Cadence vs Hinge Health (2026)
Two remote care programmes with different buyers and different clinical targets. Cadence runs chronic care management for older adults at home in partnership with health systems, monitoring daily vitals for hypertension, diabetes, heart failure and lung disease, and it publishes the proportion of alerts its supervised agents close without a human, which is a rare and checkable disclosure. Hinge delivers musculoskeletal care to employer and plan populations with computer vision motion tracking and a clinical team behind it. They rarely compete for the same budget, since one is billed through provider reimbursement and the other is contracted by an employer. Neither publishes engagement adjusted outcomes, which is the figure that separates a programme that worked from one that recruited the already motivated.
- It runs chronic care management for older adults at home in partnership with health systems, billed through an existing reimbursement pathway.
- It publishes the proportion of vitals alerts its supervised agents resolve without a human, with a stated review time, which makes the supervision claim checkable.
- Conditions and population are enumerated precisely, so a buyer can match the programme against its own panel.
- It delivers musculoskeletal and adjacent care to employer and plan populations with motion tracking and real time feedback, at documented scale.
- Two genuine security credentials are correctly named with a specific audit result stated, which is stronger than most in this segment.
- The oversight structure is described per product rather than as a blanket statement, which is unusually precise.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Cadence and Hinge Health 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 | Cadence | Hinge Health |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Remote Monitoring & Chronic Care | Remote Monitoring & Chronic Care |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Website | cadence.care | hingehealth.com |
Side by Side
Each record in one paragraph
Written to be quoted whole. Each paragraph states what the AI Health Index verified about the vendor, with the caveats attached. Generated from this pair’s live capability grades, so it moves when a grade moves.
The AI Health Index awards Cadence its top capability grade on Autonomy and Oversight Model and Clinical and Operational Evidence. Set against Hinge Health, Cadence grades higher on several axes, including Autonomy and Oversight Model, Clinical and Operational Evidence and FDA and Regulatory Status. Its thinnest published disclosure sits on Model Supply Chain Disclosure and AI Liability and Recourse. Grades reflect evidence the AI Health Index could verify at the last review, so a low grade records disclosure the vendor has not published rather than a capability it has been shown to lack.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
The AI Health Index awards Hinge Health its top capability grade on Deployment Model and Data Residency. Set against Cadence, Hinge Health grades higher on Model and Technology Transparency, Model Supply Chain Disclosure and Deployment Model and Data Residency. Its thinnest published disclosure sits on AI Liability and Recourse. Grades reflect evidence the AI Health Index could verify at the last review, so a low grade records disclosure the vendor has not published rather than a capability it has been shown to lack.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Questions buyers ask
Should we choose Cadence or Hinge Health?
On the axes where the AI Health Index separates them, Cadence grades higher on several axes, including Autonomy and Oversight Model, Clinical and Operational Evidence and FDA and Regulatory Status, and Hinge Health grades higher on Model and Technology Transparency, Model Supply Chain Disclosure and Deployment Model and Data Residency. Cadence leads on the greater share of scored axes, but the split means the decision turns on which constraint is binding rather than on an overall winner.
Where do Cadence and Hinge Health differ most?
The widest separation the AI Health Index records between Cadence and Hinge Health is on Deployment Model and Data Residency, where Cadence grades C and Hinge Health grades A. That axis sits in the Integration and Deployment group, so it should carry the most weight for a buyer whose binding constraint is how the product lands in the stack already in place.
Where do Cadence and Hinge Health grade the same?
The AI Health Index grades Cadence and Hinge Health the same on several axes, including AI Centrality, AI Safety and PHI Stewardship and HIPAA and BAA Posture. Neither holds an advantage the index can evidence on those axes, so they should not carry weight in a selection between these two.
What have Cadence and Hinge Health not disclosed?
At the last review, at least one of Cadence and Hinge Health published thin or absent detail on Model Supply Chain Disclosure and AI Liability and Recourse. The AI Health Index treats an absent disclosure as a gap in the public record rather than a failure of the product, so these are the axes to get in writing during diligence instead of inferring from the grade.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Remote Monitoring & Chronic Care page.
The buyers differ and so do the economics: one is billed through a provider reimbursement pathway and the other is contracted by an employer or plan, so a like for like cost comparison does not exist. Neither publishes engagement adjusted outcomes. Cadence publishes no security attestation, retention position or training use statement, and its record system integration is claimed without documentation. Sword collects data beyond the clinical encounter through hardware in the member's home and publishes no terms governing that holding.