Research · head to head
Aurelius vs Dotmatics
Aurelius
Research
UX research repository for tagging notes, building insights and finding them again years later
- From
- $49/month
- Rated
- -
Dotmatics
Research
Research informatics group behind GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious and LabArchives, now owned by Siemens
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Aurelius aurelius does not recruit participants or run unmoderated studies, so it is always a second tool alongside a testing or recruitment platform and never the whole research budget.; Dotmatics the portfolio was assembled by acquisition and integration between the constituent products is uneven, so buying several Dotmatics brands does not deliver a single connected environment and often means the same manual export steps as before.
- They diverge on capability: Aurelius covers Research repository, Dotmatics covers Dotmatics platform.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Aurelius and Dotmatics actually diverge.
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 Aurelius
- Research repository
- Analysis board
- Tagging
- Insights and recommendations
- Transcription
- AI assist
- Automatic report builder
- Universal search
Only in Dotmatics
- Dotmatics platform
- GraphPad Prism
- SnapGene
- Geneious Prime and Biologics
- LabArchives
- Flow cytometry tools
- Protein Metrics
- Siemens ownership
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Aurelius
- A research team of three whose findings currently live in individual Miro boards and Google Docs that nobody outside the team can find six months laternot Dotmatics
- A product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seatsnot Dotmatics
- A consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internallynot Dotmatics
- A team preparing a repeat study who need to know what was already learned about the same problem two years ago before they recruit anyonenot Dotmatics
Dotmatics
- A pharmaceutical company consolidating compound registration, assay data and biology screening onto one informatics layernot Aurelius
- A biotech that already owns Prism, SnapGene and Geneious separately and wants to understand what a group contract would covernot Aurelius
- A university licensing LabArchives across departments as an institutional electronic lab notebooknot Aurelius
- A biologics group needing sequence analysis, flow cytometry and proteomics tools from one supplier with a single procurement routenot Aurelius
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Aurelius
- Aurelius does not recruit participants or run unmoderated studies, so it is always a second tool alongside a testing or recruitment platform and never the whole research budget.
- Integrations are thin, with Zapier, Jira and Slack rather than direct connections to the call recording and testing tools most teams already run, so getting material in often means manual upload.
- The tag vocabulary is only as good as the discipline applied to it, and repositories where several researchers invent overlapping tags become unsearchable within a year with no built-in governance to prevent it.
- Unlimited users is genuinely unlimited but permissions are basic below Enterprise, so a team that needs client-safe or stakeholder-only views has to buy the quoted tier for something that reads as a table-stakes control.
- It is a small independent vendor competing with much better funded repositories, which is a real procurement risk for an organisation storing years of research in it, and enterprise assurance material such as penetration test reports sits behind the top tier.
Dotmatics
- The portfolio was assembled by acquisition and integration between the constituent products is uneven, so buying several Dotmatics brands does not deliver a single connected environment and often means the same manual export steps as before.
- The Siemens acquisition completed in July 2025 with stated revenue synergy targets, which usually translates into pressure to move individually bought desktop licences into larger platform agreements, and small buyers of a single Prism or SnapGene seat should expect that pressure at renewal.
- Nothing about the enterprise platform is publicly priced, and even the individual applications are increasingly moved to subscription, so total cost across a research group is hard to establish before negotiation.
- Each acquired product retains its own licence terms, support channel and release cycle, so an organisation using four Dotmatics brands manages four different renewal dates, entitlement models and support experiences.
- Enterprise deployments require data migration and configuration services, and validated instances for regulated use add both cost and an ongoing customer revalidation duty after each release, so the informatics platform is a programme rather than a purchase.
Pricing, plan by plan
Aurelius
$49/month- Professional$49/month
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited projects and storage
- Notes, tags and documents
- Premium$199/month
- Everything in Professional
- Recommendations
- Universal search across projects
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- Everything in Premium
- SSO with SAML 2.0
- IP allowlisting
Dotmatics
On request- Dotmatics platform$undefined/year
- Enterprise informatics platform priced per user per year on quotation
- Chemistry and biology registration, assay data and ELN modules scoped separately
- Implementation and data migration services quoted as a separate programme
Which should you pick?
Choose Dotmatics if
- You need dotmatics platform.
- You work on Web, Windows, macOS, On-premise.
- You also want graphpad prism.
Questions people ask
- Is Aurelius or Dotmatics better?
- Neither clearly leads. Aurelius starts at $49/month and Dotmatics at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Aurelius or Dotmatics?
- Aurelius starts at $49/month and Dotmatics at On request.
- Does Aurelius or Dotmatics run on more platforms?
- Aurelius runs on Web. Dotmatics runs on Web, Windows, macOS, On-premise.
- What is Aurelius best used for?
- Aurelius is most often used for a research team of three whose findings currently live in individual miro boards and google docs that nobody outside the team can find six months later, a product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seats, a consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internally, a team preparing a repeat study who need to know what was already learned about the same problem two years ago before they recruit anyone. Of those, a research team of three whose findings currently live in individual miro boards and google docs that nobody outside the team can find six months later and a product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seats are not what Dotmatics is typically brought in for.
- What can Aurelius do that Dotmatics cannot?
- Aurelius covers Research repository, Analysis board, Tagging, Insights and recommendations. Dotmatics covers Dotmatics platform, GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious Prime and Biologics.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Aurelius: Does the price really include unlimited users?
Yes. Professional at 49 US dollars a month and Premium at 199, both billed yearly, both with unlimited users, projects and storage.
Dotmatics: Who owns Dotmatics?
Siemens, which completed a 5.1 billion dollar acquisition on 1 July 2025. Dotmatics now sits inside Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Aurelius: Can I run usability tests in it?
No. Aurelius stores and analyses research; it does not recruit participants or host sessions. Pair it with a testing tool.
Dotmatics: Is GraphPad Prism a Dotmatics product?
Yes. So are SnapGene, Geneious, LabArchives, FCS Express, OMIQ, Protein Metrics, SoftGenetics and nQuery.
Aurelius: What is the difference between Professional and Premium?
Premium adds universal cross-project search, collections, recommendations and Zapier. If your value comes from finding old research, Premium is the tier that delivers it.
Dotmatics: Do the products work together?
To varying degrees. They were acquired separately and integration across the portfolio is uneven, so verify the specific pair you care about before assuming it.
Aurelius: Is there single sign-on?
Only on Enterprise, along with IP allowlisting, Jira and advanced permissions. Everything below is quoted separately.
Dotmatics: Is enterprise pricing published?
No. The informatics platform is quoted per user per year with modules and services scoped separately.
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