Indian-law-scoped guidance with verified section mapping: Inka (LegalInk).
Lawyer / firm research at depth: Jhana (professional paralegal).
Tax and corporate Q&A with human-reviewed knowledge sets: VIDUR.
Indian-language cited Q&A: Bharat.law (NyaI).
Everything OUTSIDE Indian law — general knowledge, emails, coding — general assistants (Claude, Gemini) are the better tool and free at entry.
The honest frame is scope, not overall superiority — a general assistant should win the general-knowledge row; a specialised tool should win the Indian-law rows.
Naming disambiguation: Bharat.law (NyaI) and BharatLaw.ai are two unrelated products with near-identical names — both appear below as separate tools. Verify the vendor's URL and pricing page directly before signing up.
The legal-companion comparison
✅ supported · ⚠️ partial / limited · ❌ not supported. Vendor accuracy and grounding claims appear only as quoted vendor claims — never as verified facts. Inka visibly loses the Indian-language Q&A and general-purpose rows: we don't ship those.
Comparison of AI legal companion and guidance apps in India, July 2026
Feature
LegalInk (Inka)
Jhana
VIDUR
Bharat.law (NyaI)
BharatLaw.ai
Claude
Google Gemini
Grounded in an Indian statutes + judgments corpus
✅Indian-law-scoped corpus; refuses foreign-law and off-topic questions
✅Vendor-published professional paralegal grounded in Indian statutes and judgments
✅Indian tax + corporate knowledge sets, human-reviewed per vendor
✅Indian-law Q&A across 10 Indian languages, cited answers
✅Vendor-stated Indian statutes and case-law grounding
❌General assistant; no published Indian legal corpus
❌General assistant; no published Indian legal corpus
Verified IPC/CrPC/IEA → BNS/BNSS/BSA mapping that refuses unverified sections
✅Maintained 90+ verified mappings (July 2026), confidence-graded and source-linked to indiacode.nic.in; refuses "not in our verified corpus yet"
❌No published 2023-code mapping table or refusal mechanism
❌No published mapping table or refusal mechanism
⚠️"No invented sections" vendor claim; mechanism not published
❌No published mapping table or refusal mechanism
❌Will attempt to answer; no verified mapping
❌Will attempt to answer; no verified mapping
Post-answer citation validation
⚠️Validator runs on every answer and attaches court-verbatim certified ratios; FLAG-ONLY — flags unverified citations rather than blocking or removing them
⚠️Vendor claim of citation checks; independent verification not run here
⚠️Vendor claim of human-reviewed knowledge sets; independent verification not run here
⚠️Vendor claim of cited answers; independent verification not run here
❌No published post-answer citation validator
❌No legal citation validator
❌No legal citation validator
Mandatory live-source check for fast-moving law (DPDP, GST, post-cutoff judgments)
✅Server-side mandate — fast-moving law routes trigger a live-source lookup before answering
⚠️Web-augmented research; no published legal-staleness mandate
⚠️Human-reviewed knowledge sets refresh cadence; no published mandatory-live rule
❌No published live-source mandate
❌No published live-source mandate
⚠️Web search available; no legal-staleness mandate
⚠️Web search available; no legal-staleness mandate
Handoff from chat into drafting with facts pre-loaded
❌Research/paralegal focus; no chat→draft handoff published
❌Advisory Q&A; no chat→draft handoff published
⚠️Q&A product; drafting handoff not documented
❌Q&A product; no drafting handoff published
❌No Indian-law drafting engine to hand off to
❌No Indian-law drafting engine to hand off to
Voice input and spoken answers
✅Voice input (Groq Whisper) and spoken answers supported
❌Not published
❌Not published
✅Voice Q&A across 10 Indian languages per vendor
❌Not published
❌Voice input not a supported first-class surface
❌Voice input not a supported first-class surface
WhatsApp access
⚠️Pro/Enterprise, beta — confirm availability with support
❌Not published
✅Vendor-published WhatsApp number on Platinum plan
❌Not published
❌Not published
❌Not published
❌Not published
Legal Q&A in Indian languages
❌English today; Indian-language chat not shipped
❌English only per public product
✅Multi-language Q&A per vendor
✅10 Indian languages per vendor
❌English only per public product
❌Not a legal-specialised Indian-language product
❌Not a legal-specialised Indian-language product
General-purpose ability outside Indian law
❌Indian-law-only by design — declines foreign-law, general-knowledge, email and coding questions and redirects
❌Legal research scope only
❌Tax/corporate scope only
❌Indian-law scope only
❌Indian-law scope only
✅General assistant — writing, coding, analysis
✅General assistant — writing, coding, analysis
Free/cheap entry for unlimited casual use
⚠️Free tier is credit-metered: 30 credits/month + 1/day drip; paid from ₹299/mo
✅Free tier available; no card required per vendor
⚠️1-month trial; MRP from ₹10,000+GST/yr; CA/CS from ₹4,999+GST/yr
✅Free NyaI plan for individuals per vendor
✅₹0 plan available; Ultimate ₹2,000/mo per vendor
✅$0 free plan (USD pricing)
✅₹0 tier; paid from ₹399/mo per vendor
All prices as of July 2026, per vendor's public pricing. Jhana pricing is "Not published" (renders client-side). VIDUR figures are vendor annual pricing. Bharat.law (NyaI) ₹599–2,999/month on annual plans. BharatLaw.ai ₹0 to ₹2,000/mo. Claude USD only. Gemini ₹399 / ₹1,950 / ₹6,500 per month. Competitor accuracy and grounding statements appear only as vendor claims, never as verified facts.
The differentiated claim: a mapping table that refuses, not a chatbot that guesses
Ask Inka about an IPC → BNS renumbering that is not in its verified mapping table, and it is built to decline rather than answer anyway — "I'd rather not assert content I can't verify" — and point you to the official bare act instead of guessing.
Behind that refusal is a maintained, confidence-graded IPC / CrPC / IEA → BNS / BNSS / BSA mapping table, source-linked to indiacode.nic.in — the same corpus powering the free public BNS ⇄ IPC converter, which answers "not in our verified corpus yet" rather than extrapolating.
No compared assistant publishes a 2023-code mapping corpus, confidence grading, or a refusal mechanism for unverified sections.
Tool-by-tool
01
LegalInk (Inka)
Best for:Anyone asking Indian-law questions who wants section-level guidance grounded in a maintained mapping table — and a refusal, not a guess, when the mapping isn't verified.
Pros
Maintained IPC/CrPC/IEA → BNS/BNSS/BSA mapping, confidence-graded and source-linked to indiacode.nic.in; 90+ verified entries as of July 2026.
Refuses to guess unverified section numbers — points to the official bare act instead.
Every answer runs through the citation validator; certified ratios are attached court-verbatim.
Mandatory live-source check for fast-moving law (DPDP, GST, post-cutoff judgments).
Chat facts hand off into LegalInk's drafting engine (notice replies, petitions, etc.).
Voice input and spoken answers.
Powered by frontier legal-reasoning models.
Honest cons
Indian law only — declines foreign-law, general-knowledge, email and coding questions by design.
English Q&A today (no Indian-language chat).
Free tier is credit-metered vs competitors' uncapped free tiers.
Citation validator FLAGS rather than blocks — cross-check anything you rely on.
WhatsApp is Pro/Enterprise, beta — confirm availability.
Section mapping is confidence-graded (some entries pending further review) — we do not claim "fully human-verified."
02
Jhana
Best for:Lawyers and law firms who want deep, research-grade Indian legal paralegal assistance rather than a consumer chatbot.
Pros
Vendor-positioned as a professional paralegal grounded in Indian statutes and judgments.
Free tier available with no card required per vendor.
Honest cons
Pricing not published (renders client-side).
No published 2023-code mapping table or refusal mechanism for unverified sections.
No published voice input, WhatsApp, or Indian-language Q&A surface.
No documented chat → drafting handoff.
03
VIDUR
Best for:CAs, CSs, and tax/corporate professionals who want Q&A backed by human-reviewed knowledge sets and WhatsApp access on the top plan.
Pros
Human-reviewed knowledge sets for tax and corporate law per vendor.
Vendor-published WhatsApp number on the Platinum plan.
Honest cons
MRP from ₹10,000+GST/year; CA/CS pricing from ₹4,999+GST/year — not a cheap-entry product.
No published 2023-code mapping table or refusal mechanism for unverified sections.
No published voice input.
Scope is tax/corporate advisory — not a general Indian legal companion.
04
Bharat.law (NyaI)
Best for:Consumers who want Indian-language Q&A on Indian law with cited answers — 10 languages per vendor.
Pros
10 Indian languages for Q&A per vendor.
Voice Q&A and cited answers per vendor.
Free NyaI plan for individuals.
Honest cons
"No invented sections" vendor claim; mechanism not published.
No published live-source mandate for fast-moving law.
No documented chat → drafting handoff.
Disambiguation: Bharat.law (NyaI) and BharatLaw.ai are two unrelated products with near-identical names.
05
BharatLaw.ai
Best for:Individuals who want an Indian-law Q&A app on a ₹0 plan with a paid Ultimate tier.
Pros
₹0 plan available; Ultimate ₹2,000/month per vendor.
Vendor-stated Indian statutes and case-law grounding.
Honest cons
No published post-answer citation validator.
No published 2023-code mapping table or refusal mechanism for unverified sections.
No published voice input, WhatsApp, or Indian-language Q&A surface.
Disambiguation: BharatLaw.ai and Bharat.law (NyaI) are two unrelated products with near-identical names.
06
Claude
Best for:Everything OUTSIDE Indian law — general knowledge, writing, coding, analysis. A better tool for those tasks and free at entry.
Pros
Excellent general reasoning, writing, coding.
$0 free plan (USD pricing).
Broadly available.
Honest cons
No published Indian legal corpus, mapping table, or refusal mechanism.
No legal citation validator.
USD pricing only on paid tiers.
Will attempt Indian-law answers without section-level verification — cross-check every citation.
07
Google Gemini
Best for:Everything OUTSIDE Indian law — general knowledge, writing, coding, analysis. A better tool for those tasks and free at entry.
Pros
Strong general reasoning, writing, coding.
₹0 tier; paid from ₹399/month per vendor.
Broadly available.
Honest cons
No published Indian legal corpus, mapping table, or refusal mechanism.
No legal citation validator.
Will attempt Indian-law answers without section-level verification — cross-check every citation.
Methodology
This comparison was built from each vendor's public pricing pages, product documentation, and marketing pages, verified as of . We did not run head-to-head accuracy benchmarks. Where a vendor publishes an accuracy or grounding claim it appears only as a quoted vendor claim, never as a verified fact.
LegalInk (Inka) numbers are drawn from our own published product documentation and pricing. Inka visibly loses the Indian-language Q&A row and the general-purpose row — Indian law only is our scope, English chat is our surface today, and marking those honestly matters more than sweeping the table. ChatGPT is not included as a separate row because the vendor pages blocked automated pricing verification for this refresh.
Court sanction cases cited on this page are stated with case name and citation only: Gummadi Usha Rani v. Sure Mallikarjuna Rao (Supreme Court, February 2026); Pooja Ramesh Singh v. Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd., 2026 INSC 668 (2 July 2026); Deepak s/o Shivkumar Bahry v. Heart & Soul Entertainment Ltd. (Bombay High Court, January 2026, ₹50,000 costs — imposed on a litigant).
Corrections and vendor updates: support@legalink.ai. This page is refreshed at least quarterly and whenever a listed vendor materially changes pricing or feature scope.
Can I just use ChatGPT or Gemini to answer Indian legal questions?
Honest yes-but. General assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini give decent-sounding answers and offer generous free tiers, so for casual Indian-law questions they are usable. What they do not publish is an Indian statute database, a verified IPC/CrPC/IEA → BNS/BNSS/BSA mapping table, or a section-level verification and refusal mechanism. For anything you plan to rely on — a filing, a reply, a citation — treat their output as a starting point and cross-check the section numbers and case names against the bare act and the official reporter.
How real is the fake-citation risk in 2026?
Real, and now on the record from Indian courts. Gummadi Usha Rani v. Sure Mallikarjuna Rao (Supreme Court, February 2026) framed unverified AI use as misconduct rather than a mere error. Pooja Ramesh Singh v. Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd., 2026 INSC 668 (2 July 2026) held that decisions relying on fabricated authorities are "no decision in the eyes of the law." Deepak s/o Shivkumar Bahry v. Heart & Soul Entertainment Ltd. (Bombay High Court, January 2026) imposed ₹50,000 costs — importantly, on a LITIGANT, not just counsel. That last one matters for a consumer audience: the cost of an unverified AI citation can land on the person filing, not just on their lawyer.
What does Inka actually do differently on section mapping?
Two things. First, Inka is built on a maintained, confidence-graded mapping table linking IPC / CrPC / IEA sections to their BNS / BNSS / BSA counterparts, source-linked to indiacode.nic.in. Second, when you ask about a mapping that is not in that verified corpus, Inka is designed to say "I'd rather not assert content I can't verify" and point you to the official bare act — rather than extrapolate. The same corpus powers the free public BNS ⇄ IPC converter, which returns "not in our verified corpus yet" instead of guessing. No compared assistant publishes a 2023-code mapping corpus, confidence grading, or a refusal mechanism.
Are Bharat.law and BharatLaw.ai the same product?
No — these are two unrelated products with near-identical names, and they appear as separate tools in the comparison above. Bharat.law is often surfaced under the NyaI brand and vendor-positions itself around Indian-language Q&A across ten languages. BharatLaw.ai is a distinct product with its own pricing tiers (₹0 plan up to Ultimate ₹2,000/month per vendor). If you are evaluating either, verify the vendor's URL and pricing page directly.
Can any of these tools answer questions about US or UK law?
For Inka: honest No — foreign-law and general-knowledge questions are declined by design and you are redirected to a local advisor. Jhana, VIDUR, Bharat.law (NyaI), and BharatLaw.ai are all Indian-law-scoped and not the right tool for foreign law either. For that lane, the honest answer is a general assistant (Claude, Gemini) plus a qualified local advisor — the answer is not a legal-specialised Indian product.
How does citation verification work on Inka, and is it airtight?
Every answer runs through the citation validator, which attaches court-verbatim certified ratios where they are available in the corpus. Important honest disclosure: the validator is FLAG-ONLY. It flags unverified citations rather than blocking them or removing them from the answer. Cross-check anything you plan to rely on against the official reporter. That flag-only posture is stated plainly here rather than dressed up as "we prevent fake citations."
Which tool is the cheapest starting point for casual Indian-law questions?
Uncapped free entry: Jhana (free, no card), Bharat.law (free NyaI plan for individuals), BharatLaw.ai (₹0 plan), Claude ($0 free plan, USD pricing), Google Gemini (₹0 tier). Inka's free tier is credit-metered — 30 credits per month plus a 1-per-day drip — which is a real trade-off vs those uncapped free tiers, in exchange for the mapping corpus and validator. Paid Inka starts at ₹299/month. VIDUR is the least cheap-entry option in this set (MRP from ₹10,000+GST/year; CA/CS from ₹4,999+GST/year).
Which tool should I use if I want Indian-language Q&A right now?
Bharat.law (NyaI) — vendor-published across 10 Indian languages with voice Q&A. VIDUR also publishes multi-language advisory Q&A in the tax/corporate scope. Inka is English-only today and visibly loses that row in the comparison; Indian-language chat is not shipped, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Ask Inka about Indian law
Free tier, no card required. Verified section mapping · citation validator on every answer · refuses to guess when the mapping isn't verified.