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Abridge vs Scribenote
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 Scribenote if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: veterinarians, veterinary technicians and care teams
Side by side
Feature Abridge Scribenote
Pricing modelContact for pricingFreemium
Starting price—$79/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your content—Yes
Data retentionCustomer Data retained as described in the customer's agreement with AbridgeKept while providing Services; deleted when no longer required or after 6 months inactivity
Security and compliance—SOC 2 Type II, ISO 42001
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryMedical ScribesMedical Scribes
CompanyAbridge AI, Inc.Scribenote Inc.
Based inUnited StatesCanada
Founded—2019
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
S Scribenote
- Records appointments and calls on phone, tablet or laptop
- Generates structured SOAP notes from speech
- PIMS export through Widget Mode and PIMSPal
- Custom Adaptive Templates and template library
- Callback, dental, multi-pet and ultrasound templates
- Teams Mode for unlimited care team members
- Multi-language mode and advanced name correction
- Companion for questions about any patient
Plans and prices
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Abridge
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
Scribenote
Free$0
Pro$79/mo/DVM (yearly toggle); $99/DVM (monthly toggle)
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
Scribenote
- Free plan includes unlimited notes
- Billed per DVM, with care team members free through Teams Mode
- 2-week Pro trial with no credit card required
- SOC 2 Type II attestation and ISO/IEC 42001 certification
- Free plan uses standard models and has self-serve support only
- Free plan shares data for model improvement by default
- No special pricing for locum or part-time vets
- Custom templates require the Pro plan
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