Summary
The best Freed alternative is Wai Clinicians. It includes letters, referrals, coding and cited answers without a tier change, at a published $350 a clinician a month, and Wai Admin puts the front desk on the same record. Freed starts at $39 a month but letters and coding sit on its Premier tier. Nabla holds the only randomised trial result, Abridge holds Best in KLAS and Heidi has a free tier.
Freed is the easiest AI scribe in the category to buy. It publishes every tier, starts at $39 a month, and gives you seven days without asking for a card. For a solo clinician who wants the note handled and nothing else, that is a fair purchase.
People look past it for one of two reasons. The letters, referrals and coding they wanted sit on Premier, listed at $104 to $119 a month depending on billing, not on the $39 tier. Or the work that eats their evening is not the note at all.
The note is the easy part to compare. The rest of your evening is the hard part.
Book a demoWhat Freed does well
Everything about being easy to evaluate. A published price on every tier, a seven day trial with no card, and specialty templates that learn your style as you edit. Few vendors in this category let you try before a sales call, and Freed is the clearest of them.
Freed also says it does not store patient recordings. That is a position worth asking every other vendor about.
Why people look
The tiers, mostly. Starter at $39 covers up to 40 notes a month and the note only. Unlimited notes move you to Core. Visit summaries, patient instructions, letters, referrals, EHR push and ICD-10 and CPT coding all sit on Premier. If you compared $39 against anyone, check whether the comparison included the thing you actually wanted.
The other reason is scope. A scribe drafts the note. The phone, the booking, the deposit and the chase after a no-show stay with you, and in a solo practice they stay with you personally.
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The options
Nabla holds the only randomised win in this category and never stores the encounter. Abridge holds Best in KLAS in 2025 and 2026 and the deepest Epic integration, at roughly $2,500 per clinician per year with a three to six month procurement. Heidi has a real free tier and now shows its paid tiers without figures. Microsoft DAX Copilot runs natively in Epic, Oracle Health and athenahealth, and its arm of the only randomised trial showed no significant change in note time. See our DAX Copilot alternatives for that result in full.
Every one of them drafts a note. The trial measured that, and found 41 seconds at best, with time in the record after hours unchanged.
What we do instead
Wai covers the consultation, the front desk and the patient record on one system. The briefing before the patient sits down, the letters, the coding, the cited answers, and the phone answered by something that can see what happened in the room. Letters and coding are part of the product, not a higher tier.
The full side by side is on Freed vs Wai.
The number no scribe on this page reaches
Your E/M level turns on Medical Decision Making or time, so the note is the evidence for the code and the code is the money. Up to 19 percent of E/M visits are undercoded at roughly $37 each, and Medicare Advantage downcoding takes money off a visit without ever showing as a denial.
A solo clinician on an entry tier is the person with least protection against that, because there is no coder and nobody running a variance report.
What we are not claiming
Freed is easier to buy and starts at a lower number. We have no randomised evidence, and neither does Freed. Where Freed's entry tier stops at the note, Wai Clinicians includes the letters, the codes and cited answers, which is why it ranks first here.
Availability
Wai Clinician runs a 14-day free trial with no minimum term. Pricing is on one page.
Bring your own clinic to it. Thirty minutes, and you see it on your workflows.
Book a demoFrequently asked questions
What is the best alternative to Freed?
It depends on why you are leaving. For evidence, Nabla, which holds the only randomised win in the category. For an enterprise Epic deployment, Abridge, which holds Best in KLAS in 2025 and 2026. For a free tier, Heidi. For letters, coding and the front desk on the same record as the consultation, Wai.
How much does Freed cost?
Freed publishes its prices. Starter is $39 a month for up to 40 notes. Core adds unlimited notes. Premier, listed at $104 to $119 a month depending on billing, adds visit summaries, patient instructions, letters, referrals, EHR push and ICD-10 and CPT coding. Group plans are priced on request. Check Freed's pricing page for current figures.
Does Freed have a free trial?
Yes. Freed offers a seven day free trial with no credit card needed. Wai Clinician runs a 14-day free trial with no minimum term.
Does Freed write letters and code visits?
Yes, on its Premier tier. Instant patient instructions, letters and referrals, plus ICD-10 and CPT coding, are listed on Premier rather than on Starter or Core. In Wai, letters and coding are part of the product.
Is there randomised evidence for Freed?
No randomised trial of Freed has been published. The only randomised trial of ambient scribes, run at UCLA across 238 physicians and roughly 72,000 encounters, tested Nabla and DAX Copilot. Nabla cut note-writing time by 9.5 percent. Wai has no randomised evidence either.
When is Freed still the right choice?
When you are solo, the note is the whole job, and $39 a month is the right size of decision. It is also the easiest way to try an AI scribe for a week without giving anyone a card.
See it on your own clinic
Fifteen minutes on your workflows. If it is a fit we reply within 24 hours.