Images · Pathology slide archives · Updated 30 Oct 2026
Can a pathology lab license its whole-slide images to AI companies, and what is a slide worth?
AIData.Broker represents the companies and people that hold pathology slides when they sell to AI labs: we value what they hold against public prices, describe it without their name to every buyer that takes it at the same time and help negotiate the terms. Our fee is 12% of the first $250,000 a sale pays, and nothing if no sale closes.
Scanned tissue slides (H&E and special stains) with their diagnoses and reports. Pathology models need many slides of each diagnosis, and few archives outside large hospitals are scanned.
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asking prices off the shelf
- Who holds it
- Independent pathology laboratories, Hospital pathology departments, Biobanks and tissue repositories
- Who has paid, offered or listed
- HistAI, National Cancer Institute
The short answer · figures from the market's records, last reviewed 30 Oct 2026
Can a pathology lab license its whole-slide images to AI companies, and what is a slide worth?
Yes, de-identified, and what a slide fetches turns on its stain and how many come together. HistAI lists H&E whole-slide images with a perpetual commercial licence at $5 a slide for a few and $2 in bulk, and IHC and other stains at $40 down to $23. The National Cancer Institute's imaging archive gives other collections away free, so buyers pay for what public archives lack: rare diagnoses, special stains and each slide's report. The slide label is scanned with the tissue, so it comes off before anything leaves.
What buyers have paid, offered or asked for pathology slides
The whole price boardEvery price in the market's records about pathology slides, each with its source and the day it was read. Open a row for the source's own words.
9 public prices
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1–99 slide tier
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$5.00
per slide, 1–99 tier
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 100–999 slide tier
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$4.00
per slide, 100–999 tier
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1000–9999 slide tier
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$3.00
per slide, 1000–9999 tier
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 10000+ slide tier
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$2.00
per slide, 10000+ tier
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1–99 slide tier
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$40
per slide, 1–99 tier
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 100–999 slide tier
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$32
per slide, 100–999 tier
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1000–9999 slide tier
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$27
per slide, 1000–9999 tier
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 10000+ slide tier
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026A catalogue or marketplace listing
$23
per slide, 10000+ tier
The Cancer Imaging Archive (NCI) collections (CT, MRI, PET, pathology) under CC BY 3.0 or 4.0
The zero-price public anchor for oncology imaging (CT, MRI, PET, pathology); a few collections are non-commercial or under NIH controlled access.
ImagesAsking prices off the shelfOct 2026The payer's own page
free
per collection download
- Special stains (IHC) beside H&E
- The diagnosis and report with each slide
- Rare diagnoses in numbers
- Outcomes or treatment linked to the case
Slides and their reports are patient health information: under HIPAA they leave only de-identified, which for slides includes the label and barcode scanned with the tissue. Slides a lab read for a hospital or a client may need that client's agreement too.
Who has bought, offered or listed pathology slides
National Cancer InstituteBuyers that take images, and what each publishes
11 buyers taking images, largest published figure first
Hold pathology slides? A valuation takes about two minutes: it says what buyers pay and whether we would run the sale. Prices last read 30 Oct 2026.
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