Suki started as a voice assistant, where clinicians spoke commands to pull up chart data and dictate (Business Wire, 2022). Today it also generates ambient notes, stages orders from the conversation, and answers spoken questions about the chart. NovaScribe takes a simpler route. You talk with your patient normally, with no commands to learn, and NovaScribe writes the note for you to paste into any EHR.

Both are capable tools. They’re built for different buyers, and this post shows which one fits yours.

Comparison at a glance

	NovaScribe	Suki
Pricing	Published: Free, Basic $99/mo, Professional $229/mo	Not published; through the sales team
How you get access	Sign up online; free tier with no credit card	Request a demo and pricing from sales
EHR fit	Copy and paste into any EHR	Native integration with Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and MEDITECH; Suki Compose copies and pastes into any EHR
Coding	Professional: CPT with wRVU estimates, ICD-10, E/M level, MDM upgrade suggestions	ICD-10 with HCC, CPT linked to diagnoses, E/M with rationale
Workflow	Natural conversation, no commands	Ambient notes plus voice editing, dictation, order staging and spoken chart questions
Specialties and languages	15 specialties; operative notes for all major surgical specialties	100+ specialties; 80 languages
Platforms	Web app, iOS and Android apps	Web app, Chrome extension, iOS and Android

As of October 13, 2026. Suki details come from suki.ai and Suki’s press releases.

How each one works in clinic

Suki offers several ways to document:

• Ambient notes. Suki transcribes the visit and generates “a structured, specialty-specific note that’s sent to the EHR” (Suki for Clinicians).
• Voice editing and dictation. You can edit notes by voice and dictate pre-charting content. Suki Dictation supports “scripts and custom voice commands” (Suki Dictation).
• Order staging. Suki “can proactively stage orders directly from your patient conversation for you to review and approve.”
• Ask. Launched October 8, 2026, Ask lets clinicians use “spoken natural language or typed questions” to find medications, allergies, vitals and lab results in the EHR (Suki press release).

NovaScribe keeps the workflow to three steps. You record the visit as a normal conversation in the web app or the iOS or Android app, with no commands or structured dictation. You review the finished note, then paste it into your EHR. You can also give NovaScribe plain-language instructions on how you like your notes written.

EHR fit

Suki’s deepest integrations are with four EHRs: “Suki integrates with Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, and MEDITECH” (Suki EHR integrations). On those systems, Suki says its notes “sync directly into the EHR” (Suki).

If your practice runs eClinicalWorks, AdvancedMD or another EHR, Suki offers Suki Compose, which it says “works with all EHRs.” Its workflow ends with copy and paste (Suki Compose). Suki also makes its coding available “on any browser or platform, allowing copy-and-paste of generated codes” for clinicians on non-integrated EHRs (Suki press release).

Suki also reaches some other EHRs through vendor partnerships. Sevocity, for example, launched Ambient Listening powered by Suki in June 2026, which writes notes directly into the chart (Suki press release). Where no integration exists, both products work the same way: copy and paste. NovaScribe is built around that workflow from the start, with no integration project.

Coding head-to-head

Both products code, and both pitch revenue capture.

On October 20, 2025, Suki announced “automated generation of ICD-10, HCC, CPT, and E/M codes.” It selects specific ICD-10 codes to capture HCCs for risk adjustment, links CPT codes to diagnoses, and recommends E/M codes “with supporting rationale” (Suki press release).

NovaScribe Professional includes:

• CPT code suggestions with wRVU and dollar estimates, including counseling and time-based services.
• ICD-10 codes, validated against CMS code sets.
• E/M level analysis.
• MDM upgrade suggestions that flag when your documentation supports a higher E/M level.

The differences that matter to a productivity-paid physician: NovaScribe puts a wRVU estimate next to each CPT code, flags MDM upgrades, and publishes the price of all of it, $229 a month or $2,299 a year. HCC capture for risk adjustment is a Suki strength that matters most to value-based organizations.

Pricing and access

Suki doesn’t publish prices on its website. Its product pages send buyers to “Talk to our team,” and its contact page says, “Complete the form, and someone from our Sales team will get back to you shortly.” We didn’t find a self-serve sign-up or free trial on Suki’s site.

NovaScribe publishes its individual plan prices on its website (Enterprise plans for teams and residency programs are custom-priced):

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	10 notes a month with all Professional features; no credit card
Basic	$99/mo or $999/yr	Unlimited notes; no billing tools
Professional	$229/mo or $2,299/yr	Unlimited notes plus CPT with wRVU, ICD-10, E/M and MDM analysis

Where Suki fits best

Suki is a strong choice for:

• Health systems and large groups on Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth or MEDITECH that want notes synced directly into the chart.
• Organizations that want orders staged from the visit and chart questions answered by voice.
• Practices with value-based contracts, where HCC capture drives revenue.
• Clinicians who see patients in many languages. Suki supports 80.

Specialty notes

NovaScribe supports 15 specialties: cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, infectious disease, internal medicine, nephrology, neurology, OB/GYN, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry and pulmonology. It also writes operative notes for all major surgical specialties.

NovaScribe was built by a practicing cardiologist, Patrick Proctor, MD, FACC, who uses it in his own clinic every day.

“I’ve been extremely impressed with the Novascribe program. As a nurse practitioner operating in a busy outpatient cardiology clinic, Novascribe has significantly improved my charting efficiency and streamlined my workflow. My documentation is faster, more organized, and I’m consistently able to complete charts immediately after each patient encounter. This has reduced the need for after-hours charting and allows me to stay more focused and present during patient visits rather than dividing my attention between the patient and the computer. […]” Anne Ward, CRNP

FAQ

How much does Suki cost? Suki doesn’t publish pricing on its website. You request pricing through its sales team.

Does Suki work with my EHR? Suki integrates natively with Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and MEDITECH. Some other EHR vendors, such as Sevocity, embed Suki directly. Elsewhere, Suki Compose works by copy and paste.

Does Suki suggest billing codes? Yes. Suki generates ICD-10, HCC, CPT and E/M codes you can review before submission, with supporting rationale for E/M codes.

Do I need to learn voice commands to use NovaScribe? No. You talk with your patient normally, and NovaScribe writes the note.

Can I try NovaScribe before I buy? Yes. The free tier gives you 10 notes a month with every Professional feature, and no credit card is needed.

Try NovaScribe free

See how NovaScribe handles your specialty on your next 10 visits. It’s free, with no sales call and no credit card.

If you searched for “DAX AI scribe,” the product you’re looking for has a new name. On March 3, 2025, Microsoft announced Dragon Copilot, which combines Dragon Medical One (its dictation product) and DAX Copilot (its ambient AI scribe) into one assistant. Microsoft said it would be generally available in the U.S. and Canada starting in May 2025.

Dragon Copilot is built for healthcare organizations of every size, and it’s a capable product. For a solo physician or a small group, the useful question is narrower: does it fit how your practice buys software, handles IT and gets paid? Below, we set what Microsoft and its resellers publish next to what NovaScribe offers, so you can decide for yourself.

Quick comparison

	NovaScribe	Microsoft Dragon Copilot
Published price	Free; Basic $99/mo; Professional $229/mo	No public list price. One reseller lists about $150/user/mo (Per User, annual billing) or $60/user/mo plus usage (Flex)
How you buy	Sign up online yourself	Through Microsoft or a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner
Commitment	Monthly or annual billing	1-year or 3-year terms (reseller listing)
Free option	Free tier: 10 notes/month, no credit card	No free tier; trial licenses go through Microsoft’s project team
EHR workflow	Copy and paste into any EHR	Standalone apps with manual transfer into any EHR, or embedded in supported EHRs such as Epic
Coding tools	Professional tier: CPT with wRVU estimates, ICD-10, E/M level, MDM upgrade suggestions	AI coding prompts supporting ICD-10, HCC, E&M, SNOMED CT, CPT and more
IT setup	An account, plus the web app or the iOS or Android app	A Microsoft 365 tenant and Entra ID; Flex also needs a linked Azure subscription

Prices are as of October 19, 2026. Microsoft doesn’t publish Dragon Copilot license prices, so always confirm them with a quote.

How each one is sold

On February 1, 2026, Microsoft launched a Dragon Copilot Physician Practice offer for “smaller and mid-sized organizations.” It was sold only through CSP partners and capped at 100 licenses per customer (Microsoft Partner Center, January 2026).

That offer reached end of sale on May 1, 2026. Microsoft said customers “will now have access to the full set of Dragon Copilot enterprise capabilities through the standard per-user license at the new price point” (Microsoft Partner Center, April 2026). Microsoft’s licensing guide lists the Microsoft Customer Agreement and CSP partners as the main ways to buy, with enterprise agreements when the Customer Agreement isn’t an option (Microsoft licensing guide).

NovaScribe is self-serve. You create an account, start on the free tier with no credit card, and upgrade when you’re ready. There’s no sales call and no partner in the middle.

Pricing: what DAX costs now

Microsoft doesn’t publish Dragon Copilot list prices. Its April 2026 announcement says only that the per-user license moved to “a reduced list price.” Older DAX price ranges you may find online date from before that change.

The most current figures we found come from reseller o365hq, which says it checks its listings against Microsoft’s NCE price list (as of October 2026):

• Physician Per User: $1,800 per user per year on annual billing (about $150 a month), or $157.50 a month on a 1-year term billed monthly.
• Physician Flex: $720 per user per year (about $60 a month). Each Flex license includes 10 AI-assisted sessions a month, shared among all Flex users in the organization. Extra sessions cost 25 consumption units at $0.01 each, or $0.25 a session. Unused sessions don’t roll over, and Flex requires a linked Azure subscription (Microsoft licensing guide).

The same listing says commitments run 1 or 3 years, with a 7-day cancellation window. Seats can be added at any time but can’t be reduced until renewal.

NovaScribe publishes its prices: Free ($0, 10 notes a month), Basic ($99 a month or $999 a year) and Professional ($229 a month or $2,299 a year). Basic excludes the billing tools. Professional includes them.

Annual license cost for a 3-provider group

Option	Basis	12-month cost
NovaScribe Basic, annual	$999 x 3	$2,997
Dragon Copilot Physician Per User, annual billing	$1,800 x 3	$5,400
Dragon Copilot Physician Flex, with usage (example below)	$2,160 licenses + $3,510 sessions	$5,670
NovaScribe Professional, annual	$2,299 x 3	$6,897
NovaScribe Professional, monthly	$229 x 12 x 3	$8,244

The Flex example assumes each provider sees 20 patients a day on 20 clinic days a month, and each visit uses one AI-assisted session. That’s 1,200 sessions a month, minus 30 included, or 1,170 extra sessions at $0.25 each ($292.50 a month).

On license price alone, Dragon Copilot Per User costs less than NovaScribe Professional at these reseller prices. The differences show up in how you commit and what you need in place. Dragon Copilot asks for a 1- or 3-year term you can’t scale down mid-term, a Microsoft 365 and Entra setup, and a conversation with Microsoft or a partner before you try it. NovaScribe lets you test every Professional feature free, then pay month to month.

IT and setup

Dragon Copilot runs on Microsoft’s identity platform. Microsoft says, “If your organization is a first-time Microsoft 365 customer, either your partner or you and your Microsoft representative set up your free Microsoft 365 subscription and free Entra account.” Microsoft’s setup checklist includes assigning licenses to users in Microsoft Entra. Flex also needs an Azure subscription linked to the Dragon admin center.

You can use Dragon Copilot outside an EHR. Microsoft says its web, desktop and mobile standalone apps let users “manually transfer the content into their EHR of choice.”

NovaScribe has no tenant to configure. You record the visit in the web app or the iOS or Android app, review the note, and paste it into whatever EHR you use, including Epic, Cerner and athenahealth. NovaScribe is HIPAA compliant, and there’s no integration project.

Revenue and billing tools

Both products help with coding, so the difference is in the detail.

Microsoft’s support documentation says Dragon Copilot’s AI coding prompts support “ICD-10, HCC, E&M, SNOMED CT, CPT, and more.” You can ask for suggested codes, add codes to a note’s assessment and plan, or set prompts to run automatically (Microsoft Support).

NovaScribe Professional builds billing review into every note:

• CPT code suggestions with wRVU and dollar estimates, including counseling and time-based services.
• ICD-10 codes, validated against CMS code sets.
• E/M level analysis.
• MDM upgrade suggestions that flag when your documentation supports a higher E/M level.

If you’re paid on wRVUs or collections, seeing the wRVU value next to each code shows you what a visit is worth before you sign. Microsoft’s coding documentation doesn’t mention wRVU estimates.

Where Dragon Copilot is the better fit

Dragon Copilot makes sense for organizations that:

• Already run on Microsoft 365, Entra and Azure, with IT staff to manage licenses.
• Want the scribe embedded inside a supported EHR such as Epic, rather than copying notes over (Microsoft).
• Want Dragon’s dictation and ambient documentation in one product.
• Need central administration across many clinicians under an enterprise agreement.

If that’s your organization, Dragon Copilot is a strong option.

Who NovaScribe is built for

NovaScribe was built by Patrick Proctor, MD, FACC, a board-certified cardiologist at Heart South Cardiovascular Group in Alabaster, Alabama. When his daughter turned three, he realized documentation was taking his evenings. “I was watching her grow up through a screen, typing chart notes instead of being present,” he says.

He tried several leading scribes first. Some were slow, some fell short of his standards for note quality, and some cost too much for a cardiology practice. He’s also a programmer, so he built his own, without venture capital. “I built NovaScribe so I could be a better father without being a worse doctor.”

That’s why NovaScribe is aimed at independent physicians and small groups, especially those paid on productivity. It works with any EHR, has published prices, and includes billing tools on the Professional tier.

“After trialing several medical scribe softwares, I can confidently say that novascribe is the best product on the market. It has saved me immense time every day and creates top notch notes as per my customized preferences. The add-on features are unparalleled. I strongly recommend this for every clinician to improve their efficiency and create high quality documentation everyday.” Nirmanmoh Bhatia, MD, FACC

FAQ

Is DAX the same as Dragon Copilot? Yes. In March 2025, Microsoft combined DAX Copilot and Dragon Medical One into Microsoft Dragon Copilot.

How much does DAX cost? Microsoft doesn’t publish list prices. As of October 2026, one reseller lists the Physician Per User license at $1,800 a year on annual billing, about $150 a month. The Physician Flex license is $720 a year plus $0.25 for each AI-assisted session beyond the 10 included per license each month. Ask Microsoft or a partner for a quote.

Is DAX worth it for a small practice? It depends on your setup. If you already use Microsoft 365, want EHR-embedded documentation and can commit to a 1- or 3-year term, Dragon Copilot is worth a look. If you want to try before you buy, pay month to month and paste notes into any EHR, NovaScribe is built for that.

Does Dragon Copilot have a free trial? Microsoft doesn’t offer a self-serve trial. Its setup checklist says trial licenses come through the Microsoft clinical application specialist or account executive on your project team.

Does NovaScribe work with Epic? Yes. NovaScribe works with Epic and any other EHR by copy and paste, with no integration required.

Try NovaScribe free

Record your next 10 visits with NovaScribe for free. The free tier includes every Professional feature, including CPT codes with wRVU estimates, and needs no credit card.

Doximity Scribe is free for every verified U.S. physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, CRNA and student in those programs. If you already have a Doximity account, it’s likely the first AI scribe you’ll try.

Free is a real advantage, and for many clinicians it’s enough. This post covers what Doximity Scribe does well, and what NovaScribe adds for physicians whose pay depends on how each visit is coded.

Comparison at a glance

	NovaScribe	Doximity Scribe
Price	Free (10 notes/mo, all Professional features); Basic $99/mo; Professional $229/mo	Free for verified U.S. physicians, NPs, PAs, CRNAs and students
Billing and coding	Professional: CPT with wRVU estimates, ICD-10, E/M level, MDM upgrade suggestions	“Add Billing Codes” Quick Edit on the Doximity website; code sets not specified
Note customization	Plain-language custom instructions and profiles; SOAP, narrative and custom formats	Built-in and custom templates, community template library, custom prompts, Quick Edits
Patient history	Draws on a patient’s prior visits; AI problem list carried across visits	Pre-charting: type, dictate, paste or upload prior notes before the visit
Specialty depth	15 specialties; operative notes for all major surgical specialties	Specialty templates, including six oncology templates added May 2026 (Doximity)
EHR workflow	Copy and paste into any EHR	Copy and paste into any EHR
Data retention	Audio deleted within 6 hours of processing	Audio destroyed after transcription; notes and transcripts deleted after 29 days

As of October 13, 2026. Doximity details are from Doximity’s own help center, blog and terms.

What Doximity Scribe does well

• It’s free. Verified clinicians pay nothing; all you need is a verified Doximity account.
• It runs where you work. Notes can be generated on the phone app or the website. On June 10, 2026, Doximity launched native Mac and Windows desktop apps for its Clinical AI Suite (Doximity blog).
• Pre-charting. You can “add context before the encounter by typing, dictating, or pasting it in,” and Scribe folds it into the note (Doximity blog, June 30, 2026).
• Templates. Doximity offers SOAP, H&P, consult and dictation templates (Doximity Scribe), lets you build your own, and runs a community template library reviewed by Doximity medical fellows.

Billing and coding

This is where the two products differ most.

Doximity Scribe has a Quick Edit option called “Add Billing Codes,” available only on the Doximity website, which “adds relevant billing codes to the note.” Doximity’s documentation doesn’t say which code sets it covers, such as CPT, ICD-10 or E/M levels.

NovaScribe Professional reviews billing on every note:

• CPT code suggestions with wRVU and dollar estimates, including counseling and time-based services.
• ICD-10 codes, validated against CMS code sets.
• E/M level analysis.
• MDM upgrade suggestions that flag when your documentation supports a higher E/M level than you might otherwise bill.

You always choose the final code. NovaScribe shows you what the documentation supports.

What one undercoded visit a day can cost

In 2026, CMS assigns 1.30 work RVUs to an established-patient visit billed as 99213 and 1.92 to a 99214. The 2026 efficiency adjustment doesn’t apply to E/M visits, so these values are unchanged (AUA summary of the 2026 final rule; AANEM 2025-2026 RVU comparison).

Say your documentation supports a 99214 on one visit a day, but the visit is billed as a 99213:

Step	Value
wRVUs missed per visit (1.92 – 1.30)	0.62
Clinic days per year (example)	200
wRVUs missed per year	124
Pay per wRVU (example; use your contract’s rate)	$50
Compensation missed per year	$6,200

The $50 rate and 200 clinic days are examples, not benchmarks. Plug in your own contract rate and schedule. The annual Professional plan costs $2,299.

Customizing your notes

Both products let you shape your notes, in different ways.

Doximity leans on templates. You pick a built-in template, build your own on the website, or borrow one from the community library. Custom prompts “tell Scribe how to handle your dictation before it generates a note.” Quick Edits then let you adjust a finished note.

NovaScribe uses plain-language instructions. You tell it how you like your notes written, the way you’d brief a human scribe, and save those preferences as profiles. Notes come in SOAP, narrative or custom formats.

Continuity across visits

NovaScribe can draw on a patient’s prior visits, so a new note reflects what it already knows about that patient. It also keeps an AI-curated problem list that carries forward and updates from visit to visit.

With Doximity Scribe, prior context comes in through pre-charting. You can upload files “such as prior visits, referral letters, or intake forms,” and relevant conditions are pulled into the note. Saved pre-charts can be reused across sessions for up to 30 days, and you choose which one to attach to each visit.

Privacy and data use

Here is what each company publishes. Read both and decide what matters to your practice.

Doximity Scribe

• Audio is “immediately destroyed as soon as it’s transcribed.” Notes and transcripts are “automatically deleted after 29 days” (Doximity Help Center).
• “No patient data from Scribe notes is accessible to Doximity employees or technology partners.”
• Doximity has a BAA with OpenAI, which provides the transcription and summarization behind Scribe. Scribe uses GPT-4o to summarize conversations (Doximity Help Center).
• Doximity’s BAA permits it to use AI systems to process PHI to “provide, support, secure, maintain, improve, and administer” its services. De-identified data “may be used, disclosed, and commercialized” for “any lawful purpose, including product development” (Doximity BAA).

NovaScribe

• “No AI training on your data. Ever.”
• Audio is deleted within 6 hours of processing.
• NovaScribe is HIPAA compliant and publishes its full list of sub-processors.

Because Doximity deletes notes after 29 days, copy each note into your EHR promptly.

When free is the right answer

Doximity Scribe is a sensible choice if:

• You’re salaried, so coding level doesn’t change your pay.
• You see a modest number of patients, or use a scribe only occasionally.
• Templates already cover your note style.

If you’re paid on wRVUs or collections, or you want your notes to draw on a patient’s prior visits and problem list, NovaScribe’s Professional tier is built for you.

FAQ

Is Doximity Scribe really free? Yes. Doximity says access is free for all verified, U.S.-based physicians, NPs, PAs, CRNAs and students in those programs.

Does Doximity Scribe add CPT or ICD-10 codes? Doximity offers an “Add Billing Codes” Quick Edit on the Doximity website. Its documentation doesn’t specify which code sets it covers.

How long does Doximity keep Scribe notes? Notes and transcripts are deleted after 29 days, and audio is destroyed after transcription.

Can I try NovaScribe without paying? Yes. The free tier gives you 10 notes a month with every Professional feature, and no credit card is needed.

Test both side by side

You don’t have to choose blind. Keep Doximity Scribe, and run your next 10 visits through NovaScribe’s free tier as well. It includes every Professional feature, including CPT codes with wRVU estimates, so you can compare the notes and the billing review on the same visits.