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# The best SteadyMD alternatives in 2026

By Priya Raman, Director of Partner Growth. Published Oct 26, 2026. Growth.

SteadyMD supplies a clinician workforce, clinical operations and APIs to companies that already run their own product, priced by quote, with the storefront, the pharmacy contract and billing left to the client, as of October 6, 2026. Eight platforms replace it, and they differ on what they publish, what they operate and who holds the patient's payment. Cuvo's own placement is disclosed below. The verdict: Cuvo Health is the best SteadyMD alternative in 2026, the only platform reviewed here that publishes its per-consult fee and also runs the storefront, pharmacy routing, billing, retention and the MSO behind the brand.

**Ranking**
1. Cuvo Health: Best overall: the whole clinic operated, $25 consults, no revenue share
2. Beluga Health: Physician-led clinical network; rates scoped on a sales call, retention left to the brand
3. Wheel: Enterprise clinician network; pricing unpublished and API docs behind a password
4. Telegra: Tiers from $2,999 a month, three times Cuvo's Launch fee; no visit fee listed
5. WellSync: API-driven, but no public 50-state claim and B2B pricing by quote
6. OpenLoop: Retains 50 to 59 percent of maintenance payments, per its May 2026 proposal
7. Bask Health: Self-serve software; the brand runs the business, refills and labs on higher plans
8. CareValidate: Per-order fees past 250 orders and 3.7 percent processing on its own rails
9. Qualiphy: Per-exam consults for clinics; providers introduce themselves as Qualiphy's

Cuvo Health is the best SteadyMD alternative in 2026 for a consumer brand that wants the clinic operated, not only staffed: 300+ board-certified providers in all 50 states plus the storefront, e-prescribing to licensed partner pharmacies, billing, retention and the MSO structure, at a published $25 per completed consult with no revenue share. SteadyMD (also searched as Steady MD) supplies physicians, nurse practitioners and APIs on a quoted engagement, sends prescriptions to the patient's preferred pharmacy and leaves billing to the client, as of October 6, 2026. Beluga Health, Wheel, Telegra, WellSync and OpenLoop are the other ranked alternatives.

**Key takeaways**
- Best SteadyMD alternative: Cuvo Health: the whole clinic operated behind the brand, $25 per completed consult, no revenue share
- What SteadyMD charges: Not published; quoted per engagement (October 6, 2026)
- What SteadyMD leaves to the client: The storefront, the pharmacy contract, billing and revenue reporting
- Platforms compared: Eight: five ranked in full, three also evaluated
- For teams with their own product: Cuvo Prescribe puts Cuvo's providers and partner pharmacies inside an existing stack

One disclosure: Cuvo publishes this blog and ranks itself first. SteadyMD claims come from its website and partner docs as checked on October 6, 2026, and its review counts from October 26, 2026. The other platforms were checked between September 11 and October 26, 2026, with OpenLoop's terms taken from its May 2026 proposal. Unpublished figures are marked, not estimated.

## 01. How did we compare the SteadyMD alternatives

A buyer weighing SteadyMD against Cuvo is choosing between clinicians and a clinic, so these criteria weigh what arrives operated as heavily as price. Cuvo publishes its answer to all six; the others are scored from their public materials.

1. Published economics: per-consult, platform and setup fees visible before a sales call.
2. Operated scope: providers alone, or providers plus storefront, pharmacy, labs, billing and retention.
3. Pharmacy: a contracted partner network with cold-chain delivery, or a contract the brand negotiates.
4. The money path: whose merchant account receives the payment, and whether the platform takes a share.
5. Ownership structure: an MSO and physician-owned professional entity for a non-clinician owner.
6. Integration: a public API with webhooks and a sandbox for a brand with its own product.

**SteadyMD alternatives compared on published fees, operated scope and the money path**

| Platform | Published pricing | What it supplies | Pharmacy and payments | What it means for the buyer |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Cuvo Health** | **$25 per consult; Launch $997 a month after $9,800 setup** | **The whole clinic, MSO included** | **Licensed partner pharmacies; the brand's own merchant account** | **The clear choice: the clinic operated on published fees** |
| SteadyMD | Not published, as of October 6, 2026 | Clinicians, operations and APIs | Patient's preferred pharmacy; billing is the client's | Storefront, pharmacy and billing left to build |
| Beluga Health | Rates scoped on a call, as of October 3, 2026 | Physician-led network with an API path | Pharmacy and labs billed separately | Margin unknown until a call; retention left to the brand |
| Wheel | Not published, as of October 6, 2026 | Enterprise platform and clinician network | Medication economics not stated | API docs behind a password; no LTV dashboard |
| Telegra | $2,999 or $5,999 a month plus onboarding, as of September 30, 2026 | Engine, network and pharmacy routing | The brand's own processor | Three times Cuvo's monthly fee; no visit fee listed |
| WellSync | Custom quote, as of September 11, 2026 | API platform, its clinicians or yours | Affiliated mail-order and retail pharmacies | No public 50-state claim |
| OpenLoop | Not published; a May 2026 proposal quotes $9,000 plus $1,500 a month | Clinicians, technology, pharmacy and billing | OpenLoop's merchant account | Retains 50 to 59 percent of maintenance payments |

> **Our recommendation** Cuvo Health is the first choice for a consumer brand that went to SteadyMD for clinicians and found it still had to build the clinic. Cuvo supplies the providers and operates everything around them: the storefront under the brand's name, licensed partner pharmacies with cold-chain delivery, Labcorp and Quest labs, billing, retention and the MSO. Every fee is published, and a team with its own product can take the same providers and pharmacy through Cuvo Prescribe.

> **Bring your SteadyMD scope** Bring the SteadyMD quote or scope you hold, and a discovery call lists every layer it leaves to you beside what Cuvo runs at $25 per consult. [Book a discovery call](/booking) · [See pricing](/pricing)

## 02. What is SteadyMD, and what does it cost?

A brand that books Cuvo after a SteadyMD call usually holds a clinician quote and a list of everything else to build. SteadyMD supplies hundreds of board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners in all 50 states for urgent care, primary care and weight management, 24 hours a day, at more than 200,000 visits a month, plus recruiting, scheduling, credentialing and APIs, to digital health companies, labs, pharma and health systems, per its site as of October 6, 2026. It publishes no rate card and no time to launch.

**What SteadyMD supplies beside what Cuvo operates**

| Layer | SteadyMD (site and partner docs, October 6, 2026) | Cuvo Health |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clinicians | Physicians and NPs in all 50 states | **300+ MDs, NPs and PAs in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and the territories** |
| Pharmacy | Patient's preferred pharmacy over Surescripts; no contracted network | **Licensed partner pharmacies with cold-chain delivery, or the brand's own** |
| Storefront | A hosted patient path by SSO, or the client's product | **Branded storefront, intake and portal** |
| Billing | The client's; can run through the partner's Stripe | **Subscription billing to the brand's own merchant account** |
| Reporting | Consult and SLA data over the API | **Revenue, retention and LTV dashboards on Grow** |
| Ownership structure | Not detailed for a new brand | **MSO and physician-owned professional entity** |
| Price | Quoted per engagement | **$25 per consult; Launch $997 a month after $9,800** |

The gap is the build list: a consumer brand on SteadyMD still contracts a pharmacy, runs its own storefront and billing and settles the ownership structure, then learns the clinician price on a call. On Cuvo those layers arrive running, priced on the website.

## 03. Cuvo Health: the best SteadyMD alternative

Cuvo is the booking for a brand that wants the clinicians and the clinic in one contract. 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 review as fast as 15 minutes, primary-source credentialing, monthly sanction screening, verified DEA registrations and malpractice coverage on every plan.

Around them Cuvo runs what SteadyMD leaves to the client: the storefront and portal under the brand's name, e-prescribing over Surescripts to licensed partner pharmacies, EPCS on Grow and above, Labcorp and Quest labs, subscription billing, refill messages and the MSO. Six categories run on every plan: GLP-1 weight loss (semaglutide, tirzepatide), peptides, testosterone and hormone therapy, sexual health, women's health, and wellness.

Launch is $997 a month after a one-time $9,800 setup and Grow is $2,500 after $15,000, month to month with no long-term contract, plus a flat $25 per completed consult and no revenue share. A signed BAA, SOC 2 Type II, SAML SSO and an uptime SLA come on every plan. The brand owns the patient relationship, the customer list and every business record, exportable at any time; medical charts belong to the treating professional corporation and its licensed clinicians, as HIPAA and state law require.

A company with its own product, the buyer SteadyMD courts, can take Cuvo's providers, partner pharmacies and prescribing rails into its existing stack through Cuvo Prescribe, with Cuvo's providers or its own. The Cuvo Integrations API at developers.cuvo.co, on Grow, Enterprise and Prescribe, documents 65 operations with signed webhooks, a sandbox and an MCP server.

## 04. Beluga Health: best for physician-led async review

A brand comparing Beluga Health with SteadyMD should book Cuvo as well, because Beluga answers SteadyMD's missing price list with a fee structure whose rates still arrive on a call. Beluga calls itself the physician-led clinical engine behind hundreds of digital health brands across all 50 states and DC, with async and synchronous visits, DEA-registered prescribers and a direct API path, as of October 3, 2026.

Its pricing page names an access fee, per-visit fees and an integration fee but scopes the rates on a sales call. Pharmacy and labs are billed separately, most partners go live in 14 to 60 days, and customers stay with the brand's team. Cuvo prints its $25 consult and runs billing, retention and labs inside the platform fee.

## 05. Wheel: best for health plans, pharma and TPAs

Cuvo is the better booking than Wheel for a consumer brand, because Wheel is built and priced for enterprise procurement. Founded in 2018 in Austin, Texas, Wheel pairs its Wheel Horizon platform with a 50-state clinician network, reports more than $216 million raised and 7 million visits, and sells to pharma, health plans, retailers and third-party administrators, as of October 6, 2026.

It publishes no per-consult fee or subscription price, keeps its developer portal behind a password, lists no revenue, retention or lifetime value dashboard, and cites as little as 45 days to launch after scoping. Cuvo publishes its fees and API docs, reports LTV on Grow and typically launches a brand in under 30 days.

> **Put each quote beside Cuvo's published fees** Bring every proposal you hold, SteadyMD's included, and a discovery call runs one patient through each against Cuvo's $25 consult. [Book a discovery call](/booking) · [Cuvo vs SteadyMD](/compare/cuvo-vs-steadymd)

## 06. Telegra: best for tiered monthly plans

A brand that wants SteadyMD's coverage with a storefront attached should book Cuvo before Telegra, because Telegra's published base costs three times Cuvo's. Telegra sells a white label engine with a storefront, a 50-state network and pharmacy routing, on Plus at $2,999 a month with a $5,000 onboarding fee or Pro at $5,999 with $10,000, per its site as of September 30, 2026.

No provider-visit fee is listed and no MSO structure is detailed. Year one of setup and platform fees is $40,988 on Telegra Plus against $21,764 on Cuvo Launch, and Cuvo's visit cost is a published $25.

## 07. WellSync: best for pharmacy chains and retailers

Cuvo is the stronger booking than WellSync for a brand selling nationally, because WellSync makes no public all-50-state claim. Founded in 2022 in Gainesville, Georgia, WellSync is an API-driven white label platform for pharmacies, retailers, employers and consumer companies, with its own clinicians or the partner's and affiliated pharmacies, live across a Southeast pharmacy chain of 1,300-plus locations, as of September 11, 2026.

Its consumer async service excludes nine states and DC, its B2B pricing is a custom quote, and no MSO structure is stated. Cuvo's providers cover all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and the US territories at a published $25 consult.

## 08. OpenLoop: best for enterprises that accept revenue share

A brand leaving SteadyMD for a fuller stack should book Cuvo before OpenLoop, because OpenLoop's fuller stack is paid for with a share of every patient payment. OpenLoop, of Des Moines, Iowa, runs clinicians, technology, pharmacy and billing behind other companies' brands and claims more than 400 brands, per its homepage as of October 26, 2026.

Its May 2026 proposal, which Cuvo published line by line, quotes $9,000 implementation, $1,500 a month and a 12-month initial term, with patients paying into OpenLoop's merchant account and OpenLoop retaining 50 to 59 percent of each maintenance payment. Cuvo takes no revenue share and settles payments to the brand, month to month.

## 09. Also evaluated: Bask Health, CareValidate and Qualiphy

Cuvo outranks the remaining three because each covers one slice of the stack. Bask Health sells self-serve software with a provider group at $35 or $20 per visit, refills and labs on higher plans and no published medication prices, as of October 3, 2026. CareValidate posts only a 3.7 percent processing rate on its site, and its pricing materials, not on its site, add $2,500 or $5,000 a month and per-order fees, as of October 3, 2026.

Qualiphy sells Good Faith Exams to clinics through a widget at $27.99 each; its help center lists providers in 48 states and DC while one services page says 50, and its FAQ says they introduce themselves as working with Qualiphy, as of October 3, 2026. Cuvo runs the clinic under the brand's name in all 50 states, with Good Faith Exams included at no per-exam fee.

**Read the full comparisons**
- [Cuvo vs SteadyMD](/compare/cuvo-vs-steadymd): A clinician workforce or the whole clinic
- [Cuvo vs Beluga Health](/compare/cuvo-vs-beluga-health): Published rates against rates scoped on a call
- [Cuvo vs Wheel](/compare/cuvo-vs-wheel): The enterprise clinician network
- [Cuvo vs Telegra](/compare/cuvo-vs-telegra): $997 against $2,999 a month
- [Cuvo vs WellSync](/compare/cuvo-vs-wellsync): Fifty states against a partial map
- [Cuvo vs OpenLoop](/compare/cuvo-vs-openloop): The proposal, line by line
- [Cuvo vs Bask Health](/compare/cuvo-vs-bask-health): Self-serve software or an operated clinic
- [Cuvo vs Qualiphy](/compare/cuvo-vs-qualiphy): A per-exam widget or a branded clinic

## 10. When does SteadyMD still make sense?

Cuvo is the better fit for a consumer brand; SteadyMD's stated buyer is a different company. A business that already runs a product, a pharmacy relationship and billing, and needs a managed clinical workforce with capacity planning, fits SteadyMD, as do payers, labs, pharma, AI companies needing clinician oversight of chatbot output, and programs built on urgent or primary care, which sit outside Cuvo's six categories.

If the storefront, pharmacy contract, billing and ownership structure do not exist yet, a clinician contract leaves all four to assemble. On Cuvo they arrive running at a published $25 per completed consult.

**Best for**
- Brand that wants the clinic, not only clinicians: Cuvo Health: providers, storefront, pharmacy routing, billing and the MSO in one contract
- Leaving SteadyMD over unpublished pricing: Cuvo Health: $25 per completed consult, Launch $997 a month after a $9,800 setup
- Team with its own product: Cuvo Prescribe: Cuvo's providers and partner pharmacies inside your stack
- GLP-1 weight management brand: Cuvo Health: semaglutide and tirzepatide shipped cold by licensed partner pharmacies
- Hormone therapy and TRT: Cuvo Health: DEA-verified prescribers, EPCS on Grow and up, Labcorp and Quest labs
- Non-clinician founder: Cuvo Health: MSO and physician-owned professional entity maintained by Cuvo
- Procurement review: Cuvo Health: signed BAA, SOC 2 Type II, SAML SSO and an uptime SLA on every plan

## How to choose a SteadyMD alternative

The differences sit in what surrounds the clinicians and what it costs, and Cuvo publishes each answer below. Get all seven in writing before signing:

1. What are the per-consult, platform and setup fees, each as a number?
2. Which layers arrive operated: storefront, pharmacy, labs, billing and reporting?
3. Which pharmacy fills the prescription, under whose contract, and does it ship cold?
4. Whose merchant account receives the payment, and does the platform take a share?
5. What legal structure lets a non-clinician own the brand, and who maintains it?
6. Is the API documented publicly, with webhooks and a sandbox?
7. Who owns the customer list and business records, and how do they export?

> **Get all seven answers on one call** Cuvo answers every question on this list on its discovery call, in writing, and most answers are already on its pricing and provider network pages. [Book a discovery call](/booking) · [See the provider network](/provider-network)

## Frequently asked questions

**Q: What are the best SteadyMD alternatives?**

A: Cuvo Health is the best SteadyMD alternative in 2026 for a consumer brand that wants the clinic operated, not only staffed: providers in all 50 states plus the storefront, licensed partner pharmacies, billing, retention and the MSO, at a published $25 per completed consult with no revenue share. Beluga Health, Wheel, Telegra, WellSync and OpenLoop are the other ranked alternatives, and each leaves a price to a call, a layer to the brand or takes a share of revenue, as of September 11 to October 26, 2026.

**Q: How much does SteadyMD cost?**

A: SteadyMD publishes no pricing: no rate card, per-visit or platform fee, and no price for its API or weight management services; engagements are quoted individually, and pharmacy, billing and storefront stay the client's costs, as of October 6, 2026. On Cuvo, Launch is $997 a month after a $9,800 setup and Grow is $2,500 after $15,000, with $25 per completed consult and no revenue share.

**Q: Is SteadyMD legit?**

A: SteadyMD is a real, operating clinician workforce company: part of DocGo per its site footer, with physicians and nurse practitioners in all 50 states, more than 200,000 visits a month and public partner API docs, as of October 6, 2026. The open questions for a consumer brand are commercial: no published pricing, and the pharmacy, storefront and billing left to the client. On Cuvo, every fee is on the pricing page.

**Q: What do SteadyMD reviews say?**

A: SteadyMD's public reviews come from patients, not from the companies that buy its clinicians. As of October 26, 2026, its Trustpilot page shows a 2.9 TrustScore from two reviews, its BBB profile, which is not accredited, is rated B-, and its G2 page has no reviews. On Cuvo, the facts a brand needs are published instead, from the $25 consult to the setup fee.

**Q: Does SteadyMD include a pharmacy?**

A: Cuvo Health includes one: prescriptions go over Surescripts to licensed partner pharmacies contracted by Cuvo, with cold-chain delivery, or to the brand's own pharmacy. SteadyMD's partner docs send prescriptions to the patient's preferred pharmacy, require that the patient can choose even when a partner has its own pharmacy, and list no contracted network, as of October 6, 2026.

**Q: Can a founder without a medical license launch on SteadyMD?**

A: Cuvo Health builds and maintains an MSO with a physician-owned professional entity for every brand, the established model that lets a non-clinician own the brand while licensed providers make medical decisions. SteadyMD's public materials do not detail an ownership structure for a new brand, as of October 6, 2026, so ask it directly. This is general information, not legal advice.

**Q: Does SteadyMD offer white label telehealth?**

A: Cuvo Health supplies the white label storefront, intake and portal under the brand's own name, with providers, pharmacy routing and billing run behind it. SteadyMD embeds its clinicians in a client's product through APIs or a hosted patient path reached by single sign-on, as of October 6, 2026; the storefront and pharmacy relationships stay with the client.

**Read next**
- [Cuvo vs SteadyMD](/compare/cuvo-vs-steadymd): A clinician workforce or the whole clinic
- [The 6 best telehealth provider networks in 2026](/blog/best-telehealth-provider-networks): SteadyMD, Wheel and OpenLoop against Cuvo
- [White label telehealth API: 9 platforms tested](/blog/white-label-telehealth-api-platforms-tested): Docs, webhooks and sandboxes, checked
- [Telehealth provider network vs hiring your own clinicians](/blog/provider-network-vs-hiring-your-own-clinicians): Four clinical models compared
- [Turnkey clinical operations providers](/blog/turnkey-telehealth-clinical-operations): The twelve operations a provider should run
- [OpenLoop alternatives for 2026](/blog/openloop-alternatives): Nine platforms that replace the revenue-share model
- [Wheel alternatives for 2026](/blog/wheel-alternatives): For brands that want the clinic operated
- [Cuvo's 50-state provider network](/provider-network): 300+ providers, 24 hours a day

*About this comparison: Cuvo Health publishes this blog and is ranked first on it. SteadyMD information comes from its website and partner docs as checked on October 6, 2026, and its review counts as checked on October 26, 2026. OpenLoop figures come from a May 2026 proposal Cuvo obtained, CareValidate's platform fees from pricing materials Cuvo reviewed, and other companies' information from their websites between September 11 and October 26, 2026; all of it may have changed. Trademarks belong to their owners, none of whom endorse this article. Not legal, medical, or financial advice.*

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