CrelioHealth
A cloud LIS for diagnostic laboratories, priced in tiers for the US and Canada and separately for India, with onboarding charged on the assisted tiers.
Checked 7 November 2026
Laboratory software (LIS and LIMS)
LabFlow compared with OpenELIS Global.
An open-source, FHIR-native laboratory information system under the Mozilla Public License, deployed by ministries and implementers from single facilities to national networks.
Last checked
Pages we read2 on their own site
Who is better served by which.
Better served by OpenELIS Global
Choose OpenELIS Global if you are a ministry, a public-health network or an implementer with technical staff, and a FHIR-native system with no licence cost across many facilities is the goal.
Better served by LabFlow
Choose LabFlow if you are one laboratory without an implementation team, want hosting, a patient portal and a marketplace listing included, and can accept HL7 and FHIR as files rather than a live feed.
What it costs, there and here.
OpenELIS Global
| Plan | Price | What the page says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenELIS Global | Free | Zero licensing cost; open source (MPL); hosting and implementation are your own cost | Source(opens in a new tab) |
LabFlow
| Plan | Price | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | One laboratory, at real but limited scale. |
| Single laboratory | $9.99 a month | One site, one tenant, one accession series. |
| Multi-site | $29.99 a month | Several laboratories under one organisation. |
| Platform | Conversation | You operate LabFlow for laboratories that are not yours. |
Row by row.
A row OpenELIS Global's pages did not mention reads "Not stated on the pages we checked". That is not a no, so ask them.
| What we looked for | OpenELIS Global | LabFlow |
|---|---|---|
| A price on the public page | YesSource(opens in a new tab) | Yes |
| A free plan, or free for the person | YesSource(opens in a new tab) | Yes |
| Patients read their own results online | Not stated on the pages we checked | YesFor results from laboratories that run LabFlow. |
| The person decides who sees a record | Not stated on the pages we checked | YesOne frozen report at a time, by a link the person can withdraw. |
| Share one section only (one test, one report) | Not stated on the pages we checked | NoA share opens one whole report. There is no grant for the ECG only or the X-ray only. |
| A laboratory asks for access by the person's ID and the person accepts | Not stated on the pages we checked | NoNot in the product today. There is no ID to give and no request to accept. |
| Access can be withdrawn later | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Records kept for years, stated on the page | Not stated on the pages we checked | In partFree keeps 12 months, then read-only. The paid plans set no cap. No number of years is promised. |
| Quality control (QC) built in | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| HL7 or FHIR interfaces | YesSource(opens in a new tab) | In partAs files, in and out. No live feed. |
| Several sites or branches under one account | YesSource(opens in a new tab) | Yes |
| An Android app | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Works in a browser | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| A desktop application | Not stated on the pages we checked | NoNot in the product today. Browser and Android only. |
| A backup commitment stated on the page | Not stated on the pages we checked | NoNo backup or recovery commitment is made today. |
| Analytics for the laboratory | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Collection work continues offline | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Reports sent by SMS or WhatsApp from the system | Not stated on the pages we checked | NoAn SMS link opens on the handset. Nothing is sent from the system. |
| Hosted by the vendor (cloud) | Not stated on the pages we checked | YesHosted only. On-premise is not offered. |
| Open source | YesSource(opens in a new tab) | No |
What LabFlow does not have today.
Weigh every row on these pages against this list.
A LabFlow IDA person has no ID to give a laboratory. A laboratory sees a record through the orders it placed for that person.
Laboratory access requestsA laboratory cannot ask for access to a record and wait for the person to accept.
Sharing section by sectionA share opens one frozen report. Nobody can hand over only an ECG or only an X-ray.
A desktop appLabFlow runs in a browser and on Android. There is no desktop application to install.
A retention periodNo page here promises a number of years. Free keeps 12 months and then goes read-only. The paid plans set no cap.
A backup commitmentWe make no backup or recovery commitment today.
Laboratories in productionNone. No production tenants, no pilot tenants, no user count to publish.
Check it yourself.
Every page this comparison relies on, opened on 7 November 2026. If one of them now says something else, it is right and we are out of date.
What has changed on this page
First checked
OpenELIS Global belongs to its owner, who has not reviewed this page. Nothing here says it works with LabFlow. Represent OpenELIS Global and a row is wrong? Write to us.
Others in the same group
LigoLab
An LIS and revenue-cycle platform sold in four tiers to pathology, molecular and reference laboratories, with no price on the page.
Checked 7 November 2026
LabWare LIMS
An enterprise LIMS for laboratories of every industry, offered as LabWare SaaS, LabWare Hosted or on your own cloud, with a mobile app on the app stores.
Checked 7 November 2026
If OpenELIS Global is the better fit, buy it.
Nothing on this page is a reason to choose LabFlow if that column suits you better. To see what LabFlow does do, start with what is built and what it costs.
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