If you’re looking at Scribeberry alternatives, you’re usually solving one of two problems: the free tier’s 20-uses-a-month cap stopped covering your volume, or you’re about to pay the $99 Pro price and want to know what else that money buys. The main alternative worth pricing out is an unlimited ambient scribe with an EHR path, which is what Practice Copilot from Patient Square is.
Scribeberry is a fair product with published prices, which already puts it ahead of half this market. So this isn’t a takedown. It’s the upgrade math, run honestly, with the cases where staying is the right call. If you’d rather watch the alternative run on your own visit types first,
Key takeaways
- Scribeberry’s published ladder: free (3 days unlimited, then 20 uses/month), Pro at $99/month unlimited, Enterprise at $79/user/month for 5+ providers.
- 20 free uses covers about one visit per working day. A 15-patient-day clinician produces roughly 300 notes a month.
- At the paid tier the prices nearly touch: their Pro is $99 monthly; Practice Copilot’s Assist plan is $99 month-to-month or $79 on annual billing.
- The real difference is what comes back per visit (SOAP draft plus ICD-10 suggestions plus an Rx draft) and where the note goes: EHR-ready export on every plan, bundled AI EHR at the $119 Copilot tier.
What Scribeberry gives you, and where the caps sit
Scribeberry sells an AI medical scribe aimed at both Canada and the US. Its pricing page, which is refreshingly specific, lists three tiers as of this writing: a free plan that starts with 3 days of unlimited use and then settles at 20 uses per month, a Pro plan at $99 a month with unlimited use, custom templates, dictation and transcription, and an Enterprise plan at $79 per user per month for teams of five providers and up, with custom integrations and white labeling. The same page lists HIPAA and PIPEDA compliance, SOC 2 Type 2, end-to-end encryption, Canadian data hosting, and zero audio retention across plans.
Two things stand out. First, the free tier is a real free tier, not a 7-day teaser, and that’s the honest reason Scribeberry shows up on budget shortlists. Second, the Canadian DNA runs deep: PIPEDA, Canadian hosting, and integrations its site describes with Oscar and TELUS, which are Canadian EMRs. For a US practice, that second part is mostly neutral. For a Canadian one, it’s the pitch.
20 uses is one good Tuesday
Here’s where the free tier meets a real panel. Say you run an urgent care shift on a Friday in flu season and see 22 patients. If every visit gets a note, you’ve burned your entire monthly allowance plus two before the weekend. The cap doesn’t fail loudly; it fails by making you ration, deciding at 2pm which patients are worth an AI note and which get typed the old way.
| Your volume | Notes/month (approx.) | Free tier coverage (20 uses) | What’s left to type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 visit/day, side panel | ~20 | Everything | Nothing |
| 8 patients/day, part-time | ~160 | About 13% | ~140 notes |
| 15 patients/day | ~300 | About 7% | ~280 notes |
| 22 patients/day | ~440 | About 5% | ~420 notes |
The first row is the interesting one. If your documentation load genuinely fits inside 20 uses, Scribeberry free is unbeatable at $0 and you should probably stop reading. Every other row is really a paid-tier decision wearing a free-tier costume. Our wider AI scribe cost comparison maps the whole market’s prices if you want the full landscape; the pattern of free tiers that cap and then upsell also shows up in our look at Nabla past its free-tier cap.
The $99 question: what does the same money buy?
Once you’re paying, the comparison gets close enough that the decision stops being about price. Scribeberry Pro is $99 a month. Practice Copilot’s Assist plan is $99 month-to-month, or $79 per clinician per month on annual billing. Call it a wash monthly and a $240-a-year gap on annual.
So compare what each hands back per visit. Scribeberry Pro gives you unlimited scribing, dictation, custom templates, and (per its pricing page) AI agents for pre-intake. The AI Medical Scribe by Patient Square is one module inside Practice Copilot, and 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. The codes are suggestions you confirm, the prescription is a draft you decide on, and nothing enters a chart without your signature.
Then compare where the note goes. Every Patient Square plan includes EHR-ready export (PDF · HL7 · FHIR) plus unlimited visits and notes with no per-note metering. And one tier up, the Copilot plan at $119 a month annual bundles an AI EHR and WhatsApp messaging, which matters if the thing you’re actually shopping for is a system of record, not just a note generator. The per-plan breakdown lists exactly what ships where.
We think this is the fair framing: at the paid tier you’re not choosing cheap versus expensive, you’re choosing between a scribe with intake extras and a scribe that’s the front door to a documentation platform. Which one wins depends on whether your next problem after notes is intake forms or the EHR itself.
Where the two trust stories differ
Both vendors say the right things; the details differ in ways worth knowing. Scribeberry’s pricing page lists SOC 2 Type 2 and zero audio retention, with data hosted in Canada. On our side: HIPAA-compliant safeguards, a BAA available for every customer, a SOC 2 Type II audit currently in progress (we’ll say “in progress” until it isn’t), and visit audio that’s processed in memory and discarded once the note is drafted. Notes belong to the practice, and you can export or delete any visit anytime. The full detail is on the security page.
If data residency is a board-level question for you, ask both vendors where PHI lives and get it in writing. That’s a two-sentence answer from anyone who has one.
When Scribeberry is the better fit
Three cases, and they’re not edge cases.
If you practice in Canada, Scribeberry is probably the default. PIPEDA posture, Canadian data hosting, and integrations its site describes with Oscar and TELUS are exactly what a Canadian clinic needs, and none of them are things we’d claim to match today. If your volume truly fits inside 20 uses a month, the free tier is the best price in the market: $0. And if you’re a 5-plus provider group that wants white labeling and custom integrations at $79 a user, their Enterprise tier is built for precisely that shape.
Outside those three, the decision comes down to the per-visit payload and the EHR path, and that’s a trial question, not a blog-post question.
Run both on the same clinic week
Pick one representative week. Run Monday and Tuesday’s visits through Scribeberry, Wednesday through Friday’s through Patient Square’s 7-day trial, and time the loop that actually costs you evenings: draft, edit, sign, export, done. Count the edits, not the demos. Then look at what each plan costs with your real volume next to it, and if you want the trial set up around your specialty’s note formats,