For Academic Labs & Institutes

One Platform for Your Entire Research Lab

Stop juggling VESTA, ICSD, your own Python scripts, and three different visualisation tools. MatCraft unifies search, structure editing, electronic analysis, and IP scouting — free for academics.

The Problem

Sound familiar?

Tool Sprawl Wastes Time

A typical computational lab uses 4-6 separate tools for structure visualisation, property search, plotting, and export — each with its own login and file format.

Expensive Group Licences

Research group licences for commercial materials databases and visualisation software consume a significant share of grant budgets every year.

No Reproducible Data Citations

Citing which version of a database a property value came from is critical for reproducibility — but most tools make this impossible to track.

The Solution

How MatCraft fixes it

Everything in One Tab

Search, view 3D structures, plot band structures, compare materials, and export — all without leaving the browser.

Free for Academics

The Researcher plan is free forever. Academic groups get Lab Pro features at no cost during the beta programme.

Proper DOI Citations

Every material page includes a formatted citation with database version and retrieval date. Copy BibTeX with one click.

Key Features

Built for Academic Labs & Institutes

Unified Workspace

Search, structure viewer, property plots, and comparator all in one application. No context-switching between tools.

Jupyter Export

Export any material or dataset as a Jupyter notebook pre-loaded with property data, structure, and plotting code.

DOI & BibTeX Citations

Machine-readable citations on every material page — track exactly where each property value came from for reproducible science.

GDPR-Compliant

All data processing is EU-GDPR compliant. No personal research data is ever sold or used for third-party training.

My group used to maintain three separate Python scripts just to pull data from different databases. MatCraft replaced all of them and our students actually use it because it's intuitive.

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Prof. Erik Lindqvist

Principal Investigator · Functional Nanomaterials Lab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Pricing built for academic labs & institutes

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Real Stripe-live prices. Every credit pack is valid 12 months; every subscription rolls 30 days and cancels any time. Stripe-hosted checkout — we never see a card number.

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Free — Academic

$0forever
10 signup credits + roll-over

The default tier for every academic lab — coursework, thesis work, and most published studies fit here.

  • Unified workspace (search + 3D + plots + comparator)
  • DOI + BibTeX citations on every material
  • Jupyter notebook export with property data pre-loaded
  • GDPR-compliant — EU-only data processing option
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Monthly subscription

Lab Professional

$149/mo
$0.75 / credit
200 credits / mo · shared by lab members

When your group runs IP-Radar-heavy grant deliverables or publishes 5+ papers / yr using MatCraft data.

  • REST API for grant-funded data pipelines
  • Campaign engine for multi-objective search
  • Deep Scan credits for thesis IP reviews
  • Priority support (4h SLA)
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Institute licence

Customannual
Unlimited seats · pooled credits

For universities or national labs — one invoice, unlimited student seats, and a named CSM who understands DFT.

  • Institute-wide SSO (eduGAIN, Shibboleth, SAML)
  • Locked-in pricing for 3-year licence
  • DPA + public-sector procurement docs on request
  • Dedicated scientist CSM (PhD Materials)
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