kana
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Plans and prices
From kana's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Always free · Runs in your browser on your device |
The facts
Each one read from kana's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analysis
- It can analyze single-cell datasets and produce UMAPs, t-SNEs, clusters, and marker genes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Analysis features
- The standard workflow includes quality filtering, normalization, PCA, graph-based clustering, dimensionality reduction, marker detection, and gene set enrichment.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data import formats
- Matrix Market (.mtx), 10x HDF5, AnnData H5AD, RDS files containing SummarizedExperiment or SingleCellExperiment objects, and Bioconductor ExperimentHub datasetschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Data privacy
- The official site says analysis runs on the user's device and that data never leaves the computer.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The project can be deployed by serving its static files, including through GitHub Pages or other static hosting providers, without a backend server.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Developers
- The official site names Jayaram Kancherla and Aaron Lun as Kana's developers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Exploration
- Users can explore pre-analyzed datasets, make custom cell selections, detect markers, annotate cell types, and filter analyses by cell annotation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Input formats
- Supported inputs include Matrix Market files, HDF5 in 10x V3 or AnnData h5ad formats, RDS files containing SummarizedExperiment or derivatives such as SingleCellExperiment, and ExperimentHub IDs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The GitHub project describes kanapi as a Node API layer that can run Kana single-cell analysis in backend environments and communicate over WebSockets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Multimodal analysis
- Kana supports multimodal analysis for Cite-seq data and/or CRISPR.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Project license
- The GitHub project lists an MIT license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Kana is a web application for single-cell data analysis that runs directly in the browser.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Technical implementation
- Kana uses scran.js and WebAssembly, and runs computations in Web Workers to keep the interface responsive.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
