How much does it cost to analyze your 23andMe or AncestryDNA raw data?

You already paid to generate your raw DNA file. Reading what is in it should not cost you a recurring fee for the rest of your life. Here is what the options actually cost in 2026, and what you are really paying for.

The landscape, plainly

Analyzing a raw 23andMe or AncestryDNA file falls into a few price tiers (verify current pricing on each provider’s own site, since it changes):

• Free, do it yourself: SNPedia and CPIC (cpicpgx.org) let you look up individual markers by hand. No cost, full control, but slow and it assumes some genetics literacy.
• Genetic Genie: free or donation-based, focused on methylation and detox genes. Your file is uploaded to their servers.
• Promethease: about $25 one-time. Thousands of findings ranked by a community “Magnitude” score for you to triage. Upload-based.
• SelfDecode: about $99 per year. A broad subscription dashboard. Your genetic data lives in their cloud, and access ends when you stop paying.
• Verinome: $49 one-time. About 205 findings, each graded A to D by strength of evidence, parsed in your browser so the file never uploads. No subscription, no account.

One-time versus subscription is the real cost question

Your germline DNA does not change. The nucleotide at a given position is the same next year as it is today. So a subscription to look at immutable data is a recurring charge for something static. Over five years, a $99 per year subscription is nearly $500; a one-time $49 report is $49, and you keep the result. There is also a quieter cost to a subscription: an ongoing billing relationship is a standing reason for a company to keep your genetic data on its servers.

What the price actually buys

Cost is not just the number. It is worth asking, for any tool, what the payment gets you and what it exposes:

• Does your raw file get uploaded, or parsed on your device? You can check this in the Network tab of your browser before paying anything.
• Do you keep the result if the company disappears, or does access end with your subscription?
• Are weak findings labeled as weak, or presented with the same confidence as strong ones?

The honest bottom line

If you want the widest possible net and do not mind uploading your file, Promethease at about $25 is hard to beat on coverage per dollar. If you want an ongoing, continuously updated dashboard, that is the subscription category. If you want a single, evidence-graded report that you keep forever, without an upload or a recurring fee, that is what Verinome is built for at $49 once. You can run the free preview on your own file first, no account and no card, and see real graded results before deciding.

See exactly what the $49 report includes, the full comparison against every option above, or why we chose one-time pricing.

Educational, not medical advice. Third-party pricing changes; verify on each provider’s current site.