Summary
Wai is the better choice than Suki for most clinics. It publishes its price with no setup fee or minimum term and covers the front desk and the consultation on one record. Suki is a dictation-first voice assistant with integrations across Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and MEDITECH, reported at $299 to $399 a month plus a setup fee and a one year minimum, none of it published.
Suki is a voice assistant as much as an ambient scribe. If you want to dictate and command rather than have something listen quietly, it is built for that and most of this category is not.
It is reported at $299 to $399 a month plus $500 to $2,000 of setup and a year up front, none of it published. You commit before you find out.
Dictation and commands are a real preference. So is finding out whether it works before the year is paid for.
Book a demo| Question | Suki | Wai |
|---|---|---|
| The note drafted from the room | Yes | Yes |
| Dictation and voice commands | Yes, built for it | Not the design |
| A briefing before the patient sits down | Not offered | Yes, built from the chart |
| ICD-10 coding attached to the decision | Yes | Yes, drafted against MDM |
| The phone, email and WhatsApp answered | Not offered | Yes, same record |
| Eligibility checked at booking | Not offered | Yes |
| Setup fee | $500 to $2,000 reported | None |
| Minimum term | One year reported | None |
| Published price | Not published | See pricing |
What Suki is good at
Voice. Suki is genuinely strong if you want to talk to your record rather than be overheard by it, and the integration list is real across Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, MEDITECH and Elation.
That design preference is worth settling before anything else. A clinician who wants to dictate and a clinician who wants to forget the software is in the room want different products, and neither is wrong.
Deep, real-time integrations with the four leading EHRs, Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, and MEDITECH, make Suki the most embedded ambient AI solution on the market.Suki homepage, suki.ai, its own claim, read 22 September 2026
The commitment
A setup fee of $500 to $2,000 and a one-year minimum means the trial decision and the annual decision arrive together, before you have run it on a real list. Products that publish a price and offer a short trial let you find out first. That is a difference in how the purchase works rather than a claim about note quality.
What the evidence says
Suki has no randomised trial. Neither do we. Nabla does, cutting note-writing time 9.5 percent across roughly 72,000 encounters, and neither arm in that trial reduced after-hours record time.
The half nobody compares
Suki covers the consultation. The phone, the booking, the deposit and the cancelled slot are somebody else's problem, and in a practice paying a reported $500 to $2,000 to get started they are the same person's problem.
The number this comparison misses
A setup fee and a year up front buys a voice assistant that reaches the note. Your E/M level already 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 $42 to $74 off a visit without ever appearing as a denial.
Suki asks for the annual commitment before you have seen a single note on your own list. The variance report that would tell you whether any of this worked is not something they publish, and neither do we.
Price
Suki does not publish, so every number here is a third-party estimate and may be wrong. Confirm directly. We publish on one page, with no setup fee and no minimum term.
Which one
Take Suki if you want to dictate and issue voice commands rather than be listened to, if you are on Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth or MEDITECH and want a named integration today, and if a setup fee and an annual term are normal for how you buy software.
Take Wai if you want to find out whether it works before committing to a year, if your evening is letters, codes and callbacks rather than notes, and if you want the front desk and the consultation on one record.
What we are not claiming
Suki is built as a dictation-first assistant, and a clinician who wants only dictation may prefer it. For everything else, the letters, the codes, the evidence and the front desk, Wai is the better choice. Suki pricing here is estimated because they do not publish, and we may have it wrong.
Bring your own clinic to it. Thirty minutes, and you see it on your workflows.
Book a demoFrequently asked questions
How much does Suki cost?
Suki does not publish pricing and buying requires a demo and an enterprise contract. Independent reporting through 2025 and 2026 places Suki Compose near 299 dollars per user per month and Suki Assistant near 399 dollars, with enterprise agreements reported between 350 and 500 dollars depending on integration depth, setup fees of 500 to 2,000 dollars per practice, and one year minimum commitments. Treat all of those as estimates and confirm them with Suki. Wai publishes its price on its pricing page, with no setup fee and no minimum term.
What does Suki do that Wai does not?
Voice commands. Suki is a two-way assistant, so you speak to it during the encounter to chart, stage orders and query the record, and nothing else in the category does this as well. It also has the broadest EHR coverage outside Epic, spanning Oracle Health, athenahealth, MEDITECH and Elation, which matters if you are poorly served by Epic-first products. Wai does not offer voice commands. The design assumes the clinician should not have to operate the software during the consultation at all.
What does Wai do that Suki does not?
Referral and clinic letters drafted from the consult, a pre-consult briefing prepared from the record before the patient sits down, cited answers grounded in current guidance and primary research inside the consult, a front desk that answers phone, email and WhatsApp around the clock at a published price, and a patient-held record. Suki does not publish letter generation as a feature. For most specialists and for general practice, letters account for more of the evening than notes do.
What does the Suki setup fee and minimum term mean?
A setup fee of $500 to $2,000 and a one-year minimum means the trial decision and the annual decision arrive together, before you have run it on a real list. Products that publish a price and offer a short trial let you find out first. That is a difference in how the purchase works rather than a claim about note quality.
Who should buy Suki rather than Wai?
Take Suki if you want to dictate and issue voice commands rather than be listened to, if you are on Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth or MEDITECH and want a named integration today, and if a setup fee and an annual term are normal for how you buy software.
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