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Alternatives to Sysmex
23 healthcare tools sit alongside Sysmex in this directory. Below is what separates each from Sysmex 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
- -
- Sysmex starts at
- On request
Why people look past Sysmex
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Sysmex entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Sysmex 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
Sysmex publishes a single plan, Reagent rental or cost per reportable result contract 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 Sysmex does not.
Laboratory information management from Abbott for regulated and public health labs
Priced and rated the same as Sysmex on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Enterprise laboratory information management system for regulated labs
Priced and rated the same as Sysmex 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; Sysmex 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; Sysmex 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; Sysmex cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Every Sysmex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sysmex (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| Epic SystemsIf the priority is one clinical record and you are willing to run Beaker as the laboratory system rather than vendor middleware | Free | Quote | - | vs Sysmex |
| STARLIMSIf you need a laboratory information management system spanning multiple disciplines rather than analyser-tied middleware | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| LabWareIf the laboratory is as much research and public health as it is clinical haematology | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| OpenMRS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Clue | Free | Free with a Plus subscription | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| GNU Health | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Sysmex |
| DHIS2 | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 3 | vs Sysmex |
| Annalise.ai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Included Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Ambra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Lunit | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Fujifilm Synapse | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Gleamer | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Aidoc | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Lyra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Koa Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Meru Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| PathAI | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Paige | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
| Beckman Coulter DxONE | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Sysmex |
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 Sysmex badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Sysmex is most often brought in for a hospital network standardising full blood count reporting across six laboratories so a result released at a district hospital carries the same rules as the tertiary centre, a pathology group trying to raise autovalidation rates to absorb rising demand without recruiting more biomedical scientists, a blood sciences service consolidating haematology, coagulation and urinalysis onto one middleware layer to remove three separate qc workflows, a laboratory running 24 hour service that needs remote analyser telemetry so an overnight fault is triaged before the morning shift arrives. 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 Sysmex is broadly right and the question is cost, the Sysmex 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.
Sysmex runs on web, windows, 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 Sysmex alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Sysmex?
- 23 other healthcare tools are listed in this directory, led by Epic Systems, STARLIMS, LabWare, Bahmni. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Sysmex?
- 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 Sysmex?
- 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 Sysmex?
- Sysmex is most often brought in for a hospital network standardising full blood count reporting across six laboratories so a result released at a district hospital carries the same rules as the tertiary centre, a pathology group trying to raise autovalidation rates to absorb rising demand without recruiting more biomedical scientists, a blood sciences service consolidating haematology, coagulation and urinalysis onto one middleware layer to remove three separate qc workflows, a laboratory running 24 hour service that needs remote analyser telemetry so an overnight fault is triaged before the morning shift arrives. 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 Sysmex?
- 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 Sysmex 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 Sysmex against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Sysmex 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 Sysmex. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.