SimplePractice vs Jane App in 2026: a line-by-line comparison
Scheduling, charting, telehealth, payments, insurance, AI and support compared, plus the real monthly bill at one, two and three practitioners.
October 28, 2026 · 10 min read
Short version, and then the detail. SimplePractice lists Starter at $49, Essential at $79 and Plus at $99 a month, with each additional clinician at $74 on Plus only, AI Note Taker at $35 per clinician and card processing at 3.15% plus $0.30. Jane lists Balance at $59, Practice at $79 and Thrive at $99, each including one full time practitioner, with an AI Scribe at $15 per practitioner, insurance billing as a $20 add-on, and processing at 2.85% plus $0.25 online or 2.6% plus $0.10 in person. Both figures sets were read on the vendors' own pricing pages, SimplePractice and Jane, on October 28, 2026.
The headline prices are almost identical. The differences that decide the purchase are elsewhere: SimplePractice publishes its per clinician charge and Jane does not, Jane includes phone support on every plan, SimplePractice has the bigger behavioral health ecosystem and e-prescribing, and Jane handles multi practitioner multi room scheduling better than anything else in the price range. Below is each block, with the honest verdict at the end of it.
Block 1: scheduling and the front desk
Jane wins this one, clearly. Jane's calendar was built for clinics where a booking occupies a practitioner and a room and sometimes a piece of equipment. Physio, chiro, massage, acupuncture, multi discipline clinics: the availability logic holds up. Its online booking flow is the best in this bracket, and patients finish it instead of calling you.
SimplePractice's calendar is good and perfectly workable, and it is built with one clinician and one virtual or physical room in mind, which is exactly right for behavioral health. If your bookings are 50 minute sessions with no room constraint, you will not feel a difference. If you run six treatment rooms, you will feel it on day one.
One Jane detail worth knowing: admin and front desk staff with no bookable hours are free, and part time means fewer than 24 booked hours a week. A clinic with two clinicians and two receptionists pays for two licenses.
Verdict: multi room or multi discipline, Jane. Pure talk therapy, a tie.
Block 2: charting and notes
SimplePractice has the deeper behavioral health template library and the larger community writing templates for it. For a therapist, that is a real head start on day one. Jane's charting is flexible and fine, with good form building, and it serves a wider range of disciplines rather than going deep on one.
Verdict: behavioral health, SimplePractice. Allied health and multi discipline, Jane.
Block 3: telehealth
Both include video. SimplePractice's is included across plans and is the one most US therapists are already using with patients. Jane's video is solid and it sells a Group Telehealth add-on for multi participant sessions, which appears in its pricing calculator as a separate line.
Verdict: tie for one to one sessions. Check the add-on line if you run groups.
Block 4: payments, which nobody compares properly
This is where months of quiet money sits. Same revenue, different rates.
| 80 visits a month at $150, so $12,000 of card volume | Per transaction | Monthly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane, in person card | 2.6% + $0.10 | $320 | $3,840 |
| Jane, online card | 2.85% + $0.25 | $362 | $4,344 |
| SimplePractice | 3.15% + $0.30 | $402 | $4,824 |
Jane is cheaper on cards, and the front desk terminal is cheaper than the online portal within Jane itself. On $12,000 a month the spread between Jane in person and SimplePractice is $984 a year, which is more than the difference between any two subscription plans in this comparison. Scale it to a three clinician practice doing $36,000 a month and it is roughly $2,950 a year.
Nobody chooses software on 55 basis points, and you should not either. But when the subscriptions are within $20 of each other, the processing rate is the bigger number and it deserves a line in your spreadsheet. For the record on our own side: we do not set a processing rate at all, because you connect your own Stripe account and Stripe bills you directly. That is honesty about the plumbing rather than a discount. Stripe's standard US rate is 2.9% plus $0.30 online, so against Jane's 2.85% plus $0.25 you would pay slightly more, and against SimplePractice's 3.15% plus $0.30 you would pay slightly less. The difference it makes is that the processor relationship is yours to negotiate. The flow it sits in is on the payments side of the product.
Verdict: Jane, by a clear margin on fees.
Block 5: insurance billing
Both do it. The structures differ.
SimplePractice has claim submission, a wide payer network, eligibility checks and ERA handling built into the plans, plus ePrescribe at $49 a month with an $89 one time setup fee. It is the more complete insurance and prescribing stack of the two, and in behavioral health it is the one billers already know.
Jane sells insurance billing as an add-on: $20 a month for the account, plus $5 per additional full time practitioner and $2.50 per part time one. If you file a handful of claims, that is a cheap way to have the capability without buying a whole platform around it.
Verdict: heavy insurance volume in behavioral health, SimplePractice. Occasional claims alongside mostly private pay, Jane's add-on is better value.
And the part that applies to this site: if you bill insurance, neither of them loses to our software, because our software does not try. No clearinghouse, no eligibility verification, no denial management, not ONC certified. We built the self-pay half properly and left the claims half out, which is why our plans cost what they cost. If a payer pays you, buy one of these two. The difference between a patient filed superbill and a real claim is the whole question, and we spelled it out in superbill versus insurance claim.
Block 6: AI
| SimplePractice | Jane | |
|---|---|---|
| AI scribe | Note Taker, $35 per clinician per month | AI Scribe, $15 per practitioner per month |
| Free allowance | 30 days free | 5 free notes on every plan |
| Bundle | Care Aide, $59 account owner and $49 per additional clinician, includes Note Taker | no equivalent bundle published |
Jane's scribe is less than half the price of SimplePractice's. At three clinicians that is $45 a month against $105, which is $720 a year on the same job. Both write a draft note you then edit; neither signs anything for you.
Verdict: Jane on price. For reference, scribes across this market run from $10 to $149 a month per clinician, so $15 is at the low end of what anyone charges.
Block 7: support
Jane lists chat, email and phone support on all three plans, free data import, a complimentary onboarding call and an Account Setup Consultation with unlimited follow up sessions. No tiering, no "priority" upsell.
SimplePractice includes support on every plan too, with the preferred phone line attached to Plus at $99.
Verdict: Jane, on availability and on the free data import. But note that support is included everywhere in this category now, including by us, so it is not a differentiator anybody should lead with. What is genuinely rare is support in Spanish and Portuguese, which neither of these two offers.
Block 8: price at one, two and three practitioners
Here is the arithmetic with the AI scribe switched on, at list prices, no promotions.
| Practitioners | SimplePractice | Jane |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $84 (Starter $49 + Note Taker $35) | $94 (Practice $79 + Scribe $15) |
| 2 | $243 (Plus $99 + $74 + $35 x 2) | $94 + one license charge + $15 |
| 3 | $352 (Plus $99 + $74 x 2 + $35 x 3) | $94 + two license charges + $30 |
And there is the problem with this comparison, which is not our fault and not yours: Jane does not publish the per practitioner charge. The plan cards show a per practitioner line with no dollar amount and send you to a "Calculate your monthly rate" widget, where you enter your full time and part time counts to get an estimate. Clinics with 10 or more licenses are told to contact the team. So before you compare anything, open that calculator, enter your real headcount, and screenshot the total. We went through the detail in our breakdown of Jane's price list and the equivalent one for SimplePractice's plans and add-ons.
Two more price mechanics that bite:
- SimplePractice runs 50% off the first three months on base plans when you start a paid account within seven days. Your fourth invoice doubles. Budget from month four.
- Additional clinicians exist only on the Plus plan. A two person practice cannot start on Essential at $79. Its real floor is $173.
[CAPTURA: la calculadora de precios de Jane con el total oculto hasta que se introducen las licencias, para ilustrar el precio no publicado]
The verdict by type of practice
Solo therapist billing insurance. SimplePractice. Payer network, template library, ePrescribe, and every biller you hire already knows it. Starter at $49 is the cheapest sensible entry point of the two.
Group behavioral health practice, four or more clinicians, insurance. SimplePractice Plus, and talk to their sales team because six or more clinicians gets custom pricing. Model the $74 per clinician carefully, because it is the line that grows.
Multi discipline clinic with treatment rooms: physio, chiro, massage, acupuncture. Jane. The scheduling, the online booking and the cheaper card rates all point the same way, and the insurance add-on at $20 covers occasional claims.
Mostly private pay with a few claims a month. Jane. You are paying $79 plus a $20 add-on rather than buying a platform built around claims.
Fully cash-pay, no claims ever, one to three clinicians. Neither is wrong, but both sell you a claims engine you will not open. At three clinicians SimplePractice with scribes is $352 and our Clinic plan with scribes for three doctors is $179. Our plan prices are all on one public page, and the side by side is on the comparison page. To be fair about it, at a single clinician we are not the cheapest thing on the market either: Noterro is $33, Carepatron $39, Practice Better $35 on its Launch plan.
Non English speaking front desk or patients. Neither. Jane and SimplePractice are English products with English support. That is the one gap in this market that price tables never show.
[CAPTURA: la agenda multiprofesional con salas y el widget de cita online, en inglés]
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between SimplePractice and Jane App?
SimplePractice is a behavioral health platform with a deep insurance stack, ePrescribe and the larger US ecosystem. Jane is a multi discipline clinic platform with better multi practitioner and multi room scheduling, the best online booking in the bracket, cheaper card processing and cheaper AI, and it sells insurance billing as a $20 add-on.
Which one is cheaper for a solo practitioner?
SimplePractice Starter with Note Taker is $84 a month against Jane Practice with the AI Scribe at $94, so SimplePractice is $10 cheaper on the subscription. Jane is cheaper on card fees, by roughly $40 a month on $12,000 of card volume, so for most working solo practices Jane ends up cheaper overall.
Can I compare the price for a group practice before contacting sales?
With SimplePractice, yes: $99 for the first clinician and $74 for each additional one is published, up to six clinicians where custom pricing starts. With Jane you need its own pricing calculator, because the per practitioner charge is not printed on the page. Both take about five minutes.
Does either one include an AI scribe in the base price?
No. Jane charges $15 per practitioner per month and gives 5 free notes on every plan. SimplePractice charges $35 per clinician per month for Note Taker, free for the first 30 days. Our own AI scribe is $20 per physician per month and the clinical assistant is included, which is a different split again.
Is Jane App good for therapists in the United States?
Yes, and plenty use it, especially practices that also have other disciplines under the same roof. For a pure psychotherapy practice billing insurance, SimplePractice and TherapyNotes have the deeper template libraries and the better known payer workflows, and that usually matters more than the calendar.
How do I decide between them in one afternoon?
Answer three questions in order. Do you bill insurance, and how much? Do your bookings need rooms or equipment? What is your clinician count in eighteen months, not today? The first question picks your shortlist, the second picks between these two, and the third tells you what you will really pay.
The bottom line
These are both good products and the headline prices are close enough to ignore. Pick on insurance volume and on the shape of your calendar, then check the two numbers nobody puts in the comparison: Jane's unpublished per practitioner charge and the processing rate on every card you take.
DrinCloud is built for the practices that never file a claim: AI charting, online booking, payments, reminders and superbills, with one to three users on a $119 plan. We do not bill insurance and we say so first. See how we compare against Jane or against SimplePractice.
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