Best AI Medical Scribe 2026
Which AI medical scribe fits your practice? 13 tools grouped by who they are built for, with published prices, dictation and BAA terms. Checked November 2026.
AI scribe prices in two minutes
The published prices from this guide, side by side: what is free, what self-serve plans cost, and what to check besides price.
The Short Answer
There is no single best AI medical scribe. The right one depends mostly on who is buying.
- A solo clinician or a small group that wants to start this week, by card, without a sales call: compare the self-serve scribes with published prices. In this guide those are Doximity Scribe (free for verified US clinicians), Freed, Heidi Health, Sunoh.ai, Twofold Health and VoiceboxMD.
- A health system that wants the scribe built into its EHR through an integration: compare the products sold to health systems. In this guide those are Abridge, Ambience Healthcare, Commure Ambient, DeepScribe, Microsoft Dragon Copilot, Nabla and Suki.
Inside each group, the differences that matter most are the price, whether dictation is included as well as the ambient scribe, how the note gets into your EHR, and which plans include a BAA.
Who wrote this guide: VoiceboxMD publishes it, and VoiceboxMD is one of the 13 products in it. We do not rank the products. They are grouped by who they are built for and listed alphabetically inside each group. Every competitor fact comes from that vendor's own website, and we link the page we used so you can check it.
Updated November 6, 2026. Prices were checked on each vendor's website on October 5, 2026, and the self-serve prices were checked again on November 6, 2026.
Quick Comparison, AI Medical Scribe Pricing & Features at a Glance
AI medical scribe software records the conversation between a clinician and a patient and drafts a structured clinical note from it, such as a SOAP note or an H&P. Some products also offer live dictation, where your spoken words are typed as you speak.
| AI Scribe | Built for | Published price (per clinician, per month) | Ambient | Dictation (per vendor site) | BAA on pricing page | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abridge | Health systems | Not published | Yes | Not listed | No pricing page | Not listed |
| Ambience Healthcare | Health systems | Not published | Yes | Not listed | No pricing page | Not listed |
| Commure Ambient (Augmedix) | Enterprise health systems | Not published | Yes | Yes | No pricing page | Not listed |
| DeepScribe | Specialty groups, oncology focus | Not published | Yes | Not listed | No pricing page | Not listed |
| Doximity Scribe | Verified US physicians, NPs and PAs | Free | Yes | "Simple dictation" template | Not stated | Free |
| Freed | Individual clinicians and groups | $39 to $119 | Yes | Premier plan | Groups plan | 7 days |
| Heidi Health | Individual clinicians and teams | Free plan; Clinician $150 ($110 billed yearly) | Yes | Yes | Not stated | 14 days |
| Microsoft Dragon Copilot | Health systems and organizations | Per-user price not published | Yes | Yes | No pricing page | Not listed |
| Nabla | Health organizations | Not published | Yes | Yes | No pricing page | Yes, length not stated |
| Suki | Health systems and partners | Not published | Yes | Yes | No pricing page | Not listed |
| Sunoh.ai | Clinicians and practices | From $149 ("for a limited time") | Yes | Voice recognition listed | Yes | Yes, length not stated |
| Twofold Health | Individual clinicians and groups | Personal $69 ($49 billed annually); first month $19 | Yes | Yes | Yes, every plan | 7 days |
| VoiceboxMD (publisher of this guide) | Solo clinicians to groups | $49 to $99 | Yes, every plan | Yes, every plan | Yes, every plan | 7 days (monthly), 14 days (annual) |
Prices in US dollars, per clinician per month, before tax. "Not published" means the vendor's website asks you to contact sales or book a demo instead of showing a price. "Not listed" means we did not find it on the vendor's website; it does not mean the product lacks it.
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Try it freeWhat Makes an AI Medical Scribe "Best" in 2026?
There is no single best AI scribe. A solo family physician paying by card and a health system buying for 2,000 clinicians are choosing between different products. These are the criteria we used, in the order a small practice usually meets them.
Published price
A published price lets you budget and start without a sales call. Enterprise products usually quote per organization, often with an annual contract and an implementation project. We show the published price where one exists and say "not published" where it does not.
Ambient, dictation, or both
An ambient scribe records the visit and drafts the note. Dictation types what you say. Some visits suit one, some the other. See ambient scribe or dictation: which mode, when.
How the note reaches the EHR
The options are copy and paste, typing at your cursor in any program, or a built-in integration with a specific EHR such as Epic. An integration can write straight into the chart but usually needs your EHR team. Typing at the cursor works in any field but does not read the chart.
BAA terms
Under HIPAA, a vendor that handles patient information for you must sign a Business Associate Agreement. We note where a vendor's pricing page says a BAA is included, and on which plans. Ask every vendor directly before you record a patient. For the questions to ask and what the agreement has to contain, see what makes an AI scribe HIPAA compliant.
Who it is built for
Some products are sold only to health systems. Others take a credit card from one clinician. We describe each product's buyer from its own website.
Self-Serve AI Scribes With Published Prices
These six sell or give access directly to individual clinicians, with the price on the website. Listed alphabetically.
Doximity Scribe
Price: free for "all U.S. physicians, NPs, PAs, and medical students with a verified Doximity account".
Doximity Scribe runs inside the Doximity app on phone and desktop. Its page lists SOAP, H&P, consult and "simple dictation" templates, your own templates, and "HIPAA Compliant". We did not find BAA terms on the page; ask Doximity before you record patients.
Fits: US clinicians who want to try an ambient scribe at no cost and are happy to copy the note into the EHR. Source: Doximity Scribe.
Freed
Price: Starter $39/mo (up to 40 notes a month), Core $79/mo (unlimited notes), Premier $119/mo or $104/mo billed annually, Groups custom. 7-day free trial.
Freed is sold by card to individual clinicians, with a custom Groups plan. Its pricing page lists "Dictation and saved phrases" on Premier and an "Organization-wide BAA" among its admin features.
Fits: individual clinicians who want an ambient scribe at a low entry price. Source: Freed pricing.
More detail: Freed vs VoiceboxMD and Freed alternatives.
Heidi Health
Price: Free plan $0; Clinician $150/mo, or $110/mo billed yearly; Teams custom. "Try 14 days free" on the Clinician plan. US prices shown before tax.
Heidi offers a free plan with a weekly allowance and paid seats. Its pricing page lists dictation alongside ambient documentation. We did not find a BAA mentioned on the pricing page; ask Heidi which plans include one.
Fits: clinicians who want to try a scribe free before paying. Source: Heidi Health pricing.
More detail: Heidi Health alternatives.
Sunoh.ai
Price: "Starting at $149 per user per month for a limited time." The page shows $199 crossed out. BAA included; a free trial is offered, length not stated.
Sunoh lists ambient voice capture and a voice recognition system. It is sold to clinicians and practices.
Fits: practices that want a BAA on a self-serve plan and are comfortable at the higher price. Source: Sunoh pricing.
More detail: Sunoh.ai alternatives and pricing.
Twofold Health
Price: free for 7 days, then $19 for the first month; Personal $69/mo, or $49/mo billed annually; Group custom. Twofold's site says "BAA on every plan" and lists "Record, dictate, or upload".
Fits: individual clinicians, including therapists, who want a low first month. Source: Twofold pricing.
VoiceboxMD (publisher of this guide)
Price: Essential $49/mo, Power $79/mo, Premium $99/mo. 7-day free trial on monthly plans, 14 days on annual plans. BAA included on every plan.
VoiceboxMD includes both an ambient AI scribe and live dictation on every plan, in Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and web apps. On our own service from September 6 to November 5, 2026, the median customer visit was 13 minutes, the median draft note 551 words, and half of the notes were ready within 29 seconds of the recording finishing its upload (how we measured). The Windows and Mac apps type dictation at your cursor in any EHR field and can place a finished note whole or one section at a time into the field you are in. Power adds ICD-10 and CPT code suggestions, letters and pre-recorded audio upload; Premium adds a writing style learned from your own edits.
Limits: there is no API integration with any EHR, so notes are placed at the cursor rather than written into the chart, and the app does not read the chart. The ambient scribe works in English only, does not label who is speaking, and records from your microphone, so it does not capture telehealth call audio. The web and phone apps copy or share the note rather than placing it.
Fits: clinicians and groups that want both modes at a published price and use an EHR without a scribe integration. Sources: VoiceboxMD pricing, VoiceboxMD AI medical scribe.
AI Scribes Sold to Health Systems
These seven are sold to organizations through a sales team, with no per-clinician price on the website. Most offer integrations with large EHRs such as Epic. Listed alphabetically.
Abridge
Price: not published. The website offers "Contact Us" and has no pricing page.
Abridge describes itself as trusted by "leading enterprise healthcare systems" and lists "300+ health systems" on its homepage. It is bought by organizations, not by individual clinicians.
Fits: health systems with an EHR team. Source: abridge.com.
Ambience Healthcare
Price: not published ("Contact us"). Sold to health systems for ambulatory, inpatient and emergency care. Its website lists coding output, including E/M levels, alongside notes.
Fits: health systems that want coding with the note. Source: ambiencehealthcare.com.
Commure Ambient (Augmedix)
Price: not published ("Get in touch"). "Built for Enterprise Health Systems", "deeply integrated with 60+ EHRs", with "voice-to-cursor dictation in any field". Augmedix is part of Commure.
Fits: enterprise health systems. Source: Commure Ambient AI.
DeepScribe
Price: not published. The website offers "Request a demo".
DeepScribe describes its ambient AI as "purpose-built to handle the complexity of oncology" and lists cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedics and urology. It names integrations with Epic and the oncology systems iKnowMed and OncoEMR.
Fits: oncology and specialty groups. Source: deepscribe.ai.
More detail: DeepScribe alternatives and pricing.
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
Price: per-user price not published. The product page says "Contact us". Microsoft's licensing guidance lists a pay-as-you-go rate of 25 consumption units at $0.01 each, which is $0.25 per AI-assisted session, as of May 4, 2026.
Dragon Copilot is Microsoft's clinical assistant for "physicians, nurses, radiologists, and other healthcare professionals", available "via web browser, mobile app, desktop application, and embedded within supported EHRs such as Epic". Its licensing guidance lists a Flex license that includes dictation.
Fits: organizations buying through Microsoft. Sources: Dragon Copilot product page, Dragon Copilot licensing guidance.
More detail: Dragon Copilot alternatives and pricing and, if you use Dragon Medical One today, Dragon Medical One vs Dragon Copilot.
Nabla
Price: not published ("Talk to our team", "Get a demo"). Lists integrations with Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen and others, and dictation "built directly into Epic and major EHRs". Offers a self-serve free trial ("Try it for free"). In a randomized trial at UCLA, Nabla users spent 9.5% less time in notes than a control group (Lukac et al., NEJM AI, 2025).
Fits: health organizations on the EHRs it integrates with. Source: nabla.com.
Suki
Price: not published. The website offers "Contact Us" and has no pricing page.
Suki lists integrations with "Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, and MEDITECH" and says "400+ leading healthcare systems and partners choose Suki". It offers ambient notes and a dictation product.
Fits: health systems on those four EHRs. Source: suki.ai.
AI Medical Scribe Pricing 2026, What It Actually Costs
The 12-month figures below are the published monthly price times 12, for one clinician, before tax. Annual billing is cheaper where the vendor offers it. Vendors that do not publish a price are listed separately, because any figure for them would be a guess.
| Plan | Monthly price (as of October 2026) | 12 months at the monthly price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| VoiceboxMD Essential (publisher) | $49 | $588 | voiceboxmd.com/pricing |
| VoiceboxMD Power | $79 | $948 | voiceboxmd.com/pricing |
| VoiceboxMD Premium | $99 | $1,188 | voiceboxmd.com/pricing |
| Doximity Scribe (verified US clinicians) | Free | $0 | doximity.com/clinicians/scribe |
| Freed Starter (up to 40 notes a month) | $39 | $468 | getfreed.ai/pricing |
| Freed Core | $79 | $948 | getfreed.ai/pricing |
| Freed Premier | $119 ($104 billed annually) | $1,428 | getfreed.ai/pricing |
| Heidi Health Clinician | $150 ($110 billed yearly) | $1,800 | heidihealth.com pricing |
| Twofold Personal | $69 ($49 billed annually) | $828 | trytwofold.com |
| Sunoh.ai | From $149 ("for a limited time") | $1,788 | sunoh.ai/pricing |
Price not published (contact sales or book a demo): Abridge, Suki, DeepScribe, Ambience Healthcare, Nabla and Commure Ambient. Microsoft does not publish a per-user price for Dragon Copilot; its licensing guidance lists a pay-as-you-go rate of $0.25 per AI-assisted session.
How to Choose the Right AI Scribe for Your Practice
Solo practice, 1 to 3 clinicians
Look for a published price, a free trial and no annual contract. Self-serve options in this guide: Doximity Scribe (free), Freed, Heidi Health, Sunoh.ai, Twofold Health and VoiceboxMD. If you also want to dictate, check which plan includes dictation. VoiceboxMD includes both modes from the $49 Essential plan.
Group practice, 4 to 20 clinicians
Check seat pricing, shared templates and who signs the BAA. VoiceboxMD sells 1 to 14 seats at checkout, with a lower per-seat price at higher seat counts; the trial page shows the exact total for your seat count. For more seats, talk to us. Freed, Heidi and Twofold offer custom group or team plans.
Health system, 20+ clinicians
If you want the scribe written into your EHR through an integration, look at products sold to health systems: Abridge, Microsoft Dragon Copilot, Suki, Nabla, Ambience and Commure Ambient. Expect a sales process and an implementation project.
How We Built This Guide
- One source per fact. Every competitor price and feature comes from that vendor's own website, linked next to it. We did not use review sites, press coverage or sales calls.
- Grouped, not ranked. Products are grouped by who they are sold to and listed alphabetically inside each group. VoiceboxMD is one of the products and is labelled as the publisher wherever it appears.
- What we did not test. We did not run the same patient visits through all 13 products, so this guide does not score note accuracy. Published head-to-head evidence is limited; the largest randomized trial we found compared two products against usual care (see the FAQ on time saved).
- Dated. Prices change often, so the date of each price check is at the top of the page. If you find something out of date, write to support@voiceboxmd.com and we will correct it.
Frequently Asked Questions About AI Medical Scribes
What is the best AI medical scribe in 2026?
It depends on who is buying. For a solo clinician or a small group that wants to start without a sales call, compare the self-serve scribes with published prices: Doximity Scribe (free for verified US clinicians), Freed, Heidi Health, Sunoh.ai, Twofold Health and VoiceboxMD. For a health system that wants the scribe built into its EHR, compare the products sold to health systems, such as Abridge, Microsoft Dragon Copilot, Suki, Nabla and Ambience. VoiceboxMD publishes this guide and is one of the self-serve products in it.
How much does an AI medical scribe cost?
Doximity Scribe is free for verified US physicians, NPs and PAs. Published paid prices in October 2026 run from $39 a month (Freed Starter, up to 40 notes a month) to $150 a month (Heidi Health Clinician, billed monthly). VoiceboxMD is $49, $79 or $99 a month. Abridge, Suki, DeepScribe, Ambience, Nabla and Commure Ambient do not publish prices. Microsoft does not publish a per-user price for Dragon Copilot.
Are AI medical scribes HIPAA compliant?
A scribe that handles patient information needs a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with your practice. VoiceboxMD includes a BAA on every plan and deletes visit audio 7 days after it is recorded. On their pricing pages, Twofold says "BAA on every plan", Sunoh lists a BAA as included, and Freed lists an organization-wide BAA on its Groups plan. Ask any vendor which plans include a BAA before recording patients.
What is the difference between an AI scribe and medical dictation?
Medical dictation types your spoken words as text as you speak. An AI scribe records the visit conversation and drafts a structured note, such as a SOAP note, for you to review. VoiceboxMD includes both on every plan. See ambient scribe or dictation: which mode, when and ambient clinical documentation.
Can an AI scribe generate SOAP notes automatically?
Yes. VoiceboxMD's ambient scribe drafts SOAP or H&P notes, or notes in a template you build with your own sections. ICD-10 and CPT code suggestions are added on the Power and Premium plans. Review every draft before you use it.
Which AI scribes also offer dictation?
On their own websites, Doximity Scribe (a "simple dictation" template), VoiceboxMD (every plan), Freed (Premier plan), Heidi Health, Twofold, Suki, Nabla, Commure Ambient and Microsoft Dragon Copilot describe a dictation feature. Sunoh's pricing page lists a voice recognition system. We did not find dictation listed by Abridge, DeepScribe or Ambience.
How much time can physicians save with an AI scribe?
Results vary by study. At The Permanente Medical Group, 7,260 physicians used an ambient AI scribe in 2,576,627 patient encounters between October 2023 and December 2024, and the analysis estimated nearly 16,000 hours of documentation time saved (Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, 2025, reporting Tierney et al., NEJM Catalyst). In a randomized trial of 238 physicians at UCLA, users of one product (Nabla) spent 9.5% less time in notes than the control group, while users of another (Microsoft DAX) showed no significant change (Lukac et al., NEJM AI, 2025). See ambient clinical documentation for more of the research.
Is VoiceboxMD better than Dragon Copilot?
They are built for different buyers. Dragon Copilot is sold to organizations through Microsoft, with no published per-user price, and can be embedded in supported EHRs such as Epic. VoiceboxMD is sold by card from $49 a month per clinician, includes ambient and dictation on every plan, and types into any EHR field from its desktop apps without an integration. See the Dragon Medical alternative page for more.
Try VoiceboxMD on Your Own Visits
If you are comparing self-serve scribes, the fastest test is a week of your own visits. VoiceboxMD includes the ambient AI scribe and live dictation on every plan, with a BAA.
Monthly plans start with a 7-day free trial and annual plans with 14 days, on the plan you choose. A card is collected at checkout and is not charged during the trial. No setup fees.
This guide was last updated November 6, 2026. VoiceboxMD is the publisher of this guide and one of the products compared. Competitor prices and features come from each vendor's own website on the dates above and can change; check the linked page before you buy. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Doximity® is a trademark of Doximity, Inc. Abridge®, Dragon®, Suki®, Heidi Health™, DeepScribe™, Freed™, Nabla™, Ambience™, Augmedix®, Commure™, Sunoh™, and Twofold™ are trademarks of their respective companies.
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