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Ibex Medical Analytics vs OpenClinica

Ibex Medical Analytics logo

Ibex Medical Analytics

Healthcare

Cancer detection AI for breast, prostate and gastric pathology deployed in routine clinical service, not just pilots

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
OpenClinica logo

OpenClinica

Healthcare

Clinical trial EDC with a genuinely open source community edition alongside a quoted commercial platform

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Ibex Medical Analytics the European IVDR indication is broader than the United States position, where some applications operate under laboratory developed test arrangements rather than FDA authorisation, which determines whether AI output can influence a signed report.; OpenClinica the free community edition is a different and older product line from the commercial platform, so evaluating the open source build tells you little about what the paid product actually does.
  • They diverge on capability: Ibex Medical Analytics covers Ibex Breast Suite, OpenClinica covers Open source community edition.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Ibex Medical Analytics and OpenClinica actually diverge.

Attributes where Ibex Medical Analytics and OpenClinica differ
AttributeIbex Medical AnalyticsOpenClinica
PlatformsWeb, Cloud, On-premiseWeb, Self-hosted, iOS, Android

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Healthcare).

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 Ibex Medical Analytics

  • Ibex Breast Suite
  • Ibex Prostate
  • Ibex Gastric
  • Second read safety net
  • Prescreening triage
  • Heatmap localisation
  • Quality reporting
  • Scanner-agnostic ingestion

Only in OpenClinica

  • Open source community edition
  • Electronic data capture
  • eConsent
  • eCOA and ePRO
  • Randomisation
  • EHR-to-EDC
  • Audit trail
  • Reporting and analytics

What people use each for

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

Ibex Medical Analytics

  • A histopathology department that cannot recruit and wants an automated safety net on every prostate and breast biopsy before sign outnot OpenClinica
  • A private laboratory group standardising Gleason grading across pathologists with known interobserver variabilitynot OpenClinica
  • A service digitising histopathology that needs a clinical governance argument to justify the scanning programme to its boardnot OpenClinica
  • A gastrointestinal service wanting Helicobacter pylori detection automated so pathologists spend their time on the neoplastic casesnot OpenClinica

OpenClinica

  • An academic coordinating centre running investigator-initiated trials that needs Part 11 compliant capture without an enterprise eClinical budgetnot Ibex Medical Analytics
  • A registry or observational cohort study collecting structured data across many sites over yearsnot Ibex Medical Analytics
  • A small device sponsor that needs eConsent and ePRO in the same system as its case report formsnot Ibex Medical Analytics
  • An informatics group that wants to self-host the open source edition for a non-regulated internal studynot Ibex Medical Analytics

Where each one falls short

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

Ibex Medical Analytics

  • The European IVDR indication is broader than the United States position, where some applications operate under laboratory developed test arrangements rather than FDA authorisation, which determines whether AI output can influence a signed report.
  • It requires a fully digitised histopathology workflow, and slide scanning, storage and validation typically cost several times the algorithm licence.
  • Running it as a second read safety net adds a discrepancy resolution workload that departments consistently underestimate, and someone senior has to adjudicate every flag.
  • Coverage is limited to breast, prostate and gastric, so a general histopathology department still reads the majority of its case mix without any AI support.
  • Pricing is per case and unpublished, so cost scales directly with biopsy volume and does not flatten as the department grows.

OpenClinica

  • The free community edition is a different and older product line from the commercial platform, so evaluating the open source build tells you little about what the paid product actually does.
  • The vendor provides no support or services at all for the community edition, which means outages, patching, database upgrades and validation documentation are entirely your problem.
  • Commercial pricing is not published, so you cannot benchmark it against alternatives without entering a sales process, and third-party figures around USD 1,000 a month are indicative rather than contractual.
  • Study build is skilled work: complex edit checks, randomisation schemes and integrations usually mean paying for vendor or consultant configuration services on top of the licence, which is a frequently underestimated line in the budget.
  • As a smaller vendor than the large eClinical suites it has a thinner partner and consultant ecosystem, so finding experienced build staff or a CRO already fluent in the platform is harder than with the market incumbents.

Pricing, plan by plan

Ibex Medical Analytics

On request
  • Ibex clinical applications$undefined/year
    • Priced per case analysed under an annual agreement
    • Breast, prostate and gastric licensed as separate suites
    • Regulatory indication differs between Europe and the United States

OpenClinica

On request
  • Community Edition$undefined/year
    • Free and open source under the LGPL
    • Self-hosted, on the older 3.x line
    • No vendor support or services of any kind
  • OpenClinica Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Pricing only through a sales process
    • Hosted and validated instance
    • EDC, eConsent, eCOA, randomisation and analytics modules

Which should you pick?

Choose Ibex Medical Analytics if

  • You need ibex breast suite.
  • You work on Web, Cloud, On-premise.
  • You also want ibex prostate.
Ibex Medical Analytics review

Choose OpenClinica if

  • You need open source community edition.
  • You work on Web, Self-hosted, iOS, Android.
  • You also want electronic data capture.
OpenClinica review

Questions people ask

Is Ibex Medical Analytics or OpenClinica better?
Neither clearly leads. Ibex Medical Analytics starts at On request and OpenClinica at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Ibex Medical Analytics or OpenClinica?
Ibex Medical Analytics starts at On request and OpenClinica at On request.
Does Ibex Medical Analytics or OpenClinica run on more platforms?
Ibex Medical Analytics runs on Web, Cloud, On-premise. OpenClinica runs on Web, Self-hosted, iOS, Android.
What is Ibex Medical Analytics best used for?
Ibex Medical Analytics is most often used for a histopathology department that cannot recruit and wants an automated safety net on every prostate and breast biopsy before sign out, a private laboratory group standardising gleason grading across pathologists with known interobserver variability, a service digitising histopathology that needs a clinical governance argument to justify the scanning programme to its board, a gastrointestinal service wanting helicobacter pylori detection automated so pathologists spend their time on the neoplastic cases. Of those, a histopathology department that cannot recruit and wants an automated safety net on every prostate and breast biopsy before sign out and a private laboratory group standardising gleason grading across pathologists with known interobserver variability are not what OpenClinica is typically brought in for.
What can Ibex Medical Analytics do that OpenClinica cannot?
Ibex Medical Analytics covers Ibex Breast Suite, Ibex Prostate, Ibex Gastric, Second read safety net. OpenClinica covers Open source community edition, Electronic data capture, eConsent, eCOA and ePRO.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Ibex Medical Analytics: Is Ibex FDA cleared?

The regulatory position differs by product and market. In Europe the products carry CE marking under IVDR for defined diagnostic indications; in the United States some applications are used under laboratory developed test arrangements. Confirm the exact status for the specific application and market before assuming it can influence a signed report.

OpenClinica: Is OpenClinica free?

There is a genuinely free, LGPL licensed community edition you host yourself with no vendor support. The commercial platform with eConsent, eCOA and a validated hosted instance is quoted and paid.

Ibex Medical Analytics: Second read or prescreening?

Both are supported. Second read as a safety net is the more common clinical governance justification; prescreening is the efficiency case.

OpenClinica: Is the open source version still maintained?

Yes, releases on the 3.x line continued through 2025, but it is a separate and older architecture from the commercial product.

Ibex Medical Analytics: Does it need a particular scanner?

It ingests from the major whole slide scanner vendors rather than requiring a single fleet, which is a practical advantage over vendors tied to one scanner.

OpenClinica: Does it meet 21 CFR Part 11?

The commercial hosted platform is built for Part 11 and GCP compliance. If you self-host the community edition, compliance and validation are entirely your responsibility.

Ibex Medical Analytics: What tissue types are covered?

Breast, prostate and gastric. Everything else in the case mix is unsupported.

OpenClinica: What does the commercial version cost?

Not published. Third-party listings suggest enterprise arrangements from around USD 1,000 per month, but real cost depends on study count, subjects, modules and build services.

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