Short answer for a solo doctor: from ₹1,599 a month ex-GST works out to about ₹53 a calendar day. Against a 40 to 60-patient OPD day, that’s a small line item to recover an hour of evening charting. It pays off when your volume is high. It doesn’t do much for you if you see eight relaxed patients a day. Below is the actual arithmetic, ex-GST and with GST, so you can decide on your numbers instead of ours.
Key takeaways
- From ₹1,599/month ex-GST is about ₹53 per calendar day, or roughly ₹61 across 26 working days; about ₹1,887 and ₹73/working day once you add 18% GST.
- EkaScribe Pro, the published India-native anchor, is ₹1,499/month, about ₹50 a calendar day.
- The payback is volume-driven: at a 40 to 60-patient day, saving two to three minutes of charting per patient dwarfs the daily cost.
- The scribe is the entry Assist plan; a bundled AI EHR, WhatsApp, and receptionist and follow-up automation arrive on the Copilot and Autopilot tiers. A 7-day trial with no daily cap lets you check the math yourself.
from ₹1,599/mo ex-GST spread over a calendar month (about ₹61 across 26 working days)
patients in a typical busy solo OPD day, the volume where a scribe earns its keep
India average primary-care consult length (BMJ Open, 67 countries)
What does ₹1,599 actually come to per day?
Do the division. That’s where the decision really gets made.
From ₹1,599 per month ex-GST is about ₹53 per calendar day across a 30-day month. Count only the days you run OPD, say 26, and it’s about ₹61 a working day. Add 18% GST and the month comes to about ₹1,887, roughly ₹63 per calendar day or ₹73 per working day. EkaScribe Pro at ₹1,499 a month sits near ₹50 a calendar day.
So you’re weighing a tool worth somewhere between ₹53 and ₹73 on a day you work. Less than one consultation fee in most practices. Price isn’t the question. What matters is whether the time it hands back is worth more than that, and for a solo doctor that comes down to volume, full stop.
Does the payback work on a 40 to 60-patient OPD day?
Here’s where the real numbers are. Take a solo physician running a 50-patient day. A BMJ Open review of 28.5 million consultations across 67 countries put India’s average primary-care consult at about two minutes, among the shortest measured anywhere. At that pace you cannot also type a complete, structured English note per patient during the visit. So the notes get deferred, and they pile up. A stack of fifty charts waiting to be reconstructed from memory after the last patient leaves.
Say an ambient scribe saves you a conservative two minutes per patient: the deferred typing and the cleanup that comes after. Across 50 patients that’s 100 minutes a day. Call it an hour and forty minutes of your evening, recovered for about ₹61 ex-GST on a working day. You don’t have to value your time aggressively for that trade to come out lopsided. Even on the three patients a day whose note would otherwise have been skipped or scrawled, the defensible-record value alone covers the line item.
Now run it the other way. See twelve patients a day at a leisurely pace, caught up on charting by the time you lock the clinic, and the savings shrink. The case gets weaker. We’d rather you know that going in. A scribe is a volume tool. The busier your OPD, the harder the math tips in its favour.
- Time recovered (~100 min)70%
- Remaining review time30%
What does a solo doctor get for the ₹1,599, exactly?
On the entry Assist plan you get the scribe, the piece that solves the documentation problem. The plans step up from there: Copilot adds a bundled AI EHR and WhatsApp messaging, and Autopilot layers on an AI receptionist plus follow-up automation. A solo doctor who only needs the notes handled can stay on Assist.
AI Medical Scribe is one module inside Practice Copilot, the platform Patient Square builds. It 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. The prescription draft reflects what you said in the visit; it does not screen for interactions or dosing. You are the safety check, reviewing the draft against the chart, adjusting the dose, and signing, exactly as you do today. Capture works in English, Hindi, Hinglish, and 20-plus Indian languages, with the note always returned in clean clinical English. If your clinic’s signal drops mid-OPD, capture keeps working offline with on-device encryption and syncs later.
For a solo doctor, the no-gating part is the bit that matters. You get the same prescription drafting and the same language handling a large clinic gets, at the solo seat price. The full rate ladder, with the with-GST math, is on the India rate card and the pricing page.
How does the solo price compare to the alternatives?
Price is only half the decision, so keep this part short.
EkaScribe Pro is ₹1,499 per doctor per month, with an annual plan near ₹12,492 a year and a free tier capped at five consultations a day. It’s India-native and, the honest concession, it has live ABDM integration that we don’t yet; ABDM is on our roadmap. Augnito is sales-led and doesn’t publish a transparent self-serve rupee price, so a solo doctor can’t even see a number without a call. Our Assist plan starts from ₹1,599 ex-GST with a published ladder and a 7-day trial that runs the real product without a daily cap.
If live ABDM linking is a today requirement, EkaScribe is the honest pick, and the EkaScribe alternatives post walks through that trade-off. If what you want is a published ladder you can read without a sales call, a prescription draft you review and sign, and audio that’s never stored, the Assist seat is a strong daily driver, with a clear upgrade path once you want an EHR or messaging bundled in. The India comparison lines all three up.
How should a solo doctor test the payback?
Don’t trust a worked example, including this one. Run your own.
Take the 7-day free trial, no card, no daily cap, and use it on a normal OPD day. Count roughly how many minutes of charting you save per patient. Then check whether the English notes are clean enough to sign without a rewrite. Multiply the minutes by your real patient count. If the time you get back across a 40 to 60-patient day isn’t worth about ₹53 ex-GST, don’t subscribe. We mean that. The trial exists so the math is yours, run on your clinic and not ours.
When you want to see it on your own consults before deciding, book a demo and we’ll run it on the kind of OPD day you actually have.