Simple, transparent pricing
The edge daemon is free and open source. The cloud platform scales with your team. Every signup starts with a 30-day trial — no credit card required.
Free forever
- galois-edge daemon
- All instrument profiles
- gRPC + WebSocket APIs
- Tailscale mesh networking
- pyvisa-galois backend
- Windows (MSI) + Linux (systemd, RPi ARM64)
- Community support (GitHub)
$129/seat/mo
- Everything in Open Source
- Unlimited instruments + projects
- AI assistant (500 calls/day per seat)
- AI-generated reports + templates
- Remote Jupyter notebooks
- Real-time SSE monitoring dashboards
- Test sequences with production locking
- Topology editor (visual drag-and-drop)
- Team management + role-based access
- Dataset platform + experiment orchestration
- Full audit logging
- Email support (1 business day)
- 30-day free trial — no credit card
Custom
- Everything in Cloud Team
- SSO / SAML
- SCIM provisioning
- On-premise deployment
- Per-org Headscale namespaces (ACL isolation)
- Org-wide audit logging + compliance (FDA, ISO)
- Custom instrument profiles
- Priority support + SLA
- Webhook + data pipeline integrations (S3, Snowflake)
- Dedicated account engineer
Free
- Full Cloud Team features
- Up to 10 seats per lab group
- Unlimited instruments
- Priority profile generation
- Apply with .edu email
- No credit card required
- No time limit
Founding pricing: $99/seat/mo (annual) — locked for life
For the first 25 teams. 25 spots remaining. Grandfathered forever.
Claim founding pricingHow Galois compares
The equivalent component stack — LabVIEW + TestStand + Tailscale + Grafana + Overleaf + JupyterHub — costs $22,000–40,000/year for a 5-person team. Galois replaces all of it.
| Feature | Galois Cloud | NI LabVIEW + TestStand | Keysight PathWave | Synnax | Sift Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free / $129/seat/mo (annual) | ~$5,000/seat/year | Per-instrument licensing | Open source (no cloud) | Enterprise only |
| 5-seat team annual cost | $7,740 | $15,000–25,000+ | $10,000–30,000+ | $0 (self-hosted only) | Custom ($50K+) |
| Self-serve signup | 30-day trial, no CC | Sales process | Sales process | Sales process | |
| AI assistant | Contextual help only | ||||
| Test sequencing | Cloud-native, visual builder | Desktop, Windows-only | Limited (OpenTAP) | ||
| Remote access | Built-in (zero-config mesh) | Requires VPN + IT | Limited cloud option | Self-hosted only | |
| Import existing code | pyvisa-galois (1 line change) | LabVIEW-native only | Vendor-locked | New API required | |
| Open source | Edge daemon (MIT) | OpenTAP (MPL-2.0) | Apache-2.0 | ||
| Vendor lock-in | None (any SCPI instrument) | NI hardware preferred | Keysight only | None | None |
| Platform | Windows, Linux, RPi | Windows only | Windows primary | Linux primary | Cloud only |
| Setup time | < 5 minutes | Hours to days | Hours | Hours (self-hosted) | Weeks (onboarding) |
The same platform. Zero cost.
Verified academic institutions get full Cloud Team access — up to 10 seats per lab group, unlimited instruments, no credit card, no time limit — through the Galois Academic Program.
Learn more →Frequently asked questions
Is the edge daemon really free?▾
Yes. The galois-edge daemon is MIT-licensed open source software. You can install it, connect instruments, and use the gRPC and WebSocket APIs without creating a Galois Cloud account. No trial period, no feature limits, no strings attached. The source code is on GitHub.
Can I try the cloud platform before buying?▾
Every signup starts with a full-featured 30-day trial of Cloud Team — up to 5 seats, no credit card required. You get the full platform: AI assistant, real-time monitoring, test sequences, Jupyter notebooks, report generation, and team collaboration. After 30 days, your account transitions to our free tier. Your instruments stay connected and your data is preserved.
What happens when my trial ends?▾
Your account downgrades to Cloud Free. You keep instrument connectivity (up to 3 instruments), basic sequences, and everything you created during the trial. You lose access to AI reports, real-time streaming dashboards, notebooks, collaboration features, and audit logging. Upgrade any time to restore full access — your data is never deleted.
What instruments do you support?▾
Any instrument that speaks SCPI over GPIB, USB, LAN, or Serial. We ship pre-built semantic profiles for instruments from Keithley, Keysight, Lake Shore, Berkeley Nucleonics, and more. The daemon auto-discovers connected instruments and matches them to profiles. Cloud Team includes AI-powered PDF-to-profile generation. See the full list on our instruments page.
Can one engineer buy Cloud Team?▾
Yes. There's no seat minimum. One engineer can start with a single seat, expense it on a p-card, and add teammates later. When a colleague needs to review a sequence or view a monitoring dashboard, they'll need their own seat — the product creates the natural pull for team adoption.
What does "pyvisa-galois" mean? Why does it matter?▾
If you write Python test scripts today, you probably use PyVISA. pyvisa-galois is a drop-in backend for PyVISA. Change one import line, and your existing Python code — running in a cloud Jupyter kernel — talks to instruments through the daemon as if they were plugged into the same machine. No rewrite. No new API. Your entire existing codebase becomes cloud-native with a one-line change.
Do you support Windows?▾
Yes. The edge daemon runs natively on Windows as a Windows Service (MSI installer) and Linux (systemd, including Raspberry Pi ARM64). The cloud platform is browser-based and works on any OS.
I'm at a university. Is it really free?▾
Yes. Verified academic institutions get full Cloud Team access through the Galois Academic Program — up to 10 seats per lab group, unlimited instruments, priority profile generation, no credit card, no time limit. Learn more.
What's your founding pricing?▾
The first 25 customers get Cloud Team at $99/seat/month (annual billing) — locked for life, any number of seats. This price is grandfathered and will never increase for founding customers. Once all 25 spots are claimed, new customers pay list price.