BioRender

BioRender is scientific figure and illustration software for researchers, used by over 4 million scientists and thousands of research institutions to create publication-ready figures, posters and presentations. It serves academia, industry and students, from a single postdoc to pharma teams who need consistent, peer-reviewed visuals for grants, journals and regulatory filings.

A user searches a library of 50,000+ PhD-vetted icons across 30+ life science disciplines, drags them onto a canvas with arrows and labels, or describes a figure to Leo, BioRender's AI agent, which plans the layout and builds an editable draft from a prompt or sketch. Every AI-generated element, whether an icon, flowchart, protocol or timeline, stays fully editable afterward.

Beyond illustration, BioRender includes a graphing tool that turns CSV, Excel or Prism files into publication-quality graphs, a Poster Builder for full-sized research posters, and shared workspaces for real-time team co-editing. Exported figures carry a usage license statement and citation for journals, and the software has been cited in over 500,000 publications, including work by 15+ Nobel Prize winners.

BioRender offers a Free plan at $0 per month for up to 3 figures without publication rights, an Individual academic plan from $35 per month with unlimited figures and publishing rights, and Lab, Institution and Enterprise plans for teams, alongside an Industry Individual plan from $95 per month. A 14-day free trial is available on paid plans, and BioRender was founded in 2017 by Shiz Aoki, Katya Shteyn and Ryan Marien.

Use cases

• Manuscript figures for journal submission
• Grant diagrams and Specific Aims pages
• Executive and board presentations in industry
• FDA and regulatory submission figures
• Conference posters and seminar slides