United Kingdom · all figures read 2026-08-01
What dental software actually costs in United Kingdom
Every price on this page came off the vendor’s own website, with a link so you can check it. Where a vendor publishes nothing, we say nothing — we don’t recycle third-party estimates, because in this category a lot of them are wrong.
Published prices, cheapest first
| Software | Deployment | Entry price | Basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentally | Cloud | £125/month | per site, unlimited users | dentally.co |
The 11 that won’t tell you
These publish no figure anywhere on their sites. That is a legitimate commercial choice — enterprise pricing genuinely does vary — but it means you cannot shortlist on budget without booking sales calls first.
- CareStack — CareStack
- Denticon — Planet DDS
- EXACT — Software of Excellence (Henry Schein One)
- R4 — PracticeWorks Ltd (Carestream Dental)
- Systems for Dentists — Systems for Dentists (SfD)
- Pearl — Not stated on the NHS BSA list
- Aerona — Aerona Software
- Cloud 4 Dentists — Cloud 4 Dentists
- DentalPlus — Admor DentalPlus Software
- i-Smile — Drawing Board Solutions
- Ascend — Software of Excellence (Henry Schein One)
The sticker price is not the bill
The cheap end of this market is cheap because it unbundles. Texting, online booking, digital forms and eligibility checks are all separately priced. A worked example, using only each vendor’s own published add-on rates:
Dentally, one site, by surgery count
| Starter — 1 surgery | £125/mo |
| Starter — 3 surgeries | £265/mo |
| Starter — 5 surgeries | £395/mo |
| Essentials — 1 surgery | £220/mo |
| Pro — 1 surgery | £320/mo |
| 9+ surgeries | Contact us |
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All excluding VAT. NHS integration is on every tier; AI clinical notes are limited on Starter and unavailable in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Everyone else
No other NHS-certified system publishes a price, so there is no second column to put here. That is the finding, not a gap in the research.
It also makes Dentally the only vendor you can budget against before speaking to anyone — which is worth something on its own, separately from whether the product suits you.
One-off costs people forget
- Data conversion. Nobody publishes a figure. Budget four figures and get it written into the contract before you sign.
- Server hardware, for any on-premise option — plus its replacement cycle.
- VAT. Dentally’s published prices exclude it; assume every quote you receive does too.
- Training. Ask what is included and what is billed by the day. In a quote-only market this is where cost hides.
- NHS year-end risk. Not a line item, but the biggest financial exposure here: if UDA reporting is inaccurate you discover the contract shortfall at year end. Ask how the system shows UDA position against target during the year.
Check before you buy
Every figure here was accurate on 2026-08-01 and linked to its source. Vendors change prices without announcing it — treat this as a shortlisting tool, then confirm the current number directly.
How we source prices