For a solo doctor in India, an AI scribe starts at ₹1,599 per clinician per month (annual billing, ex-GST, so about ₹1,887 with 18% GST). That’s Patient Square’s Assist tier: unlimited visits and notes, no per-note charge, no setup fee. It handles the writing so you don’t carry the day home. Want records born digital in one place too? The Copilot tier at ₹2,399/mo (annual, ex-GST) bundles the AI Copilot EHR. The price is on the pricing page, not behind a sales call, and you can book a demo to see a finished note in about two minutes before you spend a rupee.
Key takeaways
- Entry price for a solo doctor: ₹1,599/mo per clinician (annual, ex-GST), about ₹1,887 with 18% GST.
- Unlimited visits and notes, no per-note metering, no setup fee, so your bill is the same on a 15-patient day or a 60-patient day.
- Bundled AI Copilot EHR starts one tier up, at ₹2,399/mo (annual, ex-GST).
- At 20 patients a day, ₹1,599/mo works out to roughly ₹4 per visit, less than the chai between consults.
- “AI is expensive” is a metering fear. A flat per-doctor rate removes it: the cost doesn’t move with volume.
What does an AI scribe actually cost a solo doctor?
Here’s the number without the runaround. Patient Square’s cheapest tier, Assist, is ₹1,999 per month month-to-month, or ₹1,599 per month if you commit annually, both ex-GST. Add 18% GST and the annual rate is about ₹1,887 a month. That’s it for the scribe. No setup fee, no per-note charge, no minimum patient count.
| Plan | Monthly (ex-GST) | Annual, per mo (ex-GST) | With 18% GST (annual) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assist | ₹1,999 | ₹1,599 | ~₹1,887 | AI Medical Scribe, ICD-10 suggestions, eRx drafts, scheduling |
| Copilot | ₹2,999 | ₹2,399 | ~₹2,831 | Everything in Assist, plus AI Copilot EHR and WhatsApp messaging |
| Autopilot | ₹4,999 | ₹3,999 | ~₹4,719 | Everything in Copilot, plus AI Receptionist, AI Follow-ups, priority support |
A solo doctor who just wants the charting burden gone starts at Assist. A solo doctor who wants records in one place moves to Copilot for the bundled EHR. Both are per clinician, so the price is exactly what one doctor pays.
The per-visit math that ends the “AI is expensive” worry
The price objection usually isn’t about the monthly figure. It’s a fear of a meter running: charged per note, per minute, or per transcription line, so a busy day becomes an unpredictable bill. Patient Square doesn’t work that way. Every plan is unlimited, flat per doctor. So the real cost is the monthly rate divided by however many patients you actually see.
| Patients per day (22 days/mo) | Visits per month | Cost per visit at ₹1,599/mo | Cost per visit at ₹2,399/mo (with EHR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 330 | ~₹4.8 | ~₹7.3 |
| 20 | 440 | ~₹3.6 | ~₹5.5 |
| 30 | 660 | ~₹2.4 | ~₹3.6 |
| 50 | 1,100 | ~₹1.5 | ~₹2.2 |
The busier you are, the cheaper each note gets, which is the exact opposite of per-note pricing, where a hundred-patient day costs you a hundred times. A per-line transcription vendor bills forever and scales up with your volume. A flat scribe bills once and gets cheaper per visit as your queue grows. For the head-to-head, our medical transcription vs AI scribe cost post shows the crossover.
If those numbers describe your day, book a demo and check the note quality on your own visit type before you assume cheaper means worse.
Why unlimited beats a low per-note price
A low headline per-note rate looks cheap until you do the arithmetic on an Indian OPD. The average consult in a 67-country study ran about two minutes; the queue sets the pace, and a solo doctor can push past 50 patients on a heavy day. Any pricing that charges by the note or the minute punishes exactly the doctor who needs the tool most.
Flat per-doctor pricing removes the calculation entirely. You never sit at your desk deciding whether this patient is “worth” a note. You never ration the scribe to keep the bill down. Every visit gets a complete, defensible record, which is also the record that wins a negligence complaint, and India sees an estimated 65,000 of those reach courts and consumer forums a year. The note you didn’t skip to save ₹3 is the note that protects you.
That’s the honest case for a flat plan: predictability. Your software cost is a line you set once at the start of the year, not a variable that spikes on your busiest, most valuable days.
What the ₹1,599 tier actually does at the desk
Concretely, on a Tuesday OPD. You start the visit; a live transcript runs as you talk. The patient speaks Hindi, you answer in English, they slip back to Marathi, and it keeps up, because the scribe handles code-mixed Indian-language conversation. The moment the patient leaves, a structured SOAP note is ready in clean clinical English, with ICD-10 suggestions attached and a prescription draft you review and sign. Audio isn’t stored; it’s processed in memory and discarded once the note drafts.
Two honest limits, because a cost post shouldn’t oversell. The languages are input only: the scribe understands Hindi and 20-plus Indian languages, but the note comes out in English. And the prescription is a draft, not e-prescribing; there’s no transmission to a pharmacy. If either is a dealbreaker, better to know now than after you’ve paid.
Move up to Copilot at ₹2,399 and you add the bundled AI Copilot EHR, so records live in one place instead of being copied out. That’s the whole ladder a solo doctor needs. For the segment view, our best clinic software for a single doctor roundup and AI scribe for solo doctors post go wider.
When an AI scribe isn’t worth it yet
Fair fork. The scribe earns its keep when documentation is your bottleneck. If it isn’t, hold off.
Skip it if you see a handful of patients a day and charting genuinely isn’t a burden, or if your notes are so short that typing them takes seconds. At very low volume the per-visit cost climbs and the time saved is small. Skip it too if you specifically need Indian-language note output or live e-prescribing today; those aren’t what this tool does.
Buy it if you’re a solo doctor losing evenings to charting, running a queue where two-minute consults leave no time to write, and you want a complete record on every visit without hiring a scribe or a junior. That’s the case the ₹1,599 tier is built for, and it’s most solo doctors reading a cost page.
The test isn’t the price. It’s whether you’d trade ₹1,887 a month, with GST, for the hour you currently spend writing up the day. For most busy solo practices, that’s an easy yes.
Decide it in a week
- Count your real daily patient volume and divide ₹1,887 (with GST) by your monthly visits. That’s your true per-note cost.
- Decide scribe-only or scribe-plus-EHR: if your records already live somewhere workable, start at Assist; if you want them in one place, take Copilot.
- Get any competing quote as an all-in monthly cost at your real volume, not a per-note headline, so you’re comparing the same thing.
- Match the output: note plus ICD-10 suggestions plus a prescription draft, and confirm the note comes out in English if that matters to you.
- Trial on a real clinic day. A scripted demo flatters every scribe.
The receipts on encryption, access, and audit status are on the security page, and the full price ladder is on the pricing page. Book a short demo to see the note against your own visits, then run the 7-day trial on a real week. At ₹1,887 a month with GST for unlimited notes, the price worry is smaller than one evening of charting.