Blueprint alternative

A Blueprint alternative: flat-rate, on-device, no per-session fee

Blueprint charges roughly $0.99 per session drafted. TherapyDraft charges $39/mo flat for unlimited sessions. At the typical private-practice caseload the flat rate is cheaper. At very low session volume, Blueprint is cheaper. This page walks through the honest math — and the non-pricing differences that matter more than the dollars.

TL;DR

Blueprint's pay-per-session model is clever: no subscription, no commitment, you only pay when you actually produce a note. That's attractive for part-time clinicians, supervisors who use a scribe rarely, and anyone testing AI notes for the first time. But the break-even against TherapyDraft's $39 flat tier is ~40 sessions per month. Any clinician billing 10+ sessions per week saves money on TherapyDraft. More importantly, Blueprint runs in the cloud and TherapyDraft runs on your Mac — the privacy architecture is the bigger switch reason for most clinicians who compare these two.

The break-even math

Blueprint's headline pricing at 2026 rates is approximately $0.99 per drafted session. TherapyDraft is $39/mo flat. The break-even point:

Sessions / month	Blueprint cost	TherapyDraft cost	Cheaper
10 (~2–3/week)	$9.90	$39	Blueprint
20 (~5/week)	$19.80	$39	Blueprint
30 (~7/week)	$29.70	$39	Blueprint
40 (~10/week)	$39.60	$39	Break-even
60 (~15/week, full caseload)	$59.40	$39	TherapyDraft
100 (high-volume practice)	$99.00	$39	TherapyDraft
100 (annual plan, $349/yr)	$99.00	$29.08	TherapyDraft

Below ~40 sessions/month, Blueprint's metered pricing wins on cost. Above that, TherapyDraft does. The typical full-time private-practice caseload is 20–30 clients/week, or 80–120 sessions/month, which is well above break-even. For a part-time clinician doing 8–12 sessions/week, the two are roughly equivalent on price.

Why therapists still switch to TherapyDraft at any caseload

Pricing is the visible reason; architecture is the real reason. Blueprint's drafting pipeline requires uploading the session audio to their cloud for transcription and drafting. TherapyDraft does not. The full list:

No audio upload. macOS network entitlements confine the TherapyDraft app to two hosts (Stripe, our update server); it can't reach a transcription or LLM cloud because the OS blocks it. Session audio stays in your Applications Support folder.
No BAA to negotiate. Blueprint is a covered-entity subprocessor and signs a BAA. TherapyDraft doesn't need one — nothing reaches us that would require it. You skip the intake-forms step entirely.
No per-session ledger exposure. Blueprint's server-side logs show which of your clients had drafts generated on which days. TherapyDraft's inference log is a hash-chained JSONL on your disk, visible only to you.
No dependency on your internet. TherapyDraft drafts with wifi off; Blueprint needs an online cloud connection throughout. For telehealth days already burning bandwidth this is a minor quality-of-life win.
Predictable monthly bill. Flat $39 is easier to budget against than metered per-session charges — especially for clinicians on income-based sliding scales.

Feature comparison

	Blueprint	TherapyDraft
Where inference runs	Blueprint cloud	Your Mac
Pricing model	~$0.99 per session (metered)	$39/mo or $349/yr flat (unlimited)
Break-even vs TherapyDraft	—	~40 sessions/mo
Session audio leaves your device	Yes	No
HIPAA posture	Signed BAA	Architectural (no transmission)
Note formats	SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP	SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP
Works offline	No	Yes
Audit receipt	Server-side log	On-device hash-chained JSONL
Platform	Web	macOS on Apple Silicon
Free to try	Varies (limited sessions)	10 sessions, no credit card

When Blueprint is the right choice

You're an occasional user. If you're a supervisor who reviews drafts for the team but only personally drafts 2–3 sessions/week, the per-session model is genuinely cheaper.
You're not on a Mac. Blueprint's web product runs on Windows, iPad, Chromebook, anywhere with a browser. TherapyDraft is Apple-Silicon-only for now.
You split work across devices. If you draft from different computers depending on the day, a cloud product is easier. A device-locked desktop app creates friction.
You actively prefer metered billing. Some practices just like the "no subscription creep" feeling of paying only when they use a thing.

A one-week test plan

If you're on Blueprint today and curious about switching, the lowest-friction way to evaluate TherapyDraft is a one-week parallel test. Install the private beta on your Mac, use it for 8–10 sessions over the week, keep Blueprint running for the rest. Compare: the draft quality, the edit minutes, and the sense of where the audio went after each session. At the end of the week the right choice is usually obvious.

Join the private beta