Doximity Scribe vs ScribeMD (2026)
Two products a clinician can start using today without asking anyone. Doximity is free to every verified United States clinician, covers all users under a business associate agreement, stores no audio and names the processor, which is a stronger data position than several paid products manage. ScribeMD publishes a complete ladder including a free tier, names its certification directly and makes the most specific multi speaker capability claim in the category, which matters when the room contains a family member or an interpreter. Ignore the accuracy percentages circulating for ScribeMD, which have no methodology behind them. The practical dividing line is the same as across this whole tier: neither integrates deeply with a record system, so if you are retyping the note into the chart, you have not finished solving the problem.
- It is free to every verified United States clinician with a business associate agreement covering all users, which removes the question that gates most free clinical software.
- No audio is stored or retained, recordings are processed in real time and discarded once the note is generated, and the processor is named.
- Distribution runs through an account most United States physicians already hold, so nothing has to be procured or installed.
- The published ladder is complete with limits stated, including a free tier, so a clinician can start at zero and see the ceiling before paying.
- Certification is named directly rather than described in near attestation language, which is unusual at this end of the market.
- The multi speaker claim is the most specific in this category, which matters for family visits, interpreter present encounters and team based care.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Doximity Scribe and ScribeMD 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 | ScribeMD |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2023 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Website | doximity.com | scribemd.ai |
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Product updates
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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.
Source
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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
ScribeMD is a self serve ambient scribe claiming more than 3,000 physicians, generating notes in under 30 seconds across a stated 50 or more specialties including dentistry, psychiatry and cardiology.
Source: AI Health Index, August 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are Doximity Scribe and ScribeMD 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 ScribeMD, the free tier is 10 conversations a month with nine speaker support and a 48 hour support response commitment. The paid tier is $99.99 a month for unlimited conversations, adding analytics, custom note formatting and a 24 hour support response. 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 ScribeMD 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 ScribeMD, one commercial structure qualifies the retention answer rather than contradicting it. The ability to customize retention and deployment is listed as a custom enterprise tier feature, so the fifteen-day default applies as given on the free and standard plans and cannot be extended or shortened there. 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 ScribeMD 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 ScribeMD's case, language reach is also real rather than gestural. The vendor states capture across more than thirty languages, and its own site is localized into eight, including Korean, Japanese, Arabic and Greek. 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 ScribeMD 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 ScribeMD, a third-party review described this product as operating a hybrid model combining machine learning with human oversight. 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
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Ambient Scribes page.
The accuracy and latency figures circulating for ScribeMD carry no methodology, reference standard or denominator and should not be relied on. Doximity publishes no accuracy study, no described review gate and no confidence or edit burden figure, which is a conspicuous set of absences for a product distributed to a very large share of United States clinicians, and it has no located record system integration. Neither publishes a subgroup or accent performance analysis. For either product, get the business associate position for your actual tier in writing before recording a patient.