Summary
The best Nabla alternative is Wai Clinicians. It drafts against the Medical Decision Making criteria, then writes the letters and codes and answers clinical questions with citations from the same consultation, and Wai Admin runs the front desk on the same record, with pricing on one page. Freed publishes $39 to $119 for the note, Heidi has a free tier, and Abridge and DAX Copilot are enterprise routes.
People look for Nabla alternatives because of the price and the scope, not the notes. The evidence is real. Nabla cut note-writing time by 9.5 percent against a control group across roughly 72,000 encounters, and no competitor has produced evidence of that quality.
It also never stores the encounter, which is a stronger privacy position than anyone else has taken. If evidence or privacy is your deciding question, buy Nabla. For most private clinics the deciding question is different. There is no published price to compare, and the win is about 41 seconds of a two-hour problem.
The trial settled what a microphone reaches. The rest of the day is the open question.
Book a demoWhat Nabla has that nobody else does
The randomised trial. UCLA assigned 238 physicians across 14 specialties to DAX Copilot, to Nabla, or to usual care. Nabla cut note-writing time by 9.5 percent, about 41 seconds. DAX showed no statistically significant change. Every other vendor in this market, ourselves included, is quoting somebody else's trial or none at all.
And the privacy architecture. Audio, transcript and note stay in the browser and patient information does not reach Nabla servers. That removes the retention question rather than answering it, which is a genuinely different engineering choice and a defensible one.
Why people look anyway
No published price. Third-party estimates put it around $119 to $239 a month, which means you cannot compare it against anything without a call.
And scope. Nabla drafts the note. The trial that proves it works also measured after-hours record time and found no change, and that marks the honest limit of what the product reaches.
The architecture that makes the privacy position possible is also what caps it. A product that never stores your encounter cannot open a briefing before your next patient sits down, because it has nothing to open.
The Clinical AI Layer embedded, trusted, and scaled across care delivery, making every patient interaction feel more human.Nabla homepage, nabla.com, read 22 September 2026
The options
Freed publishes $39 to $119 and signs you up in four minutes, with letters and coding on the top tier. Heidi has the only real free tier, with EHR push gated above the entry plan, and it listed $150 until August 2026, now showing tiers without figures. Abridge holds Best in KLAS and the deepest Epic integration at roughly $2,500 a clinician a year with a three to six month procurement. DAX Copilot is the Microsoft path and was the trial arm that showed no significant change.
The number none of them touch
Every product above drafts a note, and the best measured result any of them has is 41 seconds.
Meanwhile up to 19 percent of E/M visits are undercoded at roughly $37 each, and Medicare Advantage downcoding runs a reported $28,000 to $74,000 per family physician per year without ever appearing as a denial. Switching from Nabla to another scribe changes your invoice. It does not touch that.
What Wai does instead
Wai Clinician drafts against the Medical Decision Making criteria and attaches the coding at the point the decision was made. Wai Admin runs eligibility at booking and answers the phone on the same record. The briefing opens before the patient sits down because the record is there to read.
What we are not claiming
We have no randomised trial and Nabla does. Forty one seconds a note is what that trial measured, and neither arm reduced time in the record outside scheduled hours. Wai Clinicians goes after the rest of that time, the letters, the codes and the cited answers, which is why it ranks first here for clinics that need more than the note.
We also store your encounter and Nabla does not, because the letters, the codes and the record are built from it. A clinic whose single requirement is that nothing is stored should weigh that.
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
Is Nabla the best AI medical scribe?
It holds the best evidence, which is not the same claim but is close. UCLA randomised 238 physicians across 14 specialties to DAX Copilot, to Nabla, or to usual care across roughly 72,000 encounters. Nabla cut note-writing time by 9.5 percent, about 41 seconds. DAX showed no statistically significant change. No other vendor in this market has produced evidence of that quality, and everyone else including us is quoting somebody else trial or none at all. Nabla also never stores the encounter, which removes the retention question rather than answering it.
Why would you switch away from Nabla?
Price opacity and scope. Nabla publishes no per-clinician price, with third-party estimates around $119 to $239 a month, so you cannot compare it against anything without a call. And it drafts the note, while the trial that proves it works also measured after-hours record time and found no change. The architecture that makes the privacy position possible is also what caps it. A product that never stores your encounter cannot open a briefing before your next patient sits down, because it has nothing to open.
Does Nabla store patient data?
Nabla reports that audio, transcript and note remain in the clinician browser and that patient information does not reach Nabla servers, alongside HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001. It integrates via SMART on FHIR with Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Altera, and is reported at approximately 85,000 clinicians. That is a genuinely different engineering choice from every competitor including us. Confirm current terms directly, since architecture claims change.
What does Nabla have that no other scribe has?
The randomised trial. UCLA assigned 238 physicians across 14 specialties to DAX Copilot, to Nabla, or to usual care. Nabla cut note-writing time by 9.5 percent, about 41 seconds. DAX showed no statistically significant change. Every other vendor in this market, ourselves included, is quoting somebody else's trial or none at all.
Which Nabla alternatives publish a price?
Freed publishes $39 to $119 and signs you up in four minutes, with letters and coding on the top tier. Heidi has the only real free tier, with EHR push gated above the entry plan, and it listed $150 until August 2026, now showing tiers without figures. Abridge holds Best in KLAS and the deepest Epic integration at roughly $2,500 a clinician a year with a three to six month procurement. DAX Copilot is the Microsoft path and was the trial arm that showed no significant change.
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