Membership Plans

Function or activity	Level of membership (monthly cost, net of tax)
Function or activity	Basic (free)	Premium (12 EUR)	Nonprofit (90 EUR)	Marketplace (160 EUR)	Recruiter (192 EUR)
Creating a profile
People page
Lab page
Nonprofit page
Marketplace page
Posting
Unlimited posts
Instant messaging *
Unlimited within network
Initial messaging outside network
Initial messaging to those open to contact from recruiters
Uploading content
Up to 2 Mb per image, 5 Mb per doc, 50 Mb per video -- total upload up to 1 Gb monthly
Up to 20 Mb per image, 50 Mb per doc, 150 Mb per video -- total upload up to 5 Gb monthly
Listing and viewing careers
Unlimited
Participating in Communities
Join Communities
Create and moderate Communities
Other functions
Special identifier badge
Completely ad-free experience

* Your network are the Iris members whom you follow and who follow you. 'Initial messaging' means that you can send one message but not further messages unless the recipient messages you back.

Last updated: 30 July 2026

support@irisbio.org

The issues around publishing, peer-review and careers are complex. We do believe, however, it should be much easier and more rewarding for scientists to share and communicate their work. This is our aspiration with Iris.

Professor Phil Wigge

Co-developer, Iris

Iris gives scientists the chance to interact and influence one another much more efficiently than through the traditional publication cycle or even existing social media. It’s just scientists talking to scientists on a secure platform designed specifically for them.

Chapin Rodríguez PhD

Co-developer, Iris

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The Library on your Profile is visible only to you. You can choose to share your Library resources with anyone, with only your labmates or only certain people.

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Chat with several people at once through a Group Chat within “Messaging”. For bigger groups or more complex projects, upgrade to Premium and create a Community!

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Use Communities to exchange with others on the same project, topic, event. Share papers, ideas, protocols, code... The sky is the limit! Communities can be public or invitation-only.

Let’s do this through Iris.

Message us on Iris or send an email to feedback@irisbio.org

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If the global “Search” window isn’t enough, dig deeper into the Iris universe using our own AIris: ask it about researchers, funding, companies and careers. The entire Iris universe at your fingertips!

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If you’re part of a lab, you can use Iris as a “lab intranet” to post text and resources only to your labmates. For more “intranet” functions, upgrade to Premium and create a Community of your labmates, whether you’re five people in one country or 100 people across three continents.

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If you’re a lab director, showcase your lab’s activities on a Public Lab Feed, to which only authorized members of your lab can post. This feed appears only on your Lab page, separate from your personal feed. A sleek storefront for your lab, with you in complete control.

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Eager to recruit new talent into your laboratory? List career opportunities on Iris, where you are certain to find qualified candidates from among the carefully vetted membership. Review candidate profiles on Iris and communicate with them directly-all through a single, secure platform.

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Freely share hypotheses, harebrained ideas and preliminary data with confidence that you’re interacting with real colleagues in a safe, secure environment. Iris membership is limited to those active in life sciences, and all your content remains yours-it will never be sold or shared with third parties.

Private community project coordination tip card

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If you’re coordinating a big project, create a private Community to allow secure instant messaging, exchange of documents and ideas, and follow-up after the work has been completed.

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Whether you’re a big company or a three-person consultancy, use Iris to present your products and services and projects in rich detail. Share downloadable resources. Network users through Communities to exchange best practices and follow up after the sale.

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Are you a scientific journalist or journal editor looking for the next rising star or the next breakthrough on the horizon? View rich multimedia profiles of the carefully vetted Iris community and participate in their pre-publication conversations.

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To message an Iris member, you need to follow that member, and that member needs to follow you. This means you two are networked.

An alternative path to networking: all paid memberships on Iris allow you to write an initial message to a member outside your network. If the member messages you back, you two are networked.

Iris requires its members to have active links to a recognized life sciences organization, whether a university, private company, hospital, publisher or foundation. Members might be researchers, consultants, pharmacists, clinicians, journalists, editors, recruiters… and everything in between.

All together, on one secure platform. A community you won’t find anywhere else.

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If you’re director of a research group, create a Lab Page to present your science to the world in a rich, multimedia format and to enable secure exchange of messages and resources within your lab. If you work within someone else’s research group, tell the director/supervisor to join Iris for free and create a Lab page.

Lab intranet, instant messaging and a global storefront — all in one!

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Create a Group Chat with up to 24 other researchers and exchange instant messages and resources rapidly and securely! You can give the Group Chat a name and you can add or remove members at any time.

If your team is larger or the project is more complex, create a Community!