LabID vs OpenClinica
LabID
labintegrateddata.orgOpenClinica
openclinica.comSide by side
| Figure | LabID | OpenClinica |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $750/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Life Sciences Software | 7.8 (#9) | 8.8 (#1) |
| Deployment | Organizations can deploy LabID on their own infrastructure and customize inventory models, vocabularies, workflows, and integrations. | OpenClinica documentation says its Enterprise offering is available as a cloud-hosted solution or a self-hosted and managed system. |
| Headquarters | Heidelberg, Germany | Needham, Massachusetts, USA |
| Integrations | The site describes integrations with Galaxy, WorkflowHub, Git, S3 storage, and LibreOffice document editing. | The product advertises standards-based EHR connectivity, Apple Health collection and links to common clinical-research systems such as CTMS, labs, payments and IxRS through integrations or APIs. |
| Intended users | The documentation describes LabID as designed for scientists and research groups managing lab inventory, notes, and datasets. | The company says it focuses on small to midsize sponsors, CROs, and academic research teams. |
| Support | The team directs users to its Slack community and provides the contact email [email protected] for questions and support requests. | Commercial support is advertised as available 24 hours a day, five days a week on weekdays, with ticketing and telephone access. |
Plans
OpenClinica
- Launch$750 a month
- Core$3,000 a month
- Advanced$3,750 a month
- Enterprise & AcademicPriced on request
In their own words
LabID
LabID is a platform for research teams to manage lab inventory, electronic lab notes, research data, and metadata. Teams can track and share consumables, equipment, storage locations, and specialized inventory types. Its notebook supports formatted notes with tables and pictures, plus links to protocols and lab items, attachments, comments, and sharing. Notes can be timestamped using RFC 3161-compliant digital timestamps and exported as PDF or static HTML.
For data management, LabID registers raw and derived datasets, records assay metadata, and connects datasets to their originating samples and specimens. Teams can register, version, and share workflows from Git, WorkflowHub, or Galaxy, then track runs and provenance. Integrations include Galaxy, WorkflowHub, Git, S3 storage, and LibreOffice document editing. A CLI and API support automated ingestion and custom data-registration clients. Organizations can self-host LabID and customize inventory models, vocabularies, workflows, and integrations. The free, open-source deployment costs nothing. The EMBL installation is only available under VPN; users outside EMBL can deploy their own instance.
OpenClinica
OpenClinica has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.