Pricing

One price for the whole school

Every plan includes every module — no feature tiers, no per-teacher licences, no paying extra for the parent app. You choose a plan by how many students you have.

Starter

Small and newly opened schools

1,499/month

17,990 billed yearly · save ₹3,598

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  • Up to 150 students
  • 25 staff accounts
  • 1,000 AI credits / month
  • 10 GB document storage
  • Every module, no feature gating
  • Parent, teacher and student portals
  • Email support, next working day
  • Self-serve onboarding

Essential

Single-campus primary schools

3,333/month

39,990 billed yearly · save ₹7,998

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  • Up to 400 students
  • 60 staff accounts
  • 2,500 AI credits / month
  • 25 GB document storage

Everything in Starter, plus

  • Phone support on working days
  • Guided onboarding call
  • Free data migration on annual plans

Scale

Large and multi-section schools

14,166/month

1,69,990 billed yearly · save ₹33,998

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  • Up to 2,500 students
  • 375 staff accounts
  • 15,000 AI credits / month
  • 200 GB document storage

Everything in Growth, plus

  • Four-working-hour response time
  • Account manager and quarterly review
  • One on-site training day included
  • Full data export to Excel and CSV

All prices exclude 18% GST. Annual plans are ten months paid, two months free.

On-premise & Enterprise

Run Shikshel on your own servers

For schools and trusts whose policy is that student records never leave the campus network. We deploy the full platform onto your infrastructure, and your data stays entirely under your control.

  • Hosted on your servers, inside your network
  • Every module, with no student or staff cap
  • Version upgrades, security patches and named-contact support
  • Suited to large schools with strict data-residency policies

Custom quote

Priced on your student strength and deployment. Minimum three-year term.

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Included in every plan

The difference between plans is size and support — never features. A 120-student school gets exactly the same platform as a 2,000-student one.

Running the school

  • Admissions and enquiry tracking
  • Fees, receipts and payment reconciliation
  • Daily attendance for students and staff
  • Examinations, marks and report cards
  • Timetable and substitution planning
  • Library, transport and hostel
  • Staff records, leave and payroll inputs

For families and teachers

  • Parent portal and mobile access
  • Teacher portal with class dashboards
  • Student portal with homework and results
  • Circulars, SMS and email announcements
  • Fee reminders and due-date alerts

AI, included in every plan

  • AI tutor for students, in your syllabus
  • Lesson plan and question paper generation
  • Report-card comment drafting
  • Plain-language answers for parents
  • Per-user limits so no one account runs away with it

Security and operations

  • Student data stored in India (AWS Mumbai)
  • Database-level isolation between schools
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Daily backups
  • All updates and new modules, free

Try it for 30 days, free

No card, no commitment. You get the full platform and your plan's AI allowance, so your teachers can judge the AI on real work rather than a sales demo. If it isn't right for your school, walk away — we will export your data for you either way.

Questions schools ask

What happens if we cross our student limit mid-year?

Nothing breaks. Additional students are billed at ₹10 per student per month, and we get in touch about moving you to the next plan if you are consistently over. We will never lock you out of your own records over a limit.

Do we pay for every staff member?

No. Each plan includes a staff allowance sized at roughly 15% of your student cap, which covers teachers, office staff, and support staff together. Most day schools never reach it. Residential schools sometimes do, and additional staff are ₹15 each per month.

What is an AI credit, and what if we run out?

One credit is one simple AI action, such as a student asking the tutor a question. Longer work like generating a full question paper uses more. Your plan's allowance resets every month; if your school needs more, top-up credits can be added at any time. Nothing stops working when the allowance runs out — only the AI features pause until the next month or a top-up.

How much document storage do we get?

Starter 10 GB, Essential 25 GB, Growth 75 GB, Scale 200 GB. To put that in perspective: a complete student record — photo plus six scanned documents such as the birth certificate, Aadhaar, transfer certificate and previous marksheets — comes to around 6 MB. Growth's 75 GB comfortably holds a full set of records for 1,000 students plus a decade of documents on top. Report cards and fee receipts are generated when you open them rather than stored, so they do not count against it.

What happens if we run out of storage?

You will know long before it happens — we show a notice in the app at 80% and email your administrator at 95%. If you do reach the limit, nothing is deleted and every document you already have stays open to you; only new uploads are affected, and even then there is a 5 GB buffer before they pause. From there you can free up space, move to the next plan, or add storage at ₹10 per GB per month. We will never add paid storage to your bill without you approving it first.

How quickly do you respond to support requests?

Starter and Essential: by the next working day. Growth: the same working day, from a named contact who knows your school. Scale: within four working hours. Working days are Monday to Saturday, excluding public holidays. Anything that stops your school operating — fees not collecting, results not publishing — is treated as urgent on every plan, whichever one you are on.

Is there a setup or migration fee?

Onboarding is free on every plan. Free migration covers what almost every school actually needs: your current student roll, staff records and outstanding fee balances, supplied in our import template. Historical data such as past years' marks or closed fee history, and records that need manual cleaning before they can be imported, are quoted separately — and always before any work starts, so there is never a surprise invoice. Migration itself is free on annual plans and on Growth and Scale; on monthly Starter and Essential it is a one-time ₹15,000.

Can we change plans later?

Yes, in either direction, at any time. Moving up takes effect immediately and we pro-rate the difference. Moving down takes effect at your next renewal.

Where is our data, and can we take it with us?

Your records are stored in India, on AWS infrastructure in the Mumbai region. You can export everything at any time, and if you leave we delete your data within 30 days of account closure.

Something not answered here? Read our security page and data processing agreement, or ask us directly.