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SciCord vs Benchling


Benchling Alternatives in 2025

Is SciCord the Best Replacement for Benchling?




SciCord helps laboratories streamline their documentation and compliance with a hybrid Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) documentation solution. SciCord’s cloud-based solution simplifies implementation & maintenance, reducing the total cost of ownership, allowing organizations to focus on science.

Pros

  • Configuration
  • Customer Support
  • Well positioned for small and medium labs
  • Intuitive Interface
  • Spreadsheet integration
  • Comprehensive platform
  • Compliance Focused

Cons

  • The largest labs may consider us too small to provide support
  • Learning Curve
  • Limited Mac/iOS Support

Stats

  • Time to implement: ~3-6 month
    • Simple use cases can be deployed in as little as 30 days
  • Return on investment: ~1.5 years
  • G2 Rating – 4.5/5
  • Read More: G2 Reviews


Benchling is a modern research platform that connects the entire R&D lifecycle — from project documentation and data acquisition to sequence design, sample management, process management, and reporting. By standardizing and centralizing R&D workflows on a single platform, Benchling helps forward-thinking companies accelerate their digital lab transformation to enable better, faster decision-making.

Pros

  • Collaboration
  • Ease of Use
  • Experiment Linking
  • Protocol Management

Cons

  • Data Management Issues
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  • Difficult Navigation
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  • Sample tracking and data management issues
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Stats
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  • Time to implement: ~6 months
  • Return on investment: Not enough information. However: “As companies scale, Benchling’s per-user costs become increasingly burdensome … these costs can reach $5,000 to $7,000 per person pretty fast.”
  • G2 Rating – 4.5/5

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From G2 reviews
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From softwareadvice.com
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Comments from our customers
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From competitor’s site

Benchling is a strong platform for biology-first R&D, popular in biotech startups for collaboration.

Where Benchling Performs Well

  • Excellent for biotech R&D
  • Collaboration-focused ecosystem
  • Developer-friendly customization

Why SciCord is the Better Choice

  • Compliance Ready: 21 CFR Part 11 validation, IQ/OQ/PQ included.
  • Supports Manufacturing & QC: Beyond R&D, SciCord manages QC and batch records.
  • Ease of Adoption: Spreadsheet-native workflows speed up QC/QA adoption.
  • Lower Validation Burden: Benchling’s custom-heavy approach increases validation costs, SciCord simplifies compliance.

While both solutions have their advantages, SciCord’s unique approach and feature set provides the most flexibility and is best suited for many use cases.


Ready for a platform that scales from R&D to QC? Explore SciCord’s pharma-ready workflows.

Case Studies

See how our customer’s have implemented SciCord, and the benefits they realized with our platform.

Tenaz Migration Case Study and Solution

Tenaz migrated thousands of data points and their data entry processes with SciCord

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Formulated Solutions Achieves Operational Excellence with LIMS Implementation

Formulated Solutions streamlined operations and reduced costs by $360,000 per year

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Pearl Therapeutics’ Regulatory Triumph through Implementation of ELN and LIMS

With SciCord LIMS/ELN, Pearl Therapeutics improved review process efficiency by over 30%

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How Much Can You Save?

Use our ROI calculator to get a preliminary understanding of how much SciCord will cost for your organization and use case, and what the return on that investment will be.

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