Last Updated on September 11, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

How much does a BioSemi biopotential measurement system cost?

• Approximate costs for hardware complete with active electrodes

• Prices are excluding PC & analysis software & excluding VAT.

Nr of channels	Cost in Euro
8	14,500
16+8	18,000
32+8	22,000
64+8	30,000
128+8	45,000
160+8	53,000
256+8	76,000

https://www.biosemi.com/faq/prices.htm

For those for which these costs are to high, we suggest to to promote this development based on OpenBCI Cyton boards:

Revolutionary MQTT Streaming over Multiple OpenBCI WIFI Shields into InfluxDB to Reduce the Costs of EEG Devices Drastically

OpenBCI Cyton on Aliexpress for 225.15 USD:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002683593981.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.f06c6eeaKnMVtH&algo_pvid=4c2be5d4-5b2f-4053-b480-3966f9c2663a&algo_exp_id=4c2be5d4-5b2f-4053-b480-3966f9c2663a-35&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000021706301225%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21USD%21248.62%21231.22%21%21%21%21%21%4021031a5516627756514911149e4fb8%2112000021706301225%21sea&curPageLogUid=VhkF05Il18Oa

OpenBCI WIFI shield on Aliexpress for 113.31 USD:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004557671487.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.500a6c6aXDz2Lt&algo_pvid=a04690ec-255c-4c56-81c6-aba9005c4824&algo_exp_id=a04690ec-255c-4c56-81c6-aba9005c4824-36&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000029604648514%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21USD%21120.0%21114.0%21%21%21%21%21%402101d8b516629118800493148e5703%2112000029604648514%21sea&curPageLogUid=iNv4L1HANqpd

Costs: 225.15 USD OpenBCI Cyton + US $113.31 OpenBCI WIFI = 328.46 USD

for 256 channels, 32 OpenBCI Cyton boards + 32 OpenBCI WIFI shields required, gives:

10`510 72 USD

256 Channel EEG with OpenBCI, WIFI Shield & InfluxDB 10`510 USD

256 Channel EEG with Biosemi 77`000 USD

OpenBCI is currently not interested in the developement, they invest their effort mainly in the developement of OpenBCI Galea.

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/174/larger-number-of-channels#latest