Benchling vs. Mendix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Benchling
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Benchling’s cloud platform is used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies to analyze complex datasets, streamline research workflows, design DNA using CRISPR gene-editing technology and more.
$0
per month
Mendix
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
$0
Pricing
BenchlingMendix
Editions & Modules
Academic
$0
Professional
Contact Benchling for price
Enterprise
Contact Benchling for price
Free Edition
$0
Pro Edition
1,250
per month (billed annually)
Enterprise Edition
1,675
per month (billed annually)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BenchlingMendix
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BenchlingMendix
Features
BenchlingMendix
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Benchling
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Ratings
Mendix
9.0
9 Ratings
7% above category average
Visual Modeling00 Ratings9.39 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
Platform Security00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Platform User Management00 Ratings9.49 Ratings
Reusability00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
Platform Scalability00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
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User Ratings
BenchlingMendix
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(66 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(12 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(14 ratings)
User Testimonials
BenchlingMendix
Likelihood to Recommend
Benchling, Inc.
Benchling is especially well suited to groups or contexts where there are many users who do not have a coding background but need a seamless and structured approach to data. Benchling is particularly useful in cases where there are data flows from instruments and other devices where the data can be deposited in an automated fashion. It is likely less appropriate or useful to users who are just looking for a general data warehouse solution.
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Siemens AG
Mendix excels in scenarios involving Business Process Automation, making it a strong choice for applications requiring workflow automation, including processes like request approvals, document management, and other business workflows.Conversely, Mendix may be less suitable for projects that demand highly customized solutions with extensive custom coding. Its primary focus on low-code development may not align well with the requirements of projects that heavily rely on intricate and specialized coding.
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Pros
Benchling, Inc.
  • Excellent easy to use and beautiful UI
  • Great customer support and training
  • Has no code ways of retrieving and depositing data
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Siemens AG
  • We're able to really easily develop different views that are very specific to a customer's needs or customer's different types of user needs. So for example, the production managers can have a certain view that's relevant to them and then certain line managers can have views that are specific to them that allow them to run different scenarios which they define. So it allows us to easily build customized apps for each different type of user.
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Cons
Benchling, Inc.
  • Some of the integrations can be a bit spotty so it depends on what kind of data source you are integrating
  • Sometimes new users are not always aware of all the various functionality that Benchling has - can do better to provide more user awareness of more complex features
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Siemens AG
  • Earlier versions lacked in UI/Ux. This is still improving.
  • Since everyone and anyone can create custom add ons (widgets), Mendix could improve their quality checks (but not as rigid as eg Apple).
  • Upgradeability used to be somewhat of an issue. Version 7 looks to be handling this better than previous versions.
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Usability
Benchling, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Siemens AG
A 10 would say I have nothing to wish for. A 9 means I haven't seen anything better.This tool really helps you in the whole creation and maintenace cycle, so from requirements to building/modeling to testing to deploying to capturing feedback.
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Support Rating
Benchling, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Siemens AG
Response times are quick and you will get updates regularly about the status of your request. Even with very technical questions they have specialists that can help you with your problems it will give you an answer or help you with a work around.
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Alternatives Considered
Benchling, Inc.
Benchling was much more of a full stack solution and provide much more features that were relevant to the group. Airtable was more of a generic way to manage large amounts of data, but the complexity was still high for the types of data that would be need to be managed and there would need to be some workarounds. Overall Benchling was selected since it also had an electronic lab notebook feature which was very useful to associates in addition to its data workflows.
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Siemens AG
Mendix would be my preferred system all the way. The system is designed for these kinds of works. I've worked with WP and DNN but they should be used just for websites. To create an app for a business value, I would suggest Mendix. Also, the offline capabilities of Mendix have greatly improved since the deployment of Mendix 7.13.
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Return on Investment
Benchling, Inc.
  • It had a positive ROI in terms of reducing the amount of time spent on data movement and curation by associates
  • It had a positive ROI in terms of increasing the number of insights from structured data
  • It reduced the number of data entry and analysis errors by associates which led to a positive ROI in terms of efficiency and reducing time wasted by tracking down errors in data
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Siemens AG
  • It helps to speed up application development because of its low code by the fact that it's low code. It allows professional developers to focus more on specialized application development rather than the more routine application development that business IT and super users can do for themselves with some coaching from the IT department. So it's just allowing the more specialist professional developers.net, for example, Java in our organization to focus on more complex engineering application developments.
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ScreenShots

Mendix Screenshots

Screenshot of Agile Project Management: Collaborate. Manage. Iterate.Screenshot of Central App Management: Application Management Made Easy.Screenshot of App Store: Hundreds of building blocks to get you out of the gate.Screenshot of 1-Click Deployment: Efficient DevOps. Enabled.