EliseAI vs Weave (2026)
Both serve independent practices' front desks, one with AI agents and one with a communications platform that adds AI. EliseAI for Healthcare runs agents across voice, text, email and web chat that schedule and fill cancellations, run recall and waitlist calls, collect intake and insurance and answer billing questions with secure payment links. Weave, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, sells phones, texting, reminders, online scheduling and payments to small and medium practices, about 40,000 locations concentrated in dental and optometry, with published pricing from $199 a month. Choose EliseAI to have agents handle the calls; choose Weave for a practice communications system with a published price.
- You want agents to answer and resolve calls, not only route them.
- Cancelled slots should be filled from a waitlist automatically.
- Outbound recall and reminder calls should run on their own.
- You want phones, texting, reminders and payments in one system.
- Your practice is dental, optometry or veterinary.
- A published starting price, $199 a month, suits how you buy.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. EliseAI and Weave 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 | EliseAI | Weave |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Patient Voice Agents | Healthcare Administrative Automation |
| Headquarters | New York, New York | Lehi, Utah, United States |
| Website | eliseai.com | getweave.com |
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Conversational AI for healthcare practice operations. Since September 2026 the voice agent runs on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 full-duplex voice model, with EliseAI as an early design partner. Partnership pages cover athenahealth and eClinicalWorks practices, and the company names customers in dermatology and OB/GYN.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Weave, based in Lehi, Utah and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as WEAV, sells a patient communications, engagement and payments platform to small and medium healthcare practices, reporting roughly 40,000 customer locations concentrated in dental and optometry, with medical, veterinary and multi location practices alongside. The platform combines practice phones with texting, reminders, online scheduling, digital forms, insurance verification, payments, reviews, email marketing and analytics, integrated with practice management systems.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are EliseAI and Weave priced and sold?
For EliseAI, no rate, unit or tier appears.
With Weave, the pricing page says plans start from $199 a month and sets out three tiers, Pro, Elite and Ultimate, with a feature comparison including monthly bulk text allotments of 1,500, 3,000 and 15,000 messages and up to 15 phones on Ultimate; each tier resolves to a pricing request, with enterprise pricing separate. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do EliseAI and Weave cover?
In EliseAI's case, the healthcare pages cover women's health, dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopedics and primary care, practices on athenahealth and eClinicalWorks, and channels across voice, text, email and web chat; named results come from dermatology and OB/GYN practices. Healthcare is one of the company's two businesses, alongside property management.
For Weave, the customer base is concentrated in dental and optometry, with medical and veterinary practices and a growing multi location segment, across roughly 40,000 locations, and the plan comparison carries dental only, optometry only and veterinary only features. Functionally it spans the front office: phones, texting, scheduling, forms, insurance verification, payments, reviews, email marketing and now the AI receptionist. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How much do EliseAI and Weave leave to the clinician?
With EliseAI, no rule says which calls go to a person or what the caller hears when no one is available.
In Weave's case, the page sells answering calls day or night, and its illustrated night shows the receptionist booking an emergency appointment at 6:05 am, but nothing describes how a caller describing pain, swelling or bleeding is handled when the team it would route to is not there, or whether callers are told they are speaking to an AI. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. EliseAI publishes no price; Weave publishes a starting price, with tiers on request. EliseAI states that calls are reused to improve its models, and Weave publishes little about how its AI features are governed.
Ask both what their AI does with recorded calls.