Analysis of the cost and time between different NMR methods used in drug design. Meaning of some of the acronyms are listed below: SOFAST—Band-Selective Optimized Flip Angle Short Transient; NUS—Non-uniform sampling; MDD—Multidimensional Decomposition; CS—Compressed Signaling; MAX ENT—Maximum Entropy; IST—Iterative Soft Threshold; STD—Saturation Transfer Difference; PNMR—Paramagnetic NMR; ALARM—A La Assay to detect Reactive Molecules; ssNMR—Solid State NMR; FBDD—Fragment Based Drug Design; SAR—Structure Activity Relationship.