Guide.md vs Doximity
Doximity is where clinicians talk to each other. Guide.md is what the public and AI assistants read about you.
Pick Doximity if you want a free clinicians' network, its communication tools, and a public profile you can turn off. Pick Guide.md if you want the public record for your NPI, which exists whether or not you join anything, to be correct, controlled by you and readable by AI assistants. The two are not substitutes.
Search your name. Claim only if you want to change what it says.
Have your NPI? Search by NPI · Claiming is free · no ID for a practice or institutional email · about 2 minutes
Side by side
| Guide.md | Doximity | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the profile data comes from | The federal NPI registry (NPPES), refreshed weekly. A claimed profile is edited by the clinician and the refresh never overwrites it. | Public sources such as NPI data, plus third-party sources for NPI record, specialty, office address, phone and fax. |
| Who is listed | Every record in the NPI registry: individual clinicians and organisations. | Any clinically licensed U.S. professional who treats patients may join. Public profiles exist for physicians, NPs, PAs and pharmacists. |
| Cost to claim | Free. A practice or institutional email confirms in a minute; any other address is reviewed by a person. | Free ("Membership is free."). |
| Paid tiers and prices | Optional. Pro $20 a month ($200 a year); Premium $49 a month ($490 a year). | No paid profile tier published. Dialer Pro, a calling tool, is $288 a year per professional. |
| What the clinician can edit | Biography, photo, specialties, conditions, procedures, locations, phone, telehealth, accepting-patients status, languages, FAQs, media, affiliations, consulting, lien and expert-witness listings. | The member controls what the public profile shows. Name, medical school and specialty change only through Support. |
| Booking or appointment requests | Appointment requests to the office's email on Pro and Premium; no per-request fee. | Not stated for the profiled clinician. Sample public profiles show "Sponsored" nearby doctors with appointment buttons. |
| Patient reviews | None. | Not stated; the sample public profile shows none. The full profile is for verified healthcare professionals only. |
| Industry consulting availability | Yes, a listing the clinician switches on. | Not stated. |
| How to correct or suppress a profile | Claim and edit, free. Street and phone can be hidden from a link on every profile, confirmed by email. A whole profile can be suppressed on a verified request to [email protected]. | The public profile can be switched off. Edits, removal or account closure by email to [email protected]. |
| Visibility to AI assistants | Structured profile data on every page; the live count of AI-assistant reads is published at guide.md/ai-reads/. | Nothing stated about AI visibility for profiles; AI is described as clinician tools. Profiles sync to U.S. News Doctor Finder. |
How often AI assistants read Guide.md is a live number, not a claim: see guide.md/ai-reads/. Our prices are the ones on guide.md/upgrade/ today.
Choose Doximity if
- You want a professional network of verified clinicians, and its messaging, fax and calling tools.
- You want the option to switch your public profile off entirely.
- You are a physician, NP, PA or pharmacist and want your profile to sync to U.S. News Doctor Finder.
- You want everything free, with no public-facing plan to think about.
Choose Guide.md if
- You want the public record for your NPI, which exists on the web regardless, to be correct and controlled by you.
- You are a dentist, therapist, chiropractor, optometrist or any other NPI holder, or an organisation: every record has a page.
- You want conditions, procedures, locations, telehealth and consulting on the page patients and AI assistants read.
- You want to see how often AI assistants read your profile, not guess.
Who this fits
Doximity's own pages describe a network for licensed clinicians; the public profile is a by-product you can disable. Guide.md starts from the other end: the public record. If your concern is what a patient or an AI assistant finds when they type your name, that record is what needs correcting, and claiming it costs nothing. If your concern is talking to colleagues, that is Doximity's job.
Questions
Is Doximity free?
Yes. Doximity's help pages say "Membership is free." Its Dialer Pro calling tool is $288 a year. Guide.md is also free to claim; its Pro and Premium plans are optional.
Can I turn off my public profile?
On Doximity, yes: members may disable the public profile. On Guide.md, a home address and personal phone can be hidden from the profile itself, and a whole profile can be suppressed on a verified request through [email protected].
Who can be on each?
Doximity: any clinically licensed U.S. professional who treats patients. Guide.md: every record in the NPI registry, individuals and organisations, whether or not they ever sign up.
Which one do AI assistants read?
We can only speak for Guide.md: every profile carries structured data, and the live count of AI-assistant reads is published at guide.md/ai-reads/. Doximity's pages describe AI as tools for clinicians and say nothing about AI visibility for profiles.
Do I have to choose?
No. Keep Doximity for the network. Claim your Guide.md profile so the public record is right.
Claim the profile first. Decide what else you need afterward.
See what Guide.md already says about you. Search your name; claim only if you want to change it.
Have your NPI? Search by NPI · Claiming is free · no ID for a practice or institutional email · about 2 minutes
Plans & pricing · Referral program · Conditions · Procedures · Doctors on lien · Expert witnesses · Industry consultants · How ordering works