RealizeMD vs PreviewMD · Verified August 2026
A RealizeMD alternative that shows the patient their own likely result.
RealizeMD anonymises real before-and-after photography so a clinic can publish results without exposing the patient who had them, with its SHOW app free for a limited time and the wider platform in private beta. PreviewMD does the opposite job: a prospective patient uploads their own photo and sees their own likely result, on your website, at a published price.
RealizeMD
What is RealizeMD?
RealizeMD describes itself as an AI-driven visual data platform built on real results, using computer vision for what it calls privacy-preserving visualisation: a synthetic fusion of real visual data so a clinic can show outcomes without exposing a specific patient.
Three services are named, an Anonymizer for access to visual data, a Realizer for simulating outcome, and a Verifier that builds a catalogue automatically. The application on offer today is SHOW, free for a limited time, with the wider product behind a private-beta signup. Read 19 August 2026.
What RealizeMD does well
They picked a real problem. Consent is the reason most practices publish a fraction of their actual casework, and anonymising a result without destroying what makes it persuasive is a hard computer-vision problem.
Their founding team includes a board-certified plastic surgeon in New York alongside founders with prior exits in computer vision and media, so the clinical side is represented rather than assumed.
Where RealizeMD falls short
It is the least settled product on this page. There is no published pricing, the wider platform is in private beta, and the integrations into clinic systems are described as part of that beta rather than as shipped.
The job is publishing your existing results, not previewing a new patient’s. A visitor wondering what they would look like is not the person this serves.
What RealizeMD costs
RealizeMD publishes no pricing. What it publishes instead is an access model, and that is the fact worth having before you compare anything.
Their SHOW web application is offered free for a limited time, described as a way to publish your work without exposing patients. No figure is attached and no end date is given for the free period. Read on 19 August 2026.
RealizeMD (realizemd.com)The wider platform is behind a private-beta signup form, and full integration with clinic and health-centre systems (PMS, EMR, EHR and CRM) is described as part of that beta rather than as shipped. Read on 19 August 2026.
RealizeMD (realizemd.com)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 for the patient who has not booked yet. They upload one front-facing photo on your website and see a photorealistic, anatomically correct before and after of themselves about three to four minutes later. No other patient’s photograph is involved. Live today: the facelift simulator, the rhinoplasty simulator, and the rest of the simulators page.
It installs as one script tag under your branding, and the enquiry reaches your CRM before the result appears on screen. The uploaded photo is processed for that preview and never stored.
What PreviewMD does well
You can buy it today at a published price, with a 14-day trial, rather than joining a list. For a practice trying to fix conversion this quarter, availability is a feature.
The render is the product, and it is tuned with a practicing plastic surgeon separately for men and for women, so the anatomy behaves the way it would in surgery rather than the way a filter would.
Where PreviewMD falls short
RealizeMD anonymises real patient photography and PreviewMD does not. We cannot make your existing before-and-after gallery publishable, we hold no images to build a catalogue from, and consent on your past cases is not a problem we solve. If that is the requirement, this is their lane.
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.
RealizeMD and PreviewMD, side by side
| RealizeMD | PreviewMD | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on your website before booking | No | Yes |
| Publishes full pricing | No | Yes |
| Free trial, no sales call | PartlySHOW app, free for now | Yes |
| No hardware required | Yes | Yes |
| Every preview delivers a lead | No | Yes |
| Territory exclusivity | No | Yes |
| Anonymises your existing gallery | Yes | Nonot what it does |
Verified August 2026, from each company’s public materials.
Which should your practice choose?
Choose RealizeMD if
Choose PreviewMD if
How switching from RealizeMD works
There is little to switch between, because the two do different jobs and a practice could reasonably want both. One fills the gallery you are allowed to publish; the other answers the visitor asking what they would look like.
If you are trialling SHOW while it is free, nothing about that decision blocks running PreviewMD on the same site. They touch different pages and different people.
Sources
Where these claims come from
RealizeMD’s own site, checked 19 August 2026, for the Anonymizer, Realizer and Verifier services, the SHOW app’s free-for-a-limited-time offer, the private-beta signup, and the founding team.
Questions
The questions buyers ask.
Is PreviewMD a RealizeMD alternative?
Only if what you want is a preview for the individual patient. PreviewMD renders a prospective patient’s own likely result from a photo they upload on your website, and delivers their details to your CRM. RealizeMD’s published focus is anonymising your existing before-and-after photography so you can publish it, which PreviewMD does not do at all.
Can I buy RealizeMD today?
As of 19 August 2026 their site offers the SHOW app free for a limited time and takes private-beta signups for the wider platform, with no published pricing. Anyone comparing the two on availability should check their site directly, because a beta’s terms change without notice.
What is the RealizeMD SHOW app?
SHOW is the browser and desktop application RealizeMD offers today, described on their site as a way to publish your work without exposing patients by synthesising selected images while preserving the actual result. It is offered free for a limited time, with no end date given for that offer. Read 19 August 2026.
Can a practice run both RealizeMD and PreviewMD?
Nothing stops it, and the two answer different questions. RealizeMD is aimed at the gallery you already have and cannot fully publish; PreviewMD is aimed at the visitor who wants to see themselves. They touch different pages and different people, so a practice could reasonably want both.
Does RealizeMD generate a preview for a new patient?
Their published services list a Realizer described as simulating outcome, but the application they offer today is SHOW, which anonymises and publishes existing results, and the wider platform is in private beta as of 19 August 2026. If a preview for the individual prospective patient is what you need on your website now, that is the job PreviewMD is sold for.
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