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What your software stack really costs

A solo practice rents a stack — EHR, an AI scribe, a clearinghouse, intake, secure messaging, a directory listing, e-prescribing — and pays for it every month whether the schedule is full or empty. Add up yours, then see it against a model that charges nothing until a claim actually pays.

Your current stack (toggle what you pay for)

Your stack today (est.)

$4,487/yr

flat software fees

+ $4,176/yr card processing (~2.9%)

On Gale

$0 flat software

no subscription, no setup, no per-seat fee

You pay the cost of billing + 15% only on claims that actually pay — usage-based, never a flat fee.

You stop paying $4,487 a year in flat software fees — whether you collect $144,000 or nothing.

Illustrative scenario, not a quote — your actual costs vary by tools, volume, and payer mix. Incumbent prices are list prices as of 2026 (SimplePractice pricing, Freed pricing, Office Ally, IntakeQ, Spruce, Psychology Today, DrFirst); card processing applies on any platform. Gale is pre-commercial (synthetic demonstration); its fee is the cost of billing plus 15% on paid claims. Nothing you type here leaves your browser.

How Gale's model works

Gale is the practice OS — charting, the ambient scribe, billing and RCM, telehealth, and a tracked credentialing pipeline — for no monthly fee. It earns the cost of billing plus 15% on claims that pay, and funds settle to the provider directly. The bet is simple: software that only costs money when it makes you money. See how practice software charges for the full comparison.

Common questions

How is Gale free if every other EHR charges a monthly fee?

The software carries no subscription, setup, or per-seat fee. Gale earns the cost of billing plus 15%, charged only on claims that actually pay — a percentage-of-collections model, applied to Gale's billing cost. If nothing collects, nothing is owed.

Are these competitor prices real?

They are public list prices as of 2026, cited on the page. Vendors change pricing; treat the figures as an illustrative scenario, not a quote, and confirm current prices with each vendor.

Does the calculator send my numbers anywhere?

No. The calculation runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is transmitted, logged, or shared — consistent with Gale's no-tracking-on-health-surfaces rule.

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