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Abridge vs Freed
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Abridge if…
- you're in its core audience: health systems, physicians and clinicians
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Choose Freed if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you're in its core audience: independent physicians, nurse practitioners
Side by side
Feature Abridge Freed
Pricing modelContact for pricingFree trial
Starting price—$39/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your content—No
Data retentionCustomer Data retained as described in the customer's agreement with AbridgeRecordings deleted after note completion; notes deleted manually or auto-deleted after 30 days
Security and compliance—SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryMedical ScribesMedical Scribes
CompanyAbridge AI, Inc.Freed Inc.
Based inUnited StatesUnited States
Founded——
Part of——
Key features
A Abridge
- Real-time capture of clinician-patient conversations
- Draft clinical notes generated from visit conversations
- Pre-visit summaries of patient history and prior visits
- Clinical decision support and care gap identification
- Coding specificity and billable documentation for revenue cycle
- Nursing documentation from natural conversations
- Patient summaries and order support after visits
- Supports conversations in 28 languages
F Freed
- Ambient scribing of in-person and telehealth visits
- Specialty-specific and custom note templates
- ICD-10, CPT and E/M coding suggestions
- Cited clinical evidence answers from 50+ sources
- One-click push to browser-based EHRs
- Patient instructions, referral letters and visit prep summaries
- Multilingual capture translated into English notes
- AI receptionist with two-way SMS and shared inbox
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Abridge
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
Freed
Starter$39/mo
Core$59–$79/mo (monthly vs annual billing)
Premier$104–$119/mo (monthly vs annual billing)
GroupsCustom
Front DeskStarting at $149/mo
Strengths and limitations
Abridge
- Used by 300+ health systems, including Kaiser Permanente and Johns Hopkins
- Named Best in KLAS for ambient AI in 2025 and 2026
- Covers pre-visit, encounter and post-visit work
- Publishes whitepapers on AI evaluation and hallucination reduction
- No public pricing; access is through sales
- Built for enterprise health systems rather than individual practitioners
- No free plan or trial listed
Freed
- 7-day free trial with no credit card needed
- Core plan free for residents, students and trainees
- Audio recordings are deleted after notes are processed
- Works on desktop, tablet and smartphone
- Starter plan is capped at 40 notes per month
- EHR push and coding require the Premier plan
- EHR integration limited to browser-based EHRs
- Notes are produced in English only
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