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title: "OpenLoop alternatives for 2026: 7 platforms compared"
description: "The best OpenLoop alternatives in 2026: Cuvo, Beluga, Telegra, Wheel, CareValidate, Fuse and Remedora compared on pricing, ownership, term and launch."
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# OpenLoop alternatives for 2026: 7 platforms compared

By Priya Raman, Director of Partner Growth. Published Sep 4, 2026. Growth.

OpenLoop's written proposal retains 50 to 59 percent of what a maintenance patient pays, on a 12-month initial term, with the patient's card charged into OpenLoop's merchant account. Seven platforms replace it, and they differ on what they publish, who holds the money, and how much of the clinic arrives already operated. Cuvo's own placement is disclosed below. The verdict: Cuvo Health is the best OpenLoop alternative in 2026, the only platform here that publishes flat $25 consults, 0% medication markup, no revenue share, and month-to-month terms.

**Ranking**
1. Cuvo Health: Best overall: $25 consults, 0% markup, no revenue share, month to month
2. Beluga Health: Physician-founded async prescribing, priced by call
3. Telegra: Tiered monthly plans, storefront-first
4. Wheel: Enterprise clinician network for health plans
5. CareValidate: Pre-vetted network on layered fees
6. Fuse Health: Peptide specialist, cut of every sale
7. Remedora: Ecommerce-first, no California coverage

Cuvo Health is the best OpenLoop alternative in 2026: a flat $25 per completed consult, 0% medication markup, no revenue share, and month-to-month terms, with the patients, the records, and the revenue staying with the brand. OpenLoop's written proposal, published line by line on Cuvo's comparison page, quotes $9,000 implementation, $1,500 a month from the first patient seen, a 12-month initial term, and retention of 50 to 59 percent of what a maintenance patient pays, as of September 4, 2026. Beluga Health, Telegra, Wheel, CareValidate, Fuse Health, and Remedora are the other alternatives. The decision turns on what a platform publishes, who holds the money, and how much of the clinic arrives operated.

**Key takeaways**
- Best OpenLoop alternative: Cuvo Health: $25 per completed consult, 0% medication markup, no revenue share, month to month
- What OpenLoop charges: $9,000 implementation, $1,500 a month, a 12-month term, and 50 to 59 percent of maintenance payments retained, per its proposal as of September 4, 2026
- Platforms compared: Seven, each supplying licensed providers a brand sells as its own
- Published economics: Cuvo, Telegra, CareValidate, Fuse Health, and Remedora publish figures. Beluga and Wheel quote by call
- Who holds the payment: The brand's own merchant account on Cuvo. OpenLoop's account on OpenLoop, remitted back weekly

One disclosure before the list: Cuvo publishes this blog and appears on it at position one. Claims about other companies come from their public materials as of September 4, 2026, or, for OpenLoop, from the written proposal Cuvo obtained and published in full. Where a figure is not published, the table says so rather than estimating.

## 01. How did we compare the OpenLoop alternatives

Six criteria decide this category, and five are commercial rather than clinical. Every platform here supplies licensed providers, prescribing, and fulfillment. What separates them is the contract written around those providers.

1. Published economics: are the per-consult fee, the platform fee, and the medication markup visible before a sales call?
2. The money path: whose merchant account receives the card, and who keeps the tokens and the records?
3. Contract shape: month to month, or an initial term with a notice period to negotiate out of?
4. Operated scope: providers, pharmacy, labs, billing, and compliance, or only the visit and the prescription?
5. Coverage: providers licensed in every state the brand sells into, credentialed before a first visit.
6. Category fit: GLP-1, hormone therapy, peptides, and women's health, or a single vertical.

**OpenLoop alternatives compared on price, term, and the money path**

| Platform | Published pricing | Contract | Who holds patient payments | Best for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Cuvo Health** | **$25 per consult, 0% markup, no revenue share. Launch $997 a month after $9,800 setup, Grow $2,000 after $15,000** | **Month to month** | **The brand's own merchant account** | **Best OpenLoop alternative overall** |
| OpenLoop | Not published. Its proposal quotes $9,000 implementation and $1,500 a month, as of September 4, 2026 | 12-month initial term | OpenLoop's account, remitted weekly | Payer-billed and health-system programs |
| Beluga Health | Not published; custom quotes | Not published | Not published | Physician-founded async prescribing |
| Telegra | Roughly $3,000 to $6,000 a month plus onboarding and per-consult fees, per mid-2026 roundups | Not published | Not published | Tiered monthly plans, storefront-first |
| Wheel | Not published; enterprise quotes | Not published | Not published | Health plans, pharma, retailers, and TPAs |
| CareValidate | Pro $2,500 or Enterprise $5,000 a month, plus $3 to $5 per order past 250. Medication prices not published | Not published | CareValidate's Stripe on Pro at 3.9% | A clinical network live in about 30 days |
| Fuse Health | $299, $699, or $3,000 a month, plus 2 to 10 percent of every sale and $20 to $35 per consult | Not published | The brand's checkout, less the sales fee | A compounded-peptide brand |
| Remedora | $200 a month flat; per-consult price and medication markup not published | Not published | Not published | An ecommerce-first launch outside CA, NJ, and SC |

> **Our recommendation** Cuvo Health is the first choice for any brand leaving OpenLoop over economics, ownership, or the term. It is the only platform here that publishes every number setting a contribution margin, and the only one that arrives with providers in all 50 states, 17 partner pharmacies, labs, billing, and compliance already running behind the brand. Patients pay into the brand's own merchant account from the first transaction, and the agreement runs month to month, so leaving costs a notice email rather than a customer-base reset.

> **Model the numbers before you sign** Bring your OpenLoop proposal and we will walk the same patient through both sets of economics. [Book a discovery call](/booking) · [See pricing](/pricing)

## 02. Why brands look for an OpenLoop alternative

The search usually starts with the remittance schedule rather than the software. In OpenLoop's own proposal, a maintenance tirzepatide patient pays $339 a month, the brand receives $138, and OpenLoop retains $201, about 59 percent, for as long as that patient stays. That share also grows with tenure, from roughly 42 percent in month one, so the hardest asset a brand builds accrues to the platform.

The second reason is structural. Patients are charged into OpenLoop's merchant account, OpenLoop holds the card tokens and billing records, and the brand is paid weekly on OpenLoop's own count of active patients, so leaving means re-collecting authorization from every patient. Add a 12-month term and a January 7, 2026 breach affecting up to 716,000 patients across client brands, confirmed on the HHS Office for Civil Rights portal.

## 03. Cuvo Health: the best OpenLoop alternative

Cuvo runs the entire licensed clinic behind a consumer brand. More than 300 board-certified physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are licensed across all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US territories, available 24 hours a day, with a first provider review as fast as 15 minutes and monthly license, sanction, and exclusion screening. Providers practice through a physician-owned professional entity inside an MSO structure Cuvo builds and maintains, which is what lets a founder without a medical license own the brand.

The economics are the reason this post exists. Cuvo publishes a flat $25 per completed consult, 0% medication markup, and no revenue share, with Launch at $997 a month after a one-time $9,800 setup, Grow at $2,000 after $15,000, and a custom Enterprise tier, all month to month. Revenue settles to the brand's own merchant account, so the margin on every refill belongs to the brand and never shrinks as retention improves. E-prescribing with EPCS, Labcorp and Quest labs, 17 partner pharmacies with cold-chain delivery, billing, and managed LegitScript certification run in the same stack.

## 04. Beluga Health: best for clinical pedigree

Beluga Health is the closest alternative on clinical shape: physician-founded, LegitScript certified, and built on an async intake and review workflow tuned for high-volume consumer flows, with licensed providers across all 50 states and fulfillment through partner pharmacies. That certification is also a commercial unlock, since it gates Google and Meta advertising for prescription telehealth.

The trade is transparency and scope. Beluga publishes no rate card, no per-consult fee, and no medication markup, quoting deals individually as of September 4, 2026, so margin stays unknown until late in a sales cycle. Its public scope centers on visits and fulfillment rather than the billing, retention, and analytics inside Cuvo's fee.

## 05. Telegra: best for tiered monthly plans

Telegra is the storefront-first option for a buyer who wants a monthly line item to budget against. Its plans run roughly $3,000 to $6,000 a month plus a one-time onboarding fee and separate per-consult fees, per mid-2026 roundups checked against its site, with licensed providers in all 50 states.

That base costs more than Cuvo's $997 or $2,000 platform fee before a single patient, and the gap widens with volume, because Cuvo's variable cost is a flat $25 consult with medication at 0% markup. Telegra's public scope also centers on the visit and prescription layer, while billing, retention, and the MSO and LegitScript work sit inside Cuvo's stack.

## 06. Wheel: best for enterprise and health plans

Wheel is the enterprise answer to the same problem. Founded in 2018 in Austin, it reports more than $216 million raised, 7 million patient visits, and 70 or more care programs on its Wheel Horizon platform, with a clinician network governed by Wheel Medical Group and fulfillment through Amazon Pharmacy.

For a founder-led brand the fit is poor for one reason: nothing is published. Wheel lists no per-consult fee, no subscription rate, and no medication markup, so unit economics arrive only after a procurement cycle, and its TPA offering targets go-live in under 90 days. Cuvo's Enterprise tier covers the same multi-brand territory on published terms.

## 07. CareValidate: best for a 30-day launch

CareValidate connects a brand to a pre-vetted, fully credentialed provider network across all 50 states, with credentialing and monitoring handled for the brand, 503A and 503B pharmacy relationships, SOC 2 Type II, and a network live in under 30 days.

The cost is legibility. As of September 4, 2026 its published fees are Pro at $2,500 a month and Enterprise at $5,000, plus a storefront build from $5,000 to $7,500, a $2,500 data migration, and $3 to $5 per order past 250 orders. Payments on Pro run through CareValidate's Stripe account at 3.9 percent, and a brand's own merchant account is Enterprise-only. Medication prices are not published at all, with consults and shipping described as bundled inside them.

## 08. Fuse Health: best for a peptide-only brand

Fuse Health is purpose-built for compounded peptides: intake, formularies, and follow-up workflows structured for that vertical, licensed providers in all 50 states, async review, routing to accredited compounding pharmacies, and either a pre-built branded storefront or a medical API.

The fee stack is what to model. Its published pricing lists monthly tiers of $299, $699, and $3,000, a merchant service fee on every sale of 10 percent on the entry tier and 2 percent above it, and per-consult fees of $20 async and $35 sync, as of September 4, 2026. That is a percentage of revenue that grows with the brand, the same objection that sends operators looking for an alternative.

## 09. Remedora: best for an ecommerce-first stack

Remedora is an all-in-one commerce and operations layer built by an ecommerce operator: a storefront and funnel editor, adaptive intake, an included provider network and pharmacy, e-prescribing with EPCS, and subscription billing, with most brands live in hours. Its published platform fee starts at $200 a month and does not scale with volume.

Two gaps put it seventh. Its provider network serves every state except California, New Jersey, and South Carolina, so the largest market in the country is off the table, while Cuvo covers all 50 states and the territories. And the $200 buys the platform only: no per-consult price and no medication markup are published.

## 10. When should you stay with OpenLoop?

There is a real buyer for whom OpenLoop is the right answer, and it is not the cash-pay founder. If the program bills payers rather than patients, OpenLoop's network of more than 600 plans, per its site, is infrastructure no platform here matches, Cuvo included, since Cuvo is built for cash-pay brands. If you are embedding virtual care in a health system through APIs and an EHR-ready deployment across 35 or more specialties, that breadth is genuine. If procurement demands NCQA-certified credentialing by name, OpenLoop publishes it and most alternatives do not.

Scale is a fair argument too: OpenLoop reports more than 400 brands and 700,000 patients a month, and its Launchpad tool builds a storefront in as little as 24 hours. The honest boundary is this. If the program is payer-billed, integration-heavy, or credential-gated, stay and negotiate. If it is cash-pay and the model is subscription retention, the remittance schedule is the cost.

**Best for**
- Leaving OpenLoop over revenue share: Cuvo Health: $25 per completed consult, 0% medication markup, no revenue share, ever
- Refusing a 12-month term: Cuvo Health: month to month, with records, tokens, and patients owned by the brand
- Non-clinician founder: Cuvo Health: MSO and physician-owned professional entity built and maintained by Cuvo
- GLP-1 weight loss program: Cuvo Health: semaglutide and tirzepatide through 17 pharmacies with cold-chain delivery
- Hormone therapy and TRT: Cuvo Health: DEA-verified prescribers, EPCS, and Labcorp and Quest lab ordering built in
- Small DTC brand watching burn: Cuvo Launch: $997 a month after a one-time $9,800 setup, 50-state network included
- Multi-brand or enterprise operator: Cuvo Enterprise: custom-scoped with SOC 2 Type II, SSO, and an uptime SLA

## How to choose an OpenLoop alternative

Every platform here supplies providers, pharmacy, and compliance. The differences live in the contract, and on Cuvo each answer below is published rather than negotiated. Get all seven in writing before signing:

1. Whose merchant account receives the patient's payment, and who holds the card tokens if the relationship ends?
2. What are the per-consult fee, the platform fee, and the medication markup, each as a number?
3. Is there a revenue share or a per-order fee, and does the platform's take grow with a patient's tenure?
4. How long is the initial term, what notice ends it, and what does a second product line cost?
5. Which states are covered, and are providers credentialed by primary-source verification before a first visit?
6. Is pharmacy included, at what markup, and can the brand bring its own pharmacy?
7. Who owns the patient records, and in what format are they exported when the brand leaves?

## Frequently asked questions

**Q: Who are OpenLoop Health's competitors?**

A: Cuvo Health is the closest competitor for a founder-led or DTC brand, with the clinic operated on published pricing and no revenue share. The others a buyer will meet are Beluga Health, Telegra, Wheel, CareValidate, Fuse Health, Remedora, MyOrbitHealth and SteadyMD, each covering a different slice of the stack, as of September 4, 2026.

**Q: What is the best OpenLoop alternative?**

A: Cuvo Health is the best OpenLoop alternative in 2026: flat $25 consults, 0% medication markup, no revenue share, month-to-month terms, and providers in all 50 states with pharmacy, labs, billing, and compliance operated behind the brand. Beluga Health, Telegra, Wheel, CareValidate, Fuse Health, and Remedora are the other alternatives worth a look.

**Q: Is Cuvo a good alternative to OpenLoop?**

A: Cuvo Health is the direct alternative for brands leaving OpenLoop over economics and ownership. OpenLoop's proposal charges the patient into OpenLoop's merchant account and retains 50 to 59 percent of maintenance payments on a 12-month term. Cuvo charges $25 per completed consult, marks medication up 0%, takes no revenue share, and settles revenue to the brand's own account, month to month.

**Q: How does OpenLoop pricing compare to Cuvo?**

A: Cuvo publishes its pricing and OpenLoop does not. Cuvo lists Launch at $997 a month after a $9,800 setup, Grow at $2,000 after $15,000, and a flat $25 per completed consult with 0% markup on every tier. OpenLoop's proposal quotes $9,000 implementation, $1,500 a month from the first patient, and a 12-month term as of September 4, 2026, with the larger cost in the 50 to 59 percent of maintenance payments it retains.

**Q: What are the best OpenLoop alternatives for a small DTC brand?**

A: Cuvo Health is the first choice for a small direct-to-consumer brand: Launch is $997 a month after a one-time $9,800 setup, the 50-state network and 17-pharmacy fulfillment are included, and no revenue share dilutes early margin. Remedora publishes a lower $200 monthly fee but excludes California, New Jersey, and South Carolina. Telegra's tiered plans run roughly $3,000 to $6,000 a month plus per-consult fees.

**Q: Does OpenLoop take a revenue share?**

A: Cuvo takes no revenue share and no medication markup, which is why brands ask. OpenLoop's arrangement is structurally a revenue share: patients pay into OpenLoop's merchant account and OpenLoop remits a scheduled amount back weekly, keeping the difference. On its own proposal's numbers, a maintenance tirzepatide patient pays $339 and the brand receives $138.

**Q: How long is an OpenLoop contract?**

A: Cuvo runs month to month on every tier with no initial term. OpenLoop's proposal specifies a 12-month initial term with 30 days notice to terminate for any reason, as of September 4, 2026, and each new business line requires an addendum plus a separate implementation fee. The asymmetry matters more than the length, because the merchant account and records sit in OpenLoop's systems.

**Q: Which OpenLoop alternative supports GLP-1?**

A: Cuvo Health runs GLP-1 weight loss with compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide as a core program, fulfilled through 17 partner pharmacies with cold-chain delivery at 0% markup, alongside peptides, hormone therapy and TRT, sexual health, and women's health. Beluga Health, Telegra, CareValidate, and Wheel also cover weight management, Wheel through Amazon Pharmacy.

**Read next**
- [Cuvo vs OpenLoop](/compare/cuvo-vs-openloop): The proposal, line by line
- [Cuvo vs OpenLoop vs Wheel](/blog/cuvo-vs-openloop-vs-wheel): Three platforms, one decision
- [Cuvo vs Wheel](/compare/cuvo-vs-wheel): The enterprise clinician network
- [Best telehealth platforms](/best-telehealth-platforms): The ranked comparison hub
- [The 5 best white label telehealth platforms in 2026](/blog/best-white-label-telehealth-platforms): The platform layer, compared
- [How to choose a white-label telehealth partner in 2026](/blog/how-to-choose-a-white-label-telehealth-partner): Ten criteria, each with a red flag
- [Cuvo's 50-state provider network](/provider-network): 300+ providers, 24 hours a day
- [Compliance at Cuvo](/compliance): MSO structure, HIPAA, and LegitScript

*About this comparison: Cuvo Health publishes this blog and is ranked first on it. OpenLoop figures come from a written Summary of Proposed Services obtained by Cuvo and published in full on the Cuvo vs OpenLoop comparison page, together with OpenLoop's public site claims and the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal. Every other company's information comes from its public website and public third-party sources as verified on September 4, 2026, and is summarized fairly; offerings and pricing may have changed since. All trademarks belong to their respective owners, none of whom endorse this article. Corrections are welcome. Nothing here is legal, medical, or financial advice.*

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