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FAbridge vs Microsoft Dragon Copilot
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 Microsoft Dragon Copilot if…
- you work on iOS, Android, Windows
- you're in its core audience: physicians, nurses
Side by side
Feature Abridge Microsoft Dragon Copilot
Pricing modelContact for pricingContact for pricing
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retentionCustomer Data retained as described in the customer's agreement with Abridge—
Security and compliance—GDPR
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android, Windows
CategoryMedical ScribesMedical Scribes
CompanyAbridge AI, Inc.Nuance Communications, Inc.
Based inUnited StatesUnited States
Founded——
Part of—Microsoft
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
M Microsoft Dragon Copilot
- Ambient capture of multi-party, multilingual clinical conversations
- Specialty-specific clinical note generation
- Cited answers from transcripts, notes and medical references
- Coding suggestions, referral letters and after-visit summaries
- Nursing flowsheet documentation from ambient capture
- Radiology report drafting and prior-report summaries (preview)
- Embedded in EHRs such as Epic
Plans and prices
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Abridge
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
EnterpriseCustom
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
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
- Separate workflows for physicians, nurses and radiologists
- Works inside EHRs such as Epic
- Answers include citations to sources
- Physician version is available in 10 countries
- No public pricing; you have to contact sales
- Nurse version is available only in the US
- Radiology features are still in preview in the US
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