DeepScribe and Freed are two of the most-searched AI scribes, and they barely compete. DeepScribe is sales-led and enterprise-priced, built for groups and systems; Freed publishes self-serve prices from $39 to $119 a month for independents. Pick DeepScribe if you’re a system that wants deep EHR integration; pick Freed if you’re a solo doctor who wants a note tonight. And if you want the note plus a chart you own, there’s a third option: a scribe that bundles an EHR at $119 a month. You can book a demo and see a finished note before you choose.
Here’s the honest head-to-head, then where the third option fits.
Key takeaways
- DeepScribe is sales-led; it publishes no per-provider price. Third-party estimates land around $400–$500/mo depending on EHR integration.
- Freed publishes prices: $39/mo Starter (40 notes), $79/mo Core (unlimited), $104 annual / $119 monthly Premier (EHR push, ICD-10).
- Neither ships an EHR. Both write into your existing chart.
- DeepScribe suits groups and systems; Freed suits independents.
- A bundled-EHR scribe at $119/mo annual is the third option when you want the note and the chart together.
| DeepScribe | Freed | Patient Square | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | No (quote only) | Yes ($39/$79/$119) | Yes ($79/$119/$199) |
| Est. / list monthly | ~$400–$500 (estimate) | $39–$119 | $79–$199 |
| Self-serve signup | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bundled EHR | No | No | Yes (Copilot, $119/mo annual) |
| Target buyer | Groups, systems | Independents | Independents, small groups |
| Free trial | Demo required | 7-day | 7-day |
Freed and Patient Square figures are from each vendor’s pricing page (July 2026). DeepScribe publishes no price; the range is a third-party estimate, not a DeepScribe quote.
What separates DeepScribe from Freed
Start with the buyer, because that’s what actually differs. DeepScribe sells to groups and health systems. It integrates with major EHRs like Epic and athenahealth, deploys with a sales and implementation process, and prices per contract, which is why there’s no public number. That model makes sense at scale; it’s heavy for a solo doctor.
Freed goes the other way. Self-serve signup, published prices, a 7-day trial you start yourself. It’s built for the independent clinician who wants to be documenting by this afternoon without a procurement call. The two tools show up on the same search results, but they’re aimed at different practices with different budgets.
So “which is better” is the wrong question. “Which buyer are you” is the right one. If you’re weighing the self-serve field more broadly, our best AI medical scribes roundup lays it out, and you can book a demo to see how a bundled option compares. For a fuller breakdown of what DeepScribe is estimated to cost before you get a quote, DeepScribe pricing pulls together the third-party ranges. And if you want the broader context on just DeepScribe vs the alternatives field, DeepScribe alternatives covers that.
DeepScribe vs Freed on price
Freed is easy to price because Freed tells you. Per its pricing page (July 2026): Starter at $39 a month, capped at 40 notes; Core at $79 a month, unlimited notes but monthly billing only; Premier at $104 a month on annual billing or $119 monthly, which adds EHR push and ICD-10 and CPT codes. Groups is a custom quote.
DeepScribe is harder, because DeepScribe publishes nothing. You request a demo and get a quote scoped to your practice. Third-party estimates put it around $400 to $500 per provider a month, higher with EHR integration, per software-comparison sites, but treat that as a directional anchor, not a DeepScribe figure. The gap between “$79 published” and “$400+ estimated, quote required” isn’t really about the dollars. It’s about whether you want to phone someone to learn your price.
Patient Square sits in the published camp, in US dollars, on the pricing page: $79 for Assist, $119 for Copilot with the bundled AI EHR, $199 for Autopilot, per clinician on annual billing, unlimited visits and notes, no per-note metering. No quote, no sales cycle to learn what you’ll pay.
Do DeepScribe or Freed include an EHR? Neither does
Both tools share one gap, and it’s the one the third option fills. Neither DeepScribe nor Freed ships a record system. Freed’s Premier tier pushes the finished note into your EHR via a browser extension; DeepScribe integrates with major EHRs on enterprise deployments. Either way, the chart is something you already own and pay for separately.
For a lot of practices that’s fine. But if you’re reading a scribe comparison because your documentation is broken AND your chart is clunky, you’re really shopping for two things, and both of these tools solve only one. Stacking a scribe subscription on top of a separate EHR is two logins, two renewals, and a handoff step in between.
Patient Square’s Copilot plan bundles both. The AI Medical Scribe by Patient Square is the ambient scribe module inside Practice Copilot. It listens during the visit and hands back a structured SOAP note, ICD-10 suggestions, and a prescription draft, ready to review and sign about two minutes after the visit. At the Copilot tier ($119/mo annual) that scribe ships with a bundled AI Copilot EHR, so the note lands in the chart you’re already in. If your gap is “note plus chart,” book a demo and see the two together.
One honesty note on scope: our eRx is a draft you review and sign, not pharmacy transmission, and ICD-10 is suggestions, not a certified coding engine. Freed’s Premier lists CPT codes too; if coding depth is central to your buy, put it on your demo checklist for all three.
The per-visit math for an independent practice
Run the arithmetic. Say you see 20 patients a day, 20 days a month, 400 visits.
| DeepScribe (est. ~$450/mo) | Freed Core ($79/mo) | Patient Square Copilot ($119/mo) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost per clinician | ~$450 | $79 | $119 |
| Visits per month | 400 | 400 | 400 |
| Cost per visit | ~$1.13 | $0.20 | $0.30 |
| Bundled EHR | No | No | Yes |
DeepScribe’s per-visit cost is a third-party estimate; DeepScribe publishes no price. Freed and Patient Square figures are published list prices on annual/Core billing.
All three are cheap per visit against an evening lost to charting. So price alone doesn’t decide it. What decides it is what the money buys: DeepScribe buys enterprise integration you’ll use at scale; Freed buys a clean self-serve note; Patient Square’s Copilot buys the note plus the chart. Match the spend to the gap you actually have. If you want the enterprise-versus-self-serve version of this, Abridge alternatives covers that end.
When DeepScribe is the better choice, and when Freed is
Pick DeepScribe if you’re a group or health system that wants deep EHR integration, an enterprise contract, and a vendor that shows up with an implementation team. That’s what DeepScribe is built for, and a self-serve tool can’t match it at that scale. The sales cycle isn’t friction there; it’s how enterprise software gets deployed.
Pick Freed if you’re an independent clinician who wants published pricing, self-serve signup, and a note the same day, and you already have an EHR you’re keeping. It’s a clean, focused tool for exactly that buyer, and the $79 Core tier is honest value.
Pick a bundled-EHR scribe if your gap is both the note and the chart, and you’d rather run one subscription than two. That’s the case neither DeepScribe nor Freed is built for, and it’s why we wrote this page. Note quality is close across all three; the deciding factor is your buyer profile and whether you also need the record system.
How to decide in a week
- Name your buyer. System that needs EHR integration at scale, DeepScribe. Independent who wants a self-serve note, Freed. Practice that wants note plus chart, a bundled tool.
- For Freed and the bundled option, start the self-serve trial today. For DeepScribe, book the demo, and know you’re entering a sales cycle.
- Match the clinical output: a note plus ICD-10 suggestions plus a checked prescription draft, so you compare like for like.
- Settle the audio question with every vendor: stored or not, and for how long. Ours is never stored.
- Trial on real visits. A scripted demo flatters every scribe.
The receipts behind our claims are on the security page, and the price ladder with no asterisks is on the pricing page. Book a short demo to see the note against your own visit type, then run the 7-day trial on a real clinic week. If your real gap is the note and the chart together, that’s the option neither of these two was built to fill.