Athelas Ambient AI vs Abridge vs Suki AI vs Augmedix
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Athelas Ambient AI
Commure's ambient scribe for practices, with coding and visit follow-u...
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Abridge
Ambient AI that drafts clinical notes and codes from the patient conve...
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Augmedix
Ambient AI scribing with optional human specialists, now sold by Commu...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6.9 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Free trial offered ("Try Ambient AI for free"); length and limits not stated | — | — | — |
| Paid from | Not published, quoted on request | Quoted on request (health-system contracts, no published price) | Not published, quoted by Suki's sales team | Not published: quoted on request after a demo, now through Commure |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 200+ health systems; ~50-80M clinical conversations/year | 350+ health systems; tens of thousands of clinicians | — |
| Founded | — | 2018 | 2018 | 2013 |
| Maker | Commure | Dr. Shivdev Rao (CEO), Sandeep Konam (CTO), Florian Metze (CSO, departed 2019) | Punit Soni (CEO), Karthik Rajan | Commure |
| Verdict | Athelas Ambient AI is broader than a plain scribe: it drafts the note, suggests codes and modifiers, and handles pre-visit summaries and post-visit orders and referrals, backed by Commure's billing stack and options for... |
Abridge is one of the most widely deployed ambient scribes in US healthcare, with more than 300 health systems by its own count, KLAS's top Ambient AI ranking in the Revenue Cycle category two years running, and a platfo... |
Suki is one of the most deeply embedded ambient scribes in US healthcare: notes, orders, coding and patient instructions land inside Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and MEDITECH, and since August 2026 dictation can be... |
Augmedix's strength was always choice: pure-AI notes for clinicians who edit their own, AI plus specialist editing for those who want coding and orders handled, and a dedicated live specialist for complex specialties. Th... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.