Doximity Scribe vs Freed (2026)
The two products an individual clinician actually chooses between, and the price gap is total: one is free and the other starts at $39 a month. Doximity gives Scribe away to every verified United States clinician and student, covers all users under a business associate agreement, stores no audio and names the third party that processes the encounter, which is a stronger data position than most paid products here manage. What it does not do is reach the record system: no integration with any electronic health record was located, so the note comes back to the clinician and stops there. Freed costs money and pushes the note into any browser based record with one click, publishes SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 as independent audits, and includes a business associate agreement on every tier. If the note has to land in the chart, that is worth $39. If it does not, free is hard to argue with.
- It costs nothing and the eligibility is stated precisely: free to all verified United States physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and medical students, with no tiers and no per note limit.
- Every user is covered by a business associate agreement, which removes the question that gates almost every other free or entry tier product in this category.
- The data commitment is unhedged: no audio is stored or retained, recordings are processed in real time and discarded once the note is generated, and the vendor names the third party that processes the encounter.
- It puts the note in the chart. Freed's EHR push moves the note into any browser based record system in one click, where the alternative has no located integration with any record system at all.
- Paid tiers with defined limits and a coding tier, so a practice can scale from a single clinician to a group with volume discounts rather than depending on a free product's roadmap.
- A security disclosure that is unusually specific for a self serve product: SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 as independent audits, federal standard cryptographic modules, and all data processed and stored in United States data centers.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Doximity Scribe and Freed 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 | Doximity Scribe | Freed |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | 2010 | Not recorded |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | San Francisco, California |
| Website | doximity.com | getfreed.ai |
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Product updates
The latest logged changes from each vendor, newest first, each linked to its source.
Doximity Scribe
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Version 21.4.0 of the Doximity iOS app lets clinicians attach a Doximity Scribe visit note to an Ask conversation and ask follow up questions with that encounter as context.
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Freed
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Freed has released Knowledge Base 2.0 for its Front Desk AI receptionist product.
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Freed has launched a new Dictation feature for its AI Scribe product.
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Doximity Scribe is an ambient documentation tool given away free to every verified United States physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and medical student, launched broadly in July 2025 after more than a year of beta testing in which over 10,000 clinicians generated millions of notes.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Freed is a self serve ambient scribe: a clinician can sign up and generate notes the same day with no sales call, no IT deployment and no annual contract. It reports more than 26,000 clinicians, more than 1,300 clinics and more than 32 million patient visits transcribed. It records on phone, desktop or tablet, returns a structured SOAP note within a minute or two, and publishes its pricing in full.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are Doximity Scribe and Freed priced and sold?
Doximity also provides Scribe, free onboarding assistance and Dialer Pro telemedicine at no cost to free and charitable clinics across the United States, which extends access to settings that generally cannot fund documentation technology at all.
With Freed, a seven day free trial opens the Premier features with no credit card needed. Eligible students, residents, trainees and fellows can get 12 months of Core at no cost, or up to 50 percent off monthly Premier for 24 months. 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 Doximity Scribe and Freed handle patient data?
In Doximity Scribe's case, a free tool adopted individually sits outside institutional oversight, so notes being private to the user protects the clinician from employer surveillance of their documentation drafts. The same property means an organization cannot audit what the tool produced in its own charts.
For Freed, audio is held until the note and its quality checks are complete, then deleted automatically. Clinicians can edit or delete notes at any time, or set them to delete automatically after 30 days. 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.
Which settings and specialties do Doximity Scribe and Freed cover?
Available to physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and medical students across all specialties and practice areas, usable at in person visits and through Doximity Dialer for telehealth calls and video.
Freed's site has specialty pages for nurse practitioners, family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, mental health, pediatrics, functional medicine and OB/GYN. Every plan includes specialty specific templates, and the homepage claims 98 percent recall on medical terms across more than 30 specialties. 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 much do Doximity Scribe and Freed leave to the clinician?
For Doximity Scribe, the vendor says notes are private to the individual clinician and frames this as keeping them in control of their own documentation, citing the sanctity of the clinician patient relationship.
With Freed, the final note can be edited or deleted at any time, and a quality check runs before the audio recording is deleted, which implies a verification stage between generation and finalization. Edits also teach the system: a clinician can correct a note and ask Freed to learn that style for next time, so the review step doubles as a training signal. 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.
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Doximity Scribe describes no review gate, sign off step, confidence threshold, acceptance rate or edit burden figure in its published material, and it publishes no accuracy figure or bias and accent position despite reaching a very large share of United States clinicians. Freed states that its models are trained only on de identified notes, which means customer content does train the model after de identification, a different commitment from not training on customer data at all. Freed centers on primary care and general practice. Neither vendor publishes an accuracy figure.