Doximity Scribe vs Nabla (2026)
Both give an individual clinician a way in without a sales call, and both cover users under a business associate agreement. Doximity extends one to every user of its free scribe, and Nabla requires every customer handling protected health information to accept its published agreement at sign up. The difference is what happens after the note is written. Doximity Scribe is free to verified US clinicians, stores no audio, and documents no EHR integration. Nabla costs $119 a month after a 30 day trial, writes notes and data back into Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya, and has an independent randomized trial behind it. Start with Doximity if you want a note today at no cost. Move to Nabla when the note has to reach the chart and the program has to be defended with evidence.
- It is free to every verified US physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and medical student, with a business associate agreement covering all users.
- No audio is stored. Recordings are processed in real time and discarded once the note is generated.
- There is no procurement step. A clinician can document the same day inside the Doximity app, alongside its telehealth dialer and evidence search.
- It reaches the chart, pulling visit context from Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya and writing notes, diagnoses and vitals back.
- 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.
- Coding and dictation sit alongside the scribe, with a 14 day retention window, no training on customer data and a trust center listing dated SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Doximity Scribe 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 | Doximity Scribe | Nabla |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Paris, France |
| Website | doximity.com | nabla.com |
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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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Nabla
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EHR / interoperability
Nabla released the first beta of @nabla/connect-sdk, a browser SDK for EHR and partner pages that embed the Nabla Connect encounter frame.
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Product / capability
Nabla's Connect API now accepts Dutch for the Netherlands and for Belgium as speech languages when partners provision providers, a change applied to all earlier API versions.
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Nabla released version 2026-08-25 of its Core API.
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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
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, August 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are Doximity Scribe and Nabla 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.
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 August 4, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Doximity Scribe and Nabla 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.
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 August 4, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Doximity Scribe and Nabla 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 Nabla's case, 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 August 4, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How much do Doximity Scribe and Nabla 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.
The ambient note is reviewed and edited before it is exported, and Nabla keeps it for 14 days by default, a window the company says exists to give physicians enough time to review, edit and export their note. After each encounter the clinician can send structured feedback on the note. 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 publishes no accuracy figure and no described review or sign off step. The UCLA trial behind Nabla's result ran in outpatient care at a single academic health system, limited to English language visits. An earlier version of this comparison said Nabla's free tier lacked a business associate agreement and that its free plan could not be used in US production; Nabla's terms make accepting its published agreement a condition of use for any customer subject to HIPAA. That statement was corrected on 13 September 2026. Neither vendor publishes results by accent or dialect.