LabArchives vs Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook

LabArchives8.8Visit Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook8.5Visit

Higher score LabArchives #4 in Electronic Lab Notebook Software 8.8/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 5 of 5 features Visit LabArchives

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Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook #6 in Electronic Lab Notebook Software 8.5/10 Pricing on request ✓ 3 of 5 features Visit Dotmatics

• LabArchives fits best

  Academic and corporate research teams

• Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook fits best

  Integrated R&D teams using chemistry data systems

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Side by side

Feature	LabArchives 8.8/10 Visit ↗	Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.8	8.5
Ranking	#4 in Electronic Lab Notebook Software	#6 in Electronic Lab Notebook Software
Best for	Academic and corporate research teams	Integrated R&D teams using chemistry data systems
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Paid
Starting price	$330/user/yr	Pricing on request
Free plan	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Email, Phone, Tickets, Docs	Community
Compliance	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO/SAML	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR
Integrations	11 integrations	200+ integrations
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features LabArchives 5/5 · Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook 3/5
Audit trail	✓	✓
Electronic signatures	✓	✓
Approval workflows	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Offline access	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
API access	✓	✓
Specs
Search scope	Not checked yet	Full_text_and_metadata
Export formats	PDF and read-only offline HTML in ZIP	SD files, CSV, Microsoft Office
Our review
Pros	Free plan with two owned notebooks and SnapGene and GraphPad Prism integrations Revision history, activity tracking, signing, witnessing, and permanent page locking Research integrations, offline HTML export, templates, widgets, and an enterprise API	Configurable canvases support structures, spectra, images, tables, and sketches Full-text and structure search spans experiments, samples, results, and notebooks Integrates with laboratory, data, analytics, and third-party instrument systems
Cons	Free plan limits users to two owned notebooks and 1 GB of storage Free files are limited to 25 MB each Inventory, enterprise, and API capabilities require higher-tier offerings	Pricing requires a contact-sales process Access is centered on web and API platforms Its broad enterprise scope may exceed simple notebook requirements
Our verdict	LabArchives is a cloud-based electronic lab notebook for academic, nonprofit, commercial, government, and research organizations. Teams can record experimental data, methods, and findings in notebook pages and entries, attach files,… Read the review →	Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook is a web-based research platform for documenting, organizing, searching, and sharing experiments across chemistry, biology, formulation, screening, materials science, and regulated research workflows. It… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• LabArchives — where it wins

  • Free plan with two owned notebooks and SnapGene and GraphPad Prism integrations
  • Revision history, activity tracking, signing, witnessing, and permanent page locking
  • Research integrations, offline HTML export, templates, widgets, and an enterprise API

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan limits users to two owned notebooks and 1 GB of storage
  • Free files are limited to 25 MB each
  • Inventory, enterprise, and API capabilities require higher-tier offerings

• Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook — where it wins

  • Configurable canvases support structures, spectra, images, tables, and sketches
  • Full-text and structure search spans experiments, samples, results, and notebooks
  • Integrates with laboratory, data, analytics, and third-party instrument systems

  Where it doesn't

  • Pricing requires a contact-sales process
  • Access is centered on web and API platforms
  • Its broad enterprise scope may exceed simple notebook requirements

• LabArchives8.8/10 · Free plan

  A flexible ELN with a useful free tier, research integrations, and scalable paid plans.

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• Dotmatics Electronic Lab Notebook8.5/10 · Pricing on request

  A broad ELN for teams that need connected experiments, data, inventory, and compliance records.

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