Every European LIMS software tool reviewed
Berlin, Germany
€99 per user per month, plus €350 per month for Standard Cloud (100 GB) or €550 per month for Enterprise Cloud; implementation priced separately, excl. VAT
Demo on request
Best for: Accredited testing labs and GxP quality labs looking for a SaaS offer with a stated price
LDB LIMS is a cloud LIMS from Berlin and Vienna that sells a quality management system together with the laboratory module. The QMS covers process and document management, equipment, supplier evaluation, training plans and 8D reports, and the AI import turns PDF tables from outside laboratories into structured sample data. An audit assistant, a query explorer and an MCP interface are also listed.
The imprint names three companies, LDB Labordatenbank GmbH in Vienna and in Berlin (HRB 125076) and LDB LIMS GmbH in Berlin (HRB 274221 B). According to the vendor, 230 laboratories and 5,300 users work with the system. It states ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and TISAX certification and says it meets the NIS2 Directive. The founding year was not verified.
What LDB LIMS does well
- User and hosting rates are on the website
- Quality management is part of the package
- ISO 17025 and GxP rollout packages
- ISO 27001 and TISAX stated
- Data in Frankfurt, Germany
Where LDB LIMS falls short
- SaaS only, no self-hosting
- Infrastructure is run by a US cloud provider
- ERP interfaces are quoted on request
- Implementation is billed on top
Standout feature. LDB LIMS is the only tool in this comparison that prints a per-user price and separate hosting prices on its own website.
Dresden, Germany
Pricing on request
Demo on request
Best for: Labs in the German-speaking region that prefer to keep the system and data on their own servers
INTEGRIS iLIMS is built from modules, from sample and measurement management to CRM, quotations, invoicing, device management and inventory. Industry variants exist for food, water and environment, materials testing, pharma, and wine and beverages. The vendor describes its approach as "no cloud obligation": a lab chooses between its own IT and the cloud.
INTEGRIS LIMS GmbH is an owner-managed company in Dresden (HRB 32975, Amtsgericht Dresden) led by Robert and Alexander Koschitzki, and it states that it works to ISO 9001. Reference customers include Rohde & Schwarz, Tentamus Analytics and the Dresden utility DREWAG. Projects follow Scrum with sprint meetings and a vendor Redmine ticket system. Price and the cloud operator are not published.
What INTEGRIS iLIMS does well
- Choice between own IT and cloud
- CRM, quote and invoice modules
- Preconfigured variants per industry
- Quality system aligned with ISO 9001
- Owned and managed by its founders
Where INTEGRIS iLIMS falls short
- Price not published
- Market focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Cloud operator not named
- Rollout runs as a project
Standout feature. INTEGRIS iLIMS is the tool whose vendor states outright that the cloud is optional, with iLIMS running on the customer's own IT.
Solihull, United Kingdom
Pricing on request
Demo on request
Best for: Biobanks, agritech and research labs that want to shape their own workflows without writing code
Achiever LIMS is configured in a drag-and-drop workflow designer with a dynamic form builder and version control, instead of through scripts written by the vendor. It traces samples through transformations and pooling, tracks reagents, inventory and shipments, and keeps a field-level audit trail with change reasons and sign-off events.
Interactive Software Limited is registered in England and Wales under number 02769701 and works from Pinewood Business Park in Solihull. Access runs through the customer's identity provider with SSO and configurable multi-factor, and the site names AES-256 encryption. A bi-directional API links instruments and notebooks. Price, hosting location and deployment options are not stated.
What Achiever LIMS does well
- Visual designer for workflows and forms
- Lineage of pooled and derived samples
- Audit history down to single fields
- Single sign-on through your own provider
- Registration number and address on the site
Where Achiever LIMS falls short
- Price not stated
- Hosting country not stated
- Outside the EU
- References lean towards research
Standout feature. Achiever LIMS links a derivative aliquot back to its source through pooling, which matters in biobanks that must trace samples for years.
Bari, Italy
Pricing on request
Demo on request
Best for: Testing, clinical and biobank labs in Italy and the Mediterranean region
Eusoft.Lab is a browser-based SaaS LIMS from EUSOFT S.r.l. in Bari, with sector variants for environmental, biobank, chemical, clinical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, contract, public control, sequencing and oil and gas labs. Interface and dashboards can be configured, and managers get business-intelligence views.
EUSOFT has its registered office at Via Marco Partipilo 38 in Bari, VAT number 05067920727, as its privacy policy under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 states. The vendor says the product complies with ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 15189 and 21 CFR Part 11, and sells an AI platform named Eusoft.IAGO with it. The site gives no detail on what the AI automates, no price and no data centre.
What Eusoft.Lab does well
- Runs in any web browser
- Variants from environmental to clinical labs
- Medical lab standard ISO 15189 is named
- VAT number and registered office published
- Generative AI platform in the offer
Where Eusoft.Lab falls short
- Price not shown
- Data centre location not given
- Public documentation is limited
- Website is Italian first
Standout feature. Eusoft.Lab is the only tool here that names ISO 15189, the medical laboratory standard, next to ISO 17025.
Bochum, Germany
Founded 1991
Pricing on request; hosted variant billed monthly
Demo on request
Best for: Contract, municipal, cosmetics and pharma labs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
lisa.lims is the LIMS of Triestram & Partner GmbH in Bochum, with a Swiss company, Triestram & Partner AG, in Bern. A WebPortal serves internal and external clients, a Report Manager replaces paper archives, and a material management module follows samples, test equipment and chemicals. A separate chemicals module shows H and P statements, hazard pictograms, CAS numbers and safety data sheets.
The company was founded in 1991 and is registered at the Amtsgericht Bochum under HRB 3090. It presents itself as a consultancy that also builds lisa.lims, and names itself the preferred LIMS partner of the Deutscher Verband Unabhängiger Prüflaboratorien (VUP). The maker also hosts the system from a certified data centre, billed monthly, though the data centre's location and operator are not named.
What lisa.lims does well
- Vendor active since 1991
- Second company in Bern, Switzerland
- Add-on modules for chemicals and materials
- Hosted variant with monthly billing
- Preferred partner of the VUP lab association
Where lisa.lims falls short
- Site is mostly German
- Price on request
- Hosting country not named
- Adapted to each lab through consulting
Standout feature. lisa.lims carries a chemicals module that displays H and P statements, pictograms, CAS numbers and safety data sheets inside the LIMS.
Sulzbach (Saar), Germany
Pricing on request
Demo on request
Best for: Pharma, cosmetics and chemistry labs that prefer to license and roll out the system one module at a time
MAQSIMA LAB+ is a modular LIMS in which extra modules or user licences can be switched on after a single installation. Test equipment management and chemicals management are part of the product, standard interfaces link it to ERP systems and instruments, and dedicated sections cover pharmacopoeia tests and validation.
MAQSIMA GmbH sits at Am TÜV 1 in Sulzbach, Saarland, registered as HRB 11689 with Christoph Niewöhner as managing director, and says it has built software for more than 25 years. The vendor says LAB+ meets GLP and GMP rules, FDA requirements and ISO 9001 and 17025. For cloud customers it posts availability each quarter; the hosting location and prices are not published.
What MAQSIMA LAB+ does well
- Uptime figures posted every quarter
- Modules and licences can be added later
- GLP, GMP and ISO 17025 are named
- Test equipment and chemicals handled in the product
- Imprint lists register number and managing director
Where MAQSIMA LAB+ falls short
- Cloud location not given
- Price on request
- German is the main site language
- Little technical detail is public
Standout feature. MAQSIMA LAB+ is the one vendor that publishes network and server availability figures for the cloud every quarter.
Stuttgart, Germany
Pricing on request
Demo on request
Best for: Materials, development and series-testing labs that run tests lasting weeks or months
NEO LIMS schedules tests, equipment and capacity automatically against a target date, with live boards that show utilisation and bottlenecks. Long-duration tests get support for storage periods, interim withdrawals and medium changes. Test steps run on a smartphone that records measurements and photos, and storage locations and resources are tracked with QR codes and NFC tags.
RMP Software GmbH is based at Königstrasse 31 in Stuttgart (HRB 738119, Amtsgericht Stuttgart) with Florian Koenigk and Andreas Moosbrugger as managing directors. NEO LIMS is its main product and is offered as cloud, SaaS or on-premise. The vendor claims 30 per cent more efficiency, but gives no method for the figure. The website is in German and shows no price or hosting location.
What NEO LIMS does well
- Tests and resources are scheduled automatically
- Test steps are carried out on a phone
- Choice of cloud, SaaS or own servers
- Clients get a portal for orders and results
- Imprint with register number and directors
Where NEO LIMS falls short
- Site only in German
- Price and hosting location absent
- Depth is in materials testing
- Efficiency figure has no stated method
Standout feature. NEO LIMS plans tests and resources automatically and lets staff run each test step from a smartphone.
Leipzig, Germany
Pricing on request
Demo on request
Best for: Manufacturers whose own lab must clear production batches without delay
Germanedge QDA LIMS takes order data from ERP and MES production planning and calculates the sequence of test orders, so the time between sampling and release stays short. Measurement equipment is read automatically, a cost view shows the expense per job and per lab, and the workflow triggers predefined escalation steps when time or content limits are missed.
Germanedge Solutions GmbH is registered in Leipzig (Amtsgericht Leipzig, HRB 28318) with Stefanie Grimm and Dr. Jörg Kastrup as general managers. LIMS sits beside MES, CAQ and scheduling software in its portfolio. The vendor says a go-live is possible within a few days under SaaS operation and quotes up to 75 per cent shorter turnaround without a method. No price or hosting location is listed.
What Germanedge QDA LIMS does well
- Test capacity follows production orders
- Instruments are read without retyping
- Late results trigger set escalation steps
- Cost per job and per lab is visible
- Delivered as SaaS
Where Germanedge QDA LIMS falls short
- Works best next to other Germanedge products
- Price not listed
- Hosting country not named
- Aimed at in-house labs, less at contract labs
Standout feature. Germanedge QDA LIMS derives the lab's test schedule from production orders in the ERP and MES.
Not applicable, Spain
Software free; implementation and support from paid service providers
Demo on request
Best for: Testing labs that have IT staff or a local integrator and want to avoid licence fees
SENAITE is a LIMS built on the Plone CMS and released under GPL-2.0. A sample moves through defined states, from due and received to verified and published, and verification requires a second person other than the analyst. Technicians work from worksheets, instrument results arrive in them, and reports go to the client when the sample is published.
There is no single vendor contract. The Professional Services page names RIDING BYTES in Germany and NARALABS in Spain as core maintainers, and YME as a certified partner for links to clinical systems through HL7, FHIR and IHE. A lab hosts the software itself or pays a partner to do so, which also puts GDPR duties, backups and validation for GxP or ISO 17025 on the lab or its integrator.
What SENAITE does well
- No licence fee under GPL-2.0
- Full control of the source code
- A second person must verify results
- Maintainers are companies in Germany and Spain
- HL7 and FHIR links via a partner
Where SENAITE falls short
- Support contract must be bought separately
- Validation is the lab's own work
- Plone upgrades need technical skills
- Fewer functions than commercial suites
Standout feature. SENAITE is the only tool here whose source code a lab can run, audit and change itself without paying a licence.
Zurich, Switzerland
Pricing not published; see openBIS site for services
Demo on request
Best for: Research groups and institutes that want notebook, inventory and FAIR datasets in one system
openBIS is a research data platform from the Scientific IT Services (SIS) of ETH Zurich. Experiments are described in the lab notebook and linked to the materials, samples and protocols in the inventory, so a result traces back to the exact material used. Data of any size is stored through the web interface or API, and a git-like tool called BigDataLink links large datasets across locations.
The support desk runs from an ethz.ch address, and users include Empa, which reports using it as its ELN/LIMS since 2020, and the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin. Audit trails, rights management, Excel import and export, plugins and Jupyter integration are listed. Switzerland is outside the EU, pricing is not published and the software licence could not be verified.
What openBIS does well
- Notebook, inventory and data in one platform
- Operated by a university IT service
- Audit trail and central rights management
- API, plugins and Jupyter notebooks
- Deployed at Empa and BAM
Where openBIS falls short
- Built for research, not for routine testing
- No quoting or invoicing for clients
- You run it yourself
- Licence not confirmed in this review
Standout feature. openBIS ties a notebook entry to the exact inventory item and to FAIR datasets, which routine LIMS products rarely do.
