The real difference is not the note. It is whether you need a procurement process to start using it.
Nabla is a serious clinical AI company with deep roots in health-system deployments and a strong engineering reputation. Where it is genuinely stronger than us is at scale: multi-site rollouts, structured change management, the kind of enterprise integration work that involves your IT department and a project plan. If you are documenting for a hospital or a large group and your organisation buys software that way, Nabla is built for the conversation you are about to have and we are not pretending otherwise.
How the two products compare as of August 2026. Nabla ships fast — check their site for current pricing and features before you decide.
| Feature | ScribeMD | Nabla |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is sold to | Individual clinicians, small practices and enterprises — same product | Primarily health systems and larger groups |
| How you start | Sign up and record; no sales call required | Typically a demo and an implementation process |
| Free tier | 10 visits a month, indefinitely | See their site — enterprise-led pricing |
| What it does | Scribe, dictation, ICD-10 coding, billing automation, patient intake, clinical Answers, AI phone agent | Ambient documentation with EHR integration |
| EHR integration | Direct push to Epic, Athena, Cerner, Veradigm and 35+ others, plus a browser extension | Deep EHR integration, delivered as part of a deployment |
| API / SDK | REST API and mobile SDK for embedding in your own product | Available — talk to their team |
| Front desk | AI phone agent and patient intake forms | Not offered |
This comparison is decided before you look at a single note. If a hospital committee is buying, an enterprise vendor with an implementation team is the lower-risk choice and you should weight that heavily. If you are a clinician who wants to try something on Tuesday's clinic without asking anyone's permission, an enterprise sales motion is the whole problem, and self-serve is the feature.
We are not going to tell you we out-integrate an enterprise deployment team on a bespoke Epic build. What we will say is that our standard integrations cover the EHRs most independent practices actually run, they are turned on by the clinician rather than by IT, and the browser extension covers the rest.
The free plan covers 10 visits a month. No card, no setup call, no sales engineer on the line while you try it.
