Pricing
Priced per laboratory. Never per person.
Archon is self-hosted, so what you are buying is not access to your own records — you already have those, permanently, on your own server. What a licence buys is the ability to prove those records are intact, and to walk an assessor through it.
Which tier is yours is not a question of size. Professional is for when your laboratory is assessed. Accredited is for when your software is assessed. Network is for when you are assessed on laboratories you do not operate.
Unlimited users at every tier
Seat caps drive shared logins, and shared logins destroy attribution — which is the whole point of an audit trail. We do not sell seats and we will not start.
An expired licence degrades to Community
It never locks a laboratory out of its own records. Paid capabilities pause; every entry, signature and audit record stays readable and exportable, indefinitely.
A published price is a real one
Where a number below is fixed, it is the price. Where it is a floor, it says so and names what makes it move. We do not publish a figure and then quote something else.
Community
The laboratory that has decided to keep its own records.
The day you rule out a cloud notebook on data-residency grounds.
- Full ELN, samples, protocols, SOPs and inventory
- Tamper-evident audit trail — permanently, not as a trial
- Electronic signatures with re-authentication — permanently
- Unlimited users, unlimited research, unlimited history
- Compliance frameworks and accreditation readiness
- Real-time environmental monitoring
- Unlimited users, forever. We do not sell seats.
- Your records stay on your infrastructure. Nothing phones home.
Professional
Most laboratoriesFixed priceThe accredited laboratory that has to stay accredited.
Between assessments — the surveillance visit, the nonconformity that has to be closed on record, the competency that lapses next month.
Everything in Community, plus
- Compliance frameworks — adopt ISO 15189, ISO/IEC 17025 and ALCOA+ and work their requirements
- Continuous accreditation readiness, scored from your live data
- Real-time environmental monitoring with excursion alerts
- Audit trail verification and chain-head export
- One-click assessor evidence packs
- Quality management — nonconformity and CAPA, competency matrix, calibration scheduling
- REST API with scoped keys, and HMAC-signed outbound webhooks
- A fixed price, not a starting point. Priced per laboratory, not per person.
- Three-year term available at 2.7× the annual price, to fit a grant cycle.
We invoice at the price above, then send your licence key
Accredited
QuotationThe validation pack is written against your actual deployment, so the quotation reflects your instruments and interfaces.
The laboratory whose software is itself subject to qualification.
The first time someone asks not whether your records are complete, but whether the system holding them has been validated — a sponsor audit, a GLP or 21 CFR Part 11 obligation, a regulatory submission.
Everything in Professional, plus
- 21 CFR Part 11 and GLP frameworks — the obligations that fall on the system, not only the laboratory
- Validation pack — IQ, OQ and PQ documentation written against this deployment
- Named support contact who knows your deployment when an assessor is in the building
- Four times Professional, for a different obligation: your records versus your system.
- Three-year term available at 2.7× the annual price, to fit a grant cycle.
We reply with a quotation and an invoice, then your licence key
Network
QuotationPriced per site against your site register. We quote from the register, not from a rate on a web page.
The body accountable for laboratories it does not operate.
The day you have to report on forty laboratories you cannot visit this quarter.
Everything in Accredited, plus
- Every Accredited capability at every site
- Central readiness console across the whole network — included, not an add-on
- One flat per-site rate, however many sites you add
- Consolidated invoicing and a single renewal date
- Each site is licensed individually, so a site keeps working if the network agreement lapses.
- One renewal date, one invoice, one line item on the grant.
- Sites added mid-term are billed pro rata; the enrolled count does not fall during a term.
We reply with a quotation and an invoice, then your licence key
Pilot programme
3 of 5 places left5 laboratories, 60 days of everything — the full Accredited tier, free, with no card and nothing to cancel. It is limited on purpose: 5 pilots is a cohort we can actually support and learn from.
By invitation
Places are given out directly rather than published. Write to quorinstartup@proton.me with your laboratory, what you want to evaluate and roughly when, and we will send you a pilot code.
You redeem it at Settings → Billing, one pilot per laboratory. It expires on its own after 60 days and drops back to Community — nothing is lost and nothing auto-renews.
Included at every tier, permanently — including Community
We do not sell a weaker guarantee about a laboratory’s own data. Integrity protection is not the upsell; demonstrating it to an assessor is.
- Tamper-evident SHA-256 audit hash chain
- Electronic signatures with re-authentication
- Full ELN, samples, protocols, SOPs, inventory
- Unlimited users, and unlimited research active or archived
- Self-hosted — no data leaves your building
- No telemetry, and no phone-home licence check
What counts as one laboratory
These are the definitions in the order form, reproduced here rather than kept for the negotiation. If they do not fit how your organisation is arranged, tell us before you ask for a quotation and we will price what you actually have.
- A laboratory
- Each physical premises at which testing, calibration or examination activities are performed under your quality management system — counted one per address, and counted separately even where several share a single accreditation certificate, quality manual, legal entity or Archon installation. Where a body is not yet accredited, the same count applies as it would on accreditation.
- A site, under a Network licence
- One laboratory, as defined above, enrolled in the network licence. The enrolled count is fixed at each anniversary; sites added mid-term are billed pro rata from the month they are enrolled, and the enrolled count does not fall during a term.
What we publish, and what we quote
Professional is a fixed published price. It is what you will be invoiced, it is the same for every laboratory, and there is nothing to negotiate — which is the point of publishing it.
Accredited and Network publish a floor instead. Both include work scoped to your deployment — validation documentation written against your instruments, or a network priced against your site register — so a single figure would be a guess. The floor is real: it is the least you would pay, and the reason it can move is printed on the card rather than discovered in the meeting.
What we deliberately do not publish is a per-site rate. A rate on a web page is a number a large buyer multiplies before the first conversation, and it prices a forty-site ministry the same way it prices a five-site group — which is how a network quotation ends up bearing no relation to the network. Networks are quoted from the site register, and the schedule the quotation was computed from is attached to it.
What the paid capabilities are
- Audit trail verification
- Re-verify the full hash chain on demand and export the chain head, so you can demonstrate to an assessor that no record has been altered.
- Compliance and accreditation readiness
- Adopt ISO/IEC 17025, 21 CFR Part 11, GLP, ALCOA+ and more, work their requirements in one place, and see a continuous clause-by-clause readiness score derived from your live data rather than from a questionnaire.
- Real-time environmental monitoring
- Live temperature, humidity and other sensor readings from your storage and instruments, with excursion alerts and the continuous record an assessor expects for sample integrity.
- Assessor evidence packs
- Generate a complete, dated, hash-sealed evidence document covering integrity, competency, calibration, controlled documents and nonconformities in one click.
- Quality management
- Nonconformity and CAPA register with enforced effectiveness review, personnel competency matrix with automatic expiry, and equipment calibration scheduling.
- API and webhooks
- Versioned REST API with scoped keys and HMAC-signed outbound webhooks, for integrating instruments and downstream systems.
- Validation pack (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Installation, operational and performance qualification protocols for this deployment — the documentation a regulated buyer is required to hold.
- Named support
- A named support contact and direct assistance preparing for assessment.
How buying works
Paid plans are invoiced. There is no card checkout, and that is deliberate rather than a gap — institutional laboratories buy by purchase order and bank transfer, and a licence you can only obtain through a card form is a licence a ministry laboratory cannot buy at all. A three-year term is available on Professional and Accredited at 2.7× the annual price, which is there because grants are awarded in three-year cycles and a line item is easier to defend once than three times.
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You ask
Write to us, or use the button on any plan above. Tell us the laboratory, the country and how many sites.
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We price it
Professional is invoiced at the published price. Accredited and Network come back as a written quotation with the schedule it was computed from attached.
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You pay
We invoice; you pay by bank transfer or against a purchase order. Payment terms are 30 days unless we agree otherwise.
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We issue the key
A signed licence key, emailed to you. Paste it at Settings → Billing and the capabilities unlock immediately.
Talk to us
Quotations, purchase orders, procurement paperwork and technical questions all go to the same place. If you already have an Archon deployment, include your organization identifier from Settings → Billing — licences are bound to it, and quoting it means your key can be issued the moment payment clears.
quorinstartup@proton.me · Quorin Technologies