What SPSS actually costs
IBM licenses SPSS by the seat. The base subscription lists at about 105 USD per user per month as of 2026, student GradPacks are cheaper but expire, and campus access ends the day you leave the institution. For most health researchers the license buys the same short list of jobs every time: compare two groups, compare several, test a table, fit a regression.
Those tests, free in the browser
- t-tests: independent (Welch), paired, and one-sample
- One-way ANOVA with Tukey HSD post-hoc comparisons
- Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon signed-rank, and Kruskal-Wallis for non-normal data
- Chi-square with Fisher's exact, and McNemar for paired proportions
- Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall correlation
- Regression: linear, binary logistic, log-binomial, conditional logistic, Poisson, Cox proportional hazards, and multinomial
- Kaplan-Meier survival with the log-rank test, ROC curves with AUC, diagnostic accuracy, and ICC
- Multiple-comparison corrections: Bonferroni, Holm, Benjamini-Hochberg
Paste your data from a spreadsheet or upload a CSV or Excel file. Every result reports the test statistic, the p-value, and the formula it came from, with a citation you can put in your methods section. As a free SPSS alternative online there is no download, no license server, and no expiry, and because the tests run in your browser, pasted data stays on your device.
Built for health research
Covexe is an evidence-synthesis platform, so the statistics sit inside the review workflow itself: meta-analysis validated against R's metafor, network meta-analysis, GRADE, PRISMA, and literature screening in one project. If your thesis has a systematic review chapter and an analysis chapter, both live in the same free workspace.
An honest note
SPSS is a large product. Factor analysis, mixed and multilevel models, complex survey weighting, and structural equation modeling through Amos have no equivalent here. If your methods depend on those, keep the license. If your analysis is the list above, you can stop paying for it.