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Epi Info alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of Epi Info, shown against it.
| Epi Info | REDCap | HealthMap | GISAID | |
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| Vendor | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Vanderbilt University (REDCap Consortium) | Boston Children's Hospital | GISAID |
| Pricing model | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Cloud | Cloud |
| Open source | No | No | No | No |
| Best for | Health departments and field epidemiologists needing free outbreak data collection and statistics without a commercial license. | Non-profit and academic institutions needing a self-hosted, no-license-fee platform for research and surveillance data collection. | Public health agencies and travelers wanting free, early, text-based situational awareness of emerging outbreaks. | Public health agencies and researchers needing near-real-time, attributed access to circulating pathogen genomic sequences. |
| Pricing | Free public-domain software published directly by the CDC; no license fee or paid tier. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free to non-profit and government institutions that join the REDCap Consortium and self-host; not sold commercially or per seat. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | Freely accessible website and mobile app; not a paid product. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free access after identity verification and agreement to GISAID's Database Access Agreement; it is an access-controlled data-sharing initiative, not a paid product. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. |
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