Fourteen plastic surgery simulation tools, compared.

3D mesh simulation

Price: GOLD and PLATINUM plans, quoted. No figures published, August 2026.

Crisalix

Best for: Consultations built around rotating a three-dimensional model with the patient.

The incumbent, and it earned that. Crisalix builds a three-dimensional model of the patient from captured images and morphs it to show a possible result, across a broader procedure range than most, rhinoplasty included, with a large public surgeon directory behind it. Their own materials note a practice can capture with a smartphone or tablet rather than buying a scanner. Pricing is GOLD and PLATINUM plans with no figures published, sold through their sales process. Nothing on their site describes a widget that works on a practice website before a patient calls. Read August 2026.

In-office imaging hardware

Price: Capital purchase, quoted. A third-party comparison puts VECTRA XT around $20,000 plus software.

Canfield VECTRA

Best for: Practices that need clinical-grade 3D imaging as infrastructure, not just persuasion.

The imaging standard, sold as capital equipment: the handheld H2 through the XT to the WB360 total-body system, with Face, Breast and Body Sculptor simulation layered on top. Canfield state 30,000+ customers across medical, spa and retail. A third-party comparison puts VECTRA XT around $20,000 plus software bundles, and Canfield quote rather than publish. Everything runs in the office. We looked for a patient-facing product a prospective patient could use on a practice website before booking and found none as of August 2026.

Consumer morphing app

Price: Free for patients. The surgeon-facing offering is quoted.

FaceTouchUp

Best for: Patients experimenting on their own, before they contact any practice.

A consumer photo-morphing tool where the user manually warps their own photo, dragging features into a new shape. Free for patients, genuinely useful as a first look, and its tutorial pages are why most people find it. There is a surgeon-facing offering, but the consumer product is what drives the traffic. Two consequences for a practice: the relationship stays with FaceTouchUp rather than the practice, and a hand-dragged warp has no clinical standard behind it, because the user made the shape. Read August 2026.

Consult workflow platform

Price: Demo request. No public list, August 2026.

TouchMD

Best for: Running the whole in-office visit, education through consents, on one platform.

A patient engagement platform organised into Consult for education, Snap for clinical photography, Consents for paperwork, Reach for telehealth and Blast for marketing, sold across plastic surgery, med spa, dentistry, dermatology and ophthalmology. Its centre of gravity is the appointment: it runs the in-office experience and stores what happened there. It shows patients existing photographs and education material rather than generating a preview of their own likely result. Pricing runs through demo requests. Read August 2026.

On-device AR and 3D

Price: Free entry point. Paid tiers not published.

Arbrea

Best for: Consult-room simulation on an iPad, with patient data staying on the device.

AR and 3D simulation running on an iPad or iPhone in the consultation, with simulations produced in about a minute and a half and processed on the device rather than in the cloud, which is a legitimate privacy architecture and a clean answer for a nervous patient. A Mentor implant workflow sits behind the breast product. They publish their own comparison pages against Crisalix, Canfield and QuantifiCare, which this category mostly avoids. It lives in the room: there is no website-facing product. Pricing beyond a free entry point is not published. Read August 2026.

AI preview widget

Price: Free, $149 and $349 a month, enterprise above. Read August 2026.

ClinicOS

Best for: Practices that want the fastest possible preview on their website.

The closest direct counterpart PreviewMD has. Their own description is an AI simulation widget that runs on the clinic’s website and delivers leads to the practice, with a speed claim of simulations in under five seconds. They are new, moving quickly, and publish competitor comparisons of their own. As of August 2026 they publish a price list running free, $149 and $349 a month with enterprise above, which starts below PreviewMD. We could not find a clinical validation claim anywhere on their site, and their materials describe leads landing in the ClinicOS dashboard.

AI previews, non-surgical

Price: $499, $699 and $999 a month for 50, 100 and 150 patients.

Ageless AI

Best for: Injectables-led practices already inside RepeatMD’s footprint.

An AI preview platform contracted through Ageless AI LLC with RepeatMD as billing agent. A patient uploads a selfie and sees photorealistic previews, alongside a Beauty Score and a Future Aging view. The treatment set is non-surgical: injectables led, extending to GLP-1 weight loss, hormones, peptides and hair. Their fee schedule is public at $499, $699 and $999 a month for 50, 100 and 150 patients, published with the awkward parts included, which is more than most of this category does. For a surgical practice the overlap is close to none. Read August 2026.

AI simulation, med-spa

Price: Demo request. No public list, August 2026.

EntityMed

Best for: Med-spa practices leading with injectables rather than surgery.

AI simulation aimed at the med-spa and injectables lane, leading with botox, filler and weight-loss simulation, embedded on customer sites. Those customer embed pages show real practices running the product and still rank, which was an early and effective move. The surgical lane is thin, and their own pages label the simulations illustrative rather than clinically validated. Access runs through a demo request, so a practice comparing options cannot put a number beside anyone else’s. Read August 2026.

In-office imaging hardware

Price: Quoted. No figures published, August 2026.

QuantifiCare

Best for: Standardised clinical documentation and trial-grade measurement over time.

Standardised, validated imaging built for clinical documentation and trials, distributed as the LifeViz camera line: Mini Pro, Micro, Infinity Pro and Body. It does analysis and simulation on captured images, and the value it sells is objective longitudinal measurement rather than patient persuasion. Same lane as VECTRA. We found no patient-facing tool that works outside the practice, and pricing is quote-only. Read August 2026.

Practice platform, injectables

Price: €99 to €449 a month, plus €399 for the AI preview module.

Nextmotion

Best for: Injectables clinics that want one platform plus a patient-facing mini-site.

A cloud practice platform covering capture, records, billing and scheduling, with an iPhone and photo kit included in the pack. Its examples lead with injectables rather than surgery. It publishes its pricing, and more of it than this category usually does: Starter, Growth and Scale at €99, €199 and €449 a month, every add-on priced separately, setup included. The AI patient preview is not in that ladder. It is a separate module, Nextmotion Beauty, at €399 a month on top of a base plan, so a practice buying Nextmotion for previews starts at €498. Read August 2026.

AI preview widget, dental

Price: $49, $99 and $1,499 a month, published in full.

BeforeAfterDoc

Best for: Dental clinics wanting veneer and implant previews on their own website.

The same machine as PreviewMD pointed at a different specialty: a widget on the clinic’s own website, an AI preview, and the lead captured before the patient leaves. The treatments are dental. Reading their site in August 2026 we found veneers, implants and whitening and no surgical work anywhere; their own testimonial is a cosmetic dentist and their example embed is a smile preview. Treatment options are configurable, so a practice could add its own, but the product is built, trained and sold for dentistry. They publish all three prices, include video output on every plan, and deliver the result to the patient over WhatsApp under the clinic’s name, none of which PreviewMD does. Leads sit in their dashboard. Their published wording on data is “HIPAA-conscious practices”, which is not a claim of compliance, and we found no business associate agreement statement. Read August 2026.

Consumer app + surgeon directory

Price: Patients $29 to $99. Practice pricing is quoted, not published.

PREEVŪ

Best for: Patients deciding on their own, and practices wanting a consult-room tool.

Sold to the patient first, which is the thing to understand about it. They pay $29 for a 90-day pass, $9.99 a month or $99 once for life, preview 45 or more procedures on their own photo across post-operative, healing and fully recovered views, and then pick a surgeon from PREEVŪ’s directory of 2,776 practices. The relationship begins with PREEVŪ rather than with a practice, which is the FaceTouchUp problem at much larger scale. There is a separate practice product, but it runs in the consult room rather than on your website, and it is quoted rather than published. Their surgeon page states HIPAA and a BAA outright. Read August 2026.

AI visualization, beta

Price: SHOW app free for a limited time; the wider product is in private beta.

RealizeMD

Best for: Clinics that want to show outcomes without exposing a specific patient.

Uses computer vision to produce what they call privacy preserving visualization, a synthetic fusion of real visual data so a clinic can show outcomes without exposing a specific patient. Their founding team includes a board-certified plastic surgeon. Their browser-based SHOW app is free for a limited time and the wider product is in private beta, with no published pricing. Their job is publishing results a clinic already has, not previewing a patient who has not booked, so the two sit closer in vocabulary than in purpose. The least settled product here. Read August 2026.