- We track 16 dental lab management platforms; none has enough public reviews (5+) to cite a rating. DentaLab for QuickBooks has 3 Capterra reviews and MyDentLab has 1 — both too thin to trust as a score, so don't let a 5.0-star listing with one review decide this for you.
- Scanner and digital-intake compatibility is the real differentiator, not the feature checklist. Every tool here does case tracking and invoicing; what actually varies is which scan sources (3Shape, iTero, Medit, DS Core, DEXIS, Glidewell, CEREC) each one documents accepting digital impressions from — see the matrix below before you shortlist on price alone.
- Price spans roughly $0 to $7,500+ per location per month — 3Shape LMS is free but only useful if you're already bought into 3Shape's ecosystem; self-serve tools for solo/small labs run $29–$299/month; Dental Lab OS, the one DSO-scale platform with published pricing, starts at $1,000/month per location and reaches $7,500 for its Enterprise Custom tier.
- 4 of the 16 we track fall below our data-completeness bar (DentaLab for QuickBooks' own cousin tools LabAnnex, Labtic, MyDentLab and OQCam) — we list them honestly with what little is public rather than pretend to a full comparison.
Search "dental lab software" and the results blur together — every one of these does case tracking, a doctor portal and invoicing, so the listings all sound the same. The differences that actually matter are size (a $29/month tool for a two-person lab isn't competing with a $7,500/month DSO platform) and which scanners and digital-intake sources each one documents accepting. This guide sorts 16 tracked platforms by price tier, lays out exactly who connects to what, and is honest about the four where public data is too thin to compare properly.
Independent: vendors cannot buy a position here. We have not tested these products hands-on; every capability is "as documented." Read the disclosure and the methodology.
What "lab management software" actually covers
Every product here is the business layer for a dental lab: tracking a case from intake to delivery, a portal for referring doctors, invoicing, and (for most) production scheduling. None of them is the design tool — that's separate CAD/CAM software — though several connect directly to one.
SimpleLabOS, Lab to Dent, EasyRx, Crownbeam, and Labtrac
Published monthly pricing, sign up without a sales call. Compared on price and scanner intake below.
3Shape LMS
No published fee, but built to run inside 3Shape's own ecosystem (3Shape Unite, 3Shape Dental System) and natively links to iTero. Not a realistic free option if you're not already on those scanners.
EviSmart LMS, GreatLab, Magic Touch, and Seazona LMS
No published price; each is explained below so you know which one actually fits before you book a demo.
Dental Lab OS
Published per-location pricing from $1,000 to $7,500/month, but below our data-completeness bar — see the DSO section for what we could and couldn't verify.
Self-serve pricing compared
These six publish a price you can act on without a sales call.
| Product | Starting price | Built for | Accounting sync |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3Shape LMS | Free | Labs already running 3Shape scanners/design software; case tracking, doctor portal, barcode/RFID. | None documented |
| SimpleLabOS | $29/mo | Small labs wanting the broadest self-serve scanner list (3Shape, Medit, iTero, exocad) at the lowest entry price. | QuickBooks, Xero |
| Lab to Dent | $70/mo | Labs wanting accounting and milling bundled into the plan tiers rather than add-ons. Built in Turkey; global geo market. | None documented |
| DentaLab for QuickBooks | — (3-yr est. ≈ $400/mo) | Labs whose bookkeeping already runs on QuickBooks — that sync is the product's whole reason to exist. | QuickBooks (native) |
| EasyRx | $99/mo | Ortho labs and practices — the only tool here documenting 7 PMS integrations (Eaglesoft, Cloud 9 Ortho, Dolphin, MaxiDent, OrthoTrac, Planmeca Romexis, TOPSOrtho). | None documented |
| Crownbeam | $127/mo | Labs that want one flat all-inclusive price with no module fees; 90-day money-back guarantee. | Documented, not named |
| Labtrac | $149/mo | Labs expecting to grow — eight published tiers from a single Starter seat up to 100-user Enterprise ($4,875/mo). | None documented |
DentaLab for QuickBooks' own site marks pricing as "public starting price" but doesn't publish a monthly figure; the ≈$400/mo shown is our estimate from its published 3-year cost ($14,400 ÷ 36), not a vendor-stated number.
Which scanners and intake sources it accepts
This is the compatibility question that actually determines whether a case flows in cleanly. The table lists only scan/digital-intake sources each vendor documents publicly — a dot means we found no public documentation, not that it definitely doesn't work.
| Product | 3Shape | iTero | Medit | DS Core | DEXIS | Glidewell | CEREC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3Shape LMS | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · |
| Crownbeam | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| EasyRx | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| EviSmart LMS | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| GreatLab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Lab to Dent | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Magic Touch | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · |
| Seazona LMS | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| SimpleLabOS | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · |
| DentaLab for QuickBooks | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Labtrac | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
Seazona LMS and GreatLab document the broadest intake lists; Labtrac, EviSmart LMS and DentaLab for QuickBooks don't publish one at all — ask directly whether your referring dentists' scanners are supported before you sign a contract.
Quote-only options, and what each is actually built for
No published price on any of these four, so the decision comes down to fit, not a monthly-plan comparison.
EviSmart LMS
EviSmart LMS is a comprehensive lab management system designed to track cases, schedule production, and manage billing for dental labs.
GreatLab
GreatLab is a cloud-based lab management platform designed for dental labs, offering workflow automation, scanner integrations, and HIPAA compliance.
Magic Touch
DLCPM Enterprise offers comprehensive cloud-based management for dental laboratories, covering case tracking, production, and customer relations.
Seazona LMS
Cloud-based dental lab management software offering case tracking, doctor portals, and integrations with popular intraoral scanners.
DSO-scale: Dental Lab OS
Dental Lab OS is the one platform here built explicitly for dental service organizations and multi-location lab groups, and unusually for that tier, it publishes real per-location numbers: $1,000/month (Standard Hosted), $3,500/month (Dedicated Private) and $7,500/month (Enterprise Custom) — a published 3-year cost of $36,000 at the entry tier. We mark it below our 0.70 data-completeness bar (0.67) because we couldn't independently verify its scanner-intake or PMS integrations the way we could for the smaller tools above, so treat the pricing as solid and everything else as worth confirming directly.
Tracked, but too little public data to fully compare
These four show up in "dental lab software" searches, but each has either no working website, no published pricing details, or too few documented features for us to place them confidently next to the tools above.
| Product | What we could confirm |
|---|---|
| LabAnnex | Publishes a $35/month flat price with a 90-day free trial, aimed at startups and small labs — but documents almost no other features (no scan-intake list, no accounting sync), so there's little to compare it on beyond price. |
| Labtic | Lists a free tier (50 cases/month) up to $129/month, but has no working vendor website we could verify and almost no documented features — the thinnest entry we track in this category. |
| MyDentLab | Quote-only, no working vendor website found; its single Capterra review (5.0 from 1 rating) is not enough to mean anything. |
| OQCam | Quote-only; documents a single integration (Dandy) and claims some AI-driven scheduling, but we found nothing else to verify that claim against. |
What it costs
The real range is wider than any one pricing page suggests: free if you're fully inside one vendor's ecosystem, $29–$299/month self-serve for most independent labs, and $1,000–$7,500/month per location once you're buying for a DSO.
- Price the scanner lock-in, not just the subscription. If your biggest referring practice switches scanners and your lab management tool doesn't document that intake source, you lose the case regardless of what the monthly fee is.
- Ask what "free" leaves out. 3Shape LMS has no license fee, but it only pays off inside 3Shape's own hardware and design-software ecosystem — compare total cost, not just the LMS line item.
- For the quote-only tools, ask for a per-case or per-location number up front — none of EviSmart LMS, GreatLab, Magic Touch or Seazona LMS publishes one, and the sales process is where real price differences between them show up.
Related reading: best dental practice management software if you're comparing the practice side rather than the lab side, and the full lab management category page for every tracked product.
FAQ
What is the best dental lab management software?
It depends on lab size and which scanners you need to accept cases from — none of the 16 we track has enough independent reviews to declare a single winner. For a solo or small lab on a budget, SimpleLabOS, Lab to Dent, and LabAnnex publish the lowest self-serve prices. For a mid-size lab wanting broad scanner intake, Seazona LMS documents the most (5 of 7 sources we checked). For a DSO running multiple locations, see the Dental Lab OS section below.
How much does dental lab management software cost?
Self-serve tools for solo and small labs run roughly $29–$299 a month depending on tier (SimpleLabOS, Lab to Dent, EasyRx, Crownbeam, Labtrac). 3Shape LMS is free, but only pays off if you are already running 3Shape scanners and design software. Quote-only platforms (EviSmart LMS, GreatLab, Magic Touch, Seazona LMS) don't publish a number at all. At the DSO end, Dental Lab OS starts at $1,000/month per location and reaches $7,500/month for its Enterprise Custom tier — the only platform here with a published enterprise price.
Is 3Shape LMS really free?
Yes — 3Shape lists LMS with a free Essentials tier and no published monthly fee. The catch is that it's built to run inside 3Shape's own ecosystem (3Shape Unite, 3Shape Dental System, and it natively links to iTero). If your lab isn't already on 3Shape scanners and design software, the free price doesn't mean free to adopt.
Does dental lab management software work with my intraoral scanner?
Check the compatibility table below — it only lists what each vendor documents publicly. Seazona LMS names the most scan sources (3Shape, Medit, DS Core, DEXIS, Glidewell); several vendors, including Labtrac and EviSmart LMS, don't publish a scanner-intake list at all, which is itself worth asking about before you sign up.
What is the difference between dental lab management software and dental CAD/CAM software?
Lab management software is the business layer: case tracking, doctor portals, invoicing and production scheduling. It is not the design tool — the actual crown, bridge or denture design happens in separate CAD software (like exocad or 3Shape Dental System) and gets milled or printed with separate CAM/slicer software. Several of these platforms (3Shape LMS, SimpleLabOS, GreatLab) connect to that design software; none of them replace it.
Which dental lab management software integrates with QuickBooks?
DentaLab for QuickBooks is built specifically around that sync. SimpleLabOS and Dental Lab OS also document QuickBooks and Xero integrations; Crownbeam and EviSmart LMS list accounting integrations without naming the specific package.
Method & sources
We track 16 entities under "lab management." 6 publish self-serve pricing, 4 are quote-only but documented enough to compare on fit, 1 (Dental Lab OS) is a DSO-scale platform with published per-location pricing but below our indexability bar, and 4 have too little public data to compare fully. We did not test these products hands-on; every capability and price in the tables below links to its source via the product page, and only one product (DentaLab for QuickBooks) had enough public reviews (3) to even mention a score — we flag that count rather than present it as a reliable rating.
Product facts come from the Denture-ID database, where every field links to the vendor page or document it was taken from — open any product profile to see them. Rankings use the Data Index; vendors cannot pay to change a position. Found an error? Tell us.
- Labtrac — Pricing — published tiered pricing, Starter through Enterprise
- 3Shape — LMS product page — free Essentials tier, scan-source integrations
- Crownbeam — product site — flat $127/month pricing, 90-day money-back guarantee
- Seazona — LMS product page — scan-intake integration list
- Capterra — DentaLab for QuickBooks — review count and score (n=3) — flagged as too thin to rank by
- Denture-ID Data Index methodology — why we flag low-data-completeness products instead of scoring them like the rest