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OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences vs Reduct

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OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

Research

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

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Reduct logo

Reduct

Research

Edit video by editing its transcript, built for researchers rather than video editors

From
$12/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: 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.; Reduct automatic transcription struggles with technical vocabulary, product names and strong accents, so teams working in specialist domains spend real time correcting transcripts or pay extra for the human transcription add-on, which erodes the cost advantage.
  • They diverge on capability: OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences covers OMEGA, Reduct covers Transcript-based editing.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

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

Attributes where OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences and Reduct differ
AttributeOpenEye, Cadence Molecular SciencesReduct
Starting priceOn request$12/month
Pricing modelquotePer user per month
PlatformsLinux, Windows, macOS, Web, APIWeb, 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 OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

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

Only in Reduct

  • Transcript-based editing
  • Automatic transcription
  • Human transcription add-on
  • Highlight and tagging
  • Reel assembly
  • Redaction
  • Multicam sync
  • Collaborative commenting

What people use each for

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

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

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

Reduct

  • A research team that runs twenty customer interviews a quarter and needs stakeholders across product and design to watch and comment without buying them seatsnot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
  • A researcher assembling a five-minute highlight reel of user pain points for an executive review, working from transcript text rather than a video timelinenot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
  • A public defender office redacting faces and identifying details from body-camera and interview footage before disclosurenot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
  • A global insights team transcribing and translating interviews across several languages before coding them thematicallynot OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences

Where each one falls short

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

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.

Reduct

  • Automatic transcription struggles with technical vocabulary, product names and strong accents, so teams working in specialist domains spend real time correcting transcripts or pay extra for the human transcription add-on, which erodes the cost advantage.
  • Transcription hours are a pooled annual allowance rather than monthly, so a team that front-loads a large research programme in one quarter can exhaust the year and face overage charges for the remaining nine months.
  • The Personal tier caps file size at 4GB, which is easily exceeded by an hour of multicam or high-bitrate recording, forcing an upgrade for reasons unrelated to the feature set.
  • Independent review coverage is very thin, so there is little public evidence to check vendor claims against, and buyers effectively have to rely on their own trial rather than peer signal.
  • The company has raised only about 4 million USD since 2018 and remains small, which makes enterprise vendor viability review and data-export planning genuinely necessary before you make it the home of years of research recordings.

Pricing, plan by plan

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

Reduct

$12/month
  • Personal$12/month
    • 120 transcription hours per editor per year
    • Up to 10 commenters
    • 720p export
  • Professional$40/month
    • 300 transcription hours per editor per year
    • Up to 50 commenters
    • Timeline view
  • Enterprise$75/month
    • 4K export
    • SAML and Google SSO
    • SOC 2 Type II

Which should you pick?

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

Choose Reduct if

  • You need transcript-based editing.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want automatic transcription.
Reduct review

Questions people ask

Is OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences or Reduct better?
Neither clearly leads. OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences starts at On request and Reduct at $12/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences or Reduct?
OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences starts at On request and Reduct at $12/month.
Does OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences or Reduct run on more platforms?
OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Web, API. Reduct runs on Web, API.
What is OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences best used for?
OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences is most often used for a pharmaceutical discovery team screening a multi-billion compound library by three-dimensional shape rather than by two-dimensional similarity, a computational chemist embedding conformer generation into an internal pipeline through the python toolkits, a university group publishing openly that can accept the public domain licence terms in exchange for zero cost, a biotech scaling virtual screening on cloud compute without building its own cluster. Of those, a pharmaceutical discovery team screening a multi-billion compound library by three-dimensional shape rather than by two-dimensional similarity and a computational chemist embedding conformer generation into an internal pipeline through the python toolkits are not what Reduct is typically brought in for.
What can OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences do that Reduct cannot?
OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences covers OMEGA, ROCS, ROCS X, Orion platform. Reduct covers Transcript-based editing, Automatic transcription, Human transcription add-on, Highlight and tagging.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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.

Reduct: How is Reduct priced?

Per editor per month: 12 USD on Personal, 40 on Professional and from 75 on Enterprise, with transcription supplied as a pooled annual hour allowance per editor.

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.

Reduct: Do stakeholders who only watch and comment need a paid seat?

No. Commenters are separate from editor seats and included up to 10 on Personal and 50 on Professional, which is the main reason research teams choose it.

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.

Reduct: Can I use it as a proper video editor?

Only up to a point. It handles transcript-driven cutting, reels and multicam sync, then exports to Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro when you need real finishing.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences: Is commercial pricing published?

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

Reduct: Is there a free tier?

No. There is a 14-day trial on Professional with five hours of transcription, but no permanent free plan.

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