Commure vs DeepScribe (2026)
Both sell documentation with coding attached, and the resemblance stops there. Commure, the General Catalyst backed group built from Athelas, Augmedix and Memora, treats the note as the front end of coding, documentation integrity and claims automation, and sells oversight in three service levels, from AI drafted notes through specialist review to real time human documentation, across more than 130 health systems. DeepScribe treats the note as specialty work, with oncology at the center, AI Coding for E/M, ICD-10 and HCC inside the draft, and a 98.8 KLAS Spotlight score and a 2025 Journal of Clinical Pathways study behind it. If your failure mode is clinicians who still need a person in the documentation loop, or notes that must feed claims, start with Commure. If it is complex specialty documentation that generalist scribes get wrong, start with DeepScribe.
- Oversight is adjustable. Ambient AI drafts the note, Ambient Assist adds specialist review of the draft, and Ambient Live provides real time human documentation support.
- Reach and procurement routes are wide, with integration claimed across 60 plus EHRs including Epic, Oracle Health and MEDITECH, more than 130 health systems, and a January 2025 Vizient contract giving member health systems negotiated access.
- Ambient output flows into autonomous coding, clinical documentation integrity and claims automation in one platform, and the standard Business Associate Agreement is published among Commure's legal terms.
- Oncology runs deep, with integrations into OncoEMR and iKnowMed, a Flatiron partnership covering more than 4,200 providers, and SmartPrep for oncology pre visit preparation.
- Outside evidence stands behind it, with a 98.8 score in KLAS's 2025 Spotlight report and an August 2025 Journal of Clinical Pathways study reporting 16 percent more diagnoses captured per visit in oncology.
- Coding lives in the note. AI Coding places E/M, ICD-10 and HCC suggestions in the draft and syncs them into Epic, with two way integrations into athenahealth and NextGen described in DeepScribe's own guides.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Commure and DeepScribe 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 | Commure | DeepScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California | San Francisco, California |
| Website | commure.com | deepscribe.ai |
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Commure sells ambient clinical documentation that feeds autonomous coding, clinical documentation integrity and claims automation, as part of a General Catalyst backed group built from Athelas, Augmedix and Memora Health. Commure Ambient AI comes in three service levels: Ambient AI on its own, Ambient Assist with specialist review of the AI draft, and Ambient Live with real time human documentation support, a ladder that carries forward the Augmedix Go, Assist and Live suite.
Source: AI Health Index, July 2026
DeepScribe sells ambient AI documentation built for specialty care, with oncology at its center, to health systems, oncology networks and specialty groups. The scribe listens to the visit, pulls prior notes, labs, imaging, medications and diagnoses forward from the chart, and writes a structured note with coding suggestions back into the EHR.
Source: AI Health Index, July 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Commure and DeepScribe work with the EHR?
Commure Ambient AI holds Epic Toolbox designation for Ambient Voice, announced April 30, 2025: notes captured in the Haiku mobile app flow into Hyperdrive for the clinician's final review and editing. North East Medical Services runs the product fully integrated with Epic, and the product page describes syncing patient data and documentation directly with the EHR.
In Epic, including Haiku and Canto, a clinician picks the patient from a synced schedule, DeepScribe pulls prior context into the note, and the finished note and coding suggestions sync back in seconds. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Commure and DeepScribe priced and sold?
Commure Scribe's pricing page offers ScribeCore free for seven days with no card required, ScribePro at $708 a year billed annually, shown against a list price of $1,068, and ScribeEnterprise on a custom quote with templates built for the practice and notes synced to the EHR; the page description gives plans from $59 a month.
DeepScribe's site offers a demo request and a sign in, its terms place fees, usage limits and other commercial terms in each order form, and it lists no rate, tier, unit of charge or trial. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Commure and DeepScribe handle patient data?
Under the General Terms of Agreement the customer owns its Customer Data, a term defined to exclude PHI, and Commure makes stored Customer Data available on written request after termination. The same terms let Commure create deidentified data, own it outright, use and disclose it for any purpose the law does not prohibit, and aggregate it with other customers' deidentified data to produce insights.
The business associate agreement governs protected health information, and DeepScribe describes encryption in transit and at rest, role based access, multifactor authentication and de identification of patient data, with a HIPAA audit report listed in its trust center. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Commure and DeepScribe cover?
Commure says its models, prompts and formats adapt to each specialty. The AI only tier is aimed at ambulatory and lower acuity settings, with the staffed tiers covering more complex work, and Augmedix markets a dedicated emergency medicine app and AI tuned for oncology.
With DeepScribe, the company says it is used across 90 percent of community oncology centers, partners with Flatiron's network of more than 4,200 providers, integrates with OncoEMR and iKnowMed, and sells SmartPrep as an oncology pre visit product. It also publishes pages for cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedics and urology, and a partnership with Pearl Health takes it to value based care providers. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Provider and visit figures for both vendors are vendor published, including Commure's 130 plus health systems and DeepScribe's 90 percent of community oncology centers. Commure's evidence is a 2025 KLAS First Look score of 93.3 and two pilots it reports, and DeepScribe's KLAS score comes from customer feedback.
Commure's published terms do not state whether protected health information trains its models, and DeepScribe's privacy policy allows personal data to be kept past the end of the relationship. An earlier version of this comparison quoted third party price estimates for DeepScribe that trace to no named source; they were removed on 10 October 2026. Commure Scribe is priced from $59 a month with ScribePro at $708 a year, and neither vendor publishes health system pricing.