Notable vs Tennr
Updated October 16, 2026
Provider organizations trying to get patients scheduled without piles of manual work often compare Notable and Tennr. Notable sells AI agents to health systems for registration, intake, and scheduling across many departments, while Tennr zeroes in on referrals, reading faxes and emails and checking insurance before a patient reaches the calendar. One is a broad access program and the other is a sharp tool for a single bottleneck.
Our analysts compared Notable and Tennr on referral handling, patient intake, integration effort, buyer size, and pricing clarity, using the HIR review of each company and Notable's news page. In the following sections, we compare the vendors in one table, describe the organization each fits, and note Notable's news this year.
Notable vs Tennr at a glance, October 2026
| What buyers weigh | Notable | Tennr |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Contracts for its AI platform, usually lasting several years. | Custom quote from Tennr. |
| What drives cost | Which tasks are covered, volume, EHR and payer connections, and services. | Referral and document volume, the number of locations, which workflows are used (intake, eligibility, scheduling, follow-up), and system integrations. |
| Main job | Automates registration and other high-volume front-door tasks across a health system. | Turns incoming referrals into scheduled patients. |
| Who it fits | Health systems with integration teams to support automation. | Specialty practices that receive many referrals by fax, email, and portals. |
| Results | Scores 7.6 on access automation outcomes. | Scores 8.2 on referrals converted and staff time saved. Higher score |
| Product | Scores 7.7 for platform depth. | Scores 8.1 for referral intake. Higher score |
| Getting live | Scores 7.0, and it needs EHR and payer connections that can write data back. | Scores 7.9 on connecting to practice systems. Higher score |
| Time to full value | About 6 to 12 months | About 4 to 9 months |
| What you need first | IT time to connect the automation back to the EHR and payers. | Intake manager who owns referrals. |
| Deal-breaker | You only need reminders or a lightweight form tool. | Few referrals. |
| Pricing clarity score | 7.2 | 7.6 Clearer pricing |
| HIR overall score | 7.5, Recommend. | 8.0, Recommend. Higher score |
| Best for | Health systems automating access, registration, and related front-door workflows with AI agents. | Specialty practices that receive many referrals by fax, email, and portals. |
| Not a fit for | Organizations without integration capacity for the next two quarters. | Practices that receive few referrals. |
Which fits which buyer
Find where patients are getting stuck today.
Choose Notable if
- You are a health system automating access across many clinics.
- Self-scheduling and digital registration are the main goals.
- You have integration staff for a longer rollout.
Choose Tennr if
- Faxed and emailed referrals pile up in your specialty practice.
- Insurance and payer rule checks slow scheduling.
- You want results on one workflow quickly.
Verdict
Tennr scores higher and is the sharper pick for referral-heavy specialty practices. Notable fits health systems that want AI agents across the whole front door.
Large systems sometimes need both, so scope each to its own workflow.
Where the two tools are headed in 2027 and beyond
Notable: Notable named Dr. Nicholas Desai its chief medical officer on September 14, 2026 to guide how health system customers put its AI agents to work.
Ask each for the share of tasks completed without staff touching them.
Methodology
Each row comes from the HIR reviews of Notable and Tennr, scored under the HIR method, and from each vendor's public pricing where it exists. Any published price for Notable or Tennr was checked on that vendor's own site on October 16, 2026.
A green check marks a clear edge for Notable or Tennr only where their review scores differ by at least 0.3 points or the two reviews show a plain difference. Rows with nothing published for either Notable or Tennr are left out, and time to full value for each adds up the rollout stages in its review.
Sources
- HIR review of Notable and HIR review of Tennr
- Notable website
- Tennr website
- Notable names a chief medical officer, September 14, 2026