Aura AI Scribe vs Skriber (2026)
Two self serve scribes at similar prices with very different depth behind them. Aura states SOC 2 Type II, is listed by Epic and athenahealth themselves, and publishes four price tiers starting with a free plan. Skriber is the lighter product: no setup, an enumerated set of note formats across every device, and a note that builds during the encounter into a ready to sign draft, with a free trial and a roughly knowable price. For a practice whose notes need to land inside Epic or athenaOne, Aura's listings with both record vendors settle it. For the fastest start with no record system in the picture, Skriber is simpler.
- It states SOC 2 Type II, Epic and athenahealth list it themselves, and all four price tiers are published.
- Its Toolbox designation for ambient note generation comes from Epic, not from the vendor.
- For an outpatient practice on Epic or athenaOne, it runs inside the record system at a published price.
- Note formats are properly enumerated across the standard set plus custom formats, delivered self serve across web, desktop, tablet and mobile with no setup.
- The note builds during the encounter with a real time preview producing a ready to sign draft rather than arriving afterwards.
- A free trial is promoted prominently and the circulating monthly rate makes the cost roughly knowable in advance.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Aura AI Scribe and Skriber are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Aura AI Scribe | Skriber |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States | Pasco, Washington, United States |
| Website | insighthealth.ai | skriber.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
Written to be quoted whole. Each paragraph opens the AI Health Index profile of the vendor: what the product is, who buys it and what it does.
Aura AI Scribe is the ambient scribe from Insight Health AI, Inc., an Austin company that raised an $11 million Series A led by Standard Capital in April 2026. It turns the visit conversation into a structured, specialty aware note, suggests ICD-10 and CPT codes on Pro and above, and prepares documents before and after the visit.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Skriber is a self serve ambient scribe covering SOAP, history and physical, discharge, intake, DAP and custom note formats across web, desktop, tablet and mobile, with no IT setup required and a real time preview producing a note that requires only the clinician's final approval. Its distinguishing feature is where it puts people.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Aura AI Scribe and Skriber work with the EHR?
Clinicians can also run Aura as a Chrome extension beside a web based record. Aura Anywhere lets EHR vendors embed the scribe, returning structured JSON mapped to the partner's own data model, with event hooks and a staging environment, delivered by npm or a CDN.
Skriber lists DrChrono, Epic, Practice Fusion and eClinicalWorks among supported records and says it works with most EHR systems, but the described mechanism is that notes can be easily transferred into the record rather than written back into structured fields. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified August 4, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Aura AI Scribe and Skriber handle patient data?
In Aura AI Scribe's case, notes are kept 21 days by default, Team and Enterprise customers can extend that to 30, 60 or 90 days, and destruction follows NIST 800-88. The provider owns all patient data, Insight Health acts only as a processor, and data is not shared with third parties or used beyond delivering the service.
For Skriber, the vendor states that a team of prompt engineers works with each new customer to configure note output, that every new doctor works directly with an engineer to match their personal documentation style, and that where an engineer cannot configure a specialty template the case escalates to a named clinician at the company who adjusts it himself. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified August 4, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What evidence is published for Aura AI Scribe and Skriber?
With Aura AI Scribe, the Epic Toolbox designation (October 2025) and the athenahealth Marketplace listing (January 2025) confirm how the product connects, not how good its notes are.
In Skriber's case, the feedback there is mixed rather than uniformly positive, including a reviewer rating the product eight out of ten with adjustments still needed for their practice, and at least one user reporting that spoken diagnoses were not fully captured. Mixed independent reviews are a more useful signal than a perfect one, and the negative note about incomplete capture is the specific thing to test in a trial. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified August 4, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Ambient Scribes page.
Neither vendor publishes an accuracy figure, an evaluation methodology, a fairness statement or an accent and dialect performance analysis. Skriber's named integrations are transfer level rather than deep, and it publishes no named or dated attestation, no penetration testing statement and no trust center, so the integration and assurance gap between these two is the substance of the comparison rather than a footnote.
Both publish a business associate agreement in full that applies on every plan: Skriber's as a schedule to its platform terms, and Aura's as a standard agreement that covers the free plan too. For either, get a written answer on whether your audio trains anything.