SoapNoteSoapNote vs Practo Ray: ₹0 instead of ₹11,988 a year.
Practo Ray is a capable cloud EMR — but your patient records live on Practo's servers, and you rent access to them every year. SoapNote runs on your own clinic computer: free forever for solo doctors, fully offline, and your records stay yours even if you never pay us a rupee.
SoapNote vs Practo Ray, feature by feature.
Everything a solo clinic actually uses, compared honestly. Where Practo Ray is strong, we say so below.
| Feature | SoapNoteFree + pay-per-use | Practo Ray₹11,988/yr |
|---|---|---|
| Cost & ownership | — | |
| Annual software fee | ₹0 forever | ₹11,988 |
| Data stays on your computer | ✓ | ✗ Their cloud |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ✗ |
| You keep records if you stop paying | ✓ Always | ✗ |
| We never sell your data | ✓ | — |
| Clinic management | — | |
| Patient records & history | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Appointments & token queue | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Billing, invoices & prescriptions | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Built-in video tele-consultation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Patient discovery marketplace | ✗ | ✓ practo.com |
| AI & safety | — | |
| Ask AI from the patient's history Hindi / English / Hinglish | ✓ | ✗ |
| Encrypted off-site backup, your key | ✓ Add-on | Their cloud |
| One-tap restore on a new computer | ✓ | N/A |
| Personal support when something breaks | Phone |
Pricing checked 24 August 2026 on Practo Ray's official plans page: CM Atom is listed at ₹999/month on a one-year plan. Confirm current offers and taxes before buying. Practo and Practo Ray are trademarks of Practo Technologies; SoapNote is not affiliated with Practo.
Where Practo Ray is genuinely strong.
If these are what you need most, Ray may be the right tool — an honest comparison cuts both ways.
Patient discovery
Practo's consumer brand is huge. A practo.com listing brings new patients through search, reviews and online booking — and that listing is separate from Ray, so you can keep your Practo profile while running your clinic on SoapNote. Many of our doctors do exactly that.
Owning your practice
Ray stores your records on Practo's servers — stop paying and you can lose access to your own patients' history. On SoapNote the software and every record live on your clinic computer: ₹0 forever, fully offline, and yours even if we disappeared tomorrow.
Moving off Practo Ray takes three steps.
We migrate your full patient history into SoapNote for you — free, by hand, with nothing re-typed.
Export from Ray
Download your patient data from Practo Ray — or get on a quick call and we'll walk you through it in five minutes.
We migrate it — free
Our team maps and imports every patient, visit and prescription into SoapNote. No charge, no spreadsheets to wrangle.
Review & go live
Confirm everyone's there with their full history, and start seeing patients — now on software you own.
Once it's moved, your data lives on your own computer — and because there's no lock-in, you could just as easily take it elsewhere later. That's the whole point.
Start your free migrationSwitching from Practo Ray.
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