NextELN

The electronic lab notebook that's actually free for scientists

A modern ELN + inventory for academic and government labs — now with AI search and an AI Lab Assistant (with Claude for Life Sciences capabilities). Free and funded for scientists; low-cost for biotech. A fraction of the price of LabArchives.

Powered by your preferred model — Claude or OpenAI.

AI-powered search

Ask in plain English and find anything across notebooks, tables, and inventory — semantic search that understands meaning, not just keywords.

Ask your data

Natural-language questions over your tables and inventory — “which antibodies expire in 30 days?” — answered instantly from your own records.

Notebooks & pages

Rich text with tables, images, and file attachments — organized in notebooks and categories, with real-time co-editing.

Extensible data & inventory

Define your own inventory item types and structured tables with no code. Import Excel, auto-detect types.

Compliance-ready

E-signatures, witnessing, immutable revision history, and full audit logs. Sequence viewer for DNA/RNA/plasmid maps.

Your data, your database

Start free on us; when you grow, connect your own Postgres (Aiven, Supabase, Neon, AWS) and we migrate your data automatically.

AI, built in

Your notebook, intelligently searchable

Turn on the vector database and your lab's pages, tables, and inventory become searchable by meaning — so the whole team finds and reasons over its data, not just filenames.

Semantic search & ask-your-data

Search and ask questions in plain English across everything you've recorded. Answers cite your own rows.

AI Lab Assistant

Draft protocols, design experiments, review PubMed literature, and analyze DNA/protein sequences. Use Claude for full Claude for Life Sciences capabilities, or your own OpenAI key.

Your preferred model

Free scientists get AI on us. Team & Enterprise bring their own key — Claude or OpenAI — and use the model they trust, on their own terms.

Your data stays yours — AI runs per-workspace and is never used to train models.

Simple, honest pricing

Free

$0

University & government scientists

  • Full ELN + inventory
  • AI search & lab assistant included
  • Bring your own database when you grow
Start free

Team

Low cost

Biotech & industry labs

  • Everything in Free
  • Vector database for smart search
  • Bring your own LLM — Claude or OpenAI
  • More seats & larger files
Start free trial

Enterprise

Custom

Large biotech & CROs

  • Everything in Team
  • Your preferred LLM + private data residency
  • SSO / SAML · API · SLA
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