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Abridge vs SOAPNoteAI
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 SOAPNoteAI if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on iOS
- you're in its core audience: therapists and counselors, nurse practitioners
Side by side
Feature Abridge SOAPNoteAI
Pricing modelContact for pricingFree trial
Starting price—$16.67/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 AbridgeAudio deleted in 24-48 hours; notes and Penny chats 30 days; summaries 12 months
Security and compliance—HIPAA
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS
CategoryMedical ScribesMedical Scribes
CompanyAbridge AI, Inc.Modi Labs LLC
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
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- Session recording AI scribe up to 2 hours
- Telehealth session recording
- Audio dictation to structured SOAP note
- Shorthand and bullet-point text to SOAP note
- Penny AI assistant to edit and refine sections
- AI clinician review flags missing assessment elements
- Referral letters and treatment plans from a note
- Document versioning with restore
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Abridge
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
SOAPNoteAI
Lite$200/year ($16.67/mo billed yearly)
Standard$600/year ($50/mo billed yearly)
Pro$700/year ($58.33/mo billed yearly)
Ultra Pack$59
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
SOAPNoteAI
- First 20 notes free with no credit card required
- Five input methods, including telehealth recording and uploads
- Students, trainees and residents get 50% off
- Pay-as-you-go packs for people who don't want a subscription
- Notes are accessible for only up to 30 days on the listed plans
- Text/shorthand notes are included only in the Pro subscription
- Lite plan caps audio notes at 30 per month
- Subscription prices are shown for annual billing
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