Looking for a CrelioHealth alternative?
CrelioHealth cloud LIMS / LIS is cloud (vendor). Here is what changes if your lab moves to SamLab, what to carry across, and when staying with CrelioHealth is the right call.
Four questions, whichever system you run today
What happens when the connection drops
Any LIS decision starts here. SamLab keeps registration, results, reports and billing running on your own machine; CrelioHealth states its deployment as "Cloud (vendor)" — ask what its outage behaviour is for the option you are offered.
How the price is structured
CrelioHealth: Published for the US and Canada on the vendor’s pricing page: Smart USD $600/month billed annually ($7,200/year, self-service onboarding); Optimized $1,400/month ($16,800/year plus $7,500 onboarding); Pro $2,750/month; Power $4,900/month; monthly billing at +15% (checked 2026-09-03). SamLab: a yearly subscription quoted in your own currency, every plan on the public pricing page. Compare like with like over three years, not one.
Who holds the data at exit
Before you leave any system, get its export in writing. In SamLab the database is a file on your own machine, and the standard backup is a ZIP that restores without a passphrase.
Who answers when something breaks
Ask both vendors which hours support covers in your time zone and whether it is included. SamLab support is included in every plan.
The rows that move when you switch
CrelioHealth column as published by the vendor, read on 2026-09-03. The full table is on the comparison page.
| Factor | CrelioHealth | SamLab |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud | Offline-first desktop with cloud sync |
| Works through an internet outage | Cloud-dependent — no offline operation claimed by the vendor | Yes — registration, billing, results and reports keep running |
| Pricing model | Subscription, billed annually; monthly at +15% | Yearly subscription in your own currency |
| Public, transparent pricing | Yes — published for the US and Canada | Yes — every plan price is on the pricing page |
| Where your data lives | Vendor cloud | On your own machine first; encrypted off-site backup and export |
| Free trial on your own data | Free trial offered (duration not stated on the vendor pages read) | 7-day free trial, no card |
Three things to do before the first live day
- 1Get an export from your current software — patients, doctors, rate list, outstanding dues — one sheet per master, and check what your contract says about your data.
- 2Pick one cut-off date the whole lab knows: bills before it stay in the old system, bills from it are in SamLab.
- 3Run the 7-day trial on your own exported data first, so the first live day is the second time you see your patients in it.
Stay with CrelioHealth if
you want a browser-based system with a published price and reliable connectivity in every room your laboratory works from.
Move to SamLab if
you need the laboratory to keep working when the internet does not, and you want no onboarding fee and a lower yearly total for a single site.
Before you switch
Is SamLab a CrelioHealth alternative for a small laboratory?
CrelioHealth is a cloud laboratory platform sold worldwide, and one of the few LIS vendors that publishes prices: from $600 a month billed annually in the US, with paid onboarding on higher tiers. SamLab is offline-first with published yearly plans and no onboarding fee. CrelioHealth wins on browser-anywhere access; SamLab wins on outage resilience and total cost for a single laboratory.
Can I bring my data from CrelioHealth cloud LIMS / LIS into SamLab?
Masters — patients, doctors, rate lists, outstanding balances — come across from an export of your current system. Migration is a hands-on service with a written cut-off date, not a self-serve importer; the migration page says exactly what moves and what does not.
How does SamLab pricing differ from CrelioHealth?
CrelioHealth: Published for the US and Canada on the vendor’s pricing page: Smart USD $600/month billed annually ($7,200/year, self-service onboarding); Optimized $1,400/month ($16,800/year plus $7,500 onboarding); Pro $2,750/month; Power $4,900/month; monthly billing at +15% (checked 2026-09-03). SamLab publishes every plan on its pricing page — a yearly subscription in your own currency — and the 7-day trial needs no card.
Sources for what we say about CrelioHealth · read on 2026-09-03
Vendor details are taken from each vendor’s own public website on the date shown and may change. We compare on published capabilities, not on internals we cannot verify. Confirm current features and pricing directly with the vendor and in a trial. SamLab details reflect our published plans. Vendor names are used only to identify the products compared.
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