AI Tool Comparison

Comparing as AI Voice Bots & IVR
Freed AI vs Hume AI

Freed AI

Hume AI

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Pricing

PaidFreed publishes clear, tiered pricing, unlike some enterprise-focused competitors that require a sales call. The AI Scribe has four tiers: Starter at $39/month (billed annually) or $59/month (billed monthly) for 1 clinician and up to 40 notes/month; Core at roughly $59-79/month for unlimited notes and Clinical Evidence; Premier at $104/month (annual) or $119/month (monthly) for the full suite including EHR push, dictation, and ICD-10/CPT coding; and custom Groups pricing for multi-clinician clinics with admin dashboards, SSO, and volume discounts. Freed Front Desk, the separate AI receptionist product, starts at $149/month per block of 250 calls. All AI Scribe plans include a 7-day free trial with no credit card required, and residents, students, and trainees can get the Core plan free through Freed's pilot program.

FreemiumHume AI operates on a freemium model with structured monthly subscriptions and usage-based overage rates for developers and enterprises. The platform offers a Free plan providing 10,000 characters (~10 minutes) per month of Octave text-to-speech (TTS), 5 minutes per month of Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) speech-to-speech interactions, and 1 concurrent connection for non-commercial testing and evaluation. Paid tiers begin with Starter at $3 per month (30,000 characters, 40 EVI minutes, and commercial rights) and Creator at $14 per month (140,000 characters, with introductory 50% discount at $7 for the first month, and unlimited voice cloning). For scaling production workloads, the Pro plan costs $70 per month (1,000,000 TTS characters, 1,200 EVI minutes, 10 concurrent streams, and $0.06/min overage), Scale costs $200 per month (3.3 million characters, 5,000 EVI minutes, 20 concurrent connections, and $0.05/min overage), and Business costs $500 per month (10 million characters, 12,500 EVI minutes, 30 concurrent connections, and $0.04/min overage). For large-scale enterprise deployments, Hume AI provides custom Enterprise plans featuring unlimited capacity, custom overage pricing, dedicated infrastructure, SAML SSO, SOC 2 Type II compliance, custom SLAs, and hands-on engineering support. Pay-as-you-go overage rates for additional text-to-speech range from $0.12 down to $0.05 per 1,000 characters depending on subscription tier, and external LLM inference can be connected directly via BYO API keys.

Freed AI Pros & Cons

Pros

Transparent, published pricing starting at $39/month, unusually clear for the AI medical scribe category
Purpose-built for independent and small-to-midsized clinics rather than enterprise health systems
Combines scribing, cited clinical Q&A, and coding suggestions in one affordable tool
High reported accuracy (98% recall on medical terms) and accessible US-based human support
New Front Desk product extends the same AI to patient calls and messaging, not just documentation
7-day free trial with no credit card required, plus free access for residents and students

Cons

No native EHR API write-back for most systems; EHR push works only with browser-based EHRs, not deep two-way integrations like Epic or Oracle Health
Front Desk is still in beta with a waitlisted 'Advanced' tier, so scheduling and insurance verification aren't yet automated
Higher tiers (Premier, Groups) are needed to unlock EHR push, coding, and multi-user features, which adds up for growing clinics
Built for browser-based, ambulatory workflows, so it's a weaker fit for large hospital systems already standardized on Epic or Cerner
Audio is only temporarily retained during processing, so there's no persistent recording to fall back on after a note is finalized