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The Serif Health alternative

Serif sells the API. PT.io is the place you actually look it up.

Serif sells APIs and data feeds to other companies — there's no end-user destination, no free tier, and no published price. If you're a developer building a product on rate data, Serif is a fit. If you just want to look up and compare what a hospital actually negotiated, PT.io is the destination: search, per-hospital pages, 4-way compare, compliance grades, and a $299 report — self-serve, no contract. The honest trade: Serif augments MRF data with commercial claims (what was actually paid, not just contracted) and covers payer TiC at a breadth a hospital-MRF tool doesn't.

4 / 7
head-to-head rounds to PriceTransparency
Free + paid; $299/report
PriceTransparency price
3
rounds we call even or theirs
Self-serve
no sales call, no demo gate

Who Serif Health is: Price-transparency infrastructure — Matrix (analytics), Signal (usable MRF data), and REST APIs sold to other companies. Enterprise, quote-only, claims-augmented.

Transparent pricing

One published price. No quote-gate.

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Serif Health
Enterprise, quote-only
Price-transparency infrastructure — Matrix (analytics), Signal (usable MRF data), and REST APIs sold to other companies. Enterprise, quote-only, claims-augmented.
Head to head

PriceTransparency wins 4 of 7 rounds

A green check is a round we win outright. We mark them honestly — no manufactured wins.

 
PriceTransparency
Serif Health
Price
Free + paid; $299/report
Quote-only, custom by product
End-user destination
Yes — search, pages, compare, report
APIs/feeds for other companies to build on
Free tier
Yes
No free/consumer tier
Transparent pricing
Self-serve, transparent pricing, no sales call
Sales-led, no public price
Compliance grade + compare
A–F compliance grade per hospital
Developer infra, not an app
Claims augmentation
Contracted rates only (no claims)
MRF + commercial claims (what was paid)
Payer TiC breadth
Hospital MRFs only — no payer TiC or claims
Hospital MRF + payer TiC at scale
An honest take

We're not for everyone

Serif Health is the better pick if you need:

  • Commercial-claims augmentation — knowing what was actually paid, not just the contracted rate.
  • Breadth across payer Transparency-in-Coverage data and a developer-grade API/feed product.

Bottom line: PT.io if you want to look up and compare real hospital rates yourself; Serif if you're a company building a product on rate + claims data via API.

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No demo gate, no quote, no sales cycle. Free + paid; $299/report — see for yourself.

Comparison based on publicly available information and each product's published materials as of 2026; Serif Health is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with PriceTransparency. Figures for Serif Health reflect commonly-reported ranges where pricing is not public.