NovaScribe vs Freed: An Honest Comparison for 2026
Freed is the AI scribe I hear about most from other physicians, and for good reason. It is inexpensive, it is easy to start, and the notes are good. If you are asking whether it is worth paying more than Freed charges, that is a fair question and this page is my attempt at an honest answer.
I am Patrick Proctor, a practicing cardiologist and the founder of NovaScribe™, so I have an obvious stake in what you decide. I will try to earn your trust the way I would want a colleague to earn mine: by being specific about what Freed does well, and specific about what you would actually be paying us for.
One note on accuracy before we start. Freed changed its pricing and added coding features, and an older version of this comparison had both wrong. The figures below were checked at the end of August 2026. If you are reading this much later, check both sites before you trust any number on this page.
The short answer
Freed is cheaper, and at the low end it is meaningfully cheaper. If what you want is a clean, well-organized note at the lowest defensible price, Freed is a good answer and I would not argue with you for choosing it.
The case for NovaScribe is not that our notes are prettier. It is that the note does a second job. It tells you what the visit is worth in wRVU terms, whether your documentation supports the level you are about to bill, and where a clinical claim came from. If that second job is worth something to you, the price difference tends to answer itself. If it is not, Freed is the better value and you should take it.
What Freed does well
Quite a lot, and it is worth saying plainly.
- The entry price is genuinely low. Starter is $39 a month if your volume fits inside 40 notes. Core is $79 a month for unlimited notes.
- It learns your edits. Freed adapts to how you rewrite its output, and physicians who have used it for a few months notice the difference.
- Broad specialty coverage. Freed supports far more specialties than we do.
- It does coding now. The Premier tier at $119 a month includes ICD-10 and CPT codes. An older version of this page said Freed had no coding at all. That was true once and it is not true now.
- EHR push. Premier pushes the note into your chart through a Chrome extension rather than leaving you to copy and paste.
Where the two products differ
Coding is no longer the dividing line. The dollar figure is.
Both products will now suggest codes. The difference is what happens after the suggestion.
NovaScribe attaches a wRVU value and a dollar estimate to the encounter, then looks at your medical decision making and tells you whether the documentation supports the level you are about to bill. That is the part I built for myself. Roughly one in three established patient visits is coded below the level the documentation would support, and a 99213 that should have been a 99214 is about forty dollars each time. You do not need many of those in a month before the arithmetic stops being interesting.
A suggested code tells you what to put in the box. An E/M level analysis tells you whether the box is right. Those are different products.
Prior visit context
Select a previous encounter and NovaScribe writes the new note with that history in view. The note reads like it was written by someone who knows the patient, because the model can see what happened last time. Freed handles each visit on its own.
Evidence Mode
Ask a clinical question without leaving the note and NovaScribe searches practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and trials, then synthesizes an answer. The citations are checked against PubMed and DOI registries so that a reference which does not exist cannot quietly survive into your documentation. Anyone who has caught a language model inventing a plausible citation will understand why that check matters to me.
Free tier versus free trial
Freed gives you seven days. NovaScribe gives you ten notes a month, indefinitely, with every Professional feature switched on and no credit card. This is the part I would push you on: you do not have to believe anything on this page. Run the same encounter through both and read the two notes side by side.
Depth against breadth
Freed covers many more specialties. We cover fifteen, and we build each one deliberately. If your specialty is on our list you get templates shaped by a physician for that specialty. If it is not, Freed is very likely the better fit and I would rather tell you that here than after you have paid us.
Side by side
| NovaScribe | Freed | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free tier, 10 notes a month, indefinitely | $39 a month, capped at 40 notes |
| Unlimited notes | $99 a month (Basic) | $79 a month (Core) |
| Coding included | $229 a month (Professional) | $119 a month (Premier) |
| Free access | Free tier, does not expire | 7-day trial |
| CPT and ICD-10 | Yes, on Professional | Yes, on Premier |
| wRVU value and dollar estimate | Yes | No |
| E/M level analysis | Yes | No |
| Prior visit context | Yes | No |
| Evidence search with citation checking | Yes | No |
| Specialties | 15, purpose built | Broad coverage |
| Learns from your edits | Specialty templates | Yes, adaptive |
| Into the chart | Copy and paste, any EHR | Chrome extension push on Premier |
| Built by | A practicing cardiologist | A software team |
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Who should use Freed
Choose Freed if price is the deciding factor, if your specialty is outside our fifteen, if you want the note pushed into your chart by an extension rather than pasted, or if you simply want a good note and have no interest in the coding layer. Those are all reasonable positions and Freed serves them well.
Who should use NovaScribe
Choose NovaScribe if you suspect you are under-coding and want the software to tell you so, if you want the dollar value of the encounter in front of you, if continuity across visits matters in your practice, or if you want a clinical answer with a citation you can actually check. In cardiology those things are worth more to me than the difference in subscription price, which is why the product exists.
Try both. That is the point of the free tier.
I would rather you run ten real encounters through both products and decide with the notes in front of you than take my word for any of this. Our free tier exists for exactly that. If you read the two notes and Freed’s is better for your practice, take Freed. I would rather you had the right tool than the wrong subscription.
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