Freed vs Nabla (2026)
Both now sell to individual clinicians at a published price, so this pairing turns on what each does once the note exists. Freed is the self serve scribe, with $39, $79 and $119 tiers, a business associate agreement on every plan, recording deletion the customer controls and a training opt out, and notes pushed into browser based EHRs through a Chrome extension. Nabla costs $119 a month after a 30 day trial and integrates with Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya, writing notes, diagnoses and vitals back, in more than 35 languages, with an independent randomized trial behind it. If your failure mode is procurement itself, or the lowest entry price, start with Freed. If it is structured write back across several hospital record systems, start with Nabla.
- Freed puts the whole price on one page, with $39 Starter, $79 Core and $119 Premier, which adds EHR Push and coding, plus a seven day trial with no credit card.
- Data controls sit with the customer: SOC 2 Type II, retention the customer sets down to immediate deletion of recordings, and an opt out from model training, under a business associate agreement that attaches on every plan.
- There is no deployment project. Camarena Health, a community health center, rolled Freed out to 55 clinicians across 24 sites without formal implementation.
- Nabla writes back natively, pulling visit context from Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya and writing notes, diagnoses and vitals into the chart, where Freed transfers notes through a Chrome extension.
- It supports more than 35 languages, mobile documentation for emergency and inpatient clinicians inside Epic, and visits up to three hours.
- Nabla cut time in notes by 9.5 percent against usual care in a UCLA Health randomized trial published in NEJM AI.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Freed 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 | Freed | Nabla |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | Paris, France |
| Website | getfreed.ai | nabla.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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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, July 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, July 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Freed and Nabla work with the EHR?
Freed says it works with dozens of browser based systems and works best on SimplePractice, PracticeFusion, Tebra, Elation, Therapy Notes, Athena, Optimantra, Kipu, Aarista and DrChrono, with support for new EHRs added monthly. Installing it takes less than a minute and needs no IT support, and it is part of the Premier plan.
Nabla pulls patient history and visit context from the EHR, exports structured notes into EHR templates, and places vital signs, diagnoses and patient instructions into charts, flowsheets and clinical fields. The systems named are Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, NextGen, Greenway and Arya. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Freed and Nabla priced and sold?
In Freed's case, 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.
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 July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Freed and Nabla handle patient data?
With 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.
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 July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Freed and Nabla cover?
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.
With Nabla, 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 July 22, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Volume figures for both vendors are vendor published, including Freed's 32 million transcribed visits and Nabla's 85,000 plus clinicians. Freed's EHR Push has no native API or structured field write back. An earlier version of this comparison said Nabla uses session data to train its models by default and that its free tier lacks a business associate agreement; Nabla's terms require every customer handling protected health information to accept its published agreement at sign up, and its compliance page says customer data is not used to train models. Both statements were corrected on 10 October 2026. Nabla quotes group rates on request.