Five services that read the file you own, and where each one wins

• $25Promethease$25 a report, most of them ready in under ten minutes. Wins on the price of a whole-genome report and on the size of SNPedia. No evidence tiers, no pinned source version, and nothing said where the file cannot answer.
• LOCALGenetic LifehacksReads your chip file inside your own browser and never receives it. Wins on custody outright. Array files only; a genome must be converted down to one first.
• 1500+SelfDecodeIts homepage counts 1500+ health reports, and it adds lab-result analysis and an AI coach. Wins on breadth. Imputes, and says so; its help centre names no BAM or CRAM upload, and its PGx page says it does not detect gene deletions and duplications outside the listed alleles.
• $64Gene2RxA 118-medication pharmacogenetics report from a whole-genome VCF for $64. Wins on the number of pharmacogenes it reads from a VCF, and on genes per dollar from a plain one; from a gVCF ours costs less per gene. Its own guide says copy number needs raw alignment files.
• FASTQSequencing.comTakes FASTQ, BAM, CRAM, VCF and chip files, stores them free, and screens sixteen thousand conditions on its two top plans. Wins on format breadth and storage. Marketplace, subscription, and an AI whose policy says "some of your data, including your raw genetic data" may be shared with third-party AI services such as OpenAI.

How these pages are written

Every sentence about another service comes from that service's own public pages, except where the Promethease page quotes MyHeritage, which owns it, or SNPedia, the wiki it is built on, and each page states the day it was read. Where a rival's own pages disagree with each other, we say which one we quoted. We concede the categories the other service wins, because a reader who already holds a file can check, and a comparison that only ever finds for its author is not worth reading. None of this is a review; it is a description you can verify.

What this service is, in one paragraph, so the comparisons have something to compare against: a one-time re-analysis of a file you already own, from $19 for a chip export and $39 for a whole genome, with an optional $49 pharmacogenomic panel read from your aligned reads. A fixed, named panel, listed before you pay; every finding attributed to a pinned source; processed and stored in Finland and deleted after analysis by default; and a report that says where it looked and declines where the file cannot answer. No imputation and no chat.

The five services were read from their own public pages on 15 October 2026. Prices are quoted as displayed that day, in the currency shown there, and features change. We do not speak for any of them. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.