Priced per experiment.

You don't need a trial — Free is permanent. Sign up without a card, get 4 experiments your first month, then 2 every month, free forever, with full scientific functionality. You can run complete experiments, export your results, and decide from there. If you need more, upgrade. If you don't, keep using Free.

No 14-day clock. No lockout on scientific functionality.

In Clarida, one experiment is a complete investigation — its question, plan, samples, assays, runs (plates, arrays, chips), and analysis, grouped together because they address one specific scientific question. An experiment can range from a single 96-well plate that's only partly used to tens of high-throughput plates (384-well or larger) that share the same samples, assays, and analysis settings.

What it's not: unrelated qPCR measurements forced into one container. Different investigations belong in different experiments.

Re-open, edit, and re-export it as many times as you like — still one experiment. No limit on samples, assays, or runs within it. You're billed once per experiment — not for clicks, exports, or report regenerations.

Yes. Clarida imports qbase+ workspaces directly — drop in your project file and your experiments appear in your Clarida workspace, with runs, samples, reference genes, Cq values, plate layouts (96-, 384-, and 1536-well), and notes preserved exactly as qbase+ saved them.

Imported archives are read-only and free, forever. They don't count toward your plan's quota, don't expire, and don't require a card. A free Clarida account is enough to hold your full history. New experiments you create in Clarida follow the regular plan limits.

Read-only is on purpose: different analysis settings produce different numbers, and we don't impose ours on results you've already published. The archive is what your experiments were when you last saved them.

Full details and step-by-step: Your qbase+ data in the cloud.

Academic pricing is roughly 75% lower than commercial. The product is identical; the difference is in how each price is set.

Commercial pricing reflects the operational value Clarida delivers — a connected end-to-end qPCR workflow that replaces a stack of disconnected tools, eliminates copy-paste errors, and produces audit-ready outputs — in a budget context where tooling spend is calibrated to ROI. Academic pricing is set against a different reality: grant cycles, fixed allocations, and budgets that don't flex with the value of a tool.

We hold academic pricing low because academic research is upstream of nearly everything that follows in science — the foundational work that eventually feeds medicine, agriculture, technology, and the commercial R&D that builds on it. We want Clarida to be the default choice in academic qPCR, not a tool only the best-funded labs can afford.

The academic plan covers research-active institutions across a wide range of organisational types:

• Universities and university hospitals — including university medical centres and academic teaching hospitals running clinical research.
• Applied-sciences universities and university colleges — Hogescholen, Hautes Écoles, Fachhochschulen, and equivalent applied-research institutions globally.
• National research organisations — Max Planck, Helmholtz, CNRS, INSERM, VIB, MRC, Sanger, NIH, RIKEN, EMBL, and the like.
• Independent non-profit research institutes — Salk, Whitehead, Broad, HHMI-funded labs, the Pasteur network, Wellcome- and Cancer Research UK-funded institutes, and similar.
• Academic core facilities running on cost-recovery for member labs.
• Museums, field stations, and biological reserves with research labs.

Talk to us — these are case-by-case:Public-private applied research institutes, government regulatory or public-health surveillance labs, university spin-outs, hospital diagnostic labs, veterinary diagnostic labs, NGOs doing field molecular work, and foundation-funded translational institutes with commercial arms. If your situation isn't obvious from the list above, reach out and we'll work it out.

Early-stage life-science startups may also qualify for a discount on the commercial plan.

How we verify:Trust-first. You select Academic or Commercial at signup yourself — no document uploads, no waiting. We verify via institutional email and affiliation, but only reach out if something clearly doesn't match. If that happens, we'll figure it out together.

Use the throughput slider above for an interactive recommendation — it picks a plan based on your monthly experiment count and the billing cycle you're viewing. The underlying thresholds:

Annual billing gives you two months free (you pay for 10, get 12) — which works out to a lower effective per-experiment rate. That's why Lab becomes the better choice from 28 experiments/month on annual versus 34/month on monthly billing.

On Lab, overage is available: when your included experiments run out, you can buy an overage pack of 10 at 1.5× the included per-experiment rate and keep going. You decide in your account settings whether overage purchases happen automatically when your balance hits zero, or whether your balance simply pauses there until you manually buy a pack or upgrade your plan. Experiments already in progress are never interrupted either way.

Overage isn't part of every plan — see the comparison table for how each plan handles running out.

If overage becomes a pattern, we'll surface the math for switching to a higher commitment.

You start with a pack of 20 experiments and each experiment you run decrements your balance by 1. When your balance drops below 5, you get a warning banner and email so you're never surprised. Experiments already in progress are never interrupted.

Auto-recharge is optional: if you enable it, your card is charged for another pack of 20 when your balance drops below 5 and you keep going without interruption. With auto-recharge off, at zero balance you'll need to either top up a pack manually, enable auto-recharge, or switch to the Lab plan before you can start your next experiment.

Unused balance stays valid for 12 months from your last purchase.

Yes — upgrades take effect immediately. Experiments already in progress are never interrupted.

Free → PAYG or Lab:Your new plan starts with its standard experiment allocation (20 for PAYG, 50–100/month for Lab). Free experiments don't carry over — they're a monthly taste, not a bank.

PAYG → Lab:Your remaining PAYG balance is added to your Lab balance and follows Lab's rules from that point — spent down during the billing period, with Lab's standard rollover rules applying at period end. If you're switching with a large PAYG balance, draw it down first to avoid forfeiting balance beyond Lab's 50% rollover cap.

Yes — up to 50% of your included experimentsroll over to the next billing period (no compounding), as long as you stay continuously subscribed. Rolled-over experiments are spent before that period's new allotment; any unspent at the new period's end expire and don't roll again.

Worked example for a 100-experiment/month plan:

The same rule applies to annual billing: up to 50% of your annual allotment rolls into the next year.

Rollover requires a continuous subscription. If your subscription lapses, any carried balance is forfeit and does not return when you resubscribe.