Amperos vs Penguin Ai
Penguin Ai is a platform sold to payers and providers. Its about page lists Intelligent UM for payer prior authorization, HCC Coding & Risk Adjustment and Intelligent RCM, the last described as pre-submission review and denial recovery in one loop, and it calls its output a recommendation, not a decision. Founded in 2024 in Palo Alto, it announced US$29.7M in funding on September 11, 2025, including a US$25M Series A led by Greycroft. The homepage figures, among them 10 million+ transactions and 96% accuracy across deployed AI Workers, are the vendor's, with no baseline cited.
Amperos's press release has its agents working denied claims through payer portals, and the vendor says its customer DOCS Dermatology Group recovered 24% more claims.
A payer's utilization management team buys Penguin Ai's UM product. A hospital RCM team on Epic FHIR or Cerner, the two EHR connections the about page names, that wants pre-submission review and denial recovery from one vendor fits Intelligent RCM. A dermatology group with a queue of denied claims fits Amperos.
Billing & coding · Reviewed November 2, 2026
Amperos
by Amperos Health
Agentic AI that works denied insurance claims through payer portals and recovers provider revenue.

Penguin Ai
by Penguin Ai · founded 2024
Agentic AI for medical coding, HCC risk adjustment, prior authorization and claims for providers and payers.
When to pick each one
Amperos
- Agents work denied claims through payer portals
- Vendor says DOCS Dermatology Group recovered 24% more claims
Penguin Ai
- Intelligent UM for payer prior authorization
- Epic FHIR and Cerner connectors, HL7 and X12
- Sandbox with synthetic data until a BAA is signed
Score
Each row shows points earned of points available under the published rubric.
Amperos
41of 100
Penguin Ai
40of 100
| Dimension | Amperos | Penguin Ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIPAA / SOC2 / BAA | 10 / 10 | 10 / 10 | 0 |
| EHR integrations (count) | 9.1 / 18.2 | 5.5 / 18.2 | +3.6 |
| Top-3 EHR coverage (Epic / Oracle / Athena) | 5.6 / 8 | 5.6 / 8 | 0 |
| Bidirectional write-back | 0 / 5.2 | 0 / 5.2 | 0 |
| Peer-reviewed papers | 0 / 7 | 0 / 7 | 0 |
| RCT / meta-analysis / systematic review | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 |
| Funding & adoption signal | 3 / 12 | 3 / 12 | 0 |
| Pricing transparency | 3.3 / 6.5 | 3.3 / 6.5 | 0 |
| Years in market | 0 / 6 | 3 / 6 | -3 |
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Pricing
Amperos
| Tier | Monthly | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | n/a | n/a | No public price. |
Penguin Ai
| Tier | Monthly | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | n/a | n/a | No public price. Site CTA is "Talk to us". |
Compliance and integrations
Documented from each vendor’s own pages.
| Spec | Amperos | Penguin Ai |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | ||
| HIPAA | ||
| SOC 2 Type II | ||
| EHR integrations | eClinicalWorks, athenahealth, NextGen, Epic, ModMed, Dentrix | Epic, Cerner |
| Founded | n/a | 2024 |
| HQ | US | US |
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Autonomous coding (CodaMetrix #1 KLAS 2026), denial prevention, prior-auth automation. The single fastest path to ROI in healthcare AI is RCM — these tools deliver it.
