Blueprint vs Mentalyc (2026)
Two documentation tools for therapists in solo and small practice, both with published prices and both with a business associate agreement published in full. The split is what else comes with them. Blueprint sells an assistant that runs on top of whatever you use, through a Chrome extension that overlays any site, and it also ships its own record system whose core tools are free, with the assistant priced by session. Mentalyc stays a documentation tool and does not try to be the chart. Its extension fills the note into the systems it names, and its input options are the widest in this pair: record in person, record alongside any video platform, upload, dictate or type. On data handling both publish more than most. Blueprint states that client information is never sold, shared or used to train models, and that recorded audio is deleted immediately after the session. Mentalyc states the same training position, and its own security page gives two different answers on audio, up to three days in one place and immediate deletion in another. Ask Mentalyc which it is.
- You want the assistant to sit on top of your current system, or you want the option of moving to a record system later without changing vendors. The core tools of its own record system are free and the assistant is priced by session.
- The work reaches past the note: session prep, suggested interventions and worksheets from its own clinical library, and measurement based care built into the workflow.
- Data handling is stated in categorical terms: never sold, never shared, never used to train, with recorded audio deleted immediately after the session.
- You want documentation and nothing else, filed into the chart you already keep. Mentalyc names the systems its extension writes into rather than claiming integration in general.
- Input is the most flexible in this pair, so a clinician who will not record a session can dictate or type and still get a structured note.
- Pricing starts at about $20 a month by note volume, with a fourteen day trial that needs no card.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Blueprint and Mentalyc 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 | Blueprint | Mentalyc |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Behavioral Health AI | Behavioral Health AI |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, United States | New York, New York, United States |
| Website | blueprint.ai | mentalyc.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.
AI assistant and electronic health record for mental health therapists, from HelloJoy, Inc., which trades as Blueprint. The AI Assistant works from a recorded session or a dictated or typed summary and drafts progress notes, treatment plans, discharge summaries and after-visit client summaries, with note types for individual, couples, family and group therapy and psychiatry.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
AI clinical documentation for mental health professionals, working alongside the practice's own record system. Notes are generated from sessions recorded live in person or alongside any video platform, from uploaded audio, or from dictation or typed summaries, so recording is optional.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Blueprint and Mentalyc work with the EHR?
Blueprint's help center says there is no direct integration into another EHR: its Chrome extension overlays any site so a clinician can record and draft without leaving the chart, and notes are then copied and pasted in. With SimplePractice, the extension reads which client profiles were recently opened in order to suggest the right client.
Mentalyc names no electronic prescribing, laboratory, health information exchange or FHIR connection. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 20, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Blueprint and Mentalyc priced and sold?
In Blueprint's case, the AI Assistant is priced by session: $0.99 per session when used alongside another record system, with five free sessions, or $69 per seat with unlimited sessions, and $1.49 per session in the all-in-one EHR, after a 30 day free trial.
For Mentalyc, the Team plan is advertised as unlimited notes with team management, at a list price of $119.99 per seat a month shown at $59.99 per seat for new teams. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 20, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Blueprint and Mentalyc handle patient data?
Blueprint's privacy and security page states that client information is never sold, shared or used to train AI models, and that when a session is recorded the audio is deleted immediately after processing, with no recordings, copies or backups kept.
Transcripts are anonymized before processing, with a partial option that keeps first names for family sessions, and Mentalyc treats anonymized transcripts as outside the medical record. Session data is never used to train AI models, the clinician can delete any session data at any time, and account data is kept while the account is active. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 20, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Blueprint and Mentalyc cover?
Blueprint reports more than 70,000 mental health professionals on the platform.
Mentalyc states that it serves more than 30,000 clinicians. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 20, 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.
Each states a SOC 2 Type II attestation as its own without publishing the report period, the auditor or the services in scope, and Blueprint's home page adds that its audits returned perfect scores, which is not a result a buyer can check. Neither names the provider of the language model behind the notes. Neither publishes an accuracy figure or any result compared across accent, dialect or language, which is the live question when the input is recorded speech.
Mentalyc markets risk detection and safety planning in every note so that nothing critical is missed. That is an absolute promise about omissions, and signing a note does not catch what the model left out. Blueprint's terms say it provides no clinical advice and makes no clinical decisions, while its pricing page sells answers to clinical questions and suggested interventions; ask the vendor to reconcile the two.