Cadence ABA vs Raven Health
Raven Health is a mobile-first, AI-driven all-in-one ABA platform for startups and growing clinics, with the software offered free under a managed-billing model. Cadence ABA takes a different approach to the clinical core: voice-first capture and AI-assisted clinical reasoning, with a clinician signing every output.
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Which should you choose?
Raven Health is the better fit for new and growing ABA practices that want an easy, mobile-first all-in-one with billing handled on a pay-when-you-get-paid model. Cadence ABA is the better fit for clinical teams whose priority is the clinical core: capturing sessions by voice without losing presence with the child, getting phase-change and trend reads suggested for them (Clinical and up), and finishing with a billable note ready to sign.
Cadence focuses on clinical capture, reasoning, documentation, and compliance - not full revenue-cycle billing. Teams that need managed claim submission may pair it with a dedicated billing system.
Cadence ABA
- Approach
- Voice-first capture + AI-assisted clinical reasoning
- Pricing
- $18/active client per mo (Capture), $36 (Clinical), $42 (Practice, 15-client minimum) - unlimited users, no platform fee, published publicly
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial, self-serve, no credit card (Capture and Clinical)
- Best for
- Clinical teams who want presence with the child and notes that draft themselves
Raven Health
- Approach
- Mobile-first tap capture, real-time sync
- Pricing
- Software free with managed billing at 5% of collected revenue; self-billing package also offered
- Free trial
- Demo-led onboarding; go-live in weeks
- Best for
- New and growing ABA practices that want an easy, mobile-first all-in-one with billing handled on a pay-when-you-get-paid model
Where Raven Health stands out
- Free software paired with managed billing - you pay a flat percentage of claims collected rather than an upfront subscription
- Fast onboarding (BCBAs in under an hour, RBTs in ~15 minutes) and mobile-first, offline-capable field use
- All-in-one for new providers: data collection, scheduling, AI notes, and claims automation (reports 98%+ collection, under 1% denials)
Where Cadence is different
- Cadence captures by voice, hands-free - Raven is mobile-first tap capture.
- Cadence's AI suggests phase changes and interprets trends in plain language, beyond AI note drafting and progress dashboards.
- Cadence is a transparent, flat per-active-client subscription you control - unlimited users, no revenue share on your collections - with a self-serve trial.
Every one of those AI suggestions is one a clinician accepts or rejects - how we keep the AI accurate explains the guardrails, and HIPAA & BAA covers the compliance posture behind them.
Cadence ABA vs Raven Health: questions
- Is Cadence ABA a good Raven Health alternative?
- For teams that want more clinical depth, yes. Raven Health is a mobile-first, all-in-one built for new and growing providers, with free software funded by managed billing. Cadence is voice-first and AI-assisted - clinicians speak through a session and Cadence structures the data, suggests phase changes, interprets trends, and drafts a billable SOAP note to sign - with transparent subscription pricing that isn't tied to a billing revenue share.
- Is Raven Health really free, and how does that compare to Cadence's pricing?
- Raven Health's software is free when you use its managed billing, which charges 5% of collected revenue; practices that do their own billing can choose its self-billing package instead. Cadence prices the software directly and transparently - from $18 per active client per month, unlimited users included, with a 14-day free trial - so your software cost is predictable, independent of who handles your billing, and does not scale with your collections.
- Can I move my data from Raven Health to Cadence ABA?
- Cadence imports clients, targets, and past session data from CSV, so records exported from Raven Health as CSV files can come with you, and historical graphs continue rather than restarting at your go-live date. The importer includes a column preset for Raven Health exports that recognizes the column names Raven Health commonly uses for clients and targets. For any column it does not recognize, Cadence suggests a mapping and flags rows that need a decision; nothing is committed until you confirm. CSV import is included on every plan.
For what Cadence costs and how it handles PHI, the pricing FAQ and the product FAQ hold the canonical answers.
Raven Health details reflect publicly available information as of the date above and may change; where those materials did not settle a capability, the table says so. Verify current specifics with the vendor. Cadence figures come from our published pricing.