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SLIM vs LabArchives

LabArchives is the incumbent academic notebook, usually bought at institutional level. It is a notebook. We are a notebook wired into the rest of the lab.

 SLIMLabArchives
Licence modelFlat, per laboratoryPer seat, institutional
Published price€160 / month / lab (annual)Institutional quote
NotebookYesYes, long track record
InventoryNested, typed, alertingLimited
Entry references a real specimenYesNo
Protocol frozen at version usedYesNo
Equipment bookingYesNo
Physical NFC and barcode tags500 a year includedNo
Compliance track recordYoungLong, widely accepted
Institutional adoptionNewVery wide
Czech interfaceYesNo

The short answer

LabArchives will keep your entries safely for twenty years and your institution may already pay for it. What it will not do is tell you that the reagent in entry 402 expired, or let you open the vial and see every experiment it went into. That connection is the whole reason we exist.

Where LabArchives is the better choice

If your institution already licenses LabArchives, your compliance office already accepts it, and you only need a notebook, switching costs you more than it earns. Its longevity is a real argument and we are not going to wave it away.

What it costs

LabArchives is quoted institutionally and often paid centrally, so your lab may see no line item at all. SLIM is €160 a month (annual billing) per laboratory, and falls per lab as more of an institute joins.

Competitor pricing and features are drawn from public sources and vendor pages, last checked September 2026. If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

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