What Changed at Nabla

Nabla released version 2026-08-25 of its Core API. An optional specialty field was added to user management and note generation on the Server API, and an encounter date field was added to note generation on both the User and Server APIs, so a caller can now tell Nabla what kind of encounter it is transcribing instead of leaving the model to infer it. The release also introduces an audio chunk acknowledgement protocol and enforces strict endpoint path prefixes, which is a breaking change for anyone relying on loose paths.

Our read

Passing specialty and encounter date at request time is the difference between a generic note and one shaped to the documentation conventions of the service producing it, which is usually where scribe output quality is won or lost. The audio acknowledgement protocol addresses silent data loss in streaming capture, a failure that is difficult to detect after the fact. Anyone with an existing Nabla integration should read the path prefix enforcement as required migration work rather than an optional improvement.

Nabla appears to have withdrawn public per month pricing in favor of a demo and contract sales motion, particularly for organizations. The company historically published a free tier of roughly 30 consultations a month and a Pro plan reported near $119 per month. Third party listings now conflict on tier names and rates. Recorded as Partially Verified: the shift is consistently reported by third parties but was not confirmed in vendor published materials, and the date reflects the verification pass rather than an announcement.

Our read

This is a change in the buyer's favor being reversed, and it is worth noticing because the ambient scribe category is moving in two directions at once. Heidi restructured pricing upward in February 2026 but kept published tiers; Nabla appears to have withdrawn public pricing entirely. For a small practice or an individual clinician, that removes the ability to budget without a sales conversation and eliminates a self serve evaluation path that previously existed. For a health system it changes little, since enterprise contracts were always negotiated. The more consequential items to settle in that sales conversation are not the rate: confirm whether a Business Associate Agreement is included at your tier, and whether the default use of session data for model training can be contractually disabled.