DeepCura Alternative: BastionGPT vs DeepCura (2026)

Unlimited use instead of a monthly credit meter

DeepCura's $129 price covers all seven of its AI agents, but usage is metered: each seat gets 1,000 credits per month shared across every agent, and a $59 per month add-on doubles that to 2,000. Notes, receptionist calls, intake, and faxes all draw from the same pool, so a busy month can hit the cap, and public reviewers note the credit balance needs watching. BastionGPT has no credit system anywhere: transcription is unlimited on every plan, sessions run up to 240 minutes, and the AI assistant is unlimited too. A heavy documentation week costs the same as a quiet one, and nobody on your team has to ration AI use in the middle of a full clinic day.

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A sixth of the entry price, published in full

DeepCura costs $129 per provider per month, or $999 per year, with volume discounts that bottom out at $101 per month for 11 or more seats. BastionGPT publishes every plan on its website: Professional at $20 per user per month, Professional Plus at $45, and Ultra at $75. The $20 plan includes the unlimited AI scribe, unlimited transcription, and the full AI assistant. A solo practice pays $240 a year instead of $999 to $1,548, and annual billing adds a free month. There is no contract and no implementation fee, and every paid plan carries a 45-day money-back guarantee, versus DeepCura's policy of no refunds for partial periods.

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A signed BAA on every plan, including the free trial

BastionGPT executes a Business Associate Agreement automatically at signup on every plan, including the 7-day free trial, so PHI is covered from the first note, and the trial includes the full product rather than a starter allotment of credits. DeepCura's homepage says a BAA is included; if you evaluate its free trial, confirm your BAA is in place before recording real patient encounters.

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Formal compliance depth beyond HIPAA

DeepCura advertises HIPAA compliance, 256-bit encryption, an included BAA, and a Google CASA Tier 2 security assessment verified by TAC Security. Those are real controls, but a completed SOC 2 Type II audit, HITRUST certification, or ISO 27001 certification is not published on its website. BastionGPT runs exclusively on HITRUST CSF certified and SOC 2 Type II attested infrastructure and is pursuing its own SOC 2 Type II attestation and HITRUST CSF certification. Coverage extends beyond HIPAA to 42 CFR Part 2 substance use records, FERPA-covered school records, PIPEDA and PHIPA in Canada, and the Australian Privacy Principles, with data residency in the US, Canada, or Australia based on billing geography.

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Peer-reviewed accuracy evidence instead of vendor metrics

DeepCura reports 6,000+ clinicians and 1M+ generated encounters; both figures are the vendor's own, and no independent accuracy study is published. BastionGPT achieved 99.3% sentence-level accuracy on clinical documentation in a peer-reviewed study by Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital researchers, published in Critical Care Explorations in 2026. If you need to justify an AI tool to a compliance officer, a group practice owner, or a hospital committee, a citable study carries different weight than a marketing counter.

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Depth in mental and behavioral health

DeepCura markets across 50+ specialties, with primary care, psychiatry, orthopedics, and dermatology up front. BastionGPT's center of gravity is the mental health professional. It drafts DAP, BIRP, and detailed SOAP notes; separates and labels up to 10 speakers for couples, family, and group sessions; supports 42 CFR Part 2 substance use records and FERPA-covered school records on every plan; and handles sensitive clinical topics such as self-harm and abuse that consumer AI tools often refuse. Therapists, psychologists, counselors, and psychiatric providers make up the largest share of BastionGPT's user base, and the product reflects it.

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Reads the records your practice receives

Clinical work involves documents that never came from a recorded visit: prior treatment records, evaluations, discharge paperwork, insurance denials, and faxed outside records. DeepCura accepts record uploads up to 1,000 pages within its credit allotment. BastionGPT reads 10+ documents at once with 1,000+ pages of combined context on Professional Plus and Ultra, covering PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, PowerPoint, HTML, plain text, and scanned images with OCR, with no per-use metering. Upload three years of records, an evaluation, and a denial letter, then query, summarize, and cross-reference all of it in one conversation. The Professional plan covers a single document up to 30 pages.

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Clear answers on training data and retention

BastionGPT's policy is unambiguous: inputs, documents, and audio are never used to train AI models, never shared with model providers for training, and never sold. Retention stays under your control: chats persist until you delete them, and transcript retention is configurable from 1 to 365 days. DeepCura also states that customer data is not used for model training, yet its homepage separately advertises that its AI is "trained on real clinical workflows, not synthetic data," and its retention terms are not published on its public site. Those statements can be reconciled in privacy-protective ways, so ask DeepCura exactly what is retained, for how long, and what that training language means for your patients' records, in writing, before onboarding. With BastionGPT there is nothing to clarify.

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Human support instead of an AI-first help desk

DeepCura is deliberately lean: the company has publicly described running with a very small human team amplified by its own AI agents, and an onboarding agent named Emily handles setup by voice. That model keeps costs down, but when PHI, billing, or a mid-session failure is involved, many practices want a person on the line. BastionGPT provides support by email, chat, phone, and video with real humans on every plan, plus a free 30-minute one-on-one training session and team lunch-and-learns, backed by a 99.90% uptime guarantee.

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A vendor track record measured in years

BastionGPT is built by Bastion Intelligence, a bootstrapped healthcare AI and security company founded in Dallas, Texas in 2018 by a former academic medical center CISO and CTO. The product has been on the market since 2023, serves more than 10,000 healthcare professionals, and has recorded zero reportable PHI breaches. DeepCura was founded in 2024 in San Francisco and describes itself as bootstrapped and profitable; its iOS App Store rating was recently reset and currently shows too few ratings to display an average. None of that makes DeepCura a bad product, but it is a young one, and the vendor holding your documentation workflow is a multi-year choice.

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