CoVet vs ScribeNote: Which Veterinary AI Platform Should You Choose?

CoVet and ScribeNote both help veterinary teams create records from conversations, dictation, and other clinical inputs. Both support custom templates, team workflows, phone documentation, PIMS transfer, dental records, multi-patient scenarios, enterprise plans, and AI assistants.

The most visible difference is pricing. ScribeNote offers an ongoing free plan with unlimited note generation using its standard AI. CoVet offers a free two-week trial, a lower-volume paid plan, a full unlimited plan, and free Support accounts for eligible team members supporting a paid user.

The more important difference is product scope. CoVet is built as a broad clinical copilot for documentation, history review, client communication, tasks, billing items, dental workflows, multi-patient visits, offline use, enterprise deployment, and source-linked AI chat. ScribeNote's core is a streamlined scribe, extended by its Companion assistants and paid features.

This article is published by CoVet and uses vendor information available on August 18, 2026. Verify current pricing, limits, integrations, security, and feature availability directly with both companies.

CoVet vs ScribeNote at a glance

What ScribeNote's free plan includes

ScribeNote's free plan removes the subscription barrier for a clinician who wants to test ambient documentation over a longer period. It includes unlimited notes using the company's standard AI, core templates, PIMS integration, and Teams Mode.

That lowers the initial subscription barrier for students, very low-volume users, and clinicians who are not ready to pay for advanced models and custom workflows.

The plan distinction also needs to be tested carefully. ScribeNote describes the free tier as using standard transcription and note quality, while Pro uses its most advanced AI and highest quality. A clinic comparing products should make sure it is evaluating the tier it would actually deploy. A free-tier result and a Pro-tier result are not necessarily interchangeable.

CoVet's free path is structured differently. New users receive a two-week trial. After that, a lower-volume clinician can use Essentials for up to 100 generations per month, while a full-time user can choose Unlimited. Eligible team members can use free Support accounts when working with paid users. These accounts are designed for technicians, nurses, assistants, CSRs, and other staff who help with a paid user's caseload, including starting cases, recording, preparing histories, editing, and exporting documentation on the clinician's behalf. Team members running their own independent cases would typically use a paid account.

Documentation inputs and workflow breadth

ScribeNote can record appointments, conversations, dictations, and phone calls. It offers templates for medical records, callbacks, dental workflows, multi-pet visits, herd or pack cases, ultrasound, client summaries, and internal meetings.

CoVet accepts live and post-consult recordings, uploaded audio, typed notes, PDFs, phone calls, and images of handwritten notes. It can generate structured records, client documents, history summaries, separate records from a multi-patient consultation, tasks, billing items, and visual dental charts.

The distinction matters when the practice's documentation problem begins before or continues after the exam-room conversation. A referral hospital may need to summarize a long history. A mobile veterinarian may need offline capture. A client-service team may need a call summary and follow-up tasks. A multi-location group may need centrally controlled templates and adoption reporting.

AI assistants: CoVet AI Chat and ScribeNote Companion

ScribeNote Companion uses several assistants. Public materials describe Quill for writing and note edits, Summi for patient-history summaries, Sage for veterinary research with cited sources, and Otto for support. Companion is separate from ScribeNote Pro and uses a credit system called Treats.

CoVet includes Consult CoVet and AI Chat in its paid plans. AI Chat can answer questions about case histories, transcripts, and clinical protocols, and it displays sources so the clinician can verify the response. CoVet also connects documentation to tasks, billing items, histories, and other case materials in the same workflow.

Buyers should compare the assistants on real tasks, not names:

1. Can the answer be traced to a reliable source?

2. Does the assistant distinguish patient-specific facts from general clinical information?

3. Are citations accessible and precise?

4. What data is sent to third-party models?

5. Is the assistant included in the subscription or metered separately?

6. Can administrators control access and retention?

An AI research response should support, not replace, clinical judgment.

PIMS workflow

ScribeNote offers PIMSPal for selected web-based systems and Widget Mode to move content into a wider range of PIMS products. CoVet uses direct integrations, a browser extension, and other export workflows.

Both approaches can be effective, but the details vary by PIMS. During the trial, require each vendor to show:

• Patient matching and context retrieval

• Field-level write-back, where available

• Approval before export

• Template mapping

• Handling of duplicate or failed transfers

• Browser and desktop requirements

• Multi-location administration

“Works with your PIMS” can mean anything from structured API exchange to a convenient copy workflow. The demonstration should use the practice's actual configuration.

Languages, species, and offline use

CoVet supports records in more than 100 languages and provides offline recording. Its template and workflow coverage includes general practice, emergency, specialty, exotics, equine, large-animal, multi-patient, and mobile care.

ScribeNote lists 39 recording languages in Multi-Language Mode on Pro and supports multi-pet and pack or herd templates. It can also capture recordings without internet, store them on the device, and process them after they sync. Its documentation states that one language can be used per recording and that final notes are currently generated in English.

For multilingual, equine, exotics, farm, shelter, or field teams, CoVet retains the broader documented language coverage and workflow range. ScribeNote documents multilingual and disconnected recording, but its final notes are currently generated in English.

Enterprise and institutional deployment

ScribeNote publishes enterprise capabilities including SSO, RBAC, multi-team management, custom dashboards, data retention and export controls, uptime SLAs, dedicated account management, and training. It has also published a case study involving a veterinary group with more than 300 clinics.

CoVet has more than 80 signed enterprise agreements globally as of August 18, 2026. Its enterprise platform includes SSO, role permissions, central template version control, organizational analytics, specialized onboarding, dedicated account management, and priority support. CoVet also has announced deployments across veterinary groups and universities in several countries.

ScribeNote publishes a large-group case study involving a 300-plus-clinic organization. CoVet reports more than 80 signed enterprise agreements globally. Because these are different measures, buyers should avoid treating them as directly comparable and should still require reference calls, security review, pilot criteria, and a rollout plan.

Team and clinical input

ScribeNote describes its product as trained and tailored by veterinarians working behind the scenes. It also offers training sessions led by its clinical team on Enterprise.

CoVet has more than 50 veterinarians and veterinary technicians or nurses across the company, including an in-house medical team, veterinary country representatives, and veterinary professionals working in product, implementation, and customer-facing functions. More than 20 are veterinarians.

Ask both vendors how veterinary professionals participate in evaluation, release testing, template governance, localization, and response to clinical errors.

When ScribeNote may enter the shortlist

ScribeNote is most relevant when:

• An ongoing free note tier is the main requirement.

• The team prefers its simple core scribe workflow.

• One of its PIMSPal connections matches the practice.

• The Companion assistants and their credit model fit the intended usage.

• Its published 300-plus-clinic case study closely resembles the buyer's organization.

Where CoVet has the broader fit

CoVet is worth prioritizing when:

• The practice needs more than 100 languages.

• Offline recording is required.

• The clinical mix includes emergency, specialty, exotics, equine, large animal, mobile, or complex multi-patient work.

• PDFs, handwritten notes, calls, histories, client documents, tasks, billing items, dental charts, and source-linked AI chat should live in one workflow.

• The buyer wants a platform with more than 20 veterinarians and more than 50 veterinarians and veterinary technicians or nurses across the company.

• The organization needs global enterprise or academic deployment support.

Verdict

ScribeNote's clearest differentiator is its ongoing free tier, while several advanced models, customization options, language features, and workflow tools require Pro or Enterprise.

CoVet has the broader documented fit when the comparison includes clinical breadth, languages, offline use, varied input types, workflow automation beyond the note, enterprise deployment, and the depth of veterinary participation across the company.

The right decision should be based on blinded note review, editing time, PIMS transfer, workflow completion, data terms, and total contracted cost.

See how CoVet fits your practice

Feature lists are useful, but the best comparison is your own workflow. Book a CoVet demo to evaluate CoVet using your cases, PIMS, team structure, languages, and clinical requirements.

Frequently asked questions

Is ScribeNote really free?

ScribeNote publishes an ongoing Free plan with unlimited notes on its standard AI, default templates, Teams Mode, PIMS integration, and self-serve support. Advanced models, custom templates, direct calling, Multi-Language Mode, client summaries, and other capabilities require Pro or Enterprise.

Is CoVet more expensive than ScribeNote?

Their main annual unlimited plans are different. CoVet Unlimited is $99 per month annually or $148.50 with monthly billing. ScribeNote Pro is $948 per year, equivalent to $79 per month, or $99 when paid monthly. CoVet also offers Essentials at $45.83 per month annually or $50 monthly and free Support accounts for eligible team members assisting paid users.

Which is better for large-animal or offline work?

CoVet has the clearer documented fit because it supports offline recording and broad equine, exotics, large-animal, multi-patient, and mobile workflows.

Which is better for a large hospital group?

Both publish enterprise controls. CoVet has more than 80 signed enterprise agreements globally, while ScribeNote has published a substantial 300-plus-clinic group case study. The buyer should run a multi-hospital pilot and compare governance, adoption reporting, implementation, security, and support.