9 Best AI Medical Scribes of 2026

Heidi ranks first because it gives away the core job: the free plan includes unlimited ambient documentation, clinical answers with citations and HIPAA-compliant security, so a clinician can run real visits through it before paying anything. The Clinician plan at $110 per user per month billed annually adds custom templates for notes and documents, routines for pre-charting and billing code support, clinical evidence during visits and peer-reviewed journal search. Heidi sells two seat types on Clinician, Standard and Max, and Max expands the monthly limit that Agents and Routines consume; scribing and evidence questions do not use that allowance. A desktop app captures telehealth audio directly from the call and lets you dictate anywhere on screen. The Teams plan, priced by quote, adds EHR integration, shared templates, team controls and SSO. The trade-offs are a paid seat that costs more than Freed or Twofold, and EHR integration that sits on the team tier.

Freed is the simplest paid on-ramp on this list. Starter costs $39 per month for one clinician and covers up to 40 notes, which suits part-time or low-volume practices, while Core at $79 removes the note cap and adds an instant template builder and Clinical Evidence answers from more than 50 sources. Premier, at $104 per month billed annually, is where Freed becomes a fuller assistant: visit prep summaries, patient instructions, letters and referrals, dictation with saved phrases, ICD-10 and CPT coding, and one-click push into browser-based EHRs. Freed covers more than 20 specialties with prebuilt templates and can learn the format of a note you edit. Audio is deleted once the note and quality checks are complete, and it captures visits in languages such as Spanish, Mandarin and Polish, writing the note in English. The downsides are the note cap on Starter and the need for Premier before notes flow into your EHR.

Twofold is a flexible scribe for clinicians who do not always document the same way. It can listen to a live session, turn a dictated summary into a note, build a note from typed text or process an uploaded recording, and it works in person or over telehealth on desktop and mobile. The Personal plan lists at $69 per month with unlimited notes, a clinical templates library, an advanced AI assistant and CPT and ICD coding suggestions, and new users pay $19 for the first month after a free week. Twofold states that a signed BAA is included and that it works with any EHR, which in practice means you copy the finished note into your system rather than rely on a native integration. The Group plan adds volume pricing, centralized billing, shared team templates and a success manager. It suits therapists and outpatient clinicians well; larger practices that need write-back into the EHR should look at Freed Premier or the enterprise tools.

Abridge is the most complete enterprise option here, and it is built for health systems rather than individual clinicians. Before the visit it surfaces relevant history and open care gaps; during the conversation it captures orders and clinical insights in the background; and when the visit ends a structured, specialty-specific note is ready for review. The Abridge Assistant answers clinical questions using the chart and the conversation, with sources such as the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and clinicians can earn CME credit for that research. Beyond physicians, Abridge sells products for revenue cycle teams and for nursing documentation. The vendor states it is trusted by more than 300 health systems and lists Best in KLAS recognition for 2025 and 2026, plus enterprise controls such as SSO, 256-bit encryption and US-based data centers. There is no public price or self-serve sign-up, so independent practices cannot buy it directly.

Suki covers more of the visit than most scribes. Before the encounter it produces patient summaries and lets you ask clinical questions answered from UpToDate with patient context. During the visit it transcribes the conversation, drafts a specialty-specific note that goes to the EHR, stages orders for your review and generates ICD-10, HCC, CPT and E/M codes. You can run several ambient sessions for the same patient, such as after labs or imaging, and get one complete note. After the visit it writes patient instructions in 80 languages at a fifth grade reading level and lets you edit notes by voice. Suki supports more than 100 specialties in settings from ambulatory and inpatient to home health, on the web, a Chrome extension, iOS and Android. It integrates with major EHRs. The main drawback for small practices is buying: there is no published price and sign-up starts with a sales conversation.

Nabla positions itself as a clinical AI layer that covers the visit from chart prep to the final code. Its ambient documentation captures the patient and clinician conversation and generates a structured note, its dictation is built into Epic and other major EHRs, and its coding module suggests E/M and ICD-10 codes grounded in the documentation and AMA guidelines while leaving the decision with the clinician. Notes can be configured by specialty, preference and workflow. Nabla also sells to healthtech companies, which can embed it through Nabla Connect or go API-first. On security it lists HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR, with data retention that each organization can configure. Customers named on its site include Carle Health and Denver Health. Nabla offers a free trial from its homepage, but it does not publish a price, so budgeting requires a sales conversation.

Scribeberry keeps pricing simple: a free mode with 3 days of unlimited use and then 20 uses per month, Pro at $99 per month with unlimited notes, dictation and forms, and Enterprise at $79 per user per month for practices with 5 or more providers. Every plan includes live transcription into a structured note in more than 40 languages, form auto-fill and Smart Pull and Smart Push to web EMRs, and Pro adds custom templates and pre-intake AI agents. Its integration list is strongest in Canada, with Accuro, OSCAR Pro, TELUS PS Suite and Jane App, and it also lists Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and eClinicalWorks. Scribeberry states it is HIPAA and PIPEDA compliant, SOC 2 Type 2 certified and keeps no audio. The trade-off is price for a single clinician: $99 is more than Freed Core or Twofold, though the free mode and the 5-seat Enterprise rate soften that.

Dragon Copilot is Microsoft's AI clinical assistant and the successor path for Dragon Medical One customers. For physicians it ambiently captures multi-party, multilingual conversations and orders, or records on demand, and turns them into specialty-specific notes you can customize. It answers questions from transcripts, notes and third-party medical references with citations, and drafts coding suggestions, clinical evidence summaries, referral letters and after-visit summaries. For nurses it converts ambient observations into structured flowsheet documentation for review, and for radiologists it speeds reports with prior report summarization and drafted impressions. Microsoft positions it as an extensible workspace that integrates with EHRs and other health IT systems. The breadth across roles is its main strength. The drawbacks are buying and setup: there is no public price, it is sold to organizations, and rollout depends on integration work with your EHR and IT team.

Sunoh.ai is an ambient scribe with a plain feature set and a single published price of $149 per user per month, which the vendor marks as a limited-time offer. It listens to the visit, produces a transcript and turns it into a draft clinical summary and SOAP note sorted into progress note sections. It also captures labs, imaging, procedures, medication orders and follow-up details from the conversation, and you can edit the draft before importing it into the EHR or export it as a PDF. The sign-up form lists EHRs such as eClinicalWorks, athenahealth, Epic, NextGen and ModMed. Support runs around the clock, implementation is included, the service runs on Microsoft Azure and a BAA comes with the subscription. Sunoh states more than 100,000 providers use it. It ranks lower because it costs more than Freed, Twofold or Heidi and offers fewer evidence or assistant features.