Australia · head to head · updated 2026-08-01

Dental4Windows vs Dentally

The incumbent against the newest arrival. Dental4Windows is cloud or on-premise and Dentally is cloud — usually the single biggest difference between them.

Dental4Windows

Centaur Software

The Australian incumbent — the system most practices here already run, now with a web sibling in Dental4Web.

Deployment
Cloud or on-premise
Entry price
Not published
Built for
Solo, 2–4 locations, Group, DSO / enterprise
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Read the full Dental4Windows review

Dentally

Henry Schein One

Henry Schein One’s cloud practice management system — and the only vendor here that publishes a price in the UK.

Deployment
Cloud
Entry price
Not published
Built for
Solo, 2–4 locations, Group
Visit Dentally(opens in a new tab)

Read the full Dentally review

The short answer

Neither Dental4Windows nor Dentally publishes a price, so any cost comparison between them depends entirely on the quotes you negotiate.

Choose Dental4Windows if…

Established Australian practices that value ecosystem breadth and easy hiring.

It is ahead on orthodontics .

Choose Dentally if…

Canadian practices that want cloud from a large vendor and will negotiate a quote.

It is ahead on patient messaging, online booking, digital forms .

Where they actually differ

Of 19 modules we track, these 4 differ. The rest match, so they are not what should decide it.

ModuleDental4WindowsDentally
Patient messaging Paid add-on Built in
Online booking Paid add-on Built in
Digital forms Paid add-on Built in
Orthodontics Built in Not stated
Show all 19 modules, including where they match
ModuleDental4WindowsDentally
Scheduling Built in Built in
Clinical charting Built in Built in
Perio charting Built in Built in
Native imaging Built in Built in
Billing Built in Built in
Claims Built in Built in
Insurance eligibility Built in Built in
Payments Built in Built in
Patient messaging Paid add-on Built in
Online booking Paid add-on Built in
Digital forms Paid add-on Built in
Recall / reactivation Built in Built in
Analytics & KPIs Built in Built in
ePrescribing Not stated Not stated
Teledentistry Not stated Not stated
AI features Not stated Not stated
Open API Via integration Via integration
Multi-location Built in Built in
Orthodontics Built in Not stated

Pricing, side by side

Dental4Windows

No published pricingchecked2026-08-01

Dental4Windows does not publish a price. You have to request a quote, which means you cannot budget or compare before speaking to a salesperson. No figure published anywhere on the site.

We do not repeat third-party price estimates for quote-only vendors. Several widely republished figures in this category turned out to belong to a different product — see how we compare.

Dentally

No published pricingchecked2026-08-01

Dentally does not publish a price. You have to request a quote, which means you cannot budget or compare before speaking to a salesperson. Dentally runs a dedicated Australian pricing page at /en-au/pricing headed “Affordable plans for every dental practice”. It contains no figure. The same company publishes full tiers on its UK page.

We do not repeat third-party price estimates for quote-only vendors. Several widely republished figures in this category turned out to belong to a different product — see how we compare.

Strengths and trade-offs

Dental4Windows

Strengths

  • The largest installed base in Australian dentistry — staff arrive knowing it, and the local integration ecosystem is built around it.
  • HICAPS integration is long-established, which is the thing that actually saves the front desk time every day.
  • Dental4Web gives an in-house migration path to the browser without changing vendor.

Trade-offs

  • No published pricing.
  • A mature product carrying a lot of history; the interface shows its age next to newer cloud entrants.
  • Two products under one roof means you should ask precisely which one a quote is for, and what differs.

Dentally

Strengths

  • True cloud with CDAnet claims and predeterminations handled natively.
  • Backed by Henry Schein One, so it is not going away and the integration marketplace is large.
  • Sold across several countries, which usually means the platform gets sustained investment.

Trade-offs

  • Publishes a pricing page with three named tiers and no prices on it — you cannot compare it on cost without a sales call.
  • Tier boundaries are described by feature list, so which tier you actually need is decided in the sales conversation.
  • Newer in Canada than the entrenched local systems, so fewer peers to ask.

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