Clinicea and Patient Square publish price ladders that look almost like twins. Clinicea lists ₹1,999, ₹2,999, and ₹3,999 per practitioner per month; Patient Square’s monthly tiers are ₹1,999, ₹2,999, and ₹4,999, dropping to ₹1,599, ₹2,399, and ₹3,999 on annual billing, ex-GST plus 18% GST. The products underneath aren’t twins at all. Clinicea is a configurable clinic suite you set up and fill; Patient Square is an ambient AI that writes the note for you. So the alternative you want depends on which verb is broken in your clinic: configure, or write. If it’s write, book a demo and watch a consult turn into a signed note.
Key takeaways
- Clinicea publishes Starter ₹1,999, Pro ₹2,999, Enterprise ₹3,999 per practitioner per month, with a 14-day trial.
- Add-ons stack: lab ₹499/technician, pharmacy ₹499/pharmacist, patient portal ₹3,999/clinic monthly, custom EMR form packs ₹12,500 to ₹45,000 one-time.
- Clinicea’s pitch is a 100% customisable EMR. You still fill the forms, and India’s ~2-minute consults are where form-filling breaks.
- Patient Square is ₹1,599/month entry on annual billing (ex-GST); ₹2,399 bundles the AI EHR. The note drafts itself.
- Different jobs: suite breadth and configurability vs documentation that writes itself. Price the job you actually have.
The sticker and the loaded price
Clinicea deserves credit for publishing numbers at all; plenty of Indian clinic-software vendors hide everything behind a demo call. But the sticker is the start of the arithmetic, not the end, because the product is modular and the modules bill separately.
Here’s the published structure, from their pricing page as of this writing:
| Line item | Clinicea (published) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Base plan, per practitioner/month | ₹1,999 Starter · ₹2,999 Pro · ₹3,999 Enterprise | Pro adds online booking, packages, feedback, virtual assistant |
| Lab module | ₹499 per technician/month | Optional |
| Pharmacy module | ₹499 per pharmacist/month | Optional |
| Patient portal | ₹3,999 per clinic/month | Covers 100 active users |
| White-labelled emails | ₹499 per clinic/month | Optional |
| Remote self-registration | ₹14,999 one-time + ₹4,999/year hosting | Their published plugin pricing |
| Custom EMR form packs | ₹12,500 to ₹45,000 one-time | 4 to 20 forms |
Run one worked example. A two-doctor clinic on Pro with a lab technician, a pharmacist, and the patient portal is ₹5,998 + ₹499 + ₹499 + ₹3,999, so roughly ₹10,995 a month before any one-time form customisation, and before you confirm GST treatment. That’s not a criticism; those modules do real work, and if you need them, that’s what they cost. The point is to price the configuration you’ll actually run, not the Starter sticker.
Patient Square’s arithmetic is shorter because the scope is narrower. Two clinicians on Copilot annual is ₹2,399 × 2 = ₹4,798 ex-GST, about ₹5,662 once 18% GST is added, and that includes the bundled AI Copilot EHR. No lab module, no pharmacy module, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise. If those functions are on your must-have list, the comparison ends here honestly: Clinicea sells them, we don’t. If documentation is the must-have, keep reading, or go straight to the India pricing page for the full ladder.
Custom fields are still fields
Clinicea’s headline claim is a 100% customisable EMR, and by the published feature set the configurability is real: forms, workflows, and packages shaped to your specialty, with paid form packs if you want them built for you. For a clinic with an operations-minded person who enjoys tuning systems, that’s a genuine draw.
Now the uncomfortable part. Picture a two-chair dermatology clinic in Gurgaon that spends a weekend building the perfect acne-consult template: fourteen fields, dropdowns for severity, checkboxes for triggers. Monday morning brings 40 patients. Indian consultations average about two minutes, per a 67-country BMJ Open review. Fourteen fields in two minutes, forty times over, while the patient explains their history? The template gets abandoned by 11am, and the notes revert to two words and a drug name.
That’s not a Clinicea flaw. It’s the ceiling of the whole form-filling category, and every configurable EMR shares it. Customisation changes what the form asks. It doesn’t change who answers it, or when. The National Medical Commission’s 2023 conduct regulations expect outpatient records kept three years and produced on request, and a skipped form protects nobody.
The ambient approach flips the order of work. Nothing to fill during the consult; the structure gets applied by the AI afterwards, and you review a finished draft instead of feeding an empty one.
When Clinicea is the better fit
Choose Clinicea when breadth and configurability are the actual requirement. A multi-doctor or multi-specialty clinic that wants scheduling, financials, inventory, lab, pharmacy, packages, and a patient portal from one vendor gets a real suite, with published add-on pricing and a 14-day trial to verify it. Clinics selling treatment packages or memberships (dermatology, dental, wellness chains) fit the Pro plan’s package management well. And if you want an EMR moulded field-by-field to your specialty and have someone to own that configuration, that’s precisely the product Clinicea built.
Choose Patient Square when the note is the bottleneck and you’d rather it wrote itself. A solo GP or small clinic drowning in evening documentation doesn’t need a form-builder; it needs the form filled.
What the ambient side actually ships
The AI Medical Scribe by Patient Square is the ambient scribe module inside Practice Copilot. 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. It handles consults in English, Hindi, and 20+ Indian languages, including code-mixed Hinglish, and the note lands in clean clinical English regardless. Specialty-aware templates come ready out of the box, so there’s structure without a weekend of form-building. Prescriptions stay drafts you sign; ICD-10 comes as suggestions, not autopilot coding.
Data handling is deliberately boring: audio is processed in memory and discarded once the note drafts, records are handled to DPDP Act 2023 standards, a SOC 2 Type II audit is in progress, and every plan includes EHR-ready export (PDF · HL7 · FHIR) plus unlimited visits and notes. ABDM integration is on our roadmap, not live today; if production ABHA linking is a hard requirement, ask any vendor for their exact NHA milestone status and hold us to the same standard. Details live on the security page.
We think the fairest test is time-boxed and boring: run Clinicea’s 14-day trial and our 7-day trial against the same clinic days, and measure three numbers. Minutes from patient-out to note-signed. Fields touched per patient. Charting left at 8pm. The winner for your clinic will be obvious by Thursday.
Two trials, one decision
If your shortlist still has both names on it, that’s probably correct; they solve different problems, and some clinics genuinely need both kinds of tool at once. A configurable suite can run your front office while an ambient layer writes the clinical note. For the wider field beyond these two, the India clinic software scorecard ranks the main options, and the EMR buyer’s guide covers cloud, DPDP, and lock-in questions that apply to every vendor here. If Practo Ray is also on your list, the Practo Ray comparison walks the same ground for that suite.
One question settles most shortlists: on your busiest OPD day, is the problem that your software can’t be shaped to your workflow, or that nobody has time to feed it? Shape problems point to Clinicea. Feeding problems point to ambient AI. Book a demo and test the feeding problem against your own Monday.