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Alternatives to Sectra
23 healthcare tools sit alongside Sectra in this directory. Below is what separates each from Sectra on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 23
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Sectra starts at
- On request
Why people look past Sectra
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Sectra entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Sectra carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 23 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Sectra publishes a single plan, Sectra Enterprise Imaging at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
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.
Leading electronic health records system for healthcare organizations
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Sectra does not.
Server-side streaming PACS built for radiologists reading very large studies over thin connections
Priced and rated the same as Sectra on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Health information technology solutions for healthcare organizations
Priced and rated the same as Sectra on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Open source hospital information system and EMR for low-resource hospitals, built on OpenMRS
- Can be used without paying; Sectra cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
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; Sectra cannot.
- Sold on a Free with a Premium subscription model rather than quote.
Open source electronic medical record platform for low-resource settings, with no vendor and paid implementers instead
- Can be used without paying; Sectra cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Every Sectra 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sectra (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| Epic SystemsIf you want imaging inside the electronic record and can accept the limits of a non-specialist viewer | Free | Quote | - | vs Sectra |
| Visage ImagingIf radiologist read speed on very large studies is the deciding factor and pathology is not in scope | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| CernerIf the organisation is standardising on Oracle Health and prefers a single vendor accountability line | On request | Quote | - | vs Sectra |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | 1 | vs Sectra |
| OpenMRS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Clue | Free | Free with a Plus subscription | 1 | vs Sectra |
| GNU Health | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Sectra |
| DHIS2 | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 3 | vs Sectra |
| Annalise.ai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Included Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Ambra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Lunit | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Fujifilm Synapse | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Gleamer | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Aidoc | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Lyra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Koa Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Meru Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| PathAI | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Paige | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
| Beckman Coulter DxONE | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sectra |
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 Sectra badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Sectra is most often brought in for a hospital group digitising histopathology that does not want a second image archive and a second integration project alongside radiology, a regional health service replacing several departmental pacs with one archive and one clinician viewer, an imaging provider moving off a capital refresh cycle to a cloud subscription with predictable annual cost, a trust that needs to send and receive studies with neighbouring organisations routinely, where the image exchange portal is already the regional norm. 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 Sectra is broadly right and the question is cost, the Sectra 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.
Sectra runs on windows, web, cloud, on-premise. 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 Sectra alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Sectra?
- 23 other healthcare tools are listed in this directory, led by Epic Systems, Visage Imaging, Cerner, Bahmni. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Sectra?
- 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 Sectra?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Sectra?
- Sectra is most often brought in for a hospital group digitising histopathology that does not want a second image archive and a second integration project alongside radiology, a regional health service replacing several departmental pacs with one archive and one clinician viewer, an imaging provider moving off a capital refresh cycle to a cloud subscription with predictable annual cost, a trust that needs to send and receive studies with neighbouring organisations routinely, where the image exchange portal is already the regional norm. 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 Sectra?
- 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 Sectra 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 Sectra against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Sectra 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, 23 tools beside Sectra. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.