Practice Better vs. Cerbo

If you practice functional or integrative medicine, you've probably narrowed it down to these two. Both get your world. Both have practitioners who swear by them.

The decision usually comes down to one question: how much of your day looks like a medical clinic?

The quick answer

Choose Cerbo if you're a prescribing clinic. MDs, DOs and NPs doing BHRT, IV therapy or direct primary care, with in-house dispensing and a cash-pay or membership model.

Choose Practice Better if your care runs on programs, coaching and ongoing client relationships. Nutrition, health coaching, naturopathic and functional practices where the work between visits matters as much as the visit.

Side by side

Pricing in USD as of October 2026. Cerbo prices per user, Practice Better prices per plan. Check the live pricing pages before you decide.

Sources: Practice Better pricing · Practice Better features · Cerbo pricing · Cerbo

Where Cerbo shines

Cerbo is purpose-built for clinical functional medicine, and it shows. Functional charts, prescribing with EPCS included, in-house supplement dispensing and inventory, membership billing... if you run a cash-pay clinic with a dispensary, Cerbo was designed with your day in mind.

For a prescribing practice with several providers, the per-user model also lines up with how your clinic is already staffed.

Where Practice Better shines

Practice Better was built for care that happens over months, not just in the appointment. Programs and courses, protocols, journaling, group sessions and a client portal that's included on every plan.

For a solo practitioner or small team, the math is very friendly. One plan price covers you, the portal is included and there's no setup fee to get started. It's our platform of choice for exactly this kind of practice.

What we see in real accounts

Practices often pick based on what their mentor uses. A heavily clinical mentor uses Cerbo, so the health coach with a 12-week program signs up for Cerbo too. Then they spend months building workarounds for programs and group work.

The opposite happens too. A BHRT clinic on Practice Better ends up adding ePrescribe and running dispensing somewhere else. It works, it's just more pieces.

One note in the spirit of transparency: our team builds and supports Practice Better accounts. We don't set up Cerbo for clients, so this comparison comes from the outside looking in on that side.

The gap neither one fills

Both are excellent clinical platforms. Neither was built to run everything around the practice management, and both lean on partners for marketing and follow-up. The inquiry at 9pm, the follow-up after a discovery call, the past patient who could use a nudge to come back... that's a different category.

That's the operational layer, and it's where Lead Better HQ comes in.

Already on Practice Better and wondering what's falling through the cracks? We'll go through your business the way a new patient does and send you a short video of what we find.

Lead Better HQ is an independent company and an official Practice Better partner. We're a Practice Better affiliate, which means we may earn a commission if you sign up through our links. It never changes your price or what we recommend.