Abridge is aimed at health systems. If you are not one, that is the most important fact on this page.
Abridge is one of the strongest products in this category and has the health-system deployments to prove it. Its Epic integration is deep, its clinical evidence work is real, and inside a large organisation that has already standardised on Epic it is a very hard product to beat. Clinicians who get it through their employer generally like it. We would not tell a large academic medical centre to pick us over Abridge on integration depth.
How the two products compare as of August 2026. Abridge ships fast — check their site for current pricing and features before you decide.
| Feature | ScribeMD | Abridge |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is sold to | Individual clinicians, small practices and enterprises — same product | Health systems and large provider organisations |
| How you start | Sign up and record; no sales call required | Enterprise agreement, usually via your organisation |
| Can a solo clinician buy it | Yes, today, with a card | Not the primary route to market |
| Free tier | 10 visits a month, indefinitely | Not self-serve |
| Epic integration | Direct push to Epic, plus Athena, Cerner, Veradigm and 35+ others | Deep native Epic integration |
| What it does | Scribe, dictation, ICD-10 coding, billing automation, patient intake, clinical Answers, AI phone agent | Ambient documentation and coding support |
| Front desk | AI phone agent and patient intake forms | Not offered |
Use it. It is good, it is paid for, and it is wired into the chart you already work in. There is no argument here worth having. This page is for the clinician who does not have that option — the independent practice, the small group, the clinician whose organisation has not bought anything and is not going to this year.
Enterprise products are priced and delivered on the assumption that an organisation is on the other side: a contract, an implementation, an IT owner. Take that organisation away and the whole motion stops working. ScribeMD is built for the other case — you sign up, you record a visit, you decide. If it does not help, you stop paying and nothing has to be unwound.
Both products treat coding as part of documentation rather than a separate step. Ours reads ICD-10 codes out of the note you already wrote and validates them against the ICD-10-CM catalogue, and the billing automation turns the finished note into a claim with the documentation that supports it. Judge that on your own notes, not on our description of it.
The free plan covers 10 visits a month. No card, no setup call, no sales engineer on the line while you try it.
