Alternative · checked 2026-09-17

Looking for a CrelioHealth alternative?

CrelioHealth LIS/LIMS is cloud SaaS — hosted in India, 99.9% uptime SLA. Here is what changes if your lab moves to SamLab, what to carry across, and when staying with CrelioHealth is the right call.

Why labs look around

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 PC; CrelioHealth states its deployment as "Cloud SaaS — hosted in India, 99.9% uptime SLA" — ask what its outage behaviour is for the option you are offered.

How the price is structured

CrelioHealth: From ₹8,000/month + 18% GST, annual contract, plus onboarding fee. SamLab: a one-time licence with an optional yearly AMC, every plan price 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 whether support is on the phone, in Hindi and English, and included. SamLab support is included in every plan, from Kota.

What changes

The rows that move when you switch

CrelioHealth column as published by the vendor, read on 2026-09-17. The full table is on the comparison page.

FactorCrelioHealthSamLab
DeploymentCloud SaaS — hosted in IndiaOffline-first desktop + cloud sync
Works in an internet outageNo offline capability claimedYes — billing & reports keep running
Pricing modelFrom ₹8,000/mo + 18% GST, annual contractOne-time licence from ₹2,999
Public, transparent pricingYes — published on their India pricing pageYes — every plan price is on the site
Data ownershipOn the vendor’s cloudOn your machine first, you can export
Free trial on your own dataDemo / sales-led7-day free trial, no card
Carrying your data across

Three things to do before the first live day

  1. 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.
  2. 2Pick one cut-off date the whole lab knows: bills before it stay in the old system, bills from it are in SamLab.
  3. 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.
What moves, what does not — the migration page

Stay with CrelioHealth if

your internet is dependable, you would rather rent a hosted platform with an uptime SLA than own a licence, and you need enterprise breadth (patient app, imaging) across a multi-location chain.

Move to SamLab if

outages actually stop your counter, you run a single or growing lab, and a one-time price beats a monthly bill you renew forever.

Questions labs ask

Before you switch

Is SamLab a CrelioHealth alternative for a small laboratory?

CrelioHealth is a mature cloud LIS/LIMS aimed at multi-location labs and chains, and it publishes its India pricing openly: ₹8,000/month (Standard), ₹15,000 (Advanced) and ₹25,000 (Premium), each excluding 18% GST, on an annual contract, with a one-off onboarding fee of ₹10,000–₹50,000. That fee buys a hosted platform with a 99.9% uptime SLA, and support and updates included. SamLab is the opposite trade: a one-time licence from ₹2,999 that runs offline on your own machine. If your internet is dependable and you would rather someone else ran the servers, CrelioHealth is a reasonable buy. If an outage stops your billing — or a recurring monthly fee does not fit a small lab — SamLab is cheaper and more resilient.

Can I bring my data from CrelioHealth LIS/LIMS 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 CrelioHealth?

CrelioHealth: From ₹8,000/month + 18% GST, annual contract, plus onboarding fee. SamLab publishes every plan on its pricing page — a one-time licence with an optional yearly AMC — and the 7-day trial needs no card.

Comparison methodology: competitor details are taken from each vendor’s own public website and product documentation, as read on the date shown on the page; features and pricing change, so confirm them with the vendor and in your own trial. We compare capabilities a buyer can verify, not internals, and where a vendor does not say something the cell says so. Competitor names are trademarks of their respective owners, used only to identify the product being compared. This page is published by Sammed Technosol for information and implies no affiliation with or endorsement by any vendor named. SamLab pricing reflects our published plans.

7-day free trial · no card

Try the whole lab, free for 7 days.

No card. No catch. Run SamLab on your own data — online or offline — and feel the difference before you pay a rupee.