DeepScribe vs Nabla (2026)
Both are enterprise scribes with outside evidence, pointed at different problems. DeepScribe is built for complex specialty care, with oncology at the center. It runs inside Epic, Flatiron's OncoEMR and iKnowMed, carries AI Coding for E/M, ICD-10 and HCC, scored 98.8 in a 2025 KLAS Spotlight report, and has a 2025 Journal of Clinical Pathways study on diagnosis capture in oncology. Nabla is built for breadth of setting, with integrations into Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya, mobile documentation for emergency and inpatient clinicians, an independent randomized trial at UCLA Health, and a published price for individual clinicians. If your failure mode is specialty documentation that generalist scribes miss, oncology above all, start with DeepScribe. If it is a hospital and emergency base, or Oracle Health, Greenway or Arya sites that one contract has to cover, start with Nabla.
- Oncology runs deep, with integrations into OncoEMR and iKnowMed, a Flatiron partnership covering more than 4,200 providers, and SmartPrep for pre visit preparation in oncology.
- An August 2025 study reported 16 percent more diagnoses captured per visit and a 21 percent increase in ICD-10 specificity, and KLAS scored DeepScribe 98.8 in its 2025 Spotlight report.
- AI Coding places E/M, ICD-10 and HCC suggestions in the draft and syncs them into Epic, so coding happens inside the note.
- Both name Epic, athenahealth and NextGen, and Nabla adds Oracle Health, Greenway and Arya, where DeepScribe's additions are the oncology record systems OncoEMR and iKnowMed.
- Nabla cut time in notes by 9.5 percent against usual care in a UCLA Health randomized trial published in NEJM AI, the only arm to meet the primary endpoint.
- The price and data terms are public, at $119 a month per clinician after a 30 day trial, with audio not stored by default, a 14 day retention window and no training on customer data.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. DeepScribe and Nabla 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 | DeepScribe | Nabla |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | Paris, France |
| Website | deepscribe.ai | nabla.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.
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
Nabla sells an ambient AI assistant that listens to the visit and drafts a structured clinical note, together with dictation and E/M coding suggestions, to health systems, medical groups and individual clinicians. The company reports more than 85,000 clinicians across more than 130 health organizations and more than 20 million patient encounters a year.
Source: AI Health Index, July 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do DeepScribe and Nabla work 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.
Nabla pulls patient history and visit context from the EHR, exports structured notes into EHR templates, and places vital signs, diagnoses and patient instructions into charts, flowsheets and clinical fields. The systems named are Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya. 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 DeepScribe and Nabla priced and sold?
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.
An individual clinician can sign up online, use the product free for 30 days, and then pay $119 a month, the rate Nabla's help center states. Organizations buying for many clinicians go through Nabla's team, and group rates are quoted on request, with no group price, volume tier or enterprise unit listed. 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 DeepScribe and Nabla handle patient data?
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.
Audio is not stored by default, notes are kept for 14 days from the moment an encounter is created, and a customer can shorten that window, down to a few hours according to Nabla's French compliance page. On expiry the data leaves the application and remains only in backups, which expire seven days later. 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 DeepScribe and Nabla cover?
For 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.
With Nabla, customers range from individual practices to large health systems, and emergency and inpatient clinicians can document on mobile inside Epic. Nabla supports more than 35 languages, from English, Spanish and French to several Arabic dialects, Hindi, Mandarin and Haitian Creole. 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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Market share and visit figures for both vendors are vendor published, including DeepScribe's 90 percent of community oncology centers and Nabla's 85,000 plus clinicians. DeepScribe's KLAS score comes from customer interviews and its study figures are reported on its own site.
An earlier version of this comparison said Nabla uses session data to train its models by default and that its free tier lacks a business associate agreement, and quoted unnamed third party price estimates for both vendors. Nabla's terms and compliance page contradict the two Nabla statements, and the estimates had no named source. All three were corrected on 10 October 2026. DeepScribe publishes no price.