BioRender is an online app for creating, editing, and collaborating on scientific diagrams and illustrations. It offers a large library of over 40,000 icons to create scientific posters, presentations, publications, and more.

You can use BioRender free of charge, but there are some feature limitations, and you can't use illustrations for publications or commercial purposes. BioRender offers different plans with varying licensing and usage restrictions for the images. The 14-day free trial version can be used for academic purposes such as unpublished grant applications, posters, educational presentations, or unpublished theses/dissertations. Users cannot use these figures in published works, such as journals and periodicals, without an active paid subscription.

BioRender software licenses are subscription-based. Please refer to https://www.biorender.com/pricing for pricing and more information. 

At KAUST, we don’t have this software as site licenses; the software management team does not purchase these licenses and distributes them. Users are recommended to use the department credit card to make the purchase for the referred software license or subscription if the total cost of the licenses is less than $2000 USD, or create a PR and contact procurement@kaust.edu.sa for more information. 

If your department doesn't have a KAUST credit card, you can request a virtual credit card from the finance team or use personal credit cards to make purchases and submit a claim to finance for reimbursement of costs.

NOTE: Such purchases, however, need the approval of your Business Manager. 

We can certainly assist if you want us to provide support on any technical aspects of the software administration. Send any such technical questions to Software Administration at software.administration@kaust.edu.sa about the software or licenses.