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Kaylie, compared — on the record.
We assume the sales team at every company named on this page reads it the week it goes live. Good. That is the only way to keep a comparison page honest, so here are the rules we wrote this one under.
- Everything attributed to another company is quoted or closely paraphrased from that company's own public website, read on 10 September 2026, with the link at the bottom of this page.
- Where we do not know what somebody else does, we say what we do and leave you to ask them. We do not tell you what a competitor cannot do.
- Marketing pages change. If something here is wrong or has gone stale — including if you work at one of these companies — email contact@kaylie.ai and we will correct it and move the date.
In their own words
No ticks, no crosses, no invented feature grid. Each company described the way it describes itself, plus who it sells to and whether it publishes a price.
| Company | How it describes what it does | Who it is sold to | Published pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaylie | Insurance verification read from the payer's own portal and from EDI, treatment-plan estimates computed from what it found, claim status and EOB intelligence — written back into the patient's plan in your practice management system. | Dental practices and groups. | Published: $300 a month per office for verification automation, $600 with write-back, for an average-size practice. Treatment planning and claims are separate modules with their own published prices. |
| Vyne Dental | Their site describes Vyne Trellis as “a standalone comprehensive insurance billing platform offering claim and attachment integrations, eligibility verification, and ERAs, all for one monthly unlimited service fee”, alongside FastAttach for electronic attachments, clearinghouse services for payers, and payer-connection APIs. | Dental practices, and separately payers and platforms. | “One monthly unlimited service fee”; the amount is not published on the site, which notes “taxes, set-up and incidental fees may apply”. |
| Zuub | The site we read leads with PayerDirect, a dental eligibility and benefits API — “turn complex payer information into reliable, product-ready payer data” — with audience pages for practice management systems, billing and RCM platforms, clinical AI, patient engagement and analytics. | Presented on that site to software platforms: PMS, billing and RCM, clinical AI, patient engagement. | Not published on the site. |
| eAssist | A people-first outsourced billing service — “1,600+ US-based trained specialists” — covering insurance billing, patient billing, insurance verification, credentialing through a partner company, and daily reconciliation of EFT, ERA and virtual card payments. | Dental practices, single-location through DSO. | Published rate card: $1,400 per location per month under $40,000 of monthly insurance collections; 3.50% of insurance collections from $40,000 to $100,000; 3.00% then 2.50% on the collections above that. “Charges are never applied to uncollected revenue.” |
Quotation marks mean the words are theirs, taken from the pages linked at the bottom and read on 10 September 2026. Everything without quotation marks is our summary of those pages, and any error in it is ours.
Claims and attachments
Kaylie and Vyne Dental
The short version: they are strongest where a claim leaves your office, and we are strongest before it ever gets created. Most offices we talk to keep both, and we do not ask anyone to give up a clearinghouse to work with us.
Vyne Trellis is “an end-to-end revenue acceleration platform for your practice that gets you paid faster through clean claims, simple automations, and efficient communications” — “a standalone comprehensive insurance billing platform offering claim and attachment integrations, eligibility verification, and ERAs, all for one monthly unlimited service fee”.
The same pages describe unlimited claims and attachments, ERAs with a provider enrollment step, claim research and denial support, real-time and batch eligibility, patient forms, payments, communications and online scheduling. FastAttach is their long-standing electronic attachment product. They also run clearinghouse services for payers and sell payer-connection APIs. The headline numbers on their site: 84,000+ dental practices, a 96% claim acceptance rate, 112 million claims a year, and 800 unique electronic payer connections.
vynedental.com/vyne-trellisWe do not file claims and we do not send attachments. What we do is the part that happens before the appointment and after the payment: sign into the payer's own portal with your login, read the full breakdown for tomorrow's schedule, write it into the patient's plan in your practice management system, price the treatment plan from it, then watch the claim's status and read the EOB that comes back.
- Coverage per procedure code, not category percentages
- History off the portal: last bitewings, last exam, last prophy
- Downgrades, missing-tooth clauses, waiting periods, frequencies
- The contracted fees the payer publishes for your office, and the allowed amounts your own EOBs have paid
- Written into the chart in CareStack, Open Dental and the other practice management systems we connect to
How to choose between us, fairly
Both of us return eligibility, so that word alone will not separate us — the honest test is depth and destination, and it is a test you can run rather than argue about. Take five plans your team fights over. Ask each of us to verify them, then lay the two results next to the fields your treatment coordinator actually needs to quote a crown: the procedure-code percentages, the remaining maximum, the deductible already applied, the date of the last radiographs, the downgrade rule. Then ask which of those fields ends up in the chart without anybody typing. Whoever wins that comparison should win your business, and if it is not us we would rather you found out in week one.
Eligibility data
Kaylie and Zuub
The short version: on the site we read, they lead with an API for software companies. We are the office-facing product. Which one you want depends on whether you are building a platform or running a practice.
PayerDirect is presented as a dental eligibility and benefits API that will “turn complex payer information into reliable, product-ready payer data”, and “power automated insurance verification with comprehensive eligibility, coverage, and benefits data”.
The audiences named on that site are software: practice management systems, billing and revenue-cycle platforms, clinical AI, patient engagement platforms, and analytics and reporting. That is a description of the site as it stood on 10 September 2026 — not a claim about what they sell to dental offices today, which is a question they can answer far better than we can.
zuub.comWe do not sell an eligibility API. Kaylie is bought by the practice and it is judged on whether the chart is filled in when a coordinator opens it. It syncs your schedule, runs verification ahead of the appointment, writes the benefits into the patient's plan in your practice management system, and prices the treatment plan from what it stored.
- Nothing to build, and no developer on your side
- Sold per office, at a price published on this site
- The output is a written chart, not a JSON response
If you are a software company rather than a dental office, an API is very likely the right purchase and we are the wrong shape for you. Say so on the call and we will not waste your half hour.
The two questions worth asking either of us
First: which carriers are covered by signing into the payer's portal, and which by an eligibility feed alone? The answer decides how much of a breakdown you get, because the feed and the portal do not carry the same fields. Second: what lands in my practice management system without a person typing it? Ask both of us, in writing, and hold whichever you buy to the answer.
People, not software
Kaylie and eAssist
The short version: this is not a like-for-like comparison and pretending otherwise would insult your intelligence. They sell trained people paid out of what they collect. We sell a flat subscription that removes the keystrokes. Plenty of offices should buy both, and a few should buy only them.
“1,600+ US-based trained specialists”, covering insurance billing, patient billing, insurance verification, credentialing through a partner company, and daily reconciliation of EFT, ERA and virtual card payments.
Their pricing page publishes the rate card: $1,400 per location per month for offices under $40,000 of monthly insurance collections, 3.50% of insurance collections between $40,000 and $100,000 a month, and tiers stepping down to 3.00% and 2.50% above that, with “charges are never applied to uncollected revenue”. Publishing a rate card at all is more than most of this category does, and it deserves saying.
dentalbilling.com/pricingA flat fee per office that does not move with your collections — $300 a month for verification automation, $600 with write-back. On $80,000 a month of insurance collections, 3.50% is $2,800 a month; at $150,000 a month a percentage is a materially bigger number and our invoice is the same one.
- Runs against tomorrow's entire schedule, not the appointments there was time for
- Output lands inside your practice management system
- What it learns about a plan is kept, and survives your staffing
And the other side of it: their specialists will phone a payer about a 120-day claim, argue an appeal, and call a patient about a balance. We do none of those three.
We wrote the long version of this trade-off, including what an in-house hire costs and the six things a billing service is genuinely better at: Kaylie vs. a billing service or an extra hire.
What we claim, and how to check it
Six claims about Kaylie, each with the test that would catch us out if it were untrue. A claim you cannot check is an advertisement.
We sign into the payer's own portal, not only the eligibility feed
An EDI eligibility response often returns a category percentage and a plan maximum. The detail that decides an estimate — coverage per procedure code, the date of the last bitewings, a downgrade clause, a missing-tooth clause, a waiting period — usually lives on a screen behind a login. Kaylie holds the login and reads the screen.
How to check it: Give us five plans from your own book whose breakdowns your team argues about, and compare the fields that come back against what you have today.
It writes into the chart, not into a report
Verified benefits are written into the patient's plan in your practice management system — CareStack, Open Dental, and the other systems we connect to — so the next person to open the chart sees it without re-typing anything.
How to check it: Pick one patient, look at the plan record in your software before and after a run, and count the fields somebody would otherwise have keyed in.
Coverage is a number you can look up, not a logo wall
The carriers we verify are counted from successful verifications, published on this site, and the count moves on its own.
How to check it: Open it now and search for your top three carriers.
Carrier coverage, counted liveWhen the payer will not say, we say we do not know
A guess shaped like a fact is worse than a blank, because it rides into the estimate and into the chart and is only caught when a patient disputes a bill. Where a portal holds no history and the feed returns only a category, the field is recorded as unknown and flagged.
How to check it: Ask to see a real run where a value came back unknown, and what the office was shown instead.
Estimates are computed from the stored benefits
The treatment-plan estimate is derived from the frequency, age, waiting-period and downgrade rules we captured, in code — not typed by a person and not improvised. Change the stored limit and the estimate changes with it.
How to check it: Change one frequency limit on a test plan and watch which line items move.
A flat price per office, published on the site
Not a share of your collections, and not a number that arrives after two discovery calls. The same invoice in your best month and your worst.
How to check it: Compare it against a percentage quote at your current collections, and again at collections 30% higher.
Bring this to every demo
Ten questions to ask every vendor on this page — us included
Send them in writing, to all of us, before you sit through anybody's slides. The answers separate the products far better than a feature grid written by whoever is selling.
- Which of my carriers do you verify by signing into the payer's portal, and which by an eligibility response only?
- Field by field, what gets written into my practice management system — and what does somebody at my office still have to type afterwards?
- Do you return coverage per procedure code, or category percentages?
- Do you return the patient's history — last bitewings, last exam, last prophy — or only the plan's limits?
- What happens when the payer does not answer? Do you tell me, or fill the field in?
- Nine months from now, can I see where a given number came from?
- How does my bill change if my collections grow 30%?
- What is the contract term, and what does it cost to leave?
- Who does the work when the person assigned to my account is out?
- Name three offices on my practice management software, my size, in my state, that I can phone.
If we answer one of these worse than somebody else does, buy theirs. A page that cannot survive its own questionnaire is not worth the traffic.
Put us in the bake-off
Bring five plans your team argues about and the software you are already paying for. Thirty minutes, your own patients, your own practice management system, and the fields side by side. That is a better use of your time than any comparison page, including this one.
Sources, read on 10 September 2026
- Vyne Dental — vynedental.com/vyne-trellis and vynedental.com
- Zuub — zuub.com
- eAssist Dental Solutions — dentalbilling.com and dentalbilling.com/pricing
- Kaylie's own prices and carrier coverage — this site, and kaylie.ai/verifications
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