Guide
How much does dental practice management software cost?
Updated
More than half of this market prints a price. That is unusually good for healthcare software, and worth using.
The prices we could actually read
| System | Published price | What the price is charged per |
|---|---|---|
| DentalPlus Claims+ | Free | Unlimited users and computers, NHS claims management included |
| DentalPlus Full+ | From £95 a month | Practice. Unlimited users, 100GB cloud storage per surgery |
| Cloud 4 Dentists | £60 to £240 a month | Practice, banded by chairs, users and storage, on a 12-month contract |
| Pearl Dental Software | £82 a month, plus £58 per extra surgery | Surgery, excluding VAT, with unlimited users |
| Dentally | £134 to £346 a month for one surgery | Surgeries per site, by package, excluding VAT |
| Chiral | £150, £225 or £300 a month | Practice, banded by user count |
Every figure above was read on the supplier's own pricing page on 23 October 2026 and is reproduced, not estimated. Pearl, Cloud 4 Dentists and Dentally state their prices exclude VAT; DentalPlus states prices are not final until the billing page, which applies VAT by product type. Check the supplier's page before you buy.
The unit is the whole argument
These published prices are charged in four different units. Cloud 4 Dentists bands by chairs, users and storage. Pearl charges per surgery with unlimited users, and Dentally by the number of surgeries per site. Chiral bands by user count, per practice. DentalPlus charges per practice with unlimited users and computers. A three-surgery practice with twelve staff will get a very different answer from each. Before you compare two numbers, write down your surgeries, chairs, clinicians and total logins, and ask every supplier to price the same four figures.
Watch what is sold separately
- NHS claims
- Not always in the base price. Cloud 4 Dentists sells NHS Claims as a £40 a month add-on on every paid tier, and its free trial does not list it. DentalPlus, by contrast, includes NHS claims management in its free Claims+ tier.
- Data migration
- The largest single number in this market and rarely on the pricing page. Cloud 4 Dentists is the exception and publishes it: data transfer from £900 plus VAT, stated to include migration and training.
- Storage
- Metered on at least one system: Cloud 4 Dentists includes 10Gb on its £60 Essential tier and charges £2 a month per additional 10Gb. Practices with intraoral imaging should price that carefully.
- Backup
- Pearl includes 2 GB of encrypted daily online backup and sells larger tiers as a separate line, from £20 to £135 a month by storage. On a cloud system that cost is usually inside the subscription; on an installed one it rarely is.
- Messaging
- SMS is paid by credits on DentalPlus while email is free. Recall and reminder volume is what turns that from a rounding error into a real monthly cost.
- Add-on modules
- Cloud 4 Dentists publishes CRM at £120 a month and Full Compliance at £80 a month beside its £40 NHS Claims add-on. Adding all three to the £60 Essential tier comes to £300 a month, five times the entry price, which is useful context for any quote-only supplier's number.
The three that publish nothing
Exact, Systems for Dentists and CareStack all route to a demo. Dentally did too on 15 August 2026, and its UK pricing page, read 23 October 2026, now states from £134 a month for one surgery. CareStack is the most candid about why, stating that plans are flexible and based on a combination of factors including the number of locations, chairs and clinicians. That is a reasonable basis for a group practice quote, and it also means the figure is negotiable, which a published one is not. Ask for the monthly figure, the unit, the minimum term, the migration fee and the cost of leaving, in the first call.