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Clinical Trial Cost Calculator
Build a transparent first-pass budget from numbers you actually know. We calculate the arithmetic. We do not invent missing CRO, site, lab or vendor prices.
Your first-pass budget
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This is arithmetic from your inputs, not a CRO quote or industry-average promise. Taxes, inflation, investigator grants, pharmacy, insurance, regulatory, monitoring, data, safety, medical writing and other items may still be missing unless you entered them through CRO/vendor/pass-through fields.
What usually makes a clinical trial expensive?
Common drivers include patient count, number of sites, study duration, visit burden, screen failure, investigator grants, monitoring, data management, central labs, imaging, pharmacovigilance, regulatory work, travel, shipping, CRO project management and amendments. The important question is not merely “what does a trial cost?” but “which dollars are buying decision-quality information?”
Why no default dollar benchmark?
A benchmark can be useful for orientation, but protocol-specific site grants, geography, vendor scope and recruitment assumptions can move the real budget substantially. This calculator therefore keeps unknown costs visible instead of silently filling them with a made-up number.