No per-form fees. No seat minimums for small teams. One platform fee that covers setup, AI parsing, and ongoing support — so you can focus on the trial, not the invoice.
All prices are USD. Pilots available. Early customers receive preferred rates locked in writing.
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For CROs and sponsors evaluating Clinly on a real protocol before full commitment.
Ideal for: CROs or sponsors evaluating automated EDC for the first time
Then migrate to a paid plan or wind down. No surprise charges.
For CROs and sponsors running a single Phase II–III trial with a full CDM team.
Ideal for: Small-to-mid CROs or biotech sponsors running a single active trial
one-time setup fee
Setup fee covers protocol onboarding, extraction tuning, and 21 CFR Part 11 configuration. Seat fee covers CDM access, query management, and ongoing support.
For CROs managing multiple concurrent trials across sponsors, sites, and therapeutic areas.
Ideal for: Mid-to-large CROs managing 3+ concurrent studies across multiple sponsors
one-time setup fee
Volume discounts available for 20+ seats. Custom contracts welcome. Setup fee negotiable for anchor customers.
Legacy EDC platforms charge $80K–$250K+ per study with multi-month setup timelines. We built a different model.
Legacy EDC setup takes 12–16 weeks. Clinly's extraction engine reduces that to under a week for most protocols. Lower setup cost reflects real labor savings — not a loss leader.
We don't penalize you for having more data. Seat-based pricing aligns our incentives with yours — we succeed when your CDM team is efficient, not when you input more forms.
Our first 3–5 commercial customers will receive preferred pricing locked in their contracts. As the platform matures, rates will increase — early adopters are protected.
Qualitative comparison based on published analyst reports and public vendor documentation.
| Feature | Clinly | Legacy EDC (Medidata, Oracle, Veeva) |
|---|---|---|
| Protocol-to-EDC setup time | 3–7 days | 12–16 weeks |
| Setup cost (typical Phase II) | $15K–$25K | $80K–$250K+ |
| Automated protocol extraction | ||
| HITL CDM review gate | ||
| Append-only audit trail | ||
| CDISC / SAS / Rave export | ||
| Modern UI / no training required | Requires certification courses | |
| Pilot / PoC option | Rarely offered | |
| SOC 2 Type II Clinly does not currently hold SOC 2 certification. We are transparent about this with all prospects. Planned for 2027. | Planned 2027 |
Setup time and cost estimates based on Tufts CSDD (2023) and TransCelerate Biopharma (2022) industry benchmarks. Legacy vendor figures are indicative; actual pricing varies by contract.
Illustrative model based on our current pricing and typical CRO study profiles.
These are illustrative projections, not financial forecasts. Actual results depend on sales cycle length, customer retention, and expansion within accounts. Full financial model available to investors upon NDA.
Legacy EDC setup runs $200K–$400K per study in programming and validation costs. Clinly Professional starts at $15K setup + seat fees. A single Phase II trial saves your organisation $150K–$330K in EDC costs — before counting the 11-week head start.
For investors: At scale, Clinly targets ~80% gross margins on platform ARR and ~93% on setup fees (AI compute + infra cost is ~$3K per trial). Full unit economics detailed in the investor overview →
Questions we hear often from CRO evaluators and procurement teams.
The setup fee covers: (1) automated protocol extraction for your specific protocol document, (2) HITL CDM review session with our team to validate all extracted visits, forms, and field mappings, (3) CDISC domain configuration for your therapeutic area, (4) 21 CFR Part 11 e-signature provisioning, and (5) onboarding and training for your CDM team. It's a one-time fee per study, not per year.
A seat is any named user with an active login who accesses the platform at least once per month. This includes CDMs, data entry coordinators, monitors, and medical reviewers. Read-only sponsor access (view-only, no data entry) is available at a reduced rate. We don't charge per site visit — just per user.
No. There are no per-subject fees, no per-CRF fees, and no per-query fees. Seat-based pricing is intentionally flat so that your costs are predictable and don't balloon as the trial recruits more subjects or generates more data. We think per-record pricing misaligns incentives.
We provide a 90-day data export window after contract end. During this period you can export all subject data, audit trails, and CRF definitions in your chosen format (CDISC ODM-XML, SAS XPT, CSV). After 90 days, data is securely deleted per our data retention policy. We never hold your data hostage — your study data is yours.
Yes. A BAA is included with Professional and Enterprise contracts. We are HIPAA-aligned in our architecture and data handling practices, and we sign BAAs as standard. For Enterprise customers, we also provide a Master Service Agreement (MSA) template.
We're transparent about this. Clinly does not currently hold SOC 2 Type II certification — we plan to pursue it in 2027 once the platform is in commercial operation. For early pilot and Professional customers, we offer a detailed security architecture review, penetration test reports, and architecture documentation in lieu of a full SOC 2 report. Many early-stage CRO partnerships proceed on this basis. If your procurement policy requires an existing SOC 2 certificate, we understand — please tell us and we'll work with you on timing.
Yes — especially for anchor customers and multi-study commitments. We're in active conversations with our first commercial partners and we're open to creative deal structures: reduced setup fees in exchange for longer-term contracts, volume discounts on seats, or co-development agreements for custom SDTM domain support. Get in touch and we'll find something that works.
Book a 30-minute demo call. We'll parse a real protocol — or yours if you share one — and walk you through the CDM workflow end to end.