We find it to be pretty competitive for our needs (PCR, genotyping, long-term storage). PCR is something like ~$1.50/rxn with our standard genotyping protocol,

We find it to be pretty competitive for our needs (PCR, genotyping, long-term storage). PCR is something like ~$1.50/rxn with our standard genotyping protocol, which works out to ~$0.30-0.40 more than the same reaction run in house. If I recall correctly, the cost per rxn goes down if you run more in parallel, because they share the same instrument time. Setting up that reaction might take me ~0.5 hours base, and 0.05 hours for each subsequent reaction prepared in parallel. Grad students are cheap, but even valuing my skilled labor at minimum wage, it's cheaper to use Transcriptic.