Why this site exists

Most of this market won’t tell you the price.

Of the 8 products we track, 0 publish a real figure and 8 make you talk to sales first. That would be a minor annoyance if the review sites filled the gap accurately. They don’t.

Dental practice management software, compared honestly.

Not one system sold in Australia publishes a price. Dentally runs an Australian pricing page headed “Affordable plans for every dental practice” with no figure on it — while the same company publishes £125 a month on its British page. Here is what each system actually does, and the questions that get a real number out of them.

So we made a rule: we only publish a price we can see on the vendor’s own page, and every one carries a source link and the date we read it. Where a vendor publishes nothing, we say so instead of guessing.

How we compare

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publish a price you can read without a sales call

The full stack

Every system we track, cheapest published price first. Products that publish nothing sit at the bottom — not because they are worse, but because you cannot compare what you cannot see.

Software	Deployment	Published entry price	Built for	Links
CareStack CareStack	Cloud	Quote only	2–4 locations · Group · DSO / enterprise	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
Core Practice Core Practice	Cloud	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
Dental4Windows Centaur Software	Cloud or on-premise	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group · DSO / enterprise	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
Dentally Henry Schein One	Cloud	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
EXACT Software of Excellence (Henry Schein One)	Cloud or on-premise	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group · DSO / enterprise	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
Oasis Henry Schein One	Cloud or on-premise	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
Praktika Praktika	Cloud	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)
Principle Principle Dental	Cloud	Quote only	Solo · 2–4 locations · Group	Review Visit(opens in a new tab)

Prices are the vendor’s own published figures, each read on its source page and dated on that product’s review. “Quote only” means the vendor publishes no price at all — we do not substitute third-party estimates. How we compare.

Where most practices land

There is no single best dental software — there is the right one for your size, your appetite for running a server, and your budget. These four cover most situations.

See the full shortlist

Head to head

Side-by-side on price, deployment and every module — the two questions people actually search for before switching.

All comparisons

Compare by what you need

Cloud-based No server to own or back up Billing & claims Revenue cycle and ADA item numbers / HICAPS Imaging Sensors, X-ray, native viewers Scheduling Books, online booking, recall Charting Clinical and perio charting AI features Radiograph AI and automation