Summary
Corti sells APIs to developers, so the alternatives split by who you are. A software team should weigh other healthcare AI infrastructure vendors, the general model providers and open models. A clinic that wanted a scribe wants a finished product instead, and Wai covers the whole private clinic at a published price, with Heidi, Freed and Nabla for self-serve scribing alone.
Corti is not a scribe you buy. It is an API platform for developers building healthcare AI products, with usage-based pricing, EU-hosted models and a $50 free credit tier to start building.
So the alternatives split in two. If you are a software team, the rivals are other API platforms. If you are a clinic that ended up on a developer site while looking for a scribe, what you actually want is a finished product.
Building healthcare software and running a clinic are different jobs. Pick the product built for yours.
Book a demoWhat Corti is good at
Infrastructure. Corti's medical speech-to-text at $0.0065 a minute and its clinical text generation APIs let a product team ship an ambient scribe or coding agent without training models. Pricing is public, granular and usage-based, which this category mostly refuses to do.
Governance. EU-hosted models, sovereign cloud deployment options, and ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 completed with zero nonconformities in July 2026. For European digital health companies with data-residency requirements, that combination is genuinely hard to find.
Why people look elsewhere
Wrong buyer. Most people searching for Corti alternatives are clinicians who wanted a scribe and found an API reference instead. Corti sells to developers. A clinic cannot sign up on Monday and have notes on Friday unless it employs engineers.
Build cost. The APIs are priced per use, but the product around them is yours to build, maintain and support. The real comparison is not API price versus subscription price. It is build-versus-buy.
The realistic alternatives
If you are building software, the alternatives are other healthcare AI infrastructure vendors and the general model providers, plus the build-it-yourself route on open models. Evaluate on accuracy for clinical audio and on where the data lives.
If you are running a clinic, you want a finished product. Wai covers the whole private clinic, from booking and front desk through the consult note and follow-up, at a price published in full on our pricing page. Heidi, Freed and Nabla cover self-serve scribing if the note alone is the need.
Bring your own clinic to it. Thirty minutes, and you see it on your workflows.
Book a demoFrequently asked questions
Can a clinic use Corti directly?
Not in practice. Corti provides APIs for developers. A clinic would need engineering capacity to turn those APIs into a working scribe, plus ongoing maintenance. Clinics choose finished products such as Wai, Heidi or Freed instead.
How much does Corti cost?
Corti publishes usage pricing. Speech-to-text is $0.0065 per minute, text generation is $4 per million input tokens and $16 per million output tokens, and new accounts get $50 of free credits. An Acceleration Pack with support runs $1,000 a month. Enterprise bundles are custom.
Is Corti good for European healthcare companies?
Yes, and that is its clearest strength. EU-hosted models, sovereign cloud options and ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 with zero nonconformities, completed July 2026, make it one of the few healthcare AI platforms built for European data-residency requirements.
What is Corti actually for?
Infrastructure. Corti's medical speech-to-text at $0.0065 a minute and its clinical text generation APIs let a product team ship an ambient scribe or coding agent without training models. Pricing is public, granular and usage-based, which this category mostly refuses to do.
What are the alternatives to Corti for a software team?
If you are building software, the alternatives are other healthcare AI infrastructure vendors and the general model providers, plus the build-it-yourself route on open models. Evaluate on accuracy for clinical audio and on where the data lives.
See it on your own clinic
Fifteen minutes on your workflows. If it is a fit we reply within 24 hours.