BioCyc Academic/Non-Profit Subscriptions
Academic/Non-Profit subscriptions provide unlimited, unrestricted access to the BioCyc.org website, which currently contains more than 20,000 databases.
Subscriptions of cost $5,000 or more also include access to the downloadable BioCyc data files.
Purchase an Academic/Non-Profit Subscription for an Individual or Lab
Purchase a subscription by credit card -- provides one year of access to the BioCyc.org website by a single person or lab. A lab is a group of students, post-docs, and staff scientists who report to a single PI (Principal Investigator).
Contact your institution's Library or Information Technology (IT) department -- in many cases they will purchase a subscription for the entire institution (see below) at no cost to you.
| Purchase for | Academic/Non-Profit 2026 (USD) |
| Individual | $400 |
| Student | $49 |
| Lab ≤ 5 people | $720 |
| Lab ≤ 10 people | $900 |
| Lab ≤ 15 people | $1,100 |
| Lab ≤ 15 people with database download access | $5,000 |
Purchase an Institutional Academic/Non-Profit Subscription
Subscription Pricing
Subscription prices for the first year are based on the size of the organization and are likely correlated to the amount of usage. Pricing in subsequent years is based on usage in the previous year. A description of how we count usage is here. Contact us for details.
An academic consortium discount is available if two or more institutions in the same university system subscribe and pay under one transaction. Please contact us for more information.