Lamin vs Midcore Tracks
Lamin
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| Figure | Lamin | Midcore Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $20/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 2 |
| Spec score · ML Experiment Tracking Software | 8.3 (#6) | 8.0 (#9) |
| Founded | 2022 | 2024 |
| Intended users | Lamin says LaminDB serves personal R&D projects through pharma-scale enterprise deployments and describes its community as scientists and engineers in academia, biotech, and global pharma. | The maker describes it for teams shipping auditable ML models, needing staged promotion and rollback safety, or operating in regulated industries. |
| Maker | The site is operated by Lamin Labs GmbH, and the About page says Lamin is headquartered in Munich and New York City and was founded in 2022. | Midcore is built by NeuroBazar, which the company says was founded in 2024. |
| Product | LaminDB is described as an open-source, format-agnostic lakehouse and programmable memory layer for R&D. | Tracks is an MLOps product for capturing experiments, runs, metrics, and artifacts, registering models, and promoting them to production with signed evidence. |
| Security | Lamin says it is SOC 2 certified and monitors compliance with HIPAA and ISO 27001; Lamin-managed deployments encrypt data in transit and at rest. | Midcore states that data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, and that privileged actions are recorded in audit logs. |
Plans
Midcore Tracks
- Midcore Develop (Squad)Priced on request
- Midcore Enterprise (Business tier and up)Priced on request
In their own words
Lamin
LaminDB is Lamin's open-source, format-agnostic lakehouse and programmable memory layer for research and development. It tracks data, code and agent activity across notebooks, scripts and workflows, and provides schema-based records for LIMS and ELN use cases, including ontologies and notes. Users can validate and annotate datasets, then manage changes through branching and versioning data and code. Documented integrations include Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Git, Nextflow with Seqera, PyTorch Lightning, Weights & Biases, MLflow and Vitessce. Read/write storage includes local filesystems, AWS S3, S3-compatible services such as MinIO and Cloudflare R2, and Google Cloud Storage; HTTP/HTTPS and Hugging Face are read-only. Lamin provides web, API and self-hosted options. The Free plan is free for open assets and public database queries, with no hosted database listed. Pro is $20 a month billed annually. Team and Enterprise are each $200 a month billed annually per seat; Enterprise includes full on-prem deployment in the customer's AWS account. Lamin says it is SOC 2 certified and encrypts Lamin-managed deployments in transit and at rest. The maker was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Munich and New York City.
Midcore Tracks
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