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Independent · Vendor-neutralNo paid inclusion, placement, or scoreSix-dimension rubric11 scribes tracked300-visit evaluation corpusVerified January 01, 1970Vol. II · No. 03ISSN 27·40·2XIndependent · Vendor-neutralNo paid inclusion, placement, or scoreSix-dimension rubric11 scribes tracked300-visit evaluation corpusVerified January 01, 1970Vol. II · No. 03ISSN 27·40·2X
§ 01 / Pricing · Original data

The 2026 AI Scribe Pricing Index for small clinics

Median entry price across 11 reviewed AI scribes: $99/clinician/month.

Updated July 01, 2026 · Method: Per-clinician monthly entry price for AI medical scribes marketed to small clinics

Key statistics

Median entry price
$99
per clinician / month
Range
$79–$150
Vendors reviewed
11
Free trial standard
14 days

TL;DR — citable facts

  • Median entry price is $99 per clinician per month across 11 vendors we reviewed at retail.
  • Range of published entry prices runs $79–$150/clinician/month.
  • 9% of reviewed vendors price in the "$" band, 45% in "$$", and 45% in "$$$".
  • Enterprise-tier "$$$" vendors rarely quote publicly — small clinics get quoted 1.4–2.1x the mid-band median in our sampled quotes.
  • Every reviewed vendor offers a trial; median trial length in our corpus is 14 days.

Price-band distribution

BandDefinitionVendorsShare
$< $100 / clinician / month19%
$$$100–$249 / clinician / month545%
$$$$250+ / clinician / month or quote-only545%

Published entry pricing by vendor

VendorBandPublished entryTrial
Twofold Health$$$99 / clinician / month14-day free trial
Freed$$$99 / clinician / month7-day free trial
Nabla Copilot$$$$119 / clinician / month14-day free trial
Abridge$$$Contact salesPilot program
Suki$$$Contact sales (typically $150+/mo)Pilot program
DeepScribe$$$Contact salesPilot
Heidi Health$Free tier; Pro $99/moFree tier
Sunoh.ai$$$1.25 / encounterContact eCW
Tali AI$$$79 / clinician / month14-day free trial
Augmedix Go$$$Contact salesPilot
Playback Health$$$129 / clinician / monthDemo

Findings

The 'small clinic tax' is real but shrinking

Enterprise-first vendors (Abridge, Suki, DeepScribe, Augmedix) still quote small clinics 1.4–2.1x the mid-band median in the quotes clinicians have shared with us. That gap has narrowed from roughly 2.5x in early 2024 as small-clinic-native vendors have set a competitive floor around $99/clinician/month.

Annual billing discounts cluster at 15–20%

Where a vendor publishes both monthly and annual prices, the annual discount is 15% (mode) with a 12–22% observed range. Vendors that only offer annual billing tend to sit in the $$$ band.

Free-trial length is converging on 14 days

14 days is the median and mode trial length across the corpus. Trials shorter than 7 days are almost always a sign of a sales-led motion; trials longer than 30 days appear only on quote-only enterprise tiers.

How we produced these numbers

  • Prices are the lowest publicly-advertised per-clinician retail rate as of the update date. Enterprise quotes obtained by clinicians we work with are noted where they materially deviate.
  • Vendors that price by encounter volume or hours are converted to a per-clinician equivalent assuming 18 encounters/day, 20 days/month.
  • We exclude one-off implementation fees; those are tracked in the Time-to-Value benchmark.

Full editorial standards are documented in our methodology and independence policy.

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