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Condens vs OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

Condens logo

Condens

Research

UX research repository for storing, tagging and sharing qualitative study findings

From
€15/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences logo

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

Research

Computational chemistry toolkits and the Orion cloud platform, now inside Cadence

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Condens the gap between the 15 euro Lite plan and the 500 euro Business plan has nothing in it, so a team adding a second and third researcher jumps roughly thirtyfold in cost at exactly the point budget scrutiny arrives.; OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences the free Public Domain Research Licence requires surrendering intellectual property rights and publishing results into the public domain, which rules it out for any academic group with a technology transfer office or patent ambitions.
  • They diverge on capability: Condens covers Automatic transcription, OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences covers OMEGA.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Condens and OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences actually diverge.

Attributes where Condens and OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences differ
AttributeCondensOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
Starting price€15/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer contributor per monthquote
PlatformsWebLinux, Windows, macOS, Web, API

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Research).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Condens

  • Automatic transcription
  • Highlight and tag
  • Theme clustering
  • Insight pages
  • Participant profiles
  • Search across studies
  • Viewer seats
  • Video clip reels

Only in OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

  • OMEGA
  • ROCS
  • ROCS X
  • Orion platform
  • Programmatic toolkits
  • Academic routes
  • Structure preparation
  • Docking and scoring

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Condens

  • A solo researcher at a 40-person product company building a searchable evidence base for 15 euros a monthnot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
  • A European enterprise research team that needs GDPR-oriented data handling to clear internal procurementnot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
  • A team wanting product managers to click from a stated insight straight to the participant clip that supports itnot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
  • A researcher inheriting years of interview recordings and needing them transcribed, tagged and searchable in one placenot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

  • A pharmaceutical discovery team screening a multi-billion compound library by three-dimensional shape rather than by two-dimensional similaritynot Condens
  • A computational chemist embedding conformer generation into an internal pipeline through the Python toolkitsnot Condens
  • A university group publishing openly that can accept the public domain licence terms in exchange for zero costnot Condens
  • A biotech scaling virtual screening on cloud compute without building its own clusternot Condens

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Condens

  • The gap between the 15 euro Lite plan and the 500 euro Business plan has nothing in it, so a team adding a second and third researcher jumps roughly thirtyfold in cost at exactly the point budget scrutiny arrives.
  • Lite includes no viewer seats at all, which defeats the main purpose of a repository: anyone outside the research team who wants to read a finding has to be paid for as a contributor or sent a static export.
  • Cross-project participant profiles are capped at 25 on Lite, so a solo researcher doing longitudinal work with a recurring panel outgrows the entry tier on that limit rather than on seats.
  • As a bootstrapped fifteen-person company it ships AI synthesis, automatic theme extraction and moderated-interview features more slowly than venture-funded rivals, so teams that want the repository to do the analysis rather than organise it will find it behind.
  • It is a repository, not a research platform: recruitment, panel management, unmoderated testing and survey fielding all live elsewhere, so it adds a subscription rather than consolidating one.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

  • The free Public Domain Research Licence requires surrendering intellectual property rights and publishing results into the public domain, which rules it out for any academic group with a technology transfer office or patent ambitions.
  • Free academic licences are renewable but re-evaluated annually with no guarantee of continuation, so a multi-year research programme has no assured software entitlement beyond the current year.
  • OpenEye now sits inside Cadence Design Systems, whose core business is chip design, so the roadmap and licensing culture are set by a company for which molecular sciences is one growth line among several.
  • Commercial pricing is entirely unpublished and structured as annual subscriptions with separate Orion compute, making total cost of a screening programme hard to forecast before contracting.
  • The toolkits assume real computational chemistry expertise; they are libraries and applications for specialists, not an interface a medicinal chemist can drive without training.

Pricing, plan by plan

Condens

€15/month
  • Lite$15/month
    • 1 contributor included, additional contributors 15 euros each
    • No viewer seats
    • Unlimited projects, transcription hours and storage
  • Business$500/month
    • 5 contributors included, additional contributors 85 euros each
    • Unlimited viewers
    • Unlimited participant profiles and folders
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Minimum 5 contributors
    • Custom contributor rates
    • Unlimited viewers

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

On request
  • Commercial licence$undefined/year
    • Annual subscription priced through Cadence sales
    • Toolkits and applications licensed separately from the Orion platform
    • Orion compute billed on top of software entitlements
  • Academic Package$undefined/year
    • Paid annual subscription for university groups under ten members
    • Includes support
    • Researchers retain intellectual property rights
  • Public Domain Research LicenceFree
    • No cost
    • No support of any kind
    • No intellectual property rights retained

Which should you pick?

Choose Condens if

  • You need automatic transcription.
  • You also want highlight and tag.
Condens review

Choose OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences if

  • You need omega.
  • You work on Linux, Windows, macOS, Web, API.
  • You also want rocs.
OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences review

Questions people ask

Is Condens or OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences better?
Neither clearly leads. Condens starts at €15/month and OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Condens or OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences?
Condens starts at €15/month and OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences at On request.
Does Condens or OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences run on more platforms?
Condens runs on Web. OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Web, API.
What is Condens best used for?
Condens is most often used for a solo researcher at a 40-person product company building a searchable evidence base for 15 euros a month, a european enterprise research team that needs gdpr-oriented data handling to clear internal procurement, a team wanting product managers to click from a stated insight straight to the participant clip that supports it, a researcher inheriting years of interview recordings and needing them transcribed, tagged and searchable in one place. Of those, a solo researcher at a 40-person product company building a searchable evidence base for 15 euros a month and a european enterprise research team that needs gdpr-oriented data handling to clear internal procurement are not what OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences is typically brought in for.
What can Condens do that OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences cannot?
Condens covers Automatic transcription, Highlight and tag, Theme clustering, Insight pages. OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences covers OMEGA, ROCS, ROCS X, Orion platform.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Condens: Is there a free plan?

No, only a 15-day trial on any tier with no card required.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences: Is OpenEye still OpenEye?

It trades as OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, and is part of Cadence Design Systems following acquisition. The product names OMEGA, ROCS and Orion continue.

Condens: Can stakeholders read findings without a licence?

Only on Business and above, where viewer seats are unlimited. Lite has none.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences: Can academics use it for free?

Yes, through the Public Domain Research Licence or a Teaching Licence, but both come with no support and no intellectual property rights. Keeping IP rights and support requires the paid Academic Package.

Condens: Is transcription metered?

No. Transcription hours, storage and project count are unlimited on every plan; participant profiles and folders are what the tiers restrict.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences: What is ROCS X?

A machine learning enabled extension of ROCS shape search, built on the Orion platform, aimed at screening chemical spaces in the trillions of molecules.

Condens: Where is data hosted?

Condens is a German company with an explicitly GDPR-oriented setup, which is a common reason European enterprises shortlist it.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences: Is commercial pricing published?

No. Commercial licences are annual subscriptions quoted through Cadence sales, with Orion compute charged separately.

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