Smilecloud Pricing vs Smile PreVue: What Each Includes

Smilecloud pricing vs Smile PreVue: the short answer

Smilecloud's pricing page lists four plans, Lite, Starter, Business and Dental Group, with a 14-day free trial that needs no credit card, but the page did not show a dollar amount for any plan when we fetched it on October 2, 2026. Smile PreVue has one plan: $149.00 per provider per month (or $1,199 per year) when you sign up on the web, or $149.99 per month through the iOS app, with a 3-day free trial and no card on the web.

The bigger difference is the job. Smilecloud is a smile design platform with 3D reference, motion and lab services. Smile PreVue is built to get a same-visit yes on a cosmetic case and take the payment in the same flow.

How much does Smilecloud cost?

Here is exactly what smilecloud.com/pricing showed when we fetched it on October 2, 2026. We copied the plan names and limits as written and added nothing.

• Lite: "You document and collaborate." 1 member, 120 cases, billed annually.
• Starter: "You design smiles." 1 member, 120 cases, billed annually.
• Business: "You work interdisciplinary." 1 or more members, unlimited cases, priced per member per month and billed annually.
• Dental Group: "You run a multi-clinic organisation." 3 or more locations, unlimited cases, billed annually.

The price fields on those plan cards were empty in the page we fetched, so Smilecloud does not publish a price on its pricing page as we read it. The only fair advice is to ask Smilecloud for a quote on the plan you would actually use. Be wary of any dollar figure you find for Smilecloud on a review site or in a search snippet, since those are not the vendor's own page.

Two more terms from the same page, fetched October 2, 2026:

• Free trial: "14 days Free Trial includes a full-featured Business plan. No credit card required."
• Annual billing: "Save up to 20%." The page also says you can cancel from your account and keep access until the end of the period you already paid for.

What does Smile PreVue cost?

Smile PreVue sells one paid plan with no tiers and no add-ons. The price depends on where you subscribe, so we name the billing rail every time:

• On the web (Stripe checkout): $149.00 per provider per month, or $1,199 per year.
• In the iOS app (Apple In-App Purchase): $149.99 per month.

The trial is 3 days. It starts when you register on the web, needs no credit card, and allows up to 3 AI simulations a day. AI Clinical Notes and patient payments are included in the subscription rather than sold as extras. Dental students use it free through graduation and for one year after. The full breakdown lives on the Smile PreVue pricing page.

Since Smilecloud does not show a price, there is no honest side-by-side dollar comparison to make. What you can compare is what each plan is built to do, and that is where the two tools split.

What is each tool actually built to do?

Smilecloud, in its own words on smilecloud.com (fetched October 2, 2026), "turns a single photo into a facially aligned smile design, an organized view with added 3D reference, an AI-assisted video simulation and a collaborative case." Its homepage lists products such as Blueprint, Biometric Motion, Signature Design, Before and After Video and digital and analog restorations. It runs in a web browser and also has iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Its audience list includes dentists, patients, universities, clinics and interdisciplinary teams. That is a design and collaboration platform, and a serious one. If your work involves scan data, lab partners and multi-specialist planning, those features exist for a reason.

Smile PreVue is narrower on purpose. It is a sales tool for the cosmetic consult. A clinical photo goes in and a photorealistic veneer or whitening preview of the patient's own smile comes out, in about 30 seconds, with 20+ VITA shades to choose from. It runs on an iPad the practice already owns, or in a desktop browser, with no scanner and no extra hardware. The patient can take the preview home by email, by text after a double opt-in, or as a clinic-branded PDF.

The difference shows up at one moment: the patient is in the chair deciding whether a several-thousand-dollar case is worth it. Design depth helps the case come out well. Being able to see the result on their own face, right then, is what helps them decide to do it. Both matter. They happen at different points in the case. If you are weighing tools for that moment specifically, our guide to smile simulation on an iPad with no scanner walks through what the practice actually needs to own.

Smile PreVue vs Smilecloud at a glance

Every Smilecloud cell below comes from smilecloud.com pages we fetched on October 2, 2026. Where those pages are silent, we say so rather than guess.

	Smile PreVue	Smilecloud
Built for	Closing cosmetic cases chairside	Smile design, 3D reference and case collaboration
Price	Web: $149.00 per provider per month or $1,199 per year. App Store: $149.99 per month	Not published on its pricing page; four plans listed
Free trial	3 days, no card on the web, 3 simulations a day	14 days on a full-featured Business plan, no card
Platform and devices	iPad app, also a desktop browser; no scanner	Web-based, plus iPhone, iPad and Android apps
HIPAA	HIPAA-compliant under a Google Cloud BAA	States it is designed to support HIPAA compliance
Patient payments in the same flow	Pay in full or pay over time, subject to approval	Not mentioned on the pages we fetched

Read the table as two different job descriptions, not as a scorecard. Smilecloud covers ground Smile PreVue does not touch, like 3D blueprints, motion and lab restorations. Smile PreVue covers ground Smilecloud's pages do not mention, like taking the payment at the chair.

Where do payments fit after the yes?

A lot of accepted cosmetic cases still stall at the number. The patient loved the preview, then hears the total and says they need to think about it.

Smile PreVue lets the practice collect in full by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Cash App, or let the patient pay over time. Pay-over-time is offered through partners such as Affirm, Klarna or Sunbit, subject to approval, and which ones appear depends on the case total. Smile PreVue is not the lender, and we never quote a patient's rate. The point is keeping the momentum from the preview through to a paid, scheduled case. More on how that works is on the patient payments and financing page.

Which one should your practice pick?

Use the bottleneck test.

Pick a design platform like Smilecloud if your cases are already getting accepted and the friction is in planning, scan and CBCT work, interdisciplinary collaboration or communication with the lab. That is the work its features are built around.

Pick a close tool like Smile PreVue if your bottleneck is the consult itself. If patients leave saying they will think about it, if your treatment coordinator is describing a result the patient cannot picture, or if high-value cases keep slipping between the exam and the follow-up, the gap is in the seeing and the paying, not the designing. Raising case acceptance is mostly about what happens in those few minutes.

Plenty of practices could reasonably run both: a close tool at the chair and a design platform for the cases that need deep planning after the patient says yes. The expensive mistake is buying one category and expecting it to fix the other category's problem. If DSD is also on your list, our three-way comparison of Smile PreVue vs DSD vs Smilecloud lays out how the three differ.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Smilecloud cost? Smilecloud's pricing page lists four plans, Lite, Starter, Business and Dental Group, but it did not show a dollar amount for any of them when we fetched it on October 2, 2026. Ask Smilecloud directly for a quote on the plan you need.

Does Smilecloud have a free trial? Yes. Per its pricing page, fetched October 2, 2026, the trial runs 14 days on a full-featured Business plan and needs no credit card.

What does Smile PreVue cost? One plan: $149.00 per provider per month or $1,199 per year on the web, or $149.99 per month in the App Store. The 3-day trial needs no card on the web.

Is Smile PreVue a Smilecloud alternative? It depends on the job. For closing cosmetic cases chairside and taking the payment in the same visit, Smile PreVue is built for that. For deep smile design, 3D reference and lab collaboration, a design platform like Smilecloud is the right category.

Does Smile PreVue need a scanner? No. It runs on an iPad the practice already owns, or in a desktop browser, and produces a preview in about 30 seconds.

Try the close tool on a real consult

The quickest way to know which category you need is to run Smile PreVue on your next few cosmetic consults: start the 3-day free trial on the web with no card, or download the iOS app.