Looking for a LabWare alternative?
LabWare Clinical Health LIS is saaS, cloud-hosted or self-hosted (vendor). Here is what changes if your lab moves to SamLab, what to carry across, and when staying with LabWare 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; LabWare states its deployment as "SaaS, cloud-hosted or self-hosted (vendor)" — ask what its outage behaviour is for the option you are offered.
How the price is structured
LabWare: Not published — the vendor quotes after a sales conversation (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
LabWare column as published by the vendor, read on 2026-09-03. The full table is on the comparison page.
| Factor | LabWare | SamLab |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | SaaS, cloud-hosted or self-hosted | Offline-first desktop with cloud sync |
| Works through an internet outage | Not stated by the vendor; self-hosted option exists | Yes — registration, billing, results and reports keep running |
| Pricing model | Quote-based (“Request pricing”) | Yearly subscription in your own currency |
| Public, transparent pricing | Not published | Yes — every plan price is on the pricing page |
| Where your data lives | Vendor cloud or your own server | On your own machine first; encrypted off-site backup and export |
| Free trial on your own data | Demo on request | 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 LabWare if
you are a hospital or reference laboratory that already runs LabWare elsewhere, or wants one vendor across clinical and industrial laboratories.
Move to SamLab if
you run an independent clinical laboratory and want a system that keeps working offline with a price you can read first.
Before you switch
Is SamLab a LabWare alternative for a small laboratory?
LabWare is a global laboratory-software company with more than forty offices, best known for its LIMS in pharmaceutical and industrial laboratories; its clinical LIS serves reference laboratories and hospitals with HL7 and ASTM modules. SamLab is an offline-first clinical LIS for independent laboratories with a published price. They meet only where a hospital is choosing enterprise software.
Can I bring my data from LabWare Clinical Health 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 LabWare?
LabWare: Not published — the vendor quotes after a sales conversation (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 LabWare · 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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No card. No catch. Run SamLab on your own data — online or offline — and feel the difference before you pay anything.