Benchling 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Benchling

4.9

(20)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Benchling

Benchling is a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development. It offers various features such as request fulfillment, sample tracking, file exportation, collaboration, process optimization, custom fields, analytics, and more. It also supports integration with various devices like Zwick machines, bioreactors, qPCR and DNA sequencing machines, plate readers, printers, light microscopes, and barcode scanners.

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Benchling Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

Benchling Features

Popular features found in Electronic Lab Notebook
Access Controls/Permissions
Compliance Management
Data Storage Management
Electronic Signature
Protocol/SOP Management
Sample Management
More features of Benchling
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
API
Audit Trail
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Tracking
Configurable Workflow
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Import/Export
Data Management
Data Visualization
EDI
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
For Labs
Instrument Management
Inventory Management
Inventory Tracking
Lab Information Management
Lab Results
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Management
Role-Based Permissions
Rules-Based Workflow
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Task Management
Templates
Testing/QA Management
Third-Party Integrations
Workflow Management

Benchling Integrations

Spotfire

Tableau

Benchling User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

90%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.8

Jennifer B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

Lab friendly online notebook and so much more

Having all the laboratory notes online in an issue to use format allows for quick sharing of protocols and real-time collaboration on the same projects.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Benchling is easy to use, great for everyday notes and protocol design. It makes sharing experimental details and lab notes simple. In addition, easy to search for keywords throughout all the notebooks, never lose data or key pieces of information again. The molecular biology suite is the best, easy cloning and sequences alignments.

Cons:

Would love to have access to sample repository and tracking but need the paid version. Better integration with storage options for big data.

Janelle J.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Functional and Customizable

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

How customizable all features are for your specific process and how willing and available customer support is to help.

Cons:

It is not intuitive for first time users and takes some practice to learn all the features.

Stephanie S.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

Benchling Implementation at Tenaya

Overall, Benchling has hugely helped our company to come together to decide what the important pieces of our work are that we need to capture, and how to efficiently pass information off team to team. The implementation team has been incredibly helpful in the process.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I am thrilled to be able to easily tailor the software to the individual needs of scientists as everyone plays incredibly different roles, but we all come together to look at the data as a whole to make large company decisions. We have not been using the software as an entire company just yet, but we have liked the implementation process with Benchling's support to create the platform our company needs to be successful.

Cons:

One of the challenges we have found as we've begun to use Benchling more is that there are some features we've gotten used to using and rely on, but then they will disappear. We understand Benchling is constantly changing and tweaking to better help R&D, but some changes come out of nowhere and mess some of our plans up. Most changes are minor here or there, but when needing to count on a software for easier day-to-day use you need the simple things to work.

Saba R.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Cheap and Best R&D Cloud platform for start-ups /labs

I am very satisfied and recommend to new labs or established lab to keep you data secure an trackable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Inventory building is very useful in this software.

Cons:

Sometimes, copying data or exporting data from benchhling to external folders are difficult

Reasons for choosing Benchling

I am very confidents using benchling and its easy, simple an meet the requirements.

Megan M.

Verified reviewer

Research

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Our lab loves this website

Overall I'd highly recommend this for any academic lab planning to use an ELN.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

This is a great way to have a collaborative electronic lab notebook among a lab. Easy to share protocols and lab notes, and it's also easy to update the notebook by date and topic. Overall it will be hard to go back to a printed lab notebook after using Benchling. I also like the sequence feature, I refuse to use anything else (ex. Geneious, ApE) for sequence analysis.

Cons:

Sometimes it can be slow, especially when uploading files to the notebook pages. Also, it would be nice to have photos in a grid form rather than one per line in the notebook. It can make the entries lengthy if there are so many pictures (ex. plate pictures).

Jessica L.

Verified reviewer

Research

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Wonderful digital lab notebook

Overall, Benchling has been wonderful for switching from an archaic experiment documentation system to a well organized, collaborate online system.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Benchling is a very useful tool for organizing and collaborating on scientific data online. Online notebooks make it very easy to record and find previous data, which you will always have to cross reference much later after your experiment. The different folders and entries are very easy to organize, and you can create shared collaborative documents as well as your own private notebooks.

Cons:

One small Con is that adding figures/images to the entries takes up a lot of space in the notebook, since text and other images/tables/figures cannot wrap around each other. This means that if you're including many images, your entry will be very long, and you can't include too many images together.

Verified

Reviewer

Biotechnology

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Benchling is a nice tool for molecular biology

I have been using Benchling for a few years and I am always happy with it. It has been continuously improving and they really care about the needs of their users.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The user interface is very intuitive and friendly. The functions are very powerful. It is a very nice replacement of many expensive commercial softwares.

Cons:

Some functions are limited to company users.

Suomia A.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

Ease of Use

Over all, I honestly love benchling. Its so useful when it comes to cloning and helps visualize the plasmids so easily for me, and students that I teach. I love how I can edit and work on my projects easily, and there is so much easy ways to edits and write notes for reference. I will continue to use benchling in the future b/c i love it so much!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Because I work with plasmids, the primer creation and alignment tool are my favorite parts of Benchling. I often need to create primers to double check my plasmid is correct and they have been so easy to make! Especially since benchling remembers the primers that I make, and logs them in by name and location on the plasmid for future reference. The alignment tool has also saved me alot of time when it comes to double checking my plasmid size and inserts.

Cons:

While i get the location and placement of the Projects tab, that has been a frequent headache to me. It brings up issues when projects are shared by other people in the lab and they only allow me to just see the project and not edit it. I feel like there should be a tool where we can take a project someone shares with us, and edit it and save it easily to our own files. Constantly copying and pasting plasmids from one location to another gets annoying after the 30th plasmid.

Sefanne H.

Verified reviewer

Research

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2023

Perfect for designing, storing and sharing sequences

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use. Perfect for importing/exporting, modifying and analyzing DNA sequences. It's an essential tool for us when doing any cloning work and it visualizes everything nicely.

Cons:

Some functionalities take a little bit of figuring out but overall it's easy to use. Once you know some of the tips and tricks it's quick and instinctive to use

Douglas D.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Best software for DNA sequences analysis

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its interface is really friendly, it is easy to use, and has lots of analysis options for DNA sequences.

Cons:

When you open a saved sequence, the tab does not closes automatically, leaving many tabs open.

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