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OpenEvidence

Point-of-care medical answers with citations

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Limited free tier

Full access is for verified US clinicians. Need it free right now? Try Consensus →

What OpenEvidence does

  • Point-of-care medical answers with citations
  • Grounded in peer-reviewed literature
  • Free for verified clinicians
  • Fast clinical decision support

OpenEvidence — straight answers

What is OpenEvidence?

OpenEvidence is listed under Healthcare & Clinical, in the Industry-Specific Tools category on Flocci AI Tools. Point-of-care medical answers with citations. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at openevidence.com.

Is OpenEvidence free?

Yes, it's free to use, but full access is for verified US clinicians. If you need it free right now, Consensus does the same job for free.

Can I use OpenEvidence in a browser, or is there an app?

OpenEvidence works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, iOS and Android. Full access is for verified US clinicians.

What can OpenEvidence do?

OpenEvidence does 4 things the catalog singles out: Point-of-care medical answers with citations; grounded in peer-reviewed literature; free for verified clinicians; fast clinical decision support.

What is the best free alternative to OpenEvidence?

Consensus is the best free alternative: it does the same job and you can start without paying. MedGemma (Google), MONAI and Heidi Health also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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OpenEvidence alternatives

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Abridge

Healthcare & Clinical
  • Ambient AI medical scribe
  • Turns visits into structured notes
  • Deep Epic EHR integration
  • Enterprise health-system pricing

Nabla

Healthcare & Clinical
freemium
  • Ambient assistant serving 85k+ clinicians
  • Structured notes in seconds
  • EHR integrations and data security
  • Free tier for individuals

Freed

Healthcare & Clinical
trial
  • AI scribe loved by independent clinicians
  • SOAP notes from the conversation
  • Learns your style over time
  • Free trial visits

Heidi Health

Healthcare & Clinical
freemium
  • Perpetual free tier with unlimited transcription and standard templates for individual clinicians
  • Ask Heidi assistant surfaces cited clinical evidence on paid tiers
  • Multi-region compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, AU/NZ, Canada, UK

Suki AI

Healthcare & Clinical
  • Ambient AI captures patient conversations directly into EHR-ready clinical notes
  • Deep native integrations with Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, MEDITECH
  • Also assists revenue-cycle coding, not just documentation

MedGemma (Google)

Healthcare & Clinical
freeNew
  • Gemma 3 variants tuned for medical text and imaging (4B multimodal, 27B text and multimodal)
  • SigLIP image encoder trained on chest X-rays, dermatology, ophthalmology and histopathology
  • Free on Hugging Face under Health AI Developer Foundations terms

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