Is there one dental AI tool that does everything — imaging, insurance, and front office?

No single vendor in this list covers all three well. Intake.Dental ships the broadest combination of front-office AI, insurance verification, and clinical notes, but it has no imaging AI product. Pearl and Overjet own radiograph analysis; if you want AI reading your x-rays, you're licensing that separately (or, in Archy's case, it's bundled in via a Pearl license).

Which dental AI has the strongest FDA clearance?

Pearl has the most 510(k) clearances (8 as of early 2026, spanning bitewing, periapical, panoramic, pediatric, and CBCT). Overjet has fewer clearances (7) but is the only one cleared to both detect and quantify disease, including mm-precision bone-loss measurement. Everything else on this list — front office, voice charting, insurance verification — is not an FDA-regulated device category, so 'FDA cleared' doesn't apply.

Do these vendors publish real pricing, or is it all sales quotes?

It's split. Intake.Dental, Weave, and Archy publish real numbers on their pricing pages. Pearl, Overjet, Zuub, and Bola AI are quote-only — any dollar figure you see for them (including in this article) is third-party reported, not vendor-confirmed, and can vary a lot by practice size and negotiation.

Is dental AI worth it for a solo or small practice?

It depends which layer. Front-office AI (Intake.Dental) and communications platforms (Weave) tend to pencil out on call volume and no-show reduction alone. Imaging AI (Pearl, Overjet) is a harder case for low-volume solo offices — the subscription plus setup fee needs enough radiograph volume and case-acceptance lift to justify $300-$900+/month on top of your existing software.

Best Dental AI Software in 2026: 7 Tools Compared

Facts & pricing verified July 19, 2026

“AI” on a dental vendor’s homepage can mean anything from an FDA-cleared caries detector to a chatbot that fills out a web form. This list only includes tools that ship AI doing real clinical or operational work today, and it separates what’s vendor-published from what’s third-party reported — because in this category, the pricing pages are often blank.

1. Intake.Dental

Disclosure: Intake.Dental is our product, and we’re holding it to a higher bar here than anyone else on this list. It’s the newest platform of the seven (2025) with the smallest installed base and no long public review history — that’s a real gap next to incumbents like Weave or Pearl.

What earns it the top spot is breadth, not polish: a 24/7 AI receptionist that actually books into the PMS rather than just taking a message, an insurance verification chain that escalates from electronic checks to an AI voice call to fax OCR and lands on a per-CDT dollar-coverage table, and AI clinical notes that learn a provider’s documentation style — all under published, month-to-month pricing starting at $79.99/month for forms and topping out at $799.99/month for the full Practice Autopilot bundle. No competitor here ships that combination in one login. But it does zero imaging AI — read that as a feature of this list’s honesty, not a workaround: if you want a radiograph read, you need Pearl or Overjet regardless of what else you buy.

2. Overjet

Overjet is the clinical-rigor leader. Its Dental Assist clearance (K210187, 2021) was the first FDA clearance for AI bone-level measurement in dentistry, and the company markets itself, accurately, as the only dental AI cleared to both detect/outline disease and quantify it in millimeters. A 7,000-surface study found dentists caught 32% more carious surfaces using Caries Assist. The catch: pricing is quote-only, reported anywhere from $250 to $1,500+/month depending on source, and its payer-side ReviewPASS business — used by insurers to auto-approve or deny claims — has drawn real provider frustration over black-box denial logic. Full writeup: /reviews/overjet.

3. Pearl

Pearl holds the widest clearance footprint in dental AI — 8 clearances covering bitewing, periapical, panoramic, pediatric (age 4+), and CBCT, making it first-cleared for both 2D and 3D. Practices credit its visual annotations with real case-acceptance lift (one Onsite Dental case study cites production per visit rising from $26.95 to $137). Capterra reviewers flag false positives, especially interproximal decay and cervical burnout artifacts you then have to explain to the patient, and support response times draw complaints. Reported pricing stacks to $700-$900/month per location after setup fees. See /reviews/pearl and a head-to-head at /compare/pearl-vs-overjet.

4. Archy

Archy is a full cloud PMS — scheduling, charting, billing, claims, payments — with genuine AI baked into the clinical layer: AI Scribe for notes and AI Voice Perio for hands-free charting, both shipped. Its imaging AI is licensed from Pearl, not built in-house, which is fine but worth knowing before you assume it’s proprietary. Archy’s marketing leans hard into “practice on autopilot” language for AI agents handling eligibility and claims follow-up that, per its own roadmap, aren’t fully shipped yet. Pricing is published and real: $899/month per location, unlimited users — a rare bit of transparency in this category.

5. Weave

Weave isn’t really an AI company — it’s the best front-office communications platform on the market, with a newer Call Intelligence layer bolted on. If your problem is missed calls, no-shows, and manual reminder texts, Weave’s Call Pop, two-way texting, and automated review generation solve it well (4.6/5 on G2 across 426 reviews). The recurring complaint is post-sale support quality and features getting reclassified into pricier tiers at renewal. Starting price is published at $249/month (Pro tier); Elite and Ultimate are quote-only. See /reviews/weave.

6. Bola AI

Bola does one thing and does it well: voice-driven perio charting that writes measurements straight into the PMS, distributed through Patterson and Henry Schein One (it powers Dentrix Voice). Vendor claims ~5 minutes per chart versus 15 manually. It’s clinical-documentation-only — no front office, no imaging, no insurance work — and pricing is entirely unpublished, quoted per location.

7. Zuub

Zuub is a narrow-but-real AI insurance verification engine that pulls live benefit breakdowns from payer portals instead of EDI clearinghouse data, with a case study claiming a drop from 77 to 19 days average claim processing for a 19-location group. Capterra reviewers (4.7/5, 38 reviews) note it breaks when payer portals go down or change passwords, and contracts run a year. Reported pricing starts at $299/user/month.

Vendor	Category	Shipped AI scope	Pricing	FDA cleared
Intake.Dental	Front office	Receptionist, insurance verification, clinical notes	Published, $79.99-$799.99/mo	N/A (not a device)
Overjet	Imaging AI	Detect + quantify caries/bone loss, CBCT	Quote-only	Yes, 7 clearances
Pearl	Imaging AI	Detect caries/bone loss/etc., 2D+3D	Quote-only	Yes, 8 clearances
Archy	Full PMS	AI Scribe, Voice Perio, Pearl-licensed imaging AI	Published, $899/mo/location	N/A (imaging component via Pearl)
Weave	Front office	VoIP/texting + Call Intelligence	Published from $249/mo	N/A
Bola AI	Clinical charting	Voice perio/restorative charting, scribe	Unpublished	N/A
Zuub	Insurance/RCM	AI benefit-breakdown verification	Reported $299+/mo	N/A

How we chose: we ranked on three things — how much genuinely-shipped AI (not roadmap) a vendor delivers, whether pricing and FDA claims are vendor-published versus third-party reported, and what independent reviewers (Capterra, G2, Reddit/Dentaltown where findable) actually say once the sales demo is over. Imaging AI vendors were scored separately on clearance breadth and clinical validation data since that’s a regulated, apples-to-apples comparison the others don’t have.

Sources: hellopearl.com, overjet.com, getweave.com/pricing, archy.com/pricing, bola.ai, zuub.com, intake.dental/pricing, innolitics.com dental AI 510(k) analysis, capterra.com, themolarreport.com, practicesignal.com.