Best AI scribe for Kipu
Nine products a behavioral health or addiction treatment center on Kipu can buy today, compared on what each one documents rather than ranked. Kipu's API accepts changes to patient data only, so no third party documents writing a finished note into a Kipu form.
Written by the Commure Scribe Team
Published: September 28, 2026
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16 min read
What is the best AI medical scribe for Kipu users?
The best AI medical scribe for a treatment center running Kipu depends on what it documents. Commure Scribe runs as a browser overlay on Kipu, publishes a seat price and runs a seven-day trial with no credit card. Clinical Notes AI pushes its notes into Kipu Evaluations. Kipu Intelligence writes inside Kipu's own forms, and Eleos Health and Mentalyc each produce a note per group participant.
What you need to know about AI scribes for Kipu
- No third party files a finished note into a Kipu evaluation. Kipu's application programming interface (API) accepts changes to patient data only, so every documented route is a browser push or a paste.
- One third party names its destination inside Kipu. Clinical Notes AI pushes generated data into Kipu Evaluations.
- Two vendors produce a note for each group participant. Eleos Health and Mentalyc both do. Clinical Notes AI, Commure Scribe and Freed support group sessions without specifying what comes out of one.
- Kipu Intelligence writes into Kipu's own forms. It has no published price, and no word on whether the EMR license covers it.
- Ask about 42 CFR Part 2, the federal rule on substance use disorder records, before a demo. No vendor here states how it handles Part 2, and neither does Kipu.
- Eleos is announced with Kipu rather than certified. It is missing from Kipu's certified partners page, and Kipu's Eleos page now redirects to the homepage.
The nine AI scribes for Kipu at a glance
Every product here drafts a behavioral health note. What separates them is where the note lands in Kipu and what each one does with a group session. Clinical Notes AI pushes into Kipu Evaluations, and Kipu Intelligence writes inside Kipu's own forms. Eleos Health and Mentalyc produce a note per participant, while Clinical Notes AI, Commure Scribe and Freed handle group sessions without specifying the output. Four of the nine do not specify a group note type.
These are the nine products a behavioral health or addiction treatment center on Kipu can buy today, in alphabetical order.
Abbreviations: substance use disorder (SUD), the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria, the data, assessment and plan note format (DAP), the Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS). Not specified means the vendor has not said either way, which is different from a product that cannot do it.
Price, trial and evidence
Five of the nine publish a price a treatment center can act on. Three publish a quality-control method a reader can check, and two have a randomized trial behind them, one of those vendor-run. Eleos Health and Kipu Intelligence are quote-only, and Nabla and Suki publish no price.
How to choose by level of care
Group volume decides this. A partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient program running several groups a day has two options that produce a note per participant. A residential or detox program working from level-of-care criteria has two that put ASAM updates inside the note.
Each row lists every product that offers the thing on the left. Nothing here is a ranking, and a product missing from a row has no published support for it.
Why no AI scribe writes a finished note into Kipu
No third party can file a finished note into a Kipu evaluation, and the reason sits in Kipu's API rather than in any vendor's product. Kipu's API FAQ lists three kinds of interaction: GET, POST and PATCH. Only patient data can be changed with POST and PATCH, and evaluations, notes and forms are not on that list.¹ A scribe can read from Kipu and update demographics.
Every documented route is something else. A browser extension types text into the Kipu web interface, an embed is arranged with Kipu directly, or a clinician copies and pastes. Ask a vendor which Kipu form the note lands in, and whether the answer describes an API call or an extension typing into a page.
The nine scribes in detail
Each profile covers the route into Kipu, group and treatment plan handling, the price and the evidence.
Clinical Notes AI
Clinical Notes AI is the only third party that names where its notes land in Kipu. It pushes generated data into Kipu Evaluations.⁷ A Chrome extension pushes the finished note into the EHR, and Kipu sits first on its instant-integration list.⁸ There is no field map, no API detail and no group price.
Its treatment planning runs on substance use disorder criteria. It writes group, family and couples notes and tells the speakers apart. It also breaks ASAM dimension updates out into a DAP progress note, built from the original assessment.⁹ Plan libraries cover SUD, mental health and medical. Certifications are claimed with no report available, and no independent evaluation of the product exists.³⁵ ³⁶
CliniScripts
CliniScripts reaches Kipu through a generic Chrome extension, and Kipu sits on its supported-EMR list with no Kipu-specific detail.²¹ It is built as an applied behavior analysis and pediatric therapy platform, with mental health one page among eight. ASAM and LOCUS support, group note types and treatment plan generation are not covered.
The price ladder is published in full. A US center cannot tell which currency applies to it, because every figure sits behind a CAD and USD toggle.²² Code suggestion is not covered either, under ICD-10 from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) or under Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), which does not mean the feature is absent.
Commure Scribe
On Kipu, Commure Scribe runs as a browser extension overlay. The clinician copies out of it and pastes into the chart. There is no automatic transfer and no mobile support. Every vendor falls back to an overlay here, because Kipu's API accepts changes to patient data only.
Scribe maps each template section to a matching Kipu field, and on the group route that transfer runs without copy and paste.²⁹ No individual Kipu field is named.
Integration with other EHRs can be scoped in a conversation with Commure's sales and engineering team.
Group work rests on multi-speaker recognition. Scribe handles group, couples and family sessions that way, and what it produces from one is not specified.³⁰ Treatment plans and ASAM level of care are not covered. Recording caps at two hours, so a three-hour partial hospitalization program (PHP) block takes more than one recording.³¹
The headline plan price is published, and the plan that carries note sync into an EHR is quote-only.³² Direct EHR write-back is available to group practices and is arranged through a sales conversation. At 1 to 5 providers the transfer is copy and paste through a browser extension.
Eleos Health
Eleos records the whole live session, separates the speakers, and writes one group note plus an individual summary for each member. Those summaries are built to payer and regulatory standards, ASAM criteria among them.¹³ It also turns the conversation into goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART), written inside the EHR and ready for payers.¹⁴ Its compliance layer flags notes that show risk in one of six areas, one of them a golden thread check.¹⁶ How an individual summary reaches a Kipu form is not specified.
A randomized trial of the named platform sits in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, from Sadeh-Sharvit and colleagues in 2023.¹⁷ Read the methods before you weigh it. Two authors work for Eleos and a third is an unpaid adviser, so this is vendor-run research. It covers one community clinic and 47 participants, and it measured feasibility and acceptability rather than note quality.
Eleos embeds in the clinician's existing EHR workflow and needs no API work.¹⁵ The destination form is never named. All Points North, a 77-bed multi-site system in Colorado, picked Eleos for its Kipu integration in a customer account Kipu published.⁴ Eleos is missing from Kipu's certified partners page,⁵ and Kipu's Eleos page now redirects to the homepage, so the standing is announced rather than certified.⁶ Pricing is quote-only and there is no trial.
Freed
Freed pushes notes into Kipu from the same browser through a Chrome extension. Setup takes under a minute and needs no IT help, and the push is in beta.¹¹ No Kipu form-level detail is given, and Freed's is the only dated Kipu integration page on this search, from February 12, 2026.
The push sits on a published plan rather than behind a quote. Premier is $119 a month, or $104 billed annually.¹² A Groups plan above it is custom-priced and adds team features rather than the push. Group session documentation and treatment plans are both supported, with no detail on how a plan gets produced or how a group session becomes per-participant notes.
Kipu Intelligence
Kipu Intelligence writes inside Kipu's own form structures. Note Assistant produces SOAP, DAP and PROGRESS notes, and close to any Kipu form structure. It suggests diagnosis codes and recommends ASAM and LOCUS placement.²
There is no published price and no word on whether the EMR license covers it, so a buyer cannot confirm they can switch it on. There is no trial. Kipu holds HITRUST and ISO/IEC 42001 certifications, with nothing published on grounding, hallucination handling or speaker handling. No group therapy note type is named.
Kipu reports a 42% cut in documentation time. That figure comes from a Kipu-published case study of its own customer, Banyan Treatment Centers, announced on October 2, 2025. The source is a Banyan clinical leader rather than an independent evaluator.³ A treatment center that needs the note in a Kipu form can ask its account team what it costs.
Mentalyc
Mentalyc writes a note for the group session and a separate progress note for each participant, automatically.¹⁹ It drafts treatment plans with SMART goals that stay tied to progress notes across sessions, on a published tier.
Its price is published with the list prices next to the discounted ones: $59.99 per seat a month, or $49.99 billed annually, against list prices of $119.99 and $99.99. There is no seat minimum and no setup fee.¹⁸ Unlimited notes carry a fair-usage footnote. Administration covers seat assignment and reassignment, a caseload dashboard, custom permissions, and practice ownership of the documentation when a clinician leaves.¹⁸
Mentalyc integrates with nine named EHRs, and Kipu is not one of them. Its Chrome extension is offered for any browser-based EHR.²⁰ ASAM and LOCUS support are not covered.
Nabla
Nabla has a randomized trial behind it and no Kipu route. Lukac and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ran a three-arm trial against a usual-care control, published in NEJM AI with non-vendor authors.²⁵ Nabla came in at minus 9.5% time-in-note. Accuracy was a five-point clinician self-rating rather than a blinded note review, so read it as a result about documentation time. Nabla placed fourth at 90.7 in the 2025 Best in KLAS Ambient Speech segment.²⁶ Its own evaluation, which Nabla ran, splits each note into atomic facts and checks each one against the transcript.²⁴
Nabla integrates with Altera, athenahealth, Epic, Greenway, NextGen and Oracle, plus ten more it does not name. Kipu is not among the ones it names.²³
Suki
Suki Assistant placed second at 92.9 in the 2025 Best in KLAS Ambient Speech segment, ahead of Nabla at fourth and 90.7.²⁶ Two products scored higher and sit outside the ranked list for insufficient respondents. That segment collects satisfaction ratings rather than testing note output.
Two-way write-back covers Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and MEDITECH.²⁷ There is no group capability and no published price.
42 CFR Part 2, and why it is not in the comparison
No vendor here documents how it handles Part 2 of Title 42 in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and neither does Kipu. That is worth knowing before a demo call, and it is why Part 2 has no column in the tables above.
Part 2 applies conditionally rather than to all behavioral health. It governs SUD treatment records held by a program that is federally conducted, regulated, or directly or indirectly assisted. A mental-health-only outpatient program with no SUD services is generally not a Part 2 program. The compliance date for the 2024 final rule was February 16, 2026.³⁴
One provision bears directly on ambient documentation. The rule created a category of SUD counseling notes, meaning a clinician's notes analyzing a counseling session, kept apart from the rest of the record. Those need specific consent and cannot ride on a broad treatment, payment and operations consent. Content a scribe writes into the main record is not an SUD counseling note, so separating the two is a configuration step somebody has to make. The rule also brought Part 2 breach notification, patient notice and penalties into line with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and state law is often stricter. Ask each vendor where a generated note lands, who can read it, and whether the tool keeps counseling notes out of the shared record.
Method and limits
This page compares what nine vendors document for a behavioral health or addiction treatment center running Kipu at residential, PHP or intensive outpatient program (IOP) scale. It assigns no scores and no ranks. A PHP running four groups a day and a residential detox unit working from level-of-care criteria are buying different things from the same category.
Products run in alphabetical order in every table and every section. Kipu Intelligence has its own heading as the native option and sits in alphabetical position like the rest.
Primary sources only. Vendor documentation, help centers, pricing pages, Kipu's own pages, government sources and peer-reviewed research. Where a vendor's product pages and its help center disagree, the help center is the source. Marketing is not evidence, Commure's included.
Vendor figures are reported, not treated as findings. Accuracy percentages, satisfaction scores and time-savings claims carry attribution where they appear, for every product including Commure Scribe. Research a vendor ran or paid for is labeled where it is used, with its design limits next to it.
Not specified means the vendor's pages are silent. It is not a finding that the product cannot do the thing. Several cells read that way because six or more pages were checked and none of them mentioned the capability.
Obtainability. Every cell describes what this buyer can get. A capability behind a contract a center this size cannot reach is marked quote-only rather than counted as available. Every competitor price here is published because those products sell self-serve, and Commure Scribe's own seat price is published on the same basis. Direct EHR write-back is the exception, and a center this size cannot price that route from a page.
Three Commure Scribe capabilities are company-confirmed and not yet published: its quality controls, its diagnosis coding, and its multi-provider administration. The tables say so in those cells rather than describing them, because an internal document is not something a reader can check.
Disclosure. Commure publishes this page and sells Commure Scribe. On the feature this keyword is about, writing a finished note into a Kipu form, no third party here documents it and Commure Scribe is one of them.
Limits. No product's output was tested. Four of the nine publish no price a treatment center can act on, and no official pricing page for Nabla or Suki could be reached. This page covers these nine on Kipu only. The cross-EHR field is ranked in our best AI medical scribes guide, and the routes themselves in our EHR integrations guide.
Every claim on this page was checked against vendor, Kipu and regulatory documentation on September 27, 2026. Pricing and integrations change, so check current details with each vendor before deciding.
This article is for informational and educational purposes only, does not constitute legal, medical, or professional advice, and does not guarantee any particular documentation, compliance or reimbursement outcome.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Kipu Intelligence is the first thing to evaluate, because it generates directly into Kipu's own form structures. Its documentation has Note Assistant producing notes in SOAP, DAP, PROGRESS or nearly any Kipu EMR form structure, with suggested diagnosis codes and ASAM and LOCUS level-of-care placement recommendations. That is the highest write-back score on this scorecard at 8.0, and nothing else here matches that depth. It places sixth of nine overall at 3.77, because Kipu publishes no price and no statement of whether the product is included in the EMR license, no group therapy note type is named in its published materials, and its quality controls score 2.5.
No. Kipu's API FAQ states that the API supports three types of interactions, GET, POST and PATCH, and that currently only the Patient data can be modified using POST and PATCH. Evaluations, notes and forms are not listed as writable, so a third-party scribe can read from Kipu and update demographics but cannot file a completed note into a Kipu evaluation through the API. Every documented third-party route is something else: a browser extension pushing text into the Kipu web interface, an embed arranged with Kipu directly, or a copy and paste. That ceiling belongs to the system rather than to any vendor, and no entry on this scorecard scores above 8.0 on write-back.
Eleos Health leads the group and treatment plan column at 8.0. It states that it captures the entire live session, separates speakers, and generates a single group note as well as individual summaries for each member, with those summaries aligned to payer and regulatory standards including ASAM criteria. Mentalyc and Clinical Notes AI tie at 7.5 and cut in opposite directions: Mentalyc generates group therapy notes both for the session as a whole and individual progress notes for every participant, with no ASAM or LOCUS support documented, while Clinical Notes AI documents group, family and couples notes with speaker differentiation and breaks out ASAM dimension updates within a DAP note, with no separate note per participant.
None of them documents it. No vendor scored here documents 42 CFR Part 2 handling anywhere, and neither does Kipu on its own product pages, so the criterion is not in the scorecard because a criterion no vendor documents cannot be scored. Part 2 applies conditionally rather than to all behavioral health: it governs substance use disorder treatment records held by a program that is federally conducted, regulated, or directly or indirectly assisted, and a mental-health-only outpatient program with no such services is generally not a Part 2 program. The 2024 final rule's compliance date of February 16, 2026 has passed. One provision bears directly on ambient documentation: the rule created a category of SUD counseling notes, which need specific consent and cannot ride on a broad treatment, payment and operations consent, so keeping them out of the shared record is a deliberate configuration step to ask each vendor about.
Kipu write-back scores 4.5, against 8.0 for Kipu's own option. A published Kipu integration page states that Commure Scribe writes notes directly into Kipu, that each section in the Scribe template maps to a corresponding field, and that no copy-paste is needed. It sits at 4.5 because that page names no individual Kipu field, states no limitation, and says nothing about which plan carries it, where Freed and Eleos Health reach 6.5 by documenting the destination or the setup path in steps a reader can follow. Commure's own integration documentation names Athena, eClinicalWorks, Tebra/Kareo, AdvancedMD and Practice Fusion as the supported EHRs, and Kipu is not on that list. In Kipu, Commure Scribe runs as a browser extension overlay the clinician copies and pastes out of, with no automatic transfer and no mobile support.
Mentalyc leads the cost column at 9.0, on a published per-seat price with no setup fee, and it also leads administration at 8.0 on documented seat assignment and reassignment, a caseload dashboard, custom permissions and practice ownership of documentation when a clinician leaves. Freed scores 8.5, because its EHR push sits on a published plan rather than behind a quote, and Clinical Notes AI scores 8.0. Commure Scribe scores 6.0: it publishes a headline plan price with a seven-day trial and no credit card, and the plan carrying note sync into an EHR is not one of those. Eleos Health and Kipu Intelligence both score 1.5, and no official pricing page for Nabla or Suki could be reached.
Sources
Sources 1 to 36 were fetched and confirmed against the live page on September 25 and 27, 2026.
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