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CDD Vault is a browser-based scientific data management platform from Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc. that stores chemistry and biology data in one system. This page is for researchers, lab managers and research administrators who need to know what the product is, who is behind it, what it covers, and how its free and paid tiers work, so they can decide whether it belongs on a shortlist. Everything below about the product is the vendor’s own description, read on 2026-11-07, and is attributed as such.
What CDD Vault is
CDD Vault is a web-based platform for managing laboratory research data. According to the vendor’s home page, it stores “both biology and chemistry data in a single, flexible system” and is used through a browser, so collaborators share access to the same records rather than passing spreadsheets between sites. The name refers to the product; the company is Collaborative Drug Discovery, often abbreviated CDD.
Because the platform combines chemical registration with assay results and an electronic lab notebook, it sits in the overlap between the tool types described in LIMS vs ELN. If those terms are new, start with What Is a LIMS? and the dictionary entry for the electronic lab notebook (ELN).
Who runs CDD Vault and who owns it
CDD Vault is published by Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc., a private company; the vendor site carries that name in its copyright notice. The company’s Wikipedia article (a secondary source, read 2026-11-07) states that it was founded in 2004 by Barry Bunin, PhD, as a spin-out of Eli Lilly. No ownership breakdown, such as investors or a parent company, is given in the sources used for this page, so none is stated here.
What it covers
The vendor’s home page lists these capabilities. They are marketing descriptions, not independent test results.
- Chemical registration for compounds.
- Activity data and assay informatics, including dose-response curves.
- Visualization of stored data.
- Inventory of compounds, reagents, biological samples and consumables, with locations and quantities.
- Electronic lab notebook (ELN) and workflow automation.
- AI tools, listed on the home page.
- APIs, mapping tools and parsing utilities for connecting instruments and ingesting data; the site links to API documentation.
CDD Vault ELN and CDD Vault API
The ELN is a module inside the same platform rather than a separate product, per the home page. Integration is offered through APIs and the mapping and parsing utilities above; endpoints and supported formats are documented in the vendor’s API documentation.
US and EU instances
The vendor runs separate USA and EU instances of the platform. If data location matters to your institution or funder, ask the vendor which instance a Vault would sit on.
Where to find the sign-in
Sign-in is reached from the vendor’s own site, collaborativedrug.com. Account access for an existing Vault is arranged by your organization’s Vault administrator. In the vendor’s help pages, data is organized under projects and protocols and browsed through an Explore Data view.
Is CDD Vault free? Pricing and plans
Partly. A free tier exists, but it covers only the visualization module. The vendor’s pricing page (read 2026-11-07) describes three plans: Freemium, Premium and Enterprise.
| Plan | What the vendor says |
|---|---|
| Freemium | Free CDD Visualization module in the browser. Saving sessions, sharing and storing data require Premium or Enterprise. |
| Premium | Quote-based; no published price. |
| Enterprise | Quote-based; no published price. |
The pricing page also mentions a 30-day trial of the full platform and custom pricing for academic, nonprofit and small-biotech customers. The home page describes the free trial as starting with booking a demo. No price list is published, so cost comparisons require a quote. For how lab software costs are usually structured, see Benchling pricing vs LabArchives and SciNote.
Strengths and limits
Strengths, as the vendor describes them
- Chemistry and biology data in one browser-based system, which suits collaborations across sites.
- Registration, assay data, inventory and ELN in a single platform.
- A visualization module that can be used without paying.
- Separate US and EU instances.
Limits
- Saving, sharing and storing data are not part of the free tier.
- Paid plans are quote-based, so there is no public price to budget against.
- The capability statements above come from the vendor. Independent validation and regulatory-readiness evidence are outside the sources used here and are worth requesting from the vendor if they matter to your lab.
Alternatives and adjacent tool types
This table maps the kinds of system CDD Vault overlaps with to CASRAI pages on each kind. It does not rank products.
| If you need | Tool type | Read |
|---|---|---|
| A lab notebook only | Electronic lab notebook | Free and open-source ELNs |
| Sample and workflow tracking | LIMS | What Is a LIMS? |
| To understand the overlap between the two | LIMS vs ELN | LIMS vs ELN |
| Published comparisons of commercial ELNs | ELN platforms | Benchling vs LabArchives and SciNote |
FAQ
Is CDD Vault free?
Only partly. The Freemium plan gives free access to the CDD Visualization module in the browser; saving sessions, sharing and storing data need a paid Premium or Enterprise plan, which the vendor prices by quote. Academic, nonprofit and small-biotech customers are offered custom pricing. Source: vendor pricing page, read 2026-11-07.
Who owns CDD Vault?
CDD Vault is a product of Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc., a private company that Wikipedia says was founded in 2004 by Barry Bunin as a spin-out of Eli Lilly. The sources used for this page give no ownership breakdown.
Where is the CDD Vault login?
On the vendor’s site, collaborativedrug.com. Ask your organization’s Vault administrator for account access.
Is there a CDD Vault EU option?
Yes. The vendor lists separate USA and EU instances.
Sources
- Collaborative Drug Discovery, home page, collaborativedrug.com, read 2026-11-07.
- Collaborative Drug Discovery, pricing page, collaborativedrug.com/pricing, read 2026-11-07.
- Wikipedia, “Collaborative Drug Discovery”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Drug_Discovery, read 2026-11-07 (secondary source).
