GraphPad Prism alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of GraphPad Prism, shown against it.

GraphPad Prism JMP Minitab Stata
Vendor Dotmatics (GraphPad Software) SAS Institute Inc. (JMP Statistical Discovery) Minitab, LLC StataCorp LLC
Pricing model Subscription Quote only Subscription Subscription
Free tier No Yes No No
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source No No No No
Best for Bench scientists and clinical researchers who need guided statistics and journal-ready graphs without programming. Engineers and scientists running design-of-experiments work and visual exploratory analysis. Quality engineers and Six Sigma practitioners running statistical process control and DOE without programming. Economists, epidemiologists, and social scientists who need reproducible, command-driven statistical analysis.
Pricing

Per-seat annual subscription tiered by student/academic/corporate status, a monthly option, and one-time perpetual licenses without upgrades.

Personal – Student $142/year
Personal – Academic $260/year
Personal – Corporate $520/year
Perpetual – Corporate $3,200 one-time

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Annual per-seat subscription with volume discounts; exact prices are not published and require the JMP store or a sales quote. JMP Student Edition is free for students and educators.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Named-user annual subscription bundling desktop and online access at three tiers, plus separately priced industry add-on modules.

Solution Center Core $2,394.00 USD/year
Solution Center Analytics $2,593.50 USD/year
Solution Center Copilot $2,793.00 USD/year
Industry module (add-on) $528.00 USD/year each

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Single-user annual or perpetual license by edition (BE/SE/MP); multi-user network and volume licenses priced by quote.

Stata/MP (annual, download) $995.00/year

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Guided decision-tree test selection
  • Nonlinear regression and curve fitting
  • Survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier)
  • Publication-ready chart templates
  • Linked data-analysis-graph traceability
  • Sample size and power calculators
  • Cloud workspace for sharing projects
  • Dynamically linked interactive data visualization
  • Design of experiments (DOE)
  • Predictive modeling and machine learning (JMP Pro)
  • Reliability and quality/Six Sigma analysis
  • JSL scripting for automation
  • Interactive dashboards and reports
  • JMP Live for sharing analyses without a full license
  • Statistical process control (SPC) charts
  • Design of experiments (DOE)
  • Measurement systems analysis (MSA)
  • Reliability and survival analysis
  • Guided Assistant for test selection
  • Predictive analytics add-on module
  • Macro scripting for automation
  • Built-in library of regression and panel-data estimators
  • Survival and time-series analysis
  • Complex survey design and weighting
  • Do-file scripting for reproducible analysis
  • Mata matrix programming language
  • Publication-quality graphics
  • Extensible via user-written commands (SSC archive)

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