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DrinCloud vs TheraPlatform: an honest comparison for speech, OT and child therapy practices
TheraPlatform has one thing we do not have and cannot talk our way around: over 30 interactive therapy apps and games the therapist shares live inside the video session, with a whiteboard, annotation on shared material and score tracking as the child plays. If you treat kids over video in speech therapy, occupational therapy or pediatric therapy, that is the whole ballgame and you should buy TheraPlatform. DrinCloud is the US edition of a clinic system with 12+ years and 8,000+ clinics in 14 countries, built for practices the patient pays directly. Their $39 Basic plan also beats our $49 Essential for one provider with no AI. From two providers up the bill flips: $159 against $168, $179 against $237, $407 against $444. Prices on pricing, the rest in all comparisons.
TheraPlatform is a teletherapy product first and it is very good at that. The interactive apps are not a marketing line: over 30 of them, built in, listed on all three plans, plus a whiteboard, your own resource library shared with annotations, a custom waiting room, virtual backgrounds and an observer seat for supervision. It also bills insurance on all three plans at $0.25 a claim, checks coverage at $0.10, posts ERAs by itself and runs a 30-day free trial with no credit card. We have neither the apps nor the claims engine, and we score 0.5 against their 4.5 in block seven.
Where their page goes quiet is what each plan contains. TheraPlatform publishes three feature lists that are word for word identical, no annual price at all, and leaves the AI Notes and CMS-1500 boxes unmarked, so you cannot tell whether the $39 Basic plan includes the AI notes you pay $30 a provider for. Our case is depth and arithmetic: a clinical record configured per specialty, real clinic modules behind it, the software and portal in English, Spanish and Portuguese, our scribe at $20 a provider against their $30, and Clinic covering 1 to 3 users for $119 instead of $39 for every provider you add.
What each one really costs (November 2026)
| Pricing | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $49/moEssential, annual; $59 monthly. Record and superbills inside | $39/moBasic, $19.50 for 3 months. No second provider allowed on it |
| Higher plans and how the bill grows | $107 · $119 · $287Solo one user, Clinic 1 to 3, Medical Center 4 to 30, Large Clinics $574 for 31 to 50 | $69 · $79Pro and Pro Plus. Each extra provider $39 or $49, monthly |
| Lower sticker for one provider, no AI | ✗ No$49 against their $39. We lose this row | ✓ Yes$39, the cheaper start of the two |
| Cheaper from the second provider up | ✓ Yes$159 with two, $179 with three, $407 with six | ✗ No$168 with two, $237 with three, $444 with six |
| Unlimited clients on every plan | ✓ Yesno patient cap anywhere | ✓ Yesprinted on all three plan cards |
| No setup fee, cancel any time | ✓ Yesno minimum term | ✓ Yesno setup fee, cancel anytime |
| Free trial before you pay | ✗ Nothe demo environment, or one paid month | ✓ 30 daysno credit card. A clean win over us |
| Every add-on and usage fee priced | ✓ Yesscribe $20 a provider, chatbot $20 a practice, SMS $36 per 300 | ✓ Yesclaims $0.25, coverage $0.10, texts $0.02, recording by the minute |
| AI note drafting, what it costs | ✓ $20/moper provider, no usage meter | PartialAI Notes $30 a provider, no plan box marked |
| Annual price published | ✓ 2 months free12 months at the price of 10 | Not documentedno annual figure on the pricing page |
| Plans you can tell apart on the page | ✓ Yeseach plan states its user band, storage and add-ons | Not documentedthe three cards list the same eleven items |
| Block score · Pricing and transparency (20%) | 3.9 | 3.1 |
Sources: theraplatform.com/pricing for plan and extra provider prices, the usage fees, the 30-day trial and the three identical feature lists, plus drincloud.com/pricing, checked November 2, 2026. DrinCloud figures are annual.
TheraPlatform wins the cheap start and the free trial, and it prices its usage fees to the cent, which most vendors here will not do. Two things work against it. Every hire charges again at $39 a head on Pro, while Clinic covers 1 to 3 users for $119. And the page will not say what you are buying: no annual price, three identical feature lists, the AI Notes box unmarked, so the $30 a provider has no stated home. Cost math in what an EHR really costs a small practice.
The real math: five invoices
| Scenario | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| One provider, no AI | $49/moEssential. Portal, telehealth and website $10 each here | $39/moBasic, with the interactive apps. They win by $10 |
| One provider with AI notes | $69/moEssential $49 plus the $20 scribe | $99/moPro $69 plus AI Notes $30. Basic's AI is not documented |
| 2 providers, AI for both | $159/moClinic $119 covers 1 to 3 users, plus 2 x $20 | $168/moPro $69 plus one provider at $39, plus 2 x $30 |
| 3 providers, AI for all three | $179/moClinic $119 covers all three, plus 3 x $20 | $237/mo$69 plus 2 x $39, plus 3 x $30 |
| 6 providers, AI for everyone | $407/moMedical Center $287 covers 4 to 30, plus 6 x $20 | $444/mo$69 plus 5 x $39, plus 6 x $30 |
Arithmetic with the rates on theraplatform.com/pricing and drincloud.com/pricing, checked November 2, 2026, with AI notes on for every provider except the first row. TheraPlatform rows from two providers up use Pro, its cheapest plan that allows extra providers.
Ask the two questions we would ask before signing anything: what does provider number two cost, and what does AI for the whole team cost. At TheraPlatform the answers are $39 and $30 a head, every month, and Basic cannot take a second provider at all. Here the second and third cost nothing because Clinic covers 1 to 3 users, and providers four through thirty cost nothing because Medical Center covers that band. The crossover is provider two. Below it they are cheaper. Plans on pricing.
Charting, notes and the AI that drafts them
| Feature | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Custom note and form builder | ✓ Yesour own builder, from the $49 plan | ✓ Yestemplate builder, custom notes and intakes |
| Ready-made template library | Partialyou adapt our specialty forms; no catalog | ✓ Yesbuilt-in library plus Wiley at $15 a provider |
| Record depth configured per specialty | ✓ Yesa different history form per specialty, hospital and nursing behind it | Partialtherapy forms, but no specialty record model |
| AI records the session and drafts the note | ✓ Yes$20 a month per provider | ✓ YesAI Notes, $30 a month per provider |
| Which plan the AI scribe belongs to | ✓ Yesfrom the $49 plan up, stated beside the plans | Not documentedno plan boxes marked on that row |
| AI assistant for differentials and interactions | ✓ Yesdifferentials, interactions and guidelines, every plan | Not documentedits AI writes notes, it does not advise |
| AI chatbot trained on your practice | ✓ Yes$20 a month per practice, books from your site | Not documented |
| Fields that carry history forward | ✓ Yesallergies, history and medication pull forward | Not documentednote duplication is a different job |
| Goal scoring and outcome measures | Partialfollow-up recall and reports; no goal scoring | ✓ Yesgoal tracking, outcome measures, in-session scoring |
| Searchable diagnosis codes in the note | Partialyou type ICD-10 and CPT; no code picker | ✓ Yessearchable ICD-10 in the note |
| Note co-sign for supervision | Not documentedno co-sign workflow published | ✓ Yesco-sign requests and an observer seat in session |
| Block score · Clinical record and AI (25%) | 3.9 | 3.0 |
Sources: theraplatform.com/pricing and theraplatform.com/features for the documentation list, the template library, searchable ICD-10, goal tracking, co-sign and the $30 AI Notes price, plus drincloud.com/features, checked November 2, 2026.
The heaviest block, and the closest. TheraPlatform takes four rows cleanly: a real template library with Wiley behind it, goal and outcome scoring built for therapy, searchable ICD-10 in the note, and co-sign for anyone supervising a student. What keeps us ahead is depth and AI. Our history form changes by specialty and sits on hospital, operating room and nursing records, memory fields drag the last visit forward, the clinical assistant is free on every plan, and the scribe is $20 with a plan you can point at. See the AI scribe.
Scheduling and patient communication
| Feature | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-provider, multi-room calendar | ✓ Yesshifts tie the provider to the room, with an operating room calendar | Partiala color-coded calendar across therapists; no room booking |
| Online booking on your own website | ✓ Yesembeddable widget, availability by provider and specialty | ✓ Yesa booking widget, plus self-scheduling from the portal |
| Waitlist that fills cancelled slots | ✓ Yesthe open gap offers itself | Not documented |
| Email appointment reminders | ✓ Yeson every plan | ✓ Yesautomated, on every plan |
| Text message reminders | Partial$36 per 300, about 12 cents each, TCPA consent at intake | ✓ Yes2 cents a message, far cheaper than ours |
| Patient portal | ✓ Yesappointments, payments, documents, forms; from Solo, $10 on Essential | ✓ Yesself-scheduling, intakes, consents, resources, messaging |
| Unlimited telehealth | Partialnever metered, but included from the $107 Solo plan and $10 on Essential | ✓ Yesunlimited HIPAA video on all three plans, Basic included |
| Group video sessions | Not documentedwe run one to one video consultations | ✓ Yesgroup sessions in the telehealth set |
| Check-in kiosk and waiting room call screen | ✓ Yestablet check-in, a visit rating, a call screen | Not documentedthere is no physical front desk in its product |
| Work and school excuse notes in one click | ✓ Yesgenerated from the visit, printed or emailed | Not documented |
| Google Calendar sync | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yeson its pricing page |
| Block score · Scheduling and patient communication (15%) | 4.1 | 3.4 |
Sources: theraplatform.com/pricing for the scheduling and telehealth lists and the $0.02 text price, theraplatform.com/features for the calendar and portal, plus drincloud.com/features, checked November 2, 2026.
Three honest wins for TheraPlatform. Its texts cost 2 cents while ours work out near 12 cents in a $36 pack of 300. Its video is unlimited on every plan including the $39 one, while ours is a $10 add-on until the $107 Solo plan. And it runs group sessions, which matters for language and social skills groups. We pull ahead where the practice has a building: rooms tied to shifts, a waitlist that refills itself, tablet check-in with a visit rating, a call screen. Our video is on telehealth.
Getting paid without an insurer in the middle
| Feature | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Charge at the desk, online or by payment link | ✓ Yesall three, on every plan | ✓ Yesonline payments, card processing, invoices sent to the client |
| What the card processing costs | ✓ 2.9% + 30cstandard Stripe US rates, 2.7% + 5c in person | Not documentedno processing rate on its pricing page |
| Bring your own payment processor | ✓ Yesyour own Stripe holds the money, so a volume discount stays yours | Not documenteda customer quote mentions Stripe, nothing more |
| Charge the visit or a deposit at booking | ✓ Yesthe card is taken when the slot is taken | ✓ Yespayments before and after sessions |
| Card on file charged automatically | Partialyou charge from the invoice or send a link; no autopay | ✓ YesAutoPay |
| Automated and batched invoicing | Partialinvoices come off the visit with receipts; no batch run | ✓ Yesautomated invoicing, batching and payment reminders |
| Superbill with NPI, EIN, CPT and ICD-10 | ✓ Yesa PDF with the balance; you type your own codes | ✓ Yessuperbills and automated superbills |
| Prices per service, specialty and provider | ✓ Yesa rate card by service, specialty and professional | Not documented |
| Sliding scale fees per patient | ✓ Yesa rate on the patient record | Not documented |
| Product sales with stock deducted | ✓ Yesinventory falls as you sell, separate invoice series | Not documented |
| Quotes the patient approves | ✓ Yesa priced treatment plan signed from their own phone | Partialplans and signatures yes; no priced estimate described |
| Block score · Cash-pay billing (15%) | 4.5 | 2.5 |
Sources: theraplatform.com/pricing for the billing list, AutoPay, invoice batching, payment reminders and superbills, plus drincloud.com/features, checked November 2, 2026. Card rates quoted for DrinCloud are standard Stripe US rates on the client's own account, not a DrinCloud fee.
Read this block as a fit question. TheraPlatform's billing feeds a claim, and the parts it shares with cash-pay work well: AutoPay on a stored card, batched invoices, automatic payment reminders, superbills that generate themselves. Missing is the furniture a self-pay clinic lives on: a rate card by service and provider, a sliding scale on the record, product sales that move stock, a priced estimate they sign. It also publishes no processing rate, while our clients keep their own Stripe and their own rate. More on superbills.
Languages, branding and how patients experience you
| Feature | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Interface language per user | ✓ YesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese and more, per user | Not documentedno language option published |
| Communication language per patient | ✓ Yesreminders, portal and documents follow it | Not documented |
| Support in Spanish and Portuguese | ✓ Yesemail in three languages, WhatsApp from Solo | Not documentedno channels or languages named |
| Patient portal with no app to download | ✓ Yesany browser | ✓ Yesbrowser based |
| Portal with your own logo and notifications | Not documentedthe portal carries our layout | ✓ Yesupload your logo and customize notifications |
| Custom waiting room and virtual backgrounds | Not documented | ✓ Yescustom waiting room and virtual backgrounds |
| Homework the patient opens at home | Partialdocuments and forms reach the portal; no homework | ✓ Yeshomework sharing and a resource library |
| Satisfaction surveys with statistics | ✓ Yesanonymous or named, with statistics | Partialbuild one with the form builder; no statistics |
| Campaigns fired by a patient event | ✓ Yesif X happened, send Y after Z days | Not documentedreminders yes, event triggers no |
| Referral source and birthday greetings | ✓ Yesreferral source on the record, automatic birthdays | Not documented |
| Large US user base in speech, OT and child therapy | ✗ Nowe are new to the US market | ✓ Yesit names speech, OT and PT on its home page |
| Block score · Languages and patient experience (10%) | 3.4 | 2.5 |
Sources: theraplatform.com for the disciplines it names, theraplatform.com/features for the branded portal and logo upload, theraplatform.com/pricing for the custom waiting room, virtual backgrounds and homework sharing, plus drincloud.com/features, checked November 2, 2026.
TheraPlatform owns the look of what the patient sees: your logo on the portal, your own notification wording, a custom waiting room, virtual backgrounds, homework the family opens at home. For a pediatric caseload that is real value, and it has years of speech and OT clinicians using it while we have none. Our ground is the bilingual clinic: the software in each user's language, and a language field on the patient that decides what language their reminders, portal and documents arrive in. More for speech and occupational therapy.
Interactive apps and insurance billing: TheraPlatform wins outright
| Feature | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive therapy apps and games in the session | ✗ Nonothing of the kind. Our video call is a video call | ✓ Yesover 30 built-in apps on all three plans, by therapy goal and disorder |
| Whiteboard with annotation on shared material | ✗ No | ✓ Yeswhiteboard, screen sharing, annotated resources |
| Your resource library shared live with the child | ✗ Nowe attach documents to the record, a different job | ✓ Yesupload your own resources and open them in session |
| Scoring the activity while the session runs | ✗ No | ✓ Yesscore and time tracking, in-session notes |
| Observer seat for supervision | ✗ No | ✓ Yesfor supervisors and students |
| Electronic insurance claims | ✗ Noby design: our practices are paid by the patient | ✓ Yes$0.25 a claim, on all three plan cards |
| Claim batching and ERA posting | ✗ No | ✓ Yesbatching, automated submission, ERA posting, EOBs |
| Insurance eligibility and coverage checks | ✗ Nonobody here verifies a benefit | ✓ Yescoverage report at $0.10 a request |
| CMS-1500 forms | ✗ Nowe produce a superbill PDF, not a CMS-1500 | Not documentedthe row exists, no boxes marked |
| Superbill the patient submits for reimbursement | ✓ YesNPI, EIN, CPT, ICD-10 and the balance | ✓ Yessuperbills and automated superbills |
| Block score · Interactive teletherapy and insurance billing (10%) | 0.5 | 4.5 |
Sources: theraplatform.com/pricing for the interactive apps, whiteboard, observer function, score tracking, claims at $0.25, coverage checks at $0.10, ERA posting and the unmarked CMS-1500 row, plus drincloud.com, checked November 2, 2026.
Zero point five against four point five, and no copywriting changes it. The interactive apps are the reason TheraPlatform exists and the reason a pediatric speech or OT caseload should buy it: over 30 activities the child plays while the therapist annotates, scores and documents in the same window. We have none of that and it is not on our roadmap. They also file claims, check coverage and post ERAs. We have no e-prescribing either, so CA, FL, NY, MI, MN and DE need a separate e-Rx platform, no ONC certification, which is voluntary and matters only for Medicare and MIPS, and no licensed CPT database. See alternatives to DrinCloud.
Moving in, moving out and compliance
| Feature | DrinCloud | TheraPlatform |
|---|---|---|
| Free self-service import you run yourself | ✓ Yesany Excel or XML file; a bad import is deleted and redone | Not documentedno importer or migration path published |
| Full data export, free, no retention | ✓ YesCSV and PDF whenever you want | Partialnotes print as PDF; no full account export |
| Documented third-party integrations | ✓ YesStripe and Google Calendar, the honest list | PartialGoogle Calendar sync, nothing else named |
| Role based permissions per user | ✓ Yesper user, across the account | Partialfree scheduler and biller accounts; no permission matrix |
| Multi-clinic in one account | ✓ Yesmulti-clinic from the $287 plan | Not documented |
| HIPAA with a BAA on every plan | ✓ YesBAA included, encryption in transit and at rest | ✓ Yessigned at no additional charge |
| Two-factor authentication | Not documentedno MFA published | ✓ Yeson its pricing page |
| Published infrastructure security detail | Partialencryption and backup; no audit logging detail | ✓ YesAES-256, a web application firewall, 24-hour monitoring, audit logs |
| Patient data never used to train the AI models | ✓ Yeswritten into the terms | Not documented |
| Single sign on and your own domain | Not documented | ✓ Yesboth listed, each for an unpublished additional fee |
| Block score · Integrations and data (5%) | 3.8 | 2.8 |
Sources: theraplatform.com/features for the BAA at no additional charge, the AES-256 encryption, the firewall, the monitoring and the auditing, and theraplatform.com/pricing for two-factor authentication and the single sign on and custom domain add-ons, plus drincloud.com/security, checked November 2, 2026.
TheraPlatform publishes more about its own plumbing than we do: AES-256 at the database, a firewall in front, monitoring around the clock, audit logs, two-factor at login, and a BAA it signs for free. Credit where it is due. The gap is the door in and the door out. Our importer is free, takes any Excel or XML file, and you run it yourself. On their side there is no documented import at all, and the only export described is a note as a PDF. If you are weighing a move, start at therapists.
Which one fits you?
TheraPlatform is the better fit if...
- You treat children over video. Over 30 interactive apps and games, a whiteboard, your own resources shared with annotations, scoring as the child plays. We have none of it and we score 0.5 against their 4.5 there.
- You bill insurance: claims at $0.25, coverage checks at $0.10, batching, automated submission and ERAs that post themselves, on all three plans.
- You are one provider and want the cheapest start: $39 against our $49, with a 30-day trial and no credit card. We run no free trial at all.
- You supervise students or assistants: note co-sign requests and an observer seat inside the live session.
- You want ready-made therapy documentation on day one: a template library, assessments, outcome measures, goal tracking, and Wiley at $15 a provider.
- Texts are your main channel, or you want the client's experience branded: 2 cents a message against about 12 cents here, plus your logo on the portal and a custom waiting room. Read it beside what an EHR really costs a small practice.
DrinCloud is the better fit if...
- Your patients pay you directly and an insurance engine is dead weight you would rather not fund.
- You are two providers or more: $159 against $168, $179 against $237, $407 against $444. Clinic covers 1 to 3 users for one price instead of $39 a head.
- You want the AI price written down and low: $20 a provider against their $30, the clinical assistant included, the booking chatbot $20 a practice.
- You want to know what is in each plan before you pay. Ours state their user band, storage and add-ons; their three cards list the same eleven items and leave AI Notes unmarked.
- Your clinical record has to go deep: a history form per specialty, memory fields carrying allergies and medication forward, procedures charged during the visit.
- You run a real clinic and not only a caseload: hospital admissions with separate medical and nursing forms, surgery scheduling, inventory, multi-clinic on one account.
- Part of your caseload speaks Spanish or Portuguese: the software in each user's language, reminders and portal in each patient's language.
- You have a physical front desk: tablet check-in with a visit rating, a call screen, a waitlist that refills cancellations, one-click excuse notes.
- You charge cash-pay the way it works: a deposit at booking, a rate card by service and provider, a sliding scale per patient, and a superbill with NPI, EIN, CPT and ICD-10.
- You want your own Stripe account holding the money at 2.9% plus $0.30, and the exit open: Excel or XML in, CSV and PDF out. Plans on pricing.
Questions about this comparison
What exactly are TheraPlatform's interactive therapy apps, and do you have anything like them?
Which one is actually cheaper?
Why do so many TheraPlatform cells say 'Not documented'?
What does the AI cost on each side?
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Where does the final score come from, and is this page impartial?
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TheraPlatform is a trademark of its owner. This page is an informational comparison published by DrinCloud (Massive Bionics LLC), not affiliated with or endorsed by TheraPlatform, using public data verified on theraplatform.com/pricing, theraplatform.com/features, theraplatform.com and drincloud.com on November 2, 2026. 'Not documented' means the feature does not appear on the vendor's public website on that date, not that it does not exist; TheraPlatform publishes three plan feature lists that are identical, publishes no annual price, and leaves the AI Notes and CMS-1500 checkboxes unmarked, which is why several cells read that way. TheraPlatform columns that include AI notes use the $30 AI Notes price published on its pricing page, and the scenario rows from two providers up use the Pro plan at $39 per additional provider, its cheapest plan that allows extra providers. Card rates quoted for DrinCloud are standard Stripe US rates applied to a client's own Stripe account, not a DrinCloud fee. Scores come only from the table cells, with the published formula. If you represent TheraPlatform and find an inaccuracy, write to info@dricloud.com and we will correct the data and the score immediately.
Correction history: first published November 2, 2026.