How does ezScribe pricing compare to Nuance DAX Copilot, DeepScribe, Freed, and Heidi?

ezScribe is priced for independent practices, not enterprise. ezScribe Solo and Practice both start at $49/provider/month (Practice adds a group discount for 2–5 providers), with custom Enterprise pricing for clinics and health systems — unlimited transcriptions, no annual contract. By comparison, Nuance DAX Copilot is listed at $600/user/month ($7,200/user/year on a 1-year contract) on the Microsoft Marketplace and requires a Professional Services engagement. Heidi Health lists at approximately $150/month unlimited. Freed lists at approximately $79/month unlimited. DeepScribe and Ambience Healthcare are quote-only enterprise contracts. ezScribe undercuts every profiled competitor on price while maintaining full HIPAA-grade safeguards.

How secure is my patient data?

Patient security is our top priority. ezScribe is built with HIPAA compliance in mind. All patient data is encrypted both in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES-256 encryption). We implement strict access controls and comprehensive audit logging. Additionally, all transcription data is automatically deleted after 30 days to minimize data exposure. We never sell or share your data with third parties.

Does ezScribe integrate directly with my EHR system?

ezScribe is designed to work seamlessly alongside any EHR system through a simple copy-paste workflow. After each transcription, you receive a professionally formatted clinical summary that you can copy with one click — either the entire summary or individual sections (Chief Complaint, HPI, Assessment, Plan). This universal approach means ezScribe works with Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and any other EHR system you use, without complex integrations or IT involvement.

How much does ezScribe cost?

ezScribe starts at $49/provider/month for the Solo plan (independent physicians) and the Practice plan (small group practices, 2–5 providers, with a volume discount) — both unlimited. Enterprise clinics and health systems get custom pricing. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial — cancel anytime in one click — and your price is locked in for as long as you maintain an active subscription.

How accurate is the transcription?

ezScribe uses state-of-the-art AI speech recognition technology (OpenAI Whisper) that's specifically trained on medical terminology. While accuracy is excellent for most accents and speaking styles, we always recommend reviewing transcriptions before adding them to patient records. The AI-generated summaries include relevant ICD-10 codes to help streamline your documentation workflow.

Does ezScribe work with Spanish or French-speaking patients?

Yes — full multilingual support. ezScribe can transcribe English, Spanish, and French speech, so you can record visits conducted entirely in Spanish or French and receive accurate transcriptions in English. With one click you can translate any clinical summary to Spanish or French, making it easy to share documentation with patients or staff. The original English version is always preserved.

Can Canadian physicians use ezScribe?

Yes. ezScribe has a dedicated Canada mode aligned with PIPEDA and provincial health-privacy laws (PHIPA in Ontario, HIA in Alberta, PIPA in British Columbia, Quebec Law 25). Canadian accounts generate code-free clinical notes with descriptive diagnoses instead of US ICD-10 billing codes, and include a province-tailored patient consent script.

Dental practice guide

The dentist’s guide to AI scribes in 2026

Why every ambient scribe on the market was built for primary care, what dental practices actually need instead, and how to evaluate the options in an afternoon.

Published August 16, 20266 min readByThe ezScribe team· reviewed by ezScribe clinical team

If you searched "best AI medical scribe 2026," every review site put the same six or seven products in front of you: DeepScribe, Freed, Heidi Health, Suki, Abridge, Nuance DAX Copilot, Ambience. All of them are excellent. None of them were built for dental practices. This guide is what we wish existed the day we started serving dentists — a straight-talking breakdown of what dental teams actually need, what to test for in a two-week trial, and where the marketing copy on the big-medical scribes quietly falls apart when you sit them next to a dental chair.

Why medical-first scribes struggle in dental

The core problem is the training data. Ambient scribes learn on tens of thousands of hours of primary-care and specialist visits — internal medicine H&Ps, cardiology follow-ups, ortho consults. That data teaches the model excellent SOAP structure, ICD-10 fluency, and vocabulary for medications and lab values. What it does not teach the model is that when you say "number six," you mean a tooth, not a page.

The failure modes we hear about from dentists testing medical-first scribes: tooth numbers rendered as page numbers ("visit our number 6 protocol"), ADA CDT codes hallucinated as ICD-10 codes ("D2391" gets swapped for "K02.9"), and the plan section formatted like a specialist referral note instead of a treatment plan. None of these are dealbreakers on their own. Together they mean every note needs 30-60 seconds of clean-up. Over a full day, that’s the second shift the AI was supposed to eliminate.

What dental practices actually need

After talking to enough dentists, the requirements narrow to five things. If a scribe checks all five, the trial is worth running. If it checks three, keep looking.

Universal tooth-numbering. System 1-32 for permanent, letters A-T for primary. The scribe should recognize "number six," "tooth #6," "tooth six MOD," "primary K," and "quadrant three" without configuration.
ADA CDT code awareness. Not required to auto-generate codes, but the model must not corrupt them — "D2391" should stay "D2391," never turn into an ICD-10 lookalike.
SOAP formatted for a dental encounter. Chief complaint, exam findings by tooth/quadrant, radiographic findings, assessment, and a plan that reads like a treatment plan (not a specialist referral).
Copy-paste into every dental PMS. Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve Dental, Carestream. If it needs an integration, it needs an IT budget.
HIPAA compliance built in, not bolted on. Encryption, audit logging, and automatic data deletion should be table stakes, not an upsell.

The pricing traps

Ambient-scribe pricing falls into three tiers, and dental practices need to be aware of all three before signing anything.

Enterprise (quote-only or four-figure per user). Nuance DAX Copilot is listed at $600/user/month on Microsoft Marketplace, which works out to $7,200 per provider per year on a 1-year contract. DeepScribe and Ambience are quote-only enterprise deals. These products are excellent — they just require a hospital procurement department to buy them.

Consumer-tier ($79-$150/month unlimited). Heidi and Freed publish prices, offer trials, and are legitimately usable by an independent practice. The gotcha is that pricing on both products has crept up over the last 18 months, and both add per-feature charges (branded exports, referral letters, admin dashboards).

Small-practice-first ($49-$74/month unlimited). This is where ezScribe lives. Flat monthly, unlimited transcriptions, cancel-any-time, dental voice-command pack included at every tier. No annual contract, no per-feature charges.

How to run a two-week trial the right way

Every serious scribe offers a 14-day trial. Here is how to use it well:

Day 1-3. Test the tooth-numbering explicitly. Dictate a mock exam covering #3, #14, #19, #30, and primary tooth K. Confirm each renders correctly with no post-editing.
Day 4-7. Chart real patients (with consent). Watch how the scribe handles code-switching if you see Spanish-speaking families, and confirm the summary structure fits your PMS paste target.
Day 8-11. Try the corner cases — an oral-surgery consult with pathology described, a hygiene visit with periodontal charting, an emergency exam with radiographic findings.
Day 12-14. Print your last 20 notes side by side with your pre-scribe baseline. If total post-editing time is under 10 seconds per note, ship it. If it’s 30+ seconds, the scribe was not built for you.

The dental-scribe checklist

Tooth-numbering aware · ADA CDT codes preserved · SOAP for dental (not medical) · Copy-pastes into your PMS · HIPAA-compliant · Unlimited transcriptions on a flat monthly price · Two-week trial with no annual commitment · Cancel anytime from the account page (not a phone call).

Where ezScribe fits

ezScribe ships a dental specialty pack at every tier — Solo, Specialist, and Clinic. Tooth-numbering, ADA CDT preservation, and dental-formatted SOAP are on by default the moment you set your specialty to Dental in your profile. Copy-paste works with every dental PMS we’ve tested. HIPAA-compliant infrastructure with AES-256 encryption and full audit logging. $49/provider/month for Solo, unlimited transcriptions, 14-day free trial, and you can cancel from your account in one click if we’re not the right fit.

See the dental landing page for the specifics, or start the 14-day trial and dictate your first note in the next ten minutes.

Try ezScribe on your next visit

HIPAA-compliant. 14-day free trial. Cancel from your account in one click if we’re not the right fit.