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Schrodinger pricing
Schrodinger publishes 2 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, Schrodinger pricing is on request across 2 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
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Schrodinger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial licence | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
| Academic site licence | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
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.
Commercial licence
On requestThe entry tier. It covers quoted per customer against modules, cores and licence term, applications draw from a shared token pool that caps concurrency, gpu compute for fep+ and desmond is a separate cost, on premise or cloud, support and training typically bundled into the annual agreement.
Academic site licence
On requestOver Commercial licence, this tier adds:
- Published academic entry around 7,500 USD a year for a premium package with a token allocation
- Restricted to academic and research use, not work supporting a commercial enterprise
- Maestro generally unrestricted with tokens shared for compute heavy applications
What the product covers
The full Schrodinger 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
- Maestro
- Glide
- FEP+
- Desmond
- Jaguar
- LiveDesign
- Materials Science suite
People bring Schrodinger in for a medicinal chemistry programme using fep+ to prioritise which analogues to synthesise, where avoiding a handful of wasted syntheses pays for the licence, a structure based design campaign that needs docking at scale against a target with a good crystal structure, a materials group modelling polymer or electrolyte properties before committing to formulation experiments, a university modelling group that qualifies for the published academic site licence and needs maestro across a teaching and research cohort. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Schrodinger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schrodinger (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Sapio Sciences | On request | quote | - | vs Schrodinger |
| Condens | €15/month | Per contributor per month | - | vs Schrodinger |
| LabArchives | Free, then $330/year | Per user per year | - | vs Schrodinger |
| LabVantage | On request | quote | - | vs Schrodinger |
| Florence eBinders | On request | quote | - | vs Schrodinger |
| Medidata Rave | On request | quote | - | vs Schrodinger |
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 Schrodinger badges page.
Before you pay for Schrodinger
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: 2 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Schrodinger against the tools that do have one before committing.
Schrodinger runs on linux, macos, windows, web, and is published by Schrodinger, Inc. of New York, New York, United States. The full record is on the Schrodinger review, and the rest of the category is under best research tools.
Schrodinger pricing questions
- How much does Schrodinger cost?
- Schrodinger publishes 2 tiers, from On request for Commercial licence up to On request for Academic site licence. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Schrodinger have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Schrodinger is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Commercial licence and Academic site licence on Schrodinger?
- Academic site licence costs On request against On request, and adds published academic entry around 7,500 usd a year for a premium package with a token allocation, restricted to academic and research use, not work supporting a commercial enterprise, maestro generally unrestricted with tokens shared for compute heavy applications.
- Which research tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 research tools listed alongside Schrodinger have a free tier: LabArchives, Marvin.
- What am I actually paying for with Schrodinger?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a medicinal chemistry programme using fep+ to prioritise which analogues to synthesise, where avoiding a handful of wasted syntheses pays for the licence, a structure based design campaign that needs docking at scale against a target with a good crystal structure, a materials group modelling polymer or electrolyte properties before committing to formulation experiments.
- Does Schrodinger charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Schrodinger 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 Schrodinger against before paying?
- The closest research tools in this directory are Sapio Sciences, Condens, LabArchives, LabVantage. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Schrodinger covering price, platforms and features.