You want the DEA or CSR price up front.
BlueShift Licensing. The only service here publishing an NP license price ($275) and a DEA or CSR price ($175) on one page, plus a written guarantee covering their own filing mistakes.
Best NP licensing services in 2026,
compared honestly.
Seven services, ours included. For each one: what they publish for an NP state application, whether they take individual NPs, one thing they do well, and one limitation you can check yourself.
We sell one of the seven, so our own entry answers the same questions, down to naming the two services that publish a lower price than ours.
How we checked, and what we sell.
We opened each company’s own public pages on August 21, 2026 and wrote down what those pages publish: the price for an NP state application, whether they take individual nurse practitioners, what the service covers, and one limitation you can confirm yourself. Every entry carries its links and that date.
We left out numbers a company publishes without a source of its own, and we left out turnaround claims. Where a company publishes nothing, the entry says so, because a missing price is itself a fact about buying from them.
The entries run alphabetically, which happens to put us last. We sell one of these services, and our entry uses the same fields as the other six.
Prices and policies change without notice. Open the link on an entry before you act on it.
Seven services, the same questions for each.
Their pricing page lists an NP license at $275 per state, a license renewal at $75, and a DEA or CSR registration at $175, with a footnote saying prices can vary by state and complexity.
They take individual NPs, with no restriction published anywhere on the site. The NP license is a standard priced line on that page, and their homepage runs a testimonial credited to an NP who expanded a telehealth practice into more states.
What stands out: a two-part written guarantee. If a mistake of theirs gets an application rejected, they resubmit and cover the re-application fee, and they publish a response commitment on support questions. They are also the only service on this page publishing an NP license price and a DEA or CSR price together.
What you can check: none of those prices exist until the page’s JavaScript runs. Request the pricing address directly and you get a near-empty shell with no dollar figures in it, carrying the homepage’s title and a link naming the homepage as its canonical address. A search engine or an AI assistant reading it that way finds no pricing page at all.
Sources: https://blueshiftlicensing.com/pricing and https://blueshiftlicensing.com/, verified 2026-08-21.
Their clinician licensing page prices nurse practitioners and physician assistants at $299 per state, marked down from $400, with a bundle discount offered for multiple states. Renewals are $100 per license, per renewal. DEA and prescriptive authority coordination is folded into the $299 package rather than priced on its own.
They take individual NPs. The Get Started button on that pricing card opens an application form rather than a sales calendar, and their renewals page names nurse practitioners as a covered type.
What stands out: they publish prices on both sides of the market. The same company posts employer rates, including $199 per state for an NP or PA license when the employer enables it and $99 per license for renewal management, so a clinician and the company hiring them can both see a number. They also publish a 15-day refund policy, with their terms applying.
What you can check: one page, two different APRN per-state fees. Open the clinician licensing page on a phone and its comparison table reads $250. Open the same page on a desktop and the table reads $299, matching the pricing card. The physician figures split the same way. Ask which number applies to you before you pay.
Sources: https://www.directshifts.com/clinician-licensing-services, https://www.directshifts.com/medical-license-renewal-services, and https://www.directshifts.com/employer-licensing-services, verified 2026-08-21.
No per-state licensing fee appears anywhere on the site. We ran their own order form: choosing NP, California, and initial state licensing produced an order summary with no service price on it, because that number comes on a consultation instead. The only service prices published anywhere are add-ons inside that form, CSR registration at $99, DEA registration at $199, and FCVS registration at $199.
They take individual NPs. The profession menu on that order form lists NP and APRN among its eight options, with no corporate account requirement and no minimum number of states.
What stands out: a genuine self-serve path running beside the consultation funnel. There are 52 state pages, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and an order form where you pick profession, state, service, and add-ons without talking to anyone.
What you can check: the fee for the licensing work itself is never stated. Their FAQ answers what a board charges and how the process runs, and refers to their service fee without giving it, pointing you to a free consultation.
Sources: https://medicallicensing.com/get-started/ and https://medicallicensing.com/faq/, verified 2026-08-21.
Their nurse practitioner page prices NP licensing from $739 per state, with discounts for multiple applications. Their price list puts a subscription license renewal at $229 per license. They publish no DEA or CSR price and sell no DEA or CSR registration service.
They turn most individual NPs away. In red type under the heading of that same NP page, dated 4/1/25, they say they are “currently only accepting new Nurse Practitioners under the following conditions”: employment by one of their existing corporate accounts, or licensing in ten or more states at once.
What stands out: published depth on the physician side. They describe themselves as a physician licensing service running since 2001, say they are in their 25th year, and publish their own counts of licenses issued and their share of US physicians licensed in 2023.
What you can check: the NP page is carrying old dates. On August 21, 2026 its compact section was still headed for 2025 legislation and the site footer still carried a 2023 copyright line. The company describes itself as a physician licensing service, which fits the NP restriction rather than contradicting it.
Sources: https://medlicense.com/services/nurse-practitioner-licensing, https://medlicense.com/pricing, and https://medlicense.com/, verified 2026-08-21.
Their licensing page prices advanced practice providers at $425 per state, on a card that names NPs and PAs. The same figure appears on their landing page and again in its FAQ. They publish no renewal price and no DEA or CSR price, though they sell both.
They take individual NPs. Nothing on the page sets a minimum, and the only corporate mention is a volume discount offered during the consultation.
What stands out: three per-state fees published openly in two places, under a flat-fee, no-hidden-charges framing. Their card features also include real-time application tracking inside their app and a dedicated point of contact for your file.
What you can check: their own pricing page puts nurse practitioners in two tiers at two prices. The advanced practice card names NPs at $425 per state. The nurses card, described as covering RNs, LPNs, and advanced practice nurses, is $275 per state. An NP is an advanced practice nurse, so the page as published supports either number and you cannot tell which applies without asking.
Sources: https://medtigo.com/licensing and https://landing.medtigo.com/licensing/, verified 2026-08-21.
No per-state licensing price is published. Their licensing tier for individual clinicians shows a quote request where the other tier shows a price. The one published figure on the pricing page is CME management for individual clinicians, starting at $199 a year with a 30-day free trial. No renewal price is published either.
They serve individual clinicians including NPs, and keep NP-specific content such as a CE requirements page for nurse practitioners. They sell no DEA or CSR registration; neither term appears on their pricing or medical licensing pages.
What stands out: the most documented security posture of the seven. A sitewide HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 statement, an information security overview page, a trust center, and a plain statement that they do not collect or store protected health information. Others here mention HIPAA or SOC 2; nobody else documents it to that depth.
What you can check: their public NP continuing education page disclaims its own accuracy. It says the page may not reflect the latest requirements, tells you to verify with your state board, and disclaims liability for outdated or incorrect information. Worth knowing before you rely on a vendor page for a deadline.
Sources: https://mocingbird.com/company/pricing/, https://mocingbird.com/information-security-overview/, and https://mocingbird.com/cme-requirements-for-nps/, verified 2026-08-21.
We publish $350 per state application for our work, with state board fees billed at cost and no markup on them. Renewals and date tracking are a separate membership, Busy NP, at $149 a month. We publish no DEA or CSR price; those are priced in your order or scoped on a call.
We take individual NPs with no minimum number of states, and telehealth companies licensing a whole roster. We also license RNs, PAs, physicians, clinical social workers, and registered dietitians where state licensure applies.
What stands out: the prices are on the site, and people do the filing. We prepare each application, chase the verifications, ship pre-filled fingerprint cards, and handle the back-and-forth with the board. We’re NPs, so we filled these out for our own licenses first.
What you can check: $350 is not the lowest published fee on this page. DirectShifts publishes $299 and BlueShift publishes $275 for the same kind of NP state application. We also publish no DEA or CSR price the way BlueShift and MedicalLicensing.com do, and we do no credentialing or payer enrollment at all.
Source: our own published pricing, https://nplicensing.com/pricing, verified 2026-08-21.
Which one to pick.
You’d rather not talk to anyone, or your employer is paying.
DirectShifts. $299 per state for NPs and PAs through a self-serve form, $100 per renewal, and published employer rates so the company hiring you sees a number too.
You want to configure the order yourself.
MedicalLicensing.com. A page for all 50 states plus DC and Puerto Rico, an order form that takes NP as a profession, and published add-ons. The licensing fee itself comes on a consultation.
You’re a physician, or licensing ten or more states at once.
MedLicense.com. A physician licensing service since 2001 that publishes its own track record. Individual NPs get in only through a corporate account or a ten-state project.
You want a flat published fee and a tracking dashboard.
Medtigo. $425 per state for advanced practice providers, status tracking inside their app, and a dedicated point of contact. Confirm which tier an NP falls in before you buy.
You need CE tracking and a security review your compliance lead can read.
Mocingbird. CME management for individual clinicians starts at $199 a year, beside the most documented security posture here. The licensing work itself is quoted, not priced.
You’re an NP adding states, or a telehealth team adding clinicians.
Us. $350 per state application with board fees at cost, $149 a month if you want renewals tracked too, and people who file the applications instead of software you drive.
When we’re not the right fit.
We sell one of the seven above, so here is where we would send you somewhere else.
- If the lowest published fee decides it, ours is not the lowest. DirectShifts publishes $299 per state for NPs and BlueShift publishes $275.
- If you need one renewal handled and nothing else, a per-renewal price beats a membership. BlueShift publishes $75 per renewal and DirectShifts publishes $100. Busy NP is $149 a month and earns its keep when you are carrying several licenses at once.
- If what you actually need is credentialing and payer enrollment, that is a different product. Medallion, CertifyOS, and Assured build platforms for it. We do licensing.
- If you want software your own team drives, we are the wrong shape. Our team does the filing, and there is no product to run yourself.
- If you want a promise that a board will approve you, or a date it will land, no service on this page can make that call. Boards do. We will not pretend otherwise.
None of that is modesty. Signing a client who needed a different thing costs us more than the sale was worth.
Questions about this comparison.
We opened each company’s own public pages on August 21, 2026 and recorded only what those pages publish. Where a claim could be confirmed a second way, in a browser or in the page source, we confirmed it there too.
Every entry lists its links and that date. Prices and policies change without notice, so open the link before you decide anything.
Because every line has a link beside it, and our entry answers the same questions as the other six. That includes the two services publishing a lower per-state fee than ours, and most of the verdicts above sending you somewhere other than us.
Different category. Those three sell credentialing and provider-data platforms to organizations: health plans, health systems, provider groups, and digital health companies. As of August 21, 2026 none of them publishes a price anywhere public, and the only public route in is a demo request.
If you run a telehealth company and you are weighing us against Medallion specifically, we wrote that one up on its own: NP Licensing compared with Medallion.
Ask for the service fee per application in writing, and ask whether state board fees are billed at cost or marked up. Those two answers decide your total.
Then ask what happens if an application is rejected over a mistake that was not yours, and who pays to file it again.
Registered nurses (RN), nurse practitioners (NP/APRN), physician assistants (PA), physicians (MD/DO), clinical social workers, and registered dietitians where state licensure applies.
A roster that mixes several of those goes to the same team. That work has its own page: licensing for telehealth companies.
What the state charges. Every board sets its own application fee, and several add fingerprinting, verification, or transcript costs on top.
We bill those at cost with nothing added, and we list what we charge on our pricing page. Ask every service on this page whether they do the same.
Pick one. Even if it isn’t us.
If our entry is the one that fits, an application is $350 per state and board fees pass through at cost. Everything we charge is on the pricing page.
If a different entry fits you better, take its link. We would rather you pick correctly than pick us.
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