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REDCap pricing
REDCap publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the research tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, REDCap pricing is on request. 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
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
REDCap 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDCap non-profit licence | On request | 5 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full REDCap 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
- Form and survey designer
- Longitudinal projects
- Data quality rules
- Randomisation
- Audit trail and e-signature
- API and exports
People bring REDCap in for an academic research group at an institution that already runs redcap, where a new study database costs nothing beyond the time to build it, a hospital collecting patient reported outcomes where data must stay on institutional infrastructure rather than a vendor cloud, an investigator initiated trial that needs randomisation, an audit trail and statistical export without a commercial edc budget, a multi site academic collaboration where each site can be given scoped access to a single longitudinal project. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to REDCap 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REDCap (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Sapio Sciences | On request | quote | - | vs REDCap |
| Condens | €15/month | Per contributor per month | - | vs REDCap |
| LabArchives | Free, then $330/year | Per user per year | - | vs REDCap |
| LabVantage | On request | quote | - | vs REDCap |
| Florence eBinders | On request | quote | - | vs REDCap |
| Medidata Rave | On request | quote | - | vs REDCap |
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 REDCap badges page.
Before you pay for REDCap
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: a single tier at On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare REDCap against the tools that do have one before committing.
REDCap runs on web, linux, windows, and is published by Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The full record is on the REDCap review, and the rest of the category is under best research tools.
REDCap pricing questions
- How much does REDCap cost?
- REDCap publishes a single tier, REDCap non-profit licence, at On request.
- Does REDCap have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: REDCap is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which research tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 research tools listed alongside REDCap have a free tier: LabArchives, Marvin.
- What am I actually paying for with REDCap?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an academic research group at an institution that already runs redcap, where a new study database costs nothing beyond the time to build it, a hospital collecting patient reported outcomes where data must stay on institutional infrastructure rather than a vendor cloud, an investigator initiated trial that needs randomisation, an audit trail and statistical export without a commercial edc budget.
- Does REDCap charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 REDCap 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 REDCap against before paying?
- The closest research tools in this directory are Sapio Sciences, Condens, LabArchives, LabVantage. Each has a side-by-side comparison with REDCap covering price, platforms and features.