A Global25 analysis is arithmetic on a 25-number coordinate row: distances to reference populations, a mixture of source populations that lands closest to your point, and a projection onto a scatter of other samples. The arithmetic is public and free, which is why the honest question is not "who can compute this" but "what do I get on top of the arithmetic, and can I check it". This directory lists every service I could find that sells or offers a Global25 analysis in 2026, with the same facts for each.
I run one of them, Ancestry Map, Ancestrify's Global25 analysis, so every competitor entry is kept to what is readable on the competitor's own site, with "not stated on their site" where it is not. Facts were read on each site on 2026-09-01 and may have changed since.
What separates the services#
Four things, in the order they matter.
Whether the coordinates are official. Official Global25 rows come only from Davidski's independent G25 Requests portal; some services compute a derived or simulated row of their own. Every downstream number inherits the row. Where to buy G25 coordinates covers that market on its own.
Whether the source panels are published. An admixture percentage means nothing without the panel it was fitted against. A service that shows you the percentages but not the populations the model was offered, including the ones it rejected, has shown you half a result.
Whether anyone builds a calculator around you. Every published calculator is a compromise chosen to work for a whole region. A calculator built around one customer's row is a different product, and as of the date above only one service on this list advertises it.
The price model. One-time reports, subscriptions, credit budgets and lifetime packs are all represented below. None is wrong; each suits a different way of using the tools.
Ancestrify#
| Type | One-time analysis on a calculator our analyst builds around your row, approved by a person before the report opens |
| Coordinates | Official row only: pasted, or obtained from the G25 Requests portal on your behalf (Coordinate Concierge, 15 EUR pass-through) |
| What comes back | Distances, admixture and PCA across six eras against 1,535 curated populations from 30,386 individual samples; Notable Matches against 329 famous ancient individuals, free; a rendered Globe film of your sources |
| Transparency | Every era lists the full source panel the model was offered, split into the populations it used and the ones it rejected; the calculator, the place it was built for and the panel size are stated on every era; every fit is reported with its fit distance; the calculator's panel is yours to copy into any Global25 tool |
| Calculator built around you | Yes, in every report: our analyst builds it around your own coordinates and a person reviews and approves it, at no extra cost |
| Price model | 29.99 EUR one-time, the calculator included; optional one-time add-ons only (Coordinate Concierge 15 EUR, fast compute 10 EUR) |
| Hosting | European Union, under GDPR |
A calculator built around each customer is the part of this product that does not exist elsewhere on this list. How it is built, and why a lower fit distance is not the goal, is in the explainer. The free half of the product, the same distance, admixture and PCA arithmetic in the browser with no account, is at /lab.
Illustrative DNA (DeepAncestry)#
| Type | Coordinate-based ancient-ancestry report across six periods |
| Coordinates | Their own coordinate system; raw DNA file input |
| What comes back | Distances, an unsupervised analysis enumerating top-ranked three-component mixtures of averaged coordinates, PCA and hierarchical clustering |
| Transparency | Population lists per period; whether rejected sources are shown is not stated on their site |
| Calculator built around you | Not advertised on their site |
| Price model | Prices not stated on the pages read; AdmixLab, their separate qpAdm environment, is a subscription |
Choose it if you want a six-period coordinate report in one purchase and prefer a larger company.
DNAGENICS (G25 Studio)#
| Type | Tool platform with a free tier and one-time packs |
| Coordinates | Their own derived G25 coordinates, sold at 14 EUR or included in packs |
| What comes back | A studio of calculators (their explorer lists over 400 by community authors), PCA and UMAP projections, plus deep-ancestry reports inside the packs |
| Transparency | Each community calculator lists its populations; the projection behind the coordinates is described as G25-derived |
| Calculator built around you | Not advertised on their site |
| Price model | Free tier after upload; Starter Pack listed at 90 EUR and Explorer Pack at 140 EUR, both shown discounted on their site, lifetime access |
Choose it if you want the widest catalog of community calculators under one roof and are content with a derived row.
Genoplot#
| Type | Free-to-start platform with credit-based tiers |
| Coordinates | Free Geno25 simulation of a coordinate row from the uploaded file |
| What comes back | Over 500 admixture calculators, an nMonte runner, PCA plots and whole-genome imputation |
| Transparency | Calculator populations are listed; model output is the tool's own |
| Calculator built around you | Not advertised on their site |
| Price model | Free tier with 100 credits; Basic and Pro tiers allocate monthly credits, prices not stated in currency on the pages read |
Choose it if you want the largest self-serve library and an active forum, and do not need the official row.
ExploreYourDNA#
| Type | Free browser tools plus paid focus reports |
| Coordinates | Their tools take an official row; their site sends visitors to the G25 Requests portal to get one, and offers a free simulated row via a K36 converter |
| What comes back | A G25 analyzer with 2-, 4-, 8- and 16-way models, a decoder, PCA viewers, and regional reports (Anatolian, Jewish, African-diaspora and Levant-Caucasus focus reports) with a generated narrative |
| Transparency | Model inputs are visible in the tools; the narrative reports' source panels are not stated on the pages read |
| Calculator built around you | Not advertised on their site |
| Price model | Tools free; reports listed at 15 EUR each, a larger analysis at 25 EUR |
Choose it if you want many free browser tools and a themed narrative report for a specific background.
Vahaduo#
| Type | Free browser tools |
| Coordinates | Takes an official row; provides the reference spreadsheets for download |
| What comes back | Admixture proportions and distances, custom PCA, 2D and 3D views |
| Transparency | Complete: you choose every source yourself |
| Calculator built around you | You are the calculator author |
| Price model | Free, Patreon-supported |
The workbench most of the hobby uses. It is the right choice for anyone who already knows how to choose a source panel; the Vahaduo tutorial covers a defensible routine.
Side by side#
| Service | Official row | Panels published in full | Rejected sources shown | Calculator built around you | Price model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancestrify | Yes | Yes, every calculator and every era | Yes | Yes, included | One-time, 29.99 EUR |
| Illustrative DNA | Own system | Per period | Not stated | No | Not stated |
| DNAGENICS | Derived | Per calculator | Not stated | No | Free tier; packs 90 and 140 EUR list |
| Genoplot | Simulated | Per calculator | Tool output | No | Free tier; credit tiers |
| ExploreYourDNA | Official or simulated | In the tools | Tool output | No | Free tools; 15 EUR reports |
| Vahaduo | Official | You choose them | You decide | You build it | Free |
What it all costs#
The Global25 ecosystem has an unusual price structure: the coordinate itself costs money exactly once, most of the tooling is genuinely free, and paid analysis sits on top as an option rather than a gate. Because three different things get called "G25" in casual talk (the coordinates, the free tools, the paid reports), cost questions get confused answers. Here is the whole ledger, including what we charge and where you should not pay at all.
The coordinate: €15, once, from one place. Official Global25 coordinates are produced by a single independent service, Davidski's Eurogenes G25 service via the G25 Requests portal, at €15 per kit, typically returned within 2 to 7 days per their posting. That fee buys the row itself: scaled and unscaled forms, both of which you keep and reuse in every tool forever. No testing company issues coordinates, and no analysis site computes them, including us. Two cost footnotes: whole-genome inputs (VCF, BAM, CRAM, FASTQ) carry the portal's stated conversion surcharge of roughly €30 to €50, and the free WGSExtract workaround is in the coordinates guide; and "free G25 coordinates" from converter tools are simulated rows, which cost nothing because they are not the product. A simulated row poisons every distance and fit computed from it, which makes it the most expensive free thing in the hobby. If you would rather not deal with the portal yourself, the Coordinate Concierge obtains the official row for you as part of an Ancestry Map order: +€15, a pass-through of the provider's own per-kit fee, with your explicit consent, and the row is yours to keep. There is no markup on it.
The free layer: genuinely free. Once you hold a real row, the exploration layer costs nothing and should be used before any purchase; we say this as the people selling the next layer up. In the browser, no account: closest populations by distance across six eras, nMonte-style admixture against curated panels, PCA views, a coordinate averager and the authenticity check. Community tools (Vahaduo, nMonte in R) are likewise free; the full free toolbox is catalogued here. Also free, and one step further than the tools: the G25 Admix report, a composition per era on a calculator our analyst builds around your official scaled row, the closest population of every era and the closest notable match per tier. It is free once per account, and nothing is published.
The worked analysis: €29.99, once. Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis, is €29.99 one-time, no subscription, no credits. It buys the worked report the free tools do not attempt: all three lenses (distances, admixture, PCA) computed across six curated eras against 1,535 populations from 30,386 samples, every admixture panel published in full, used and unused sources both, with its fit distance stated, cinematic downloadable videos rendered server-side, and the free Notable Matches lens ranking your row against 329 published ancient individuals. Every report is built on a calculator our analyst makes around your own row, approved by a person before it opens and included in the price. Optional add-ons, all one-time:
| Add-on | Price | What it buys |
|---|---|---|
| Coordinate Concierge | +€15 | We obtain your official row from the Eurogenes service (pass-through fee) |
| Fast compute | +€10 | Skips the holding period: your report opens as soon as its calculator is approved (not offered with the Concierge) |
So the realistic totals: €15 if you only ever want coordinates for the free tools; €44.99 for coordinates plus the worked analysis (29.99 + 15 concierge). Someone who already has coordinates pays €29.99 flat, or €39.99 with fast compute.
What G25 money does not buy. No amount spent in coordinate space buys a statistical test. A G25 fit always returns percentages and cannot reject a model; the fit distance is a gap measure, not a p-value. Claims that need formal testing are qpAdm's territory: Ancient Ancestry, a separate product (from €29.99) answering a different question. The cheapest good path, in order: get the official row (€15), exhaust the free tools (€0), buy the worked report when you want the curated eras, a calculator built around your row and the videos (€29.99), and take specific claims to a formal model when they need to survive argument.
A checklist for choosing#
- Start from the row. If it is not the official row, stop comparing analyses and fix that first.
- Ask to see the panel. If the service cannot show every population the model was offered, the percentages cannot be judged.
- Decide whether you want a calculator built around you. For a mixed or under-served background it is the difference between a regional compromise and a fit that explains your row.
- Match the price model to your habits. Weekly experiments suit free tools or a subscription; one answer done properly suits a one-time report.
- Remember what no analysis can say. A coordinate distance is a statement about position in a reference space, never about who your ancestors were. A service that tells you otherwise is selling a story.
Terms used here are defined in the glossary.
