Considering cleartax software price for gst? Before comparing features, compare the shape of the thing: how it is delivered, how it is licensed, and where your data lives. That difference outlives every feature list, and it is what this page is about.
What ClearTax is, in one paragraph
ClearTax is a cloud tax platform, best known for GST return preparation and e-invoicing rather than day-to-day counter billing.
That shape suits some businesses very well. It is worth being clear about it before comparing anything else, because the delivery model decides more about your daily experience than any individual feature does.
Billixo is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to any other software mentioned on this page. All product names, logos and brands are the property of their respective owners and are used here only to describe what people are comparing. For current features, pricing and terms of any other product, please refer to that vendor’s own website.
Comparing the price honestly
We do not publish anybody else's prices here, and that is deliberate rather than evasive: prices change, editions differ, and being confidently wrong about a competitor's pricing in public is both unfair and unreliable. Take the current figure from their own site.
What is worth saying is how to compare whatever figure you find, because the headline price is usually the smallest part.
Count the second user, because that is where most pricing steps up and it is the thing most small businesses need within a year. Count renewal against any first-year price. Count the modules you actually need rather than the edition that was quoted. Count setup and training, which for installed software is often real money. And count the hours — a system that takes two minutes per invoice instead of thirty seconds costs more than any licence difference, and nobody invoices for their own time.
The honest number on this side: the Free plan is ₹0 with no card and no expiry, and the paid plans are bought for a fixed term, paid once, with no auto-renewal and no card kept on file. When a term ends the account settles back onto Free rather than being locked.
Comparing against a filing and compliance tool
ClearTax is a cloud tax platform, best known for GST return preparation and e-invoicing rather than day-to-day counter billing.
This is a comparison between two different halves of one job, and conflating them is an expensive mistake. A compliance tool takes figures and puts them on the portal. A billing system produces the figures.
So the useful question is where your pain actually is. If you already have clean numbers and the portal work is slow, a filing tool is the right purchase. If closing the period and arriving at correct numbers is the slow part — which for most small businesses it is — then no filing tool will touch it, because the problem happened three weeks earlier at the invoice.
The expensive arrangement is both: invoices raised in one place, returns prepared in another, and a hand-off between them. That join is where the errors live — a GSTIN that was never captured, a place of supply typed wrong, an HSN left blank — and every one of them has to be repaired by hand at return time.
This product sits on the billing side and produces GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B figures plus the GSTR-2B reconciliation. Filing itself stays with you or your practitioner, which is where the responsibility sits anyway.
What Billixo offers
- Browser-based. Nothing to install or update; the same account from any machine or phone.
- A genuinely free plan. ₹0, no card, no expiry — so you can test it properly before deciding anything.
- GST compliance built in. Every Rule 46 field on the invoice, HSN/SAC per line, and the CGST/SGST versus IGST split derived from place of supply rather than chosen.
- AI bill scanning. Photograph a supplier bill and it becomes a draft purchase record.
- AI HSN lookup from a plain description, for the codes nobody remembers.
- Inventory that moves as you bill, with low-stock warnings.
- Receivables and reminders — ageing, part payments, and a written chase you can send on WhatsApp.
- GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B summaries, exported in a format a practitioner can open directly.
- Bulk import and export — CSV and Excel in; CSV, Excel and JSON out, export free on every plan.
- Fixed-term pricing with no auto-renewal. One payment, no card kept on file.
How to compare them properly, in an afternoon
- Open a free Billixo account — no card, so this costs nothing but time.
- Enter your real business details: GSTIN and registration state, not sample data.
- Add two customers, one in your state and one outside it. This is the test that separates good tax logic from a dropdown.
- Add three of your actual products with their HSN codes.
- Raise the same invoice in both systems and time it honestly.
- Compare the two PDFs side by side as your customer would see them.
- Export a GST summary from each and open both. Whichever needs less repair is the one that will save you the month.
Running both for a month
The lowest-risk way to change billing software is not to change it on a Monday. It is to run the new one alongside the old for a full month, billing a small, real subset of customers through it.
By the end of that month you know three things a demo cannot tell you: whether it is actually faster on your invoices, whether the GST summary reconciles to what you billed, and whether anyone on your team quietly refuses to use it.
A free plan makes that month cost nothing, which is most of why it exists. Start free now.
Keeping what already works
Switching everything at once is rarely necessary. If your accountant files comfortably from one tool and your problem is only that raising invoices is slow, change only the billing.
A billing system that exports clean GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B summaries hands off cleanly to any filing tool or practitioner. The interface between the two is a file, not a platform commitment.
Billixo is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to any other software mentioned on this page. All product names, logos and brands are the property of their respective owners and are used here only to describe what people are comparing. For current features, pricing and terms of any other product, please refer to that vendor’s own website.
CGST, SGST and IGST — worked out, not chosen
Whether a sale attracts CGST and SGST or IGST is not a preference. It follows from the place of supply: same state as your registration means the tax splits into central and state halves, a different state means one integrated tax at the combined rate.
That sounds simple and goes wrong constantly, because it is a dropdown in most billing software and a dropdown is something a tired person clicks past. In Billixo the split is derived from the state on the customer record against the state on your registration, and it changes the moment either does.
The consequence of getting it wrong is real: an IGST invoice raised as CGST/SGST has to be credited and reissued, and if the return has already gone in, amended.
HSN and SAC codes, and how many digits you need
Every line on a tax invoice needs an HSN code for goods or a SAC for services. How many digits depends on your aggregate turnover in the preceding financial year — smaller businesses report fewer digits than larger ones, and B2B and B2C invoices are treated differently.
Because the requirement is tied to turnover and has been tightened in stages, the practical answer is to store the fullest code you can against each product once, and let the software report at the level required. A six-digit code can always be truncated; a two-digit one cannot be expanded.
Billixo keeps the code on the product record and carries it onto every line automatically, and its AI HSN lookup will suggest one from a plain description when you genuinely do not know.
Bill scanning, in practice
The single largest time cost in most small businesses is not raising invoices — it is entering purchases. A photograph of a supplier bill goes in and a structured draft comes out: supplier, GSTIN, line items, rates, tax split and total.
You check it. That is the workflow, and it is deliberate: an extraction you did not read is a liability, not a saving. But checking a filled form takes fifteen seconds and typing one takes three minutes, and that difference compounds over a month of purchases.
Who it is built for
Small and mid-sized Indian businesses that are registered under GST and bill regularly. One person doing everything, or a counter with three people billing at once and an accountant who needs the month to close cleanly.
The design assumption throughout is that whoever raises the invoice is busy and is not a tax specialist. So the tax is computed rather than asked for, the compliance fields are populated rather than presented as questions, and the report the accountant wants is a download rather than a request.
Try it free — the free plan needs no card and does not expire.
The price, plainly
Free is ₹0 and stays ₹0. The paid plans are bought for a fixed term, paid once, with no auto-renewal and no card kept on file — when a term ends the account drops back to Free until you decide to buy again.
There is no per-invoice charge, no per-user surprise on the free plan, and no feature that is technically included but practically throttled. What the plan says you get is what you get.
Compare the plans on the home page, or just start free now and look at the ceiling from the inside.
Reliability, backups and getting your data out
Cloud billing software is only as good as its worst day. Two things matter more than any feature list: that your data is backed up somewhere you can reach, and that you can export it in a format something else can read.
Exports here are CSV, Excel and JSON, on every plan including the free one, covering customers, products, invoices and payments. That is the honest test of whether software respects you — not what it promises, but what it lets you take when you leave.
Frequently asked questions
Can I import my data from ClearTax?
If you can export your customer and product lists to CSV or Excel — and most systems can — then yes, bulk import takes them in one pass. Outstanding invoices normally come across as opening balances rather than as full invoice history.
Do I have to stop using ClearTax to try this?
No, and you should not. Run both for a month on a small slice of real billing. That is the only comparison that tells you anything, and the free plan makes it cost nothing.
Which is cheaper?
We will not state ClearTax’s pricing — check their site. Ours starts at ₹0 on a free plan with no card and no expiry, and the paid plans are fixed-term with one payment and no auto-renewal.
What happens to my data if I stop paying?
Nothing is deleted. The account settles back onto the Free plan: the paid conveniences switch off, the volume limits return, and every invoice, customer and product you created stays exactly where it is — including the export.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. It is a browser application that adapts to the screen, so the same account works from a desktop at the counter and a phone in the market. There is no separate app to keep in step.
See it working on your own bills
The fastest way to judge billing software is to bill with it. Photograph one supplier invoice, raise one sales invoice, and look at the PDF your customer would receive.
Open the software demo → — free account, no card, about a minute to set up.
More details on the home page → — what it does, what it costs, and where the limits are.
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