eka.care prices in pieces, which is why the total is confusing. The scribe, EkaScribe, publishes a clean ₹1,499 per month per doctor on its own site. The wider doctor EMR tools don’t show a first-party price on eka.care’s main plans page, so the numbers you find for those come from third-party listings. This page decodes each line, is honest about eka.care’s real ABDM edge, and gives you a clear per-doctor Patient Square number to compare against. If you want the full head-to-head rather than just the price, start with the alternatives comparison.
Key takeaways
- EkaScribe publishes ₹1,499/month per doctor first-party, with a free tier capped at 5 consults/day and unlimited on Pro, as of July 2026.
- eka.care’s EMR doctor tools aren’t priced on its main plans page; third-party listings show Eka Doc Plus ~₹16,999/yr and Pro ~₹18,749/yr.
- eka.care is ABDM-native with live ABHA linking. Patient Square’s ABDM is roadmap, not live. That edge is real and worth naming first.
- Patient Square’s per-doctor anchor: Assist ₹1,599/month, Copilot ₹2,399/month with a bundled AI EHR, both annual, ex-GST plus 18%.
What eka.care actually costs
The tricky part is that “eka.care pricing” is at least two different price tags. Here’s how they split, as of July 2026.
| Product | Price | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| EkaScribe (ambient scribe) | ₹1,499/month per doctor; ~17% off annual | First-party (ekascribe.ai) | Free tier 5 consults/day; Pro unlimited |
| Eka Doc Plus (EMR) | ~₹16,999/year (1 doctor, 2 staff) | Third-party listing | Not on eka.care’s own plans page |
| Eka Doc Pro (EMR) | ~₹18,749/year (1 doctor, 2 staff) | Third-party listing | Not on eka.care’s own plans page |
The scribe number is solid because it’s on eka.care’s own page. The EMR numbers are third-party, which means they could be stale or promotional, so treat them as a starting map and confirm with eka.care before you budget. The honest read: the scribe is cleanly priced and competitive; the EMR side is the part where you’ll need a conversation to know your real total.
Notice the shape of those third-party EMR tiers, too. Eka Doc Plus and Eka Doc Pro are both listed as one doctor plus two staff, and the jump to Eka Clinic Pro at around ₹1,00,000 a year covers five doctors and fifteen staff. So the per-doctor cost actually falls as you scale up into a clinic tier, which is normal for suite pricing but easy to misread if you only look at the solo numbers. A two-doctor practice sits in an awkward middle: too big for the single-seat tiers, not yet at the clinic tier’s break-even. That’s exactly the size where a straight per-doctor price is easier to reason about than a staggered suite.
What the ₹1,499 scribe includes
EkaScribe’s ₹1,499 a month is a straightforward scribe subscription. It listens to the consult and drafts the note, and eka.care says it handles more than 20 languages, including English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Urdu, and is tuned for varied medical accents. The free tier caps you at 5 consultations a day, which is a genuine trial-in-production allowance; Pro lifts that to unlimited.
For a doctor who mainly wants ambient documentation and doesn’t need a new EMR, that ₹1,499 scribe is a clean, cheap entry. It’s one of the more transparently priced scribes in the Indian market, and we’ll say plainly that the number is fair for what it does.
The free tier deserves a note of its own, because 5 consults a day is a real trial, not a toy. A solo doctor can run EkaScribe on their first five patients every morning for weeks and learn exactly how the note reads before paying a rupee. That’s a more honest way to evaluate a scribe than a scripted demo, and it’s worth using. If you’re comparing India-native scribes head to head, the EkaScribe alternatives roundup lines them up on note quality and price rather than marketing.
Where eka.care is genuinely ahead: ABDM
This is the concession that matters, and it goes at the front, not buried in a footnote. eka.care is an ABDM-native platform. ABHA verification and consent-based record sharing are built in, not bolted on, and eka.care participates in India’s interoperable digital-health network as a matter of core design.
Patient Square’s ABDM integration is on the roadmap and not live. We won’t dress that up. If ABHA linking is a hard requirement for your clinic this quarter, eka.care holds a real, present-day advantage, and no amount of pricing analysis changes that. A clinic that needs records to travel across the ABDM ecosystem today should weigh that edge heavily, because switching away from it to save on a per-seat price would cost you the exact thing you wanted. If ABDM isn’t your deciding factor, though,
The per-doctor price anchor to compare against
Set that against a number you can read without a conversation. Patient Square publishes its India tiers per doctor: Assist at ₹1,599 a month on annual billing, Copilot at ₹2,399 with the bundled AI Copilot EHR and WhatsApp messaging, and Autopilot at ₹3,999, all ex-GST with 18% added. So Assist is about ₹1,887 all-in and Copilot about ₹2,831. The full ladder sits on the pricing page.
Lined up against eka.care, the entry prices are close. EkaScribe’s ₹1,499 scribe sits just under Patient Square’s ₹1,599 Assist tier. The divergence is the bundle. Patient Square folds the AI EHR into the ₹2,399 Copilot tier, one product, one price. eka.care prices its EMR tools as a separate line on top of the scribe, so a clinic wanting both the scribe and a full EMR is likely adding the ₹1,499 scribe to an Eka Doc EMR subscription, and the combined total is the figure to ask about.
The AI Medical Scribe is the core module of Practice Copilot from Patient Square: 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. Both tools do ambient documentation, so this isn’t a scribe-versus-no-scribe choice. The pricing question is really about bundle shape and ABDM: one bundled ladder with roadmap ABDM, versus separately priced scribe and EMR with live ABDM.
One more thing to price in that the sticker doesn’t show: what happens to the audio. Patient Square uses the recording to draft the note and then discards it. Only the structured output persists, which is the cleaner posture under the DPDP Act 2023 and the one we’d want if the roles were reversed. Ask eka.care the same question directly and get the retention policy in writing, because how a vendor handles consult audio tends to predict how it handles the rest of your patient data. It’s not a line item, but it’s a real part of the cost of trust.
When eka.care’s price is the right buy
Choose eka.care, on price, when ABDM sits at the centre of what you need, or when you want an India-native vendor covering both the scribe and the interoperability layer. The ₹1,499 scribe is competitively priced, and the ABDM depth is a present-day capability Patient Square can’t match. For a clinic whose top concern is record continuity across the ABDM network, eka.care’s price is buying the thing you most want, and that’s the right reason to pick it.
Choose Patient Square when you want a single bundled price for the scribe and the EHR, transparent per-clinician tiers you can read without a call, and you’re comfortable that ABDM linking is roadmap rather than live. For a clinic whose priority is documentation and a clean, predictable total, that fit is strong.
Decide in one pass
- Rank ABDM. If ABHA linking is required now, eka.care’s live integration is the deciding factor, and price is secondary.
- Separate the eka.care lines. Confirm whether you’re buying the ₹1,499 scribe, an Eka Doc EMR tier, or both, and get the combined total from eka.care directly.
- Compare like for like against the published ladder on our pricing page, per doctor per month, ex-GST, then add 18% once.
- Trial both scribes on your own consults, not a scripted demo, and check the note comes back in clean clinical English.
If ABDM is the job, eka.care’s price buys it and this is mostly decided. If a single bundled price for documentation and records is what you’re after,