MyOPD is one of the cheapest legitimate ways to computerise an Indian clinic: appointments, billing, and a printed prescription for a one-time ₹18,700, GST included. If that covers your day, keep it. The case for paying ₹1,599 a month per doctor instead is a different problem entirely: the clinical note nobody has time to type. That’s the real subject of this comparison, and you can book a demo to see the difference on one of your own consults.
Key takeaways
- MyOPD publishes real prices: ₹18,700 one-time for the Clinic version (GST included) or ₹8,000/year on subscription, as of July 2026. That’s hard to beat on cost.
- MyOPD digitises the front desk and the prescription. The clinical note is still yours to write, consult after consult.
- Patient Square’s Assist plan is ₹1,599/month per doctor on annual billing + 18% GST, with an ambient AI scribe and unlimited notes. Over 3 years it costs roughly 3x MyOPD.
- The decision isn’t which is cheaper. It’s whether your documentation hours are worth more than the price gap.
What MyOPD gets right at its price
Credit first. MyOPD’s pricing page, as of July 2026, lists a Clinic version at ₹18,700 one-time (inclusive of ₹2,853 GST) or ₹8,000 a year as a subscription, a Polyclinic version at ₹24,000 one-time for multiple OPD desks, and a free version for a limited number of patients. A hospital version with IPD and bed management exists too, priced on request. From year two, an optional annual maintenance charge keeps updates, cloud backup, and app access running; MyOPD’s own pages say the one-time licence keeps working even if you skip it.
The feature set is squarely aimed at the Indian solo practice: prescription entry designed to be fast, printing in 13 Indian languages, thermal printer support, prescription PDFs over WhatsApp, SMS and WhatsApp appointment reminders, UPI payments, and a simple income-and-expense view.
For a doctor with a receptionist, thirty patients a day, and a hard budget cap, that’s a sensible purchase. We think clinics in exactly that spot should buy it and move on. No subscription guilt, no per-month meter.
The honest cost table
Here’s the money over three years, using each vendor’s own published figures. MyOPD’s listed prices include GST; Patient Square’s are ex-GST, so we’ve shown the GST-inclusive math once.
| MyOPD Clinic (one-time) | MyOPD Clinic (subscription) | Patient Square Assist | Patient Square Copilot | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price basis | ₹18,700 once, GST included | ₹8,000/year | ₹1,599/mo per doctor, annual billing, + 18% GST (≈₹1,887 with GST) | ₹2,399/mo per doctor, annual billing, + 18% GST |
| 3-year software cost | ₹18,700 + AMC from year 2 | ₹24,000 | ₹57,564 ex-GST | ₹86,364 ex-GST |
| Appointments + billing | Yes | Yes | Scheduling included | Scheduling included |
| Prescription | You type it; prints in 13 languages | Same | Drafted from the consult, you review and sign | Same, plus bundled AI EHR and WhatsApp messaging |
| The clinical note | You write it | You write it | Drafted by the ambient scribe, unlimited | Same, stored in the bundled EHR |
Sources: myopd.in pricing page and Patient Square pricing page, both July 2026. AMC amount varies; confirm with MyOPD.
Read the bottom two rows again. That’s the entire comparison. On price, MyOPD wins and it isn’t close. What you’re actually weighing at Patient Square’s pricing is a different line item: your evenings. If the table already settles it for you, book a demo and test the claim on a real patient.
What does ₹1,599 a month actually add?
One thing, done properly: the consultation documents itself.
The AI Medical Scribe by Patient Square, one module of Practice Copilot, captures the visit as it happens 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. You talk to the patient. The note gets written. You read it, correct anything, sign it. Every plan includes unlimited visits and notes with no per-note metering, capture on web or mobile, and EHR-ready export (PDF · HL7 · FHIR), so the record can land wherever you keep records today, including alongside software you already own.
Why does that matter in an Indian OPD specifically? Because the consult itself is about two minutes long. That’s the average Irving et al. found for India in their 67-country BMJ Open review. Two minutes to listen, examine, decide, prescribe. There is no third minute for typing a proper note, which is why most OPD records are one scribbled line, and why the National Medical Commission’s 2023 conduct regulations, which set an expectation of outpatient records kept for three years (the 2023 regs are in abeyance rather than in force, but the expectation is the direction of travel), are quietly uncomfortable reading for a busy clinic.
Picture the 8:40pm version of this. A Nashik GP, 61 patients seen, register full of token numbers and fees, and 22 consultations with no real note behind them. MyOPD did its job all day: patients booked, bills printed, prescriptions out the door. The note gap isn’t MyOPD’s failure. It was never built to close it. It’s a front-desk tool, and the note is a consult-room problem.
The scribe also handles how Indian consultations actually sound: English, Hindi, and 20+ Indian languages, switched mid-sentence, with the note always returned in clean clinical English. Hindi in, English record out.
One boundary worth stating plainly: the prescription output is a draft for your review and signature, not an e-prescribing transmission, and the ICD-10 output is suggestions, not a coding engine. You stay the clinician of record.
And what ₹2,399 adds on top of that
The Copilot tier, at ₹2,399 a month per doctor on annual billing ex-GST, adds the bundled AI Copilot EHR and WhatsApp messaging. That’s the point where Patient Square stops being a documentation layer next to your existing software and becomes the record system itself. Solo doctors who mostly want their evenings back start at Assist; clinics replacing a patchwork of tools land on Copilot. The OPD software buyer guide walks the full stack decision if you’re rethinking more than the note.
Data handling, since a scribe listens to consults: audio is processed in memory and discarded once the note drafts, nothing is sold or shared, and the practice owns its notes with export or delete anytime, handled to DPDP Act 2023 standards. SOC 2 Type II audit is in progress, not certified, and ABDM integration is on our roadmap, not live. If live ABHA linking is a requirement today, say so in the demo and we’ll tell you honestly what’s there.
When MyOPD is the better choice
Buy MyOPD, or keep it, if any of these fit:
- Your budget is a hard cap near ₹20,000 total, not per year. Nothing with a monthly per-doctor price competes with a one-time licence.
- Your OPD runs under about 30 patients a day and you genuinely have time to write your notes, or you’ve made peace with short ones.
- What you want is front-desk order: bookings, tokens, bills, reminders, a printed prescription in your patient’s language. MyOPD was built for exactly this.
- You want to own the software outright and hate recurring fees on principle.
That’s a real constituency, and for it, MyOPD is the right answer. A ₹1,599-a-month scribe only earns its fee when documentation time is the thing being bought back. Our clinic software scorecard scores the wider field if neither product here fits, and the MocDoc comparison covers the suite-style middle ground between a budget app and an AI platform.
A 15-minute way to decide
Count one thing today: minutes spent writing notes and prescriptions after the patient has already left, across the whole day. Under 20 minutes, MyOPD-class software is enough; you’d be buying convenience. Over an hour, you’re paying a ₹1,599 problem out of your own evening, every day, and the maths flips fast.
Then test rather than believe. Patient Square runs a 7-day free trial, so you can put it on a real Tuesday OPD and read the notes it produces against the ones you didn’t have time to write. Book a demo to see a consult turn into a signed note first, or start with the pricing page and run your own numbers. Either way, decide on your minutes, not our adjectives.