AI Medical Scribe Price in India: 2026 Rate Card

An ambient AI medical scribe with a published India price costs ₹1,199–1,499 per doctor per month in 2026. EkaScribe Pro is ₹1,499, billed monthly. AI Scribe by Patient Square is ₹1,199 on launch annual billing, ex-GST, so ₹1,415 on the invoice once 18% GST is added. Augnito publishes no price at all. US tools bought from India convert to roughly ₹7,500–14,200 a month.

That paragraph is, as far as we could verify, the entire published market. Search this exact question and you'll get cost guides in dollars, written for clinics that bill Medicare. This page is the rupee version. Every number is one we could verify first-party in June 2026, computed conversions are labelled as computed, and the GST arithmetic is done in the open.

Key takeaways

• India-native published prices: EkaScribe Pro ₹1,499/doctor/month; AI Scribe by Patient Square ₹1,199/doctor/month on launch annual billing (ex-GST, or ₹1,415 with 18% GST).
• Augnito publishes no price. Its India App Store listing shows purchases of ₹1,199, ₹3,299, and ₹11,900 with billing periods not labelled.
• US imports convert to ₹7,500–14,200 a month at June-2026 rates (₹95 to the dollar), which is five to nine times the India-native price.
• Healthcare services are GST-exempt, so most clinics can't claim back the 18% GST on software. Budget the with-GST number, always.

The 2026 rate card: every price you can verify in rupees

The rate card below covers the scribes Indian doctors actually shortlist, plus our own ladder as a normal row. "Published" means the vendor prints the number where anyone can read it. "Computed" means we did arithmetic on something the vendor printed, and we show the arithmetic. Nothing here is an estimate.

Last verified: June 11–12, 2026, against each vendor's own page. Conversions use ₹95 to the US dollar, the early-June 2026 rate. Recheck the rate before you budget, because it moves.

Three rows deserve a closer look.

Augnito's missing number. The pricing page redirects to a contact-sales form, so the only rupee figures anyone can verify are the in-app purchases on its App Store (India) listing: ₹1,199, ₹3,299, ₹11,900. The 1× / roughly-3× / roughly-10× spacing looks like monthly, quarterly, and annual, but the listing doesn't label the periods, so that mapping is our inference, not their price. If ₹11,900 really is a year, it computes to about ₹992 a month, which would be competitive. We think an unpublished price isn't a price; it's an opening position, and opening positions tend to move after the vendor hears your clinic size. One more thing the listing tells you: it's titled "Augnito Medical Dictation App". Dictation means you speak the note. An ambient scribe listens to the consultation itself. Different categories, frequently confused.

The eka math. ₹1,499 billed monthly, framed by eka as ₹50 a day. The published 17% annual saving computes to roughly ₹1,244 a month. The free tier is real, 5 consultations a day, every day, and there's a section below on when that free tier is honestly the right answer.

Our rows. AI Scribe by Patient Square is an ambient AI medical scribe that listens during the visit and hands back a structured SOAP note, ICD-10 suggestions, and a prescription draft, ready to review and sign about two minutes after the visit. (New to the category? Here's how an ambient scribe actually works.) Every tier is the same product: no feature gating, unlimited visits, no per-note metering. Solo, Group, and the regular-versus-launch ladder differ only in price.

The India pricing page shows the whole ladder with the + 18% GST note beside every number, and every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Run it against a real clinic week, not a demo script.

Why do US scribes cost five to nine times more in India?

US scribes cost five to nine times more here because they were priced for a different healthcare economy and never re-priced for this one. Freed's Core plan is $79 a month; Sunoh's single plan is $149 promotional ($199 list). At ₹95 to the dollar that's ₹7,500 and ₹14,200. Against EkaScribe's ₹1,499, those are multiples of 5× and 9.5×. Freed's $59 Starter does convert to a friendlier ₹5,600, but it caps you at 40 notes a month, which a busy OPD exhausts in days.

Three structural reasons:

They price against US alternatives. A US clinic weighs $79 against a human scribe's salary or another hour of after-hours charting at US wages. Indian OPD economics never entered that spreadsheet: 60-patient mornings, consultations a BMJ Open review of 67 countries clocked at about two minutes.

You carry the exchange-rate risk. A dollar subscription floats. At ₹95, Sunoh's $149 is about ₹14,200; if the rupee moves five rupees, your software bill moves about ₹750 a month and nobody emails you about it. A rupee price is a price. A dollar price is a position in the currency market.

The product wasn't built for your consult. Freed's own multilingual page claims 90+ languages and names 15, none of them an Indian language. For a Hinglish OPD, the language column disqualifies a tool before the price column gets a vote.

For context, here's what Indian clinics already pay for practice software. This is the budget any scribe actually competes with:

The Indian clinic-software wallet runs about ₹1,000–1,500 per doctor per month. Sunoh's converted monthly price (≈ ₹14,200) is more than HealthPlix's published price for an entire year (₹11,999). The India-native scribes, eka's and ours, were built to sit inside the existing wallet, not to replace it with a new one.

What does 18% GST mean when a clinic buys software?

GST on a software subscription is 18%, and Indian B2B pricing is conventionally displayed ex-GST. Practo Ray's plans, for instance, are listed "+ GST". So the number on the pricing page is not the number on the invoice. Here's ours, worked once in the open: Solo launch annual is ₹1,199 + 18% = ₹1,415 a month on the invoice; Group is ₹999 + 18% = ₹1,179. Same product, GST on top, no per-note meter underneath.

Now the part most pricing pages skip: you probably can't claim that 18% back. Healthcare services provided by clinical establishments and authorised medical practitioners are exempt from GST (the 2017 exemption notification), and a practice supplying only exempt services can't take input tax credit on what it buys. The 18% on your software is a final cost, not a pass-through. If your clinic also has taxable revenue, say a retail pharmacy counter or aesthetic procedures, registration and partial credit may be in play, and that's a conversation for your CA, not a blog.

Two practical rules fall out of this. Budget every software quote at price × 1.18. And ask any vendor whose page doesn't mention GST whether the number is ex- or inclusive. That's five seconds now versus an argument with your accountant in March. The converted US prices above carry a third question: how a US vendor handles Indian GST on a card payment is one more thing their pricing page doesn't answer.

On the same 30-day arithmetic eka uses for its ₹50-a-day framing, our Solo launch price lands at about ₹47 a day, with GST already counted (₹1,415 ÷ 30).

What will you pay in year two?

Every intro price implies a regular price somewhere; the year-two question is whether you can read it. Our regular ladder is printed: Solo ₹1,999 monthly / ₹1,499 annual, Group ₹1,699 / ₹1,299, all ex-GST, same product at every rung. Budget against the regular number and treat the launch rate as the bonus, not the baseline. EkaScribe handles this cleanly too: ₹1,499 is its standing price, not a teaser. The pattern to be wary of, anywhere in software, is a discount hanging off an unpublished list price. There's no way to know what you'll renew at, and the vendor knows that.

Three questions worth putting to any scribe vendor in writing, before the first invoice:

1. "What is the renewal price after the intro period?" If the regular ladder isn't published, this answer IS the price.
2. "Is the discount conditional on an annual lock-in?" Month-to-month exists on our ladder (₹1,999 Solo). Paying more to stay free to leave is a legitimate choice, and a vendor with no monthly option is telling you something about renewals.
3. "What happens to my notes if I stop paying?" Ours: notes belong to the practice. Export or delete any visit, any time, and we never sell or share clinical data. That's the real lock-in answer. Everything else is contract language.

When is EkaScribe's free tier the right answer?

Sometimes it just is. Five consultations a day, free, indefinitely, is the cheapest legitimate way for an Indian doctor to learn what an AI scribe does to their documentation. Take the free tier when:

• Your documented volume is genuinely small. Think of a part-time practice, a second-opinion clinic, or a new practice still filling its appointment book. Under 5 consults a day, a ₹1,199–1,499 subscription buys you little the free tier doesn't.
• You already live in eka's ecosystem. If eka's doctor-side apps run your day, one more eka surface is low friction.
• ABHA-linked workflows matter to you today. eka.care's platform has live ABDM integration; our ABDM integration is on the roadmap, not live. If that's a today-requirement, eka is ahead of us on this axis, full stop.

Past 5 consultations a day the free tier becomes a ceiling, and the comparison turns into ₹1,499 against ₹1,199. At that point the deciding axes usually aren't price at all. For ours, a Hinglish OPD is the design case, not an edge case: English, Hindi, and 20+ Indian languages, code-mixing included, with the note always returned in clean clinical English. Prescription drafts pass a deterministic safety screen, with drug-interaction, renal, and pregnancy checks that re-run at sign time and hard-block unsafe combinations unless you override with an attestation. And visit audio is never stored: processed in memory, discarded the moment the note drafts, with the full posture on our security page. We've written the longer three-way match-up, concessions included, in our EkaScribe vs Augnito comparison.

The rate card above is the post. Whatever you shortlist, make the vendor put their number in writing before the demo, GST treatment included, then make the tool earn the subscription on your own patients: start the 7-day free trial, run a real Tuesday OPD through it, and read every draft before you sign.

7-day free trial · month-to-month available · audio never stored. DPDP-aligned · No audio stored · SOC 2 in progress.