Suki AI Pricing: What the Subscription Costs

Per clinician per month, on a subscription. That is the simplest commercial model in the category to forecast: multiply seats by rate by twelve. It is also the least forgiving where usage is uneven, because a clinician who records two ambient notes a week costs the same as one who records twenty a day. Before you take a quote, know how many of your clinicians are in each group.

Two product levels are reported. Suki Compose covers dictation and the core scribe. Suki Assistant adds full ambient documentation, voice commands into the chart and the broader assistant feature set. The 100 dollar reported gap between them is meaningful across a group: 50 clinicians on Assistant rather than Compose is 60,000 US dollars a year, so match the product to what each clinician will actually use rather than defaulting everyone to the top tier.

Enterprise contracts are custom, and third parties report that volume and specialty discounts are negotiated for larger systems. Suki's engine is also embedded in other vendors' products, which means the same capability can arrive through a different contract at a different price. The Suki vendor page covers the product and integrations in more depth; this page stays on price.

The subscription covers the application and Suki's side of the named EHR integrations. The items that most often sit outside it are the ones that determine whether notes land in the chart as structured data.

• EHR integration depth. Suki names Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and MEDITECH, and third parties report enterprise pricing rising with integration depth. Ask which integration you are getting, whether it writes back structured data or pasted text, and what your EHR team must build. Epic buyers should read our Suki and Epic integration page.
• Setup fees. HealOS reports no setup fees with a trial; other reviews report setup fees of a few hundred to around 2,000 US dollars per practice. Both may be true for different buyers. Ask.
• Training and onboarding. Reported as included for standard plans. Confirm the format and how many sessions.
• Specialty configuration. Confirm that your specialties are in the base subscription.
• Overage. There is no reported per note meter, which is a genuine simplicity advantage. Confirm it in the order form.

Ask for the quote as subscription, setup, integration and services on separate lines, and ask what the per seat rate would be at your headcount on a one year and a three year term.

On reported figures Suki costs two to three times Sunoh.ai and Dragon Copilot per seat, and the gap to Freed is wider still. The justification is scope: Suki bundles dictation and voice commands with ambient notes, and its integrations are with the EHRs health systems run. A group that already pays for a dictation product may find Suki replaces two contracts, which changes the comparison.

For a group on athenahealth or Epic where structured write back matters, compare Suki's quote with Dragon Copilot's, since both integrate natively there. For a practice on eClinicalWorks, Sunoh.ai's published rate is the obvious benchmark. The pricing comparison shows how to normalise the quotes to cost per clinician per month at your volume.

Take the reported Assistant figure, 399 US dollars per user per month, or about 4,800 a year. A clinician costing 220,000 US dollars for 2,000 hours is 110 dollars an hour. If Suki returns 40 minutes a day across 220 clinic days, that is about 147 hours, or 16,100 dollars of time against 4,800 of subscription. If it also replaces a dictation licence, subtract that too. The case holds if roughly a third of the saved time becomes bookable value.

It weakens where clinicians are part time, where encounters are short and templated, or where the notes need heavy review. At a reported 399 dollars a seat, a clinician who uses the product two days a week is paying the equivalent of about 1,000 dollars per clinic day of use, and that seat should be on a cheaper product or not licensed at all. This is the argument for auditing usage after the first quarter and pruning seats.

Run the AI scribe ROI calculator with your own documentation baseline and clinician cost to get a break even seat price, and use it as the ceiling in the negotiation. The ambient scribe use case page explains how to collect the baseline.

1. Product tier per clinician. Compose for dictation heavy users, Assistant for full ambient users, nothing for occasional users. Do not accept a single tier across the group.
2. Seat bands with quarterly true up so unopened seats come off the bill.
3. Term against rate. One year is commonly reported as the minimum. Ask for the three year rate, then ask for the one year term at that rate with a renewal option.
4. Integration in writing. Which EHR integration, what it writes back, who builds what and by when.
5. Setup fees waived or credited against the first quarter.
6. Data terms. Retention, training use, subprocessor list including any embedded model providers. Our HIPAA and AI compliance page lists the clauses.

Suki has the widest gap between reported price and published price of any mid market scribe, which usually means the quote has room in it. Arrive with a ceiling from your own model and a competing quote in hand.

Most of the pricing information about Suki on the open web is written by competitors, and most of the rest is written by Suki. Neither is a basis for a five figure annual commitment. An independent review builds the cost model from your clinicians' actual usage pattern, obtains like for like quotes from the two or three vendors that fit your EHR, and reads the integration and data terms against each other.

It also settles the question of tiering: which clinicians need the full assistant, which need dictation, and which should not be licensed yet. That single decision usually moves the contract value more than any discount the vendor offers.

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