Summary
Suki is a good voice assistant with a real integration list.3 People search for alternatives because of the entry cost. Reported at $299 to $399 a month plus $500 to $2,000 of setup and a one-year minimum, none of it published.1
Freed publishes $39. Heidi publishes $150. Both draft an excellent note and neither asks you for a year up front.
No setup fee, no minimum term, and the price on one page.
Book a demoWhy people leave
The setup fee and the minimum term, mostly. A $500 to $2,000 implementation charge and a one-year commitment is a reasonable ask of a health system and a serious ask of a four-doctor practice, and none of those numbers appear on a website.11Suki does not publish per-clinician pricing. Third-party estimates report approximately $299 to $399 per month plus $500 to $2,000 setup and a one-year minimum term. Confirm directly with Suki. You find them on a call.
Suki is also a voice assistant as much as an ambient scribe, which suits clinicians who want to dictate and command. If you wanted a product that stays out of the way entirely, that design is a preference rather than a flaw, and you want to know your own preference before the year starts.
The options
Freed publishes $39, $79 and $119, signs you up in four minutes, and puts letters and ICD-10 coding on the top tier. Heidi publishes $150 with a free tier capped at ten actions a month, and gates EHR push above the entry plan.
Nabla holds the only randomised win in this category, cutting note-writing time by 9.5 percent against control,22Lukac PJ, Turner W, Vangala S, et al. Ambient AI Scribes in Clinical Practice, A Randomized Trial. NEJM AI 2025;2(12). and never stores the encounter. Abridge holds Best in KLAS and the deepest Epic integration at roughly $2,500 a clinician a year with a three to six month procurement. DAX Copilot is the Microsoft path and showed no significant change in the same trial Nabla won.
What none of them change
Every product above drafts a note, and the best randomised result any of them has produced is 41 seconds, with after-hours record time unchanged.
Up to 19 percent of E/M visits are undercoded at roughly $37 each, and Medicare Advantage downcoding runs a reported $28,000 to $74,000 per family physician per year without ever appearing as a denial.44AAPC Audit Services reports up to 19 percent of E/M visits are undercoded nationwide at roughly $37 each. Reported Medicare Advantage downcoding runs $28,000 to $74,000 per family physician per year. See our guide to downcoding. Moving from Suki to Freed saves you a few hundred a month. It does not touch either of those.
What WA\ does
WA\ Clinician drafts against the Medical Decision Making criteria and attaches the coding at the point the decision was made, and the documentation is what defends a 99214. WA\ Admin answers the phone, books, takes deposits and runs eligibility at booking on the same record, where about 27 percent of denials are preventable. Our prices are on one page, the same for everyone, with no setup fee and no minimum term.
What we are not claiming
We have no randomised evidence and Nabla does. If you want a dictation-first voice assistant, Suki is built for that and we are not.
Suki prices are third-party estimates because Suki does not publish, and they may be wrong. Confirm with them directly before you use anything here to make a decision.
Availability
WA\ Clinician runs a 14-day free trial with no minimum term. Pricing is on one page.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Suki cost?
Suki does not publish per-clinician pricing, so every figure available is a third-party estimate. Reporting places it around $299 to $399 per month, plus a setup fee of $500 to $2,000 and a one-year minimum term. That is a reasonable ask of a health system and a serious one for a four-doctor practice, and none of those numbers appear on a website. You find them on a call. Confirm directly with Suki before acting on anything here, because estimates in this category go stale quickly.
What is the best alternative to Suki?
Depends what the setup fee was buying. For a published price and immediate signup, Freed starts at $39 and Heidi at $150, and Heidi has the only real free tier. For evidence, Nabla holds the only randomised win in this category and never stores the encounter. For an enterprise Epic deployment, Abridge holds Best in KLAS and the deepest integration. If you specifically wanted a dictation-first voice assistant rather than an ambient scribe, Suki is built for that and most alternatives are not.
Does Suki require a contract?
Reporting indicates a one-year minimum term alongside a $500 to $2,000 implementation fee, though Suki does not publish terms so this should be confirmed directly. The practical consequence is that the trial decision and the annual commitment arrive together, before you have run it on a real list. Products that publish a price and offer a short trial let you find out first. That is a structural difference in how the purchase works rather than a claim about note quality.
No setup fee and no year up front.
Start the trial and run it beside Suki for a fortnight. If it does not move your evening, you have lost two weeks and nothing else.
About this article. Written and published by WA\, a competitor of Suki. Suki does not publish per-clinician pricing, so setup fees, monthly rates and minimum terms quoted here are third-party estimates and must be confirmed directly. The randomised trial cited is independent of us and Nabla, not WA\, holds the only randomised win in this category. Undercoding and downcoding figures are third-party RCM analysis. All names are marks belonging to their owners.