Doximity Scribe vs Heidi Health (2026)
Both offer a free product to individual clinicians. Doximity covers every user under a business associate agreement regardless of price. Heidi's free tier gives unlimited transcription, and its HIPAA page makes a business associate agreement available to every covered entity it works with, while push to chart integration comes with the Teams plan. Heidi is the broader product if you pay: 110 languages, 200 specialties, region appropriate residency and a certification stack that includes ISO 42001. Doximity is the answer if you want zero cost and zero procurement, and you accept that the note stops at the clinician, because no record system integration was located for it at all.
- Free to every verified United States clinician and student with no tiers, no note limit and no upgrade path required.
- All users are covered by a business associate agreement.
- No audio stored or retained, recordings processed in real time and discarded once the note is generated, with the encounter processor named. That is the clearest data commitment either side makes at the free end of this market.
- Coverage nothing else here approaches: 110 languages across 190 countries and more than 200 specialties, with region appropriate data residency operated per market rather than promised.
- The broadest independently examined certification stack in the category, ISO 42001 for AI management, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 9001 and a SOC 2 Type II scoped to all five trust services criteria including privacy.
- It reaches the chart. Push to chart integration with systems including Epic and Oracle Health exists on the Practice and Enterprise tiers, where the alternative has no located record system integration at all.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Doximity Scribe and Heidi 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 | Doximity Scribe | Heidi Health |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | 2010 | Not recorded |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Melbourne, Australia |
| Website | doximity.com | heidihealth.com |
Side by Side
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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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Product / capability
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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Heidi Health
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Clinical evidence
Heidi Health released an impact report analyzing five real-world pilots across Ontario, Canada, involving 333 active clinicians and over 111,000 documented patient visits.
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Pricing / packaging
Heidi restructured its pricing in February 2026 and moved upmarket.
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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
Heidi is a global ambient AI scribe that generates structured clinical notes from the patient encounter. It reports more than 175 million patient interactions supported across more than 190 countries, and solutions are published for family medicine, specialists, nurses, mental health, allied health, dentists, veterinarians and trainees.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are Doximity Scribe and Heidi Health 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 Heidi Health, a Max seat carries five times the usage allowance of a Standard seat for agents and Routines, and costs $299 per user per month billed annually. Scribing and evidence questions never draw on that allowance, and Heidi says it never charges overages. 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 Heidi Health 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 Heidi Health, data is never used for secondary purposes such as model training or commercialization, and clinical data is never shared or sold. Identifiable details are removed from transcripts and notes and processed separately from the rest. 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 Heidi Health 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.
In Heidi Health's case, the company reports around 2.8 million patient visits a week in 110 languages from 190 countries, and states coverage of more than 200 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 Heidi Health 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.
Heidi generates notes and summaries from the captured encounter, and the clinician reviews, edits and finalizes them before they go to the EHR. The clinician also sets the retention limits on what is kept. 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.
Related comparisons
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Heidi's free tier gives unlimited transcription, its HIPAA page offers a business associate agreement to every covered entity with no plan condition, and push to chart comes with the Teams plan. Doximity's free product carries an agreement for all users but no located record system integration, no described review gate and no acceptance or edit burden figure. Neither vendor publishes an accuracy or error rate on live encounters, and neither publishes an accent or dialect performance analysis.