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LabArchives pricing
LabArchives publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, LabArchives pricing is free, then $330/year across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $330/year
- Model
- Per user per year
- Tiers
- 5
- Free tier
- Yes
LabArchives plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Scheduler | $35/year | 2 | +$35/year, 2 more features |
| Inventory standalone | $99/year | 2 | +$64/year, 2 more features |
| Professional (Academic) | $330/year | 3 | +$231/year, 3 more features |
| ELN plus Inventory bundle | $360/year | 2 | +$30/year, 2 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers limited storage, core notebook and versioning, intended for evaluation and individual use.
Scheduler
$35/yearOver Free, this tier adds:
- Instrument and facility booking
- Academic rate; corporate rate is $105 per user per year
Inventory standalone
$99/yearOver Scheduler, this tier adds:
- Sample tracking without the notebook
- Academic rate; corporate rate is $199 per user per year
Professional (Academic)
$330/yearOver Inventory standalone, this tier adds:
- Full ELN with witnessing and signing
- Academic rate per user per year
- Corporate rate is $575 per user per year
ELN plus Inventory bundle
$360/yearOver Professional (Academic), this tier adds:
- Notebook plus sample and reagent inventory
- Academic rate; corporate rate is $675 per user per year
Where LabArchives stops being free
Free, Free
- Limited storage
- Core notebook and versioning
- Intended for evaluation and individual use
Scheduler, $35/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Instrument and facility booking
- Academic rate; corporate rate is $105 per user per year
What the product covers
The full LabArchives feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Versioned entries
- Witnessing and signing
- Inventory
- Scheduler
- Education edition
- Single sign-on
- Structured data entry
- DOI and repository publishing
People bring LabArchives in for a university group that must keep research records after a phd student leaves, rather than losing them with a laptop, a core facility that needs instrument booking and a shared record of who ran what and when, a small biotech building patent-defensible evidence of invention with witnessed, timestamped entries, a teaching department running undergraduate laboratory courses where instructors need to see and grade notebook work. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LabArchives are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Research
Too few research tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LabArchives (this page) | Free, then $330/year | Per user per year | - | |
| Sapio Sciences | On request | quote | - | vs LabArchives |
| Condens | €15/month | Per contributor per month | - | vs LabArchives |
| LabVantage | On request | quote | - | vs LabArchives |
| Florence eBinders | On request | quote | - | vs LabArchives |
| Medidata Rave | On request | quote | - | vs LabArchives |
| Castor EDC | On request | quote | - | vs LabArchives |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the LabArchives badges page.
Before you pay for LabArchives
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and $360/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
LabArchives runs on web, ios, android, and is published by LabArchives (Dotmatics) of San Diego, California, United States. The full record is on the LabArchives review, and the rest of the category is under best research tools.
LabArchives pricing questions
- How much does LabArchives cost?
- LabArchives publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Free up to $360/year for ELN plus Inventory bundle. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does LabArchives have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers limited storage, core notebook and versioning, intended for evaluation and individual use. Paying starts at $35/year for Scheduler.
- What is the difference between Free and Scheduler on LabArchives?
- Scheduler costs $35/year against Free, and adds instrument and facility booking, academic rate; corporate rate is $105 per user per year.
- Is the ELN plus Inventory bundle plan on LabArchives worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is notebook plus sample and reagent inventory, academic rate; corporate rate is $675 per user per year. It costs $360/year against $35/year for Scheduler. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which research tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 research tools listed alongside LabArchives have a free tier: Marvin.
- What am I actually paying for with LabArchives?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a university group that must keep research records after a phd student leaves, rather than losing them with a laptop, a core facility that needs instrument booking and a shared record of who ran what and when, a small biotech building patent-defensible evidence of invention with witnessed, timestamped entries.
- Does LabArchives charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these LabArchives prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare LabArchives against before paying?
- The closest research tools in this directory are Sapio Sciences, Condens, LabVantage, Florence eBinders. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LabArchives covering price, platforms and features.