forms, an informatics group that wants to self-host the open source edition for a non-regulated internal study. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If OpenClinica is broadly right and the question is cost, the OpenClinica pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Healthcare category lists everything the directory holds, and best healthcare tools ranks them.
OpenClinica runs on web, self-hosted, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about OpenClinica alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to OpenClinica?
- 20 other healthcare tools are listed in this directory, led by Bahmni, Flo, OpenMRS, Clue. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to OpenClinica?
- 6 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Bahmni, Flo, OpenMRS, Clue, GNU Health.
- Why do people look for an alternative to OpenClinica?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from OpenClinica?
- OpenClinica is most often brought in for an academic coordinating centre running investigator-initiated trials that needs part 11 compliant capture without an enterprise eclinical budget, a registry or observational cohort study collecting structured data across many sites over years, a small device sponsor that needs econsent and epro in the same system as its case report forms, an informatics group that wants to self-host the open source edition for a non-regulated internal study. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to OpenClinica?
- None of the healthcare tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these OpenClinica alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Healthcare, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare OpenClinica against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against OpenClinica covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every healthcare tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Healthcare category, 20 tools beside OpenClinica. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.