Summary
People look past Heidi when they need workflows beyond notes or different evidence and integration options. Its UK page now publishes Free £0 and paid plans from £45 per user per month. Freed publishes $39 to $119, Nabla holds the only randomised win, and Abridge is the enterprise route. Wai puts letters, coding and the briefing on every plan, with the front desk on the same record.
Heidi is good, and until August 2026 it also published its price, which most of this category will not do. Its UK page now lists Free £0, Scribe Plus £45, Clinician £55 and Practice £65 per user per month, checked 28 September 2026. People look for alternatives for three reasons and none of them is note quality.
Check whether the integration you need is included in the selected Heidi tier. Its current UK page lists paid plans from £45 per user per month, with billing terms to verify.
Switching scribes changes the note. It does not change the evening.
Book a demoWhy people look
The tier structure, mostly. The free tier shows you whether you like talking to a microphone, and the features a clinic runs on sit above it. Push-to-chart on Practice tier means the number you were quoted may not include the integration you needed.
Annual billing is the other one. A twelve-month commitment before you have run it on a real list is a different decision from a monthly one.
Relief in every visit. The AI Care Partner for clinicians.Heidi homepage, heidihealth.com, read 22 September 2026
Who else there is
Freed publishes $39 for 40 notes, $79 unlimited and $119 with letters and coding, signs you up in four minutes and gives you seven days without a card. For a solo clinician it is the easiest thing in this market to evaluate.
Nabla holds the only randomised win, cutting note time 9.5 percent across roughly 72,000 encounters, and never stores your encounter. It publishes no price. Abridge holds Best in KLAS and the deepest Epic integration at roughly $2,500 a clinician with a three to six month procurement. Suki wants a setup fee and a year. DAX goes through a Microsoft reseller.
If you are in the UK
Heidi self-declares MHRA Class I with Class IIa reported in progress, which puts it in a minority. In a survey of 121 AI scribe products only 7 percent claimed Class I at all, and of those only six were locatable on the MHRA register under a matching entity. See our NHS guide before you shortlist anyone.
What changing scribes does not change
Every product above drafts a note and the best randomised difference between any of them is 41 seconds. Swapping Heidi for Freed changes the invoice and little else.
Your E/M level already turns on Medical Decision Making or time. Up to 19 percent of E/M visits are undercoded at $37 each and downcoding takes $42 to $74 a visit silently. A $110 saving against that is not a saving, it is a rounding error you spent an afternoon on.
What we do
Wai Clinician drafts against the MDM criteria and attaches coding at the point of decision, with letters and the briefing on every plan rather than a tier above. Wai Admin answers the phone, books, takes deposits and runs eligibility at booking on the same record.
What we are not claiming
Heidi has a free tier and we do not. It has wider language coverage than us and a larger installed base. If the free tier covers your practice, Heidi is free and we are not, and you should take the free one.
Availability
Wai Clinician runs a 14-day free trial with no minimum term. Run it beside Heidi on the same list. 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
Why do people look for Heidi alternatives?
The tier structure, mostly, rather than note quality. Push-to-chart is gated to Practice tier and above, so the entry plan may not include the integration you needed. Heidi now lists UK pound prices, starting with Scribe Plus at £45 per user per month, so the current number is visible on the page.
What is the best alternative to Heidi?
Depends what Heidi was not doing. For the smallest published price and the easiest evaluation, Freed at $39 with a seven-day no-card trial. For evidence, Nabla, which holds the only randomised win in this category and never stores your encounter. For enterprise Epic, Abridge at Best in KLAS. For the letters, the coding and the front desk on one record at one published price, Wai. If the free tier covers your practice, Heidi is free and nobody else is, and you should take the free one.
Is Heidi approved for NHS use?
Heidi self-declares MHRA Class I with Class IIa reported in progress, which puts it in a small minority. In a survey of 121 AI scribe products only 7 percent explicitly claimed Class I status, and of those only six could be located on the MHRA register under a matching or clearly linked legal entity. Since the MHRA guidance of 29 July 2026 a tool that only transcribes and summarises is not a medical device in Great Britain, so the registration most of this category was criticised for lacking turned out not to be required. A current DTAC, a DCB0129 from the supplier and a DCB0160 of your own still are. Verify against the MHRA public register yourself.
Which Heidi alternatives publish a price?
Freed publishes $39 for 40 notes, $79 unlimited and $119 with letters and coding, signs you up in four minutes and gives you seven days without a card. For a solo clinician it is the easiest thing in this market to evaluate.
Does changing scribes change much?
Every product above drafts a note and the best randomised difference between any of them is 41 seconds. Swapping Heidi for Freed changes the invoice and little else.
See it on your own clinic
Fifteen minutes on your workflows. If it is a fit we reply within 24 hours.