If you're an independent clinician drowning in documentation, you've almost certainly heard of ambient AI. It listens to the patient-physician conversation and turns it into a clinical note in a minute or two, no typing required.
The question is which one to pick. This guide compares Freed and LucasAI, two of the most popular options for solo practitioners and small practices. Freed is a focused scribe that does one thing well: get the note done. LucasAI is an ambient clinical platform that writes the note, codes the visit in real time, and surfaces revenue opportunities at every encounter.
Freed vs LucasAI at a glance
Here is a side-by-side summary of how the two platforms compare across the features that matter most to clinicians.
| Feature | Freed | LucasAI |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Solo & independent clinicians who want fast notes | Solo clinicians, small-to-medium sized clinics. |
| Ambient AI scribe | Yes | Yes |
| Languages | 90+ languages | 90+ languages plus blended speech (e.g. Spanglish) |
| Medical coding | ICD-10 (top tier); CPT in beta | CPT, CPT II, ICD-10 & E&M service levels, with one-click optimization & Magic Addendum |
| EMR / EHR integration | Chrome extension (top tier) | Chrome extension; one-click note transfer, deploys in days. API available. |
| Automated patient outreach | No | Yes. EmilyAI calls patients pre/post-visit & updates the chart |
| Prior authorization | No | Yes. Prior AuthAI compiles supporting documentation |
| Document & image capture | Audio only | AI vision scans labs, images, med lists into the workflow |
| Inpatient / hospital | No (outpatient focus) | Yes - Discharge Summary, Progress, Medical Admit, + more. |
| Team / group mode | Groups tier (some features in beta) | Role-based collaboration across front desk → MA → provider |
| Compliance HIPAA + BAA | Yes | Yes + Organizational BAA |
| Price for unlimited notes | $79 / month | $69.99 / month Switching from Freed? If you've had a Freed subscription for at least 3 months, we won't just match it, we'll beat it for your first year. |
| Free trial | Yes, 7 days | Yes, 30 days or 10 notes |
What is Freed?
Freed is fast, the interface is clean, the notes are good, and the setup is self-serve: a credit card and a few minutes gets you running. It works on web and mobile, supports 90+ languages, and ships with specialty templates. For a solo physician whose number-one pain is finishing notes, Freed solves that problem well at an approachable price.
The tradeoffs are around revenue capture and integration. ICD-10 coding is gated to the top tier, CPT coding is in beta, and "EHR Push" (the Chrome extension that transfers completed notes into your EHR) is also locked behind the top tier. The question is what you actually need: just the note, or the coding and integration that surround it.
What is LucasAI?
LucasAI (lucashealth.ai) is an ambient clinical platform built by a team of clinicians, technologists, and entrepreneurs. It starts from the same foundation (a real-time ambient scribe that writes your note as you talk), but treats documentation as the beginning of the workflow rather than the end of it.
On top of the scribe, LucasAI layers:
- CodingAI: real-time CPT, CPT II, ICD-10 and E&M service-level suggestions, one-click optimization, and a Magic Addendum to keep documentation complete and compliant.
- EmilyAI: automated patient outreach that calls patients before and after visits to close care gaps, complete screenings, and update the chart for you.
- Prior AuthAI: automatically compiles the documentation needed for prior authorizations, from billing codes to risk factors.
- AI document management: vision-based scanning that digitizes labs, images, and medication lists into the chart.
- Inpatient tooling: Specialty-specific notes, team mode for easy handoff, one-click discharge summaries.
- Role-based collaboration: coordinated, multi-role workflows spanning the front desk, medical assistants, and providers.
LucasAI reports outcomes including 1,500+ additional patient visits per provider per year, an average 25% increase in revenue per provider, a 90% reduction in coding queries and downstream admin, and 85% compliance support for HEDIS and risk scoring.
Ambient scribe & note quality
Both Freed and LucasAI deliver strong scribing on the basics. Both are:
- Trained on clinical terminology and medications
- Built to filter background noise and clinically irrelevant chatter
- Equipped with anti-hallucination checks before a note is delivered
- Able to learn your formatting and style over time
Where LucasAI pulls ahead is in two areas.
Blended speech. As a Miami-based company, LucasAI prioritized building a "Spanglish" model from day one. Providers and patients can move between English and Spanish mid-sentence and the scribe still captures the full encounter accurately. For practices serving bilingual patients, that's the difference between a finished note and ten minutes of cleanup against the transcript.
Care team collaboration. Scribing isn't limited to the physician. LucasAI's Team Mode lets support staff contribute to notes alongside the provider within role-based permissions, so an MA can populate context before the visit and clean up after, without stepping outside their scope. Freed supports groups with shared pricing and template libraries, but each clinician works in a private workspace. There's no shared-note workflow across roles.
Medical coding & revenue capture
This is the clearest dividing line between the two products.
Freed offers ICD-10 coding on its top tier (Premier), with CPT in beta. Coding is an add-on, not the core of the product.
LucasAI treats revenue capture as a primary job. CodingAI suggests CPT, CPT II, ICD-10, and E&M service levels in real time, with two features built around the workflow:
- One-click optimization. Each suggested code gets a specificity score, a set of alternatives, and an assessment of how well your documentation supports it. You can swap to a higher-specificity code in a single click.
- Magic Addendum. When a code needs more support to hold up, Magic Addendum suggests supporting language that the provider can approve or reject.
The result: Freed gives you codes. LucasAI shows you which codes are at risk, which ones you're under-coding, and helps you fix the documentation in the same workflow.
EMR / EHR integration
Both tools cover the basics, then diverge.
| Freed | LucasAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Manual copy/paste | All tiers | All tiers |
| Chrome extension EHR push | Premier tier only | Pro tier and above |
| Native API integration | Not offered | Available for mid-sized and enterprise clients |
Freed's position is that the Chrome extension is enough, and that working across any browser-based EMR is more flexible than deep integration with one or two systems. Fair argument for a solo physician. The moment you grow into a group, native API stops being optional, and that's where LucasAI's enterprise option fits in.
Specialties & care settings
Freed is built for outpatient and ambulatory care, with pre-built specialty templates across primary care, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, psychiatry, behavioral health, nurse practitioners, and functional medicine. The templates are designed with practicing clinicians in each field, so a psychiatry template actually documents like a psychiatry note (mental status exam, risk assessment, treatment plan) and a pediatric template captures growth, development, and immunization status, rather than forcing every visit into the same SOAP shell. Templates are fully customizable: edit any of them or build new ones from scratch.
LucasAI covers the same outpatient specialties with the same customization (the custom note builder is currently in beta). Where LucasAI goes further is in wound care, a specialty where documentation has real revenue and compliance implications.
The platform indexes CMS Local Coverage Determination (LCD) guidelines and surfaces suggestions for aligning documentation with LCD requirements, which is the difference between a clean Medicare claim and a denied one. Wound photo scanning extracts key tissue characteristics and writes them directly into the note.
Freed's specialty support is horizontal: great templates across many fields, tuned strongest in primary care and behavioral health, but no specialty where the platform goes beyond templates into clinical-regulatory tooling.
Voice agent campaigns.
Freed doesn't offer voice agent outreach. There's no AI agent making patient calls, running follow-up campaigns, or handling outbound communication on the clinician's behalf.
LucasAI includes EmilyAI, a voice agent that runs patient outreach through configurable campaigns. It's pay-per-call, which means small clinics and solo physicians get access without a big increase to monthly subscription costs. You pay for the calls EmilyAI actually successfully places.
For a solo physician with a small panel, the difference is modest. For a growing practice juggling missed appointments and overdue follow-ups, it's the work that normally falls on the front desk and stops getting done when the front desk is overwhelmed.
Security & HIPAA compliance
Both vendors take compliance seriously, and both will sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA).
- Freed is HIPAA compliant, hosts data in the United States, encrypts data in transit and at rest, deletes audio after the note is produced, and states that protected health information is not used to train its AI (it trains on de-identified notes).
- LucasAI is HIPAA and GDPR compliant and offers an organizational BAA, which matters for groups and any practice with international considerations.
For most U.S. solo practices either posture is sufficient; for multi-site organizations, LucasAI's organizational BAA and GDPR coverage are useful additions. Always review each vendor's current BAA and security documentation for your own risk assessment.
Pricing
Both offer a free trial, so you can test on real visits before committing.
Freed pricing (2026)
- Free trial: 7 days, no credit card
- Starter: $39/month, limited notes
- Core: $79/month, unlimited notes
- Premier: $104/month billed annually (or $119/month); adds EHR Push, ICD-10 coding, patient instructions and letters
- Groups: custom pricing
LucasAI pricing (2026)
- Free trial available
- Premium: $69.99/month
- Pro: $299/month
- Enterprise: $999/month
On entry price, Freed is lower, appropriate for a focused scribe. LucasAI's plans bundle coding, outreach, integration, and team capabilities, so the right way to compare cost is against the combined value of a scribe plus the revenue those features capture, not against a scribe alone.
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Choose Freed if: you are a solo or independent clinician, your documentation needs are very basic, your single biggest pain is simply finishing notes, you want the lowest entry price and the simplest possible setup, and you do not need coding, outreach, deep EMR field mapping, inpatient support, or team coordination today.
Choose LucasAI if: you want a great ambient scribe and you want to capture more revenue through automated coding, integrate more tightly with your EMR, offload patient outreach and prior auth, document inpatient encounters, or grow into a team or group without re-platforming later.
Put simply: Freed is an excellent AI scribe. LucasAI is an AI clinical platform that includes a scribe. The best choice depends on whether your goal is to finish your notes, or to run a more profitable, less burdened practice end to end.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between Freed and LucasAI?
Freed is an ambient AI scribe focused on turning a visit into a clinical note, marketed primarily to solo clinicians. LucasAI is a broader ambient clinical platform that adds real-time medical coding (CPT, CPT II, ICD-10 and E&M levels), automated patient outreach, prior authorization support, AI document scanning, inpatient workflows, and team mode on top of its scribe.
Is LucasAI a good Freed alternative?
Yes. Clinicians who like Freed's ambient note-taking but also want to capture revenue through coding, integrate more deeply with a web-based EMR, support a care team, or document inpatient encounters tend to find LucasAI a more complete alternative.
Does Freed integrate with my EHR?
Freed offers an "EHR Push" (on its top tier) that uses a Chrome extension to paste a finished note into browser-based EHRs. It is a one-way push of the note text rather than a bidirectional integration, and it does not read patient context from the EHR.
Does LucasAI do medical coding and billing?
Yes. CodingAI suggests CPT, CPT II, ICD-10 codes and E&M service levels in real time, with one-click optimization and a Magic Addendum. LucasAI reports an average 25% increase in revenue per provider.
Are Freed and LucasAI HIPAA compliant?
Both are HIPAA compliant and offer a BAA. Freed states that PHI is not used to train its AI. LucasAI is HIPAA and GDPR compliant and offers an organizational BAA.
How much do Freed and LucasAI cost?
As of 2026, Freed's individual plans range from $39/month (Starter, limited notes) and $79/month (Core) to $104–$119/month (Premier), plus a 7-day free trial. LucasAI starts at $69.99/month (Premium), with Pro at $299/month and Enterprise at $999/month, plus a free trial.
Which is better for a solo physician?
For a solo clinician who only needs fast, clean notes at the lowest price, Freed is a strong, simple choice. For a solo clinician who also wants to maximize reimbursement, automate follow-up, and grow into a team without switching tools, LucasAI offers more headroom.
Do Freed or LucasAI support hospital and inpatient documentation?
Freed is positioned for outpatient/ambulatory visits. LucasAI offers dedicated inpatient features including Rapid Rounds, Swift Summaries, Lightning Handoffs, and Observation/Inpatient status justification.
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Disclosure: This comparison is published by LucasAI. We have aimed to represent Freed accurately using publicly available information as of May 2026, including Freed's own website and reputable third-party coverage. Product features, tiers, and pricing for both companies change frequently; please verify current details directly with each vendor. "Freed" and all other product and company names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification and comparison purposes only (nominative fair use). LucasAI is not affiliated with, authorized by, endorsed by, or sponsored by Freed.