Crisalix vs PreviewMD · Verified August 2026

A Crisalix alternative with public pricing, live on your site in an afternoon.

Crisalix sells a VR, 4D and 3D plastic surgery simulator built on 3D-reconstruction morphing, positioned around consult-room use, with pricing quoted through its sales process. PreviewMD generates photorealistic AI previews from a single photo on your own website, publishes its pricing, and starts self-serve with a 14-day trial.

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Crisalix

What is Crisalix?

Crisalix is a 3D simulation suite for aesthetic practices. It builds a three-dimensional model of the patient from captured images and morphs that model to show a possible result, covering face, breast and body across a broad procedure range. The output is a mesh the surgeon can rotate on screen.

It is positioned around the consultation. Their own pricing page lists GOLD and PLATINUM plans built around 3D simulation, a branded patient app, a surgeon finder, online booking and a marketing kit, and it is sold through their sales process rather than self-serve.

What Crisalix does well

Crisalix is the incumbent, and it earned that. Years in the market, a large public surgeon directory, and 3D simulation across a broader procedure range than ours. If your consultation depends on rotating a three-dimensional model in front of the patient, that is their product and it is not ours.

Their own materials also make a fair point about hardware: a practice can capture with a smartphone or tablet rather than buying a scanner, so the 3D lane no longer necessarily means a capital purchase.

Where Crisalix falls short

For the job this page is about, getting a website visitor to become a consultation, Crisalix is not built for it. The product is positioned around consult-room use, so the preview happens after the patient has already called you. Nothing on their site describes an embeddable widget that converts traffic you have already paid for.

The second gap is the buying process. Their pricing page names two plans and no numbers, so you can’t budget without entering a sales conversation. Whether that matters depends on how you like to buy.

What Crisalix costs

Crisalix has a page titled “prices.” It lists two plan names and no prices. Here is every pricing fact we could actually source, and who is making each claim.

First-party

Crisalix’s own pricing page lists GOLD and PLATINUM plans and doesn’t publish a dollar figure for either. Read on 17 August 2026. Their copy on that page notes Crisalix users “avoid having to pay for expensive hardware, maintenance, and rental space.”

crisalix.com/en/prices

Third-party claim

A competitor’s published comparison table lists Crisalix at roughly $24 per simulation with tiered monthly plans, and puts a custom-branded app on their top tier only. This is FaceTouchUp’s characterisation of Crisalix, not Crisalix’s own published price, and FaceTouchUp sells against them.

FaceTouchUp’s published competitor comparison (facetouchup.com/pricing)

Read off each cited page on the date shown beside it. A competitor publishing a rival’s price has an incentive we don’t share, so check with the company directly before you budget.

PreviewMD

What is PreviewMD?

PreviewMD is an AI preview widget: a patient uploads one front-facing photo on your website and sees a photorealistic, anatomically correct before and after of their own face or figure about three to four minutes later. No mesh, no scan, no appointment first. The facelift simulator and the rhinoplasty simulator are validated, alongside others on the simulators page.

It installs as one script tag on any platform and carries your branding. Every website preview delivers a lead to your practice before the patient sees the result, and the photo is processed for that preview and never stored.

The PreviewMD widget opening on a practice website, asking who the visualization is for — The widget as a patient meets it on your site. Your branding, your domain, and the privacy answer stated up front. Elite removes the PreviewMD mark entirely.

What PreviewMD does well

The model behind each procedure is fine-tuned with a double board certified plastic surgeon who has spent more than three decades in practice, separately for men and for women. The target is a preview that holds up when the patient is sitting across from you.

The price list is published and the trial is self-serve with a card up front, so you can weigh us against Crisalix without booking a call to find out what we cost.

Where PreviewMD falls short

Crisalix covers more procedures than we do. PreviewMD covers fewer, and new ones ship only after a practicing surgeon tunes the model for them. There’s no 3D model to rotate and no AR view, so if your consult depends on spinning a mesh in front of the patient, Crisalix does that and we do not.

What PreviewMD costs

$249 per month for Starter with 150 previews included, $449 for Pro with 500, $999 for Elite with 1,200. Extra previews are a flat $1.00 each and the widget never shuts off mid-month. Annual billing is two months free. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, card up front, cancel anytime. No setup fee, no per-patient fee, no hardware.

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Crisalix and PreviewMD, side by side

	Crisalix	PreviewMD
Runs on your website before booking	No	Yes
Publishes full pricing	No	Yes
Free trial, no sales call	No	Yes
No hardware required	Yessmartphone or tablet	Yes
Every preview delivers a lead	No	Yes
Territory exclusivity	No	Yes
Broader procedure range	Yes	Noshorter list, each surgeon-validated

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Partly

Verified August 2026, from each company’s public materials.

Which should your practice choose?

Choose Crisalix if

You want a rotatable 3D model the surgeon can manipulate in the room.

Your consultations center on a procedure PreviewMD has not validated yet.

You have the onboarding appetite for 3D capture and staff training.

A large public surgeon directory matters to your referral strategy.

Choose PreviewMD if

You want patients previewing results on your website before they ever call.

You want to know the full cost before you talk to a salesperson.

Surgical procedures drive your revenue.

You want every preview to arrive as a lead in the CRM you already run.

You want your market closed to competitors under a written exclusivity term.

How switching from Crisalix works

There’s nothing to migrate. PreviewMD works from single photos, so there is no 3D capture history to move, no scanner to decommission, and no data export to negotiate. You paste one script tag onto your site and the widget is live.

You don’t have to switch cold. The 14-day trial runs alongside whatever you use today: put the same patient photo through both and compare the output before deciding. If Crisalix is under contract, run PreviewMD on the website side (where Crisalix is not positioned anyway) and let the two tools cover different moments until the term ends.

Sources

Where these claims come from

Vorstenbosch J, et al. Correlation of prediction and actual outcome of three-dimensional simulation in breast augmentation. PubMed 28289827

Peer-reviewed evaluation of 3D simulation accuracy in breast augmentation. Reports that simulations were more representative for symmetric breasts than for tuberous or ptotic anatomy. Cited here because it is independent of both companies.

Crisalix pricing page (crisalix.com/en/prices)

Crisalix’s own pricing surface, checked August 2026. Read it directly rather than taking any comparison page’s word for what Crisalix costs, including ours.

FaceTouchUp published competitor comparison (facetouchup.com/pricing)

A competitor-published table listing figures for several imaging and simulation companies. We link it rather than reprint it: those numbers are FaceTouchUp’s claims about third parties, not each company’s own published prices, and we hold competitor claims to their own materials.

Questions

The questions buyers ask.

Is PreviewMD a Crisalix alternative?

For practices that want patients previewing results on the practice’s own website, yes. PreviewMD renders photorealistic AI previews from one photo, delivers every preview as a lead, publishes its pricing ($249-$999/month), and starts self-serve with a 14-day trial. Crisalix is a 3D simulation suite with a sales-led motion.

How much does Crisalix cost compared to PreviewMD?

Crisalix quotes pricing through its sales process, so there’s no public number to cite. PreviewMD publishes everything: $249/month (150 previews), $449/month (500), $999/month (1,200), extra previews $1.00 each, 14-day free trial.

Is Crisalix accurate?

That’s a question buyers ask often, and it’s not ours to answer; their results come from 3D mesh morphing and are best judged in their own demo. PreviewMD’s previews come from a model fine-tuned with a practicing double board certified plastic surgeon’s decades of experience, and you can judge the output on your own photo in our live demo.

Can I switch from Crisalix to PreviewMD?

There’s nothing to migrate: PreviewMD is one script tag on your website and works from single photos, with no 3D capture history to move. The 14-day trial is built to run alongside whatever you use today, so you can compare output directly.

Does PreviewMD do 3D like Crisalix?

No, and that is a deliberate design choice. PreviewMD renders a photorealistic before and after on the patient’s own photo rather than building a rotatable 3D mesh. It means no scanner, no capture session, and a preview that works on your website; it also means there is no model to spin in the consult room. If that rotation is central to how you consult, Crisalix does it and we do not.

Is there independent research on 3D simulation accuracy?

Yes. A peer-reviewed study in the plastic surgery literature (PubMed 28289827) compared three-dimensional simulation predictions against actual breast augmentation outcomes and reported that simulations were more representative for symmetric breasts than for tuberous or ptotic anatomy. It is worth reading before assuming any simulation technology, ours included, is uniformly accurate across anatomy.

Can we run PreviewMD and Crisalix at the same time?

Yes, and during a trial we would encourage it. They sit at different moments: Crisalix is positioned around the consult room, PreviewMD runs on your website before the patient has called. Put the same photo through both and judge the output side by side.