# Dental practice management software prices: who publishes them, and what a three-surgery practice pays a year > What UK dental software suppliers publish about price: Dentally's sterling tiers, Cliniko's bands, quote-only Exact, CareStack and Pabau, worked out. - Page to cite: https://aeolookup.com/clinics/dental-practice-management-software-prices-published/ - Publisher: AEO Lookup (https://aeolookup.com/) - Section: Dental, physio and aesthetics clinics, Running the practice - Published 1 October 2026 - Key fact: On 1 October 2026 two of the five suppliers we checked showed a sterling price a practice could read before a sales call: Dentally at £265, £380 and £510 a month plus VAT for three surgeries (£125, £220 and £320 for one), and Cliniko by practitioner count (£59 a month for two to five, £89 for six to eight); Software of Excellence (Exact), CareStack and Pabau publish no UK price, and CareStack's US page starts at US$829 a month. - Sources: Dentally pricing page (read in a browser 2026-10-01: one surgery Starter £125, Essentials £220, Pro £320; three surgeries £265, £380, £510; ex VAT, scaling by surgery up to eight, nine or more by quote); Cliniko pricing page (UK version read in a browser 2026-10-01: £29 a month for one practitioner, £59 for two to five, £89 for six to eight, £129 for nine to twelve; the page does not mention VAT); Pabau pricing page (tiers, no sterling figures); CareStack US pricing as reported by Capterra and comparison sites (US$829 Essentials, US$1,299 Intelligence); Software of Excellence Exact: quote only; Capterra UK Dentally rating 3.6 of 5 from 18 reviews. Desk check only; check the live pages before deciding. "Dental practice management software", "dentally software", "dentally vs exact", "dentally vs carestack": the software searches in this sector are the names, and the pricing pages behind the names mostly say "book a demo". We read what was published on one day and worked it for one practice. **What this is, and is not.** A desk check of pricing as published or reported on 1 October 2026. We did not trial any system, and three of the five suppliers publish no UK price, so their rows say so. Prices change and depend on surgeries, users and modules; read the live page and the contract before deciding. ## Two pricing models | Supplier | Model | Published figure | |---|---|---| | Dentally | Per surgery, tiered | One surgery: Starter £125, Essentials £220, Pro £320 a month plus VAT. Three surgeries: £265, £380, £510. Scales by surgery to eight, then by quote; AI clinical-note transcription on the higher tiers | | Cliniko | Per practitioner band | 1 practitioner £29 a month; 2 to 5 £59; 6 to 8 £89; 9 to 12 £129; the page does not mention VAT; unlimited admin users | | Software of Excellence (Exact) | Quote | No published UK price | | CareStack | Quote (UK); US page published | US Essentials from US$829 a month, Intelligence from US$1,299; per location, no per-user fee | | Pabau | Per-user tiers | Starter, Team, Medium, Group, Enterprise; no sterling figures on the page | The per-surgery model suits a dental practice whose chairs are the constraint; the per-practitioner model suits a physio or aesthetics clinic where clinicians come and go and admin staff are many. The searches compare across the two as if they were the same thing. ## The example practice Three surgeries, four dentists working across them, two hygienists, three reception and admin staff, mixed NHS and private. ## The sums, where a price exists | System | Basis | Per year | |---|---|---| | Dentally Starter | £265 × 12, plus VAT | £3,180 plus VAT | | Dentally Essentials | £380 × 12, plus VAT | £4,560 plus VAT | | Dentally Pro | £510 × 12, plus VAT | £6,120 plus VAT | | Cliniko, six practitioners | £89 × 12 | £1,068 | | CareStack, at the US figure | US$829 × 12 | US$9,948, if the UK quote matched the US page, which it may not | | Software of Excellence, Pabau | quote | not calculable | NHS claiming, patient communications (texts at 4p to 12p each), online booking and payment modules are extra or tier-dependent everywhere, and migration from an existing system is quoted separately by every supplier. ## What to ask on the demo Four questions turn a quote into a comparable number: the price for your surgery or practitioner count at the tier you need, in sterling, with VAT; what the SMS and email reminders cost per message and whether a reply-to-confirm is included; whether there is an API or export the practice can use with other tools, and what it costs; and the migration fee and timescale from your current system, in writing. The answers are the row the supplier did not publish. ## What the reviews say Dentally scores 3.6 of 5 from 18 Capterra UK reviews, with owner complaints about support after signing, training, usability after updates and time spent tidying treatment codes. Those are not price-list items, and they cost admin hours; the switch itself is the cost the price page never shows. ## Where Overlyft ![](https://aeolookup.com/img/d/ours-badge.png) fits Overlyft does not sell practice management software, and an assistant it sets up needs one to read from. The four AI staff it sets up for a practice, the Receptionist (online), Recall Coordinator, Treatment Follow-up and Reviews Clerk, work inside whichever system the practice runs, drafting the [recall sequence](https://aeolookup.com/clinics/recall-reminder-planner-dental/), the [treatment plan follow-ups](https://aeolookup.com/clinics/treatment-plan-follow-up-email-template-dental/), the complaint acknowledgements and the review replies that the system stores but does not write, with the practice manager reviewing each one and a GDC registrant reading anything clinical. The comparison that matters to an owner is a receptionist's salary against the cost of setting up an assistant, and that is a different page. This one is about the software. ## Short answers from this page **What does dental practice management software cost?** Two of the five suppliers we checked on 1 October 2026 showed a sterling price on their own page. Dentally: £265, £380 and £510 a month plus VAT across three tiers for a three-surgery practice, or £125, £220 and £320 for a single surgery. Cliniko: £59 a month for two to five practitioners, £89 for six to eight. Software of Excellence, CareStack and Pabau publish no UK price. --- ![](https://aeolookup.com/img/d/owner-line.png) General information for UK small firms, not legal, tax or financial advice.