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Clear (ClearTax)
Indian platform for GST filing, e-invoicing, e-way bills, and income-tax compliance for businesses and professionals.
FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
A go-to for Indian businesses and tax professionals that want to handle GST and tax compliance specifically, with strong reconciliation features. It complements rather than replaces accounting software, so pair it with your books tool. Confirm current product tiers (SMB vs enterprise) and pricing on the official site.
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Should you use Clear (ClearTax)?
Use it if indian businesses managing GST filing and reconciliation. Avoid it if businesses issuing tens of thousands of invoices per GSTIN, because the per GSTIN invoice cap triggers a bigger contract.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹5,208/mo₹5,208/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Clear (ClearTax) is a finance & money / finance & accounting for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹5,208/mo before GST, billed in rupees. It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for indian businesses managing GST filing and reconciliation, and a poor fit if businesses issuing tens of thousands of invoices per GSTIN, because the per GSTIN invoice cap triggers a bigger contract.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Filing, reconciliation and e-invoicing sit in one Indian product built against GSTN rules rather than a foreign tool adapted later
- The professional expert pack covers up to 300 GSTINs with 5 users, which suits a practice handling many client registrations
- CA assisted ITR plans start near 1,299 rupees, so a salaried filer gets review without hiring a full time accountant
The catch
- Listed plan prices exclude 18 percent GST, so a 499 rupee monthly plan actually bills closer to 589 rupees
- The expert pack limits each GSTIN to 3,000 invoices a year, so high volume clients push you into a larger contract
- Reviewers describe renewal quotes rising in multiples rather than small increments, with one account moving from about 6,000 to 22,000 rupees
- GST software pricing is not published on one public page, so the real number depends on a sales conversation
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹5,208
Clear (ClearTax) is billed in rupees at ₹5,208.08/mo, so there is no forex markup. A registered business reclaims GST, so that is roughly the cost (₹62,497/yr). Without reclaim, add 18% for about ₹6,146 a month.
- Sticker price
- ₹5,208.08/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹5,208
- Registered per year
- ₹62,497
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹6,146
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Vendor no longer publishes GST-software pricing (quote/demo only); a monthly figure cited by third-party aggregators is unverified.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Clear (ClearTax) fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✓Bills in INR
Priced in rupees, so there is no forex conversion or card markup on top.
- ✓India HQ
India-headquartered, so support, timezone, and context are local.
How Clear (ClearTax) compares
Against the 2 other tax gst compliance toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Clear (ClearTax).
- Gstr 2b reconciliation
- Multi gstin management
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What is Clear (ClearTax)?
Clear (formerly ClearTax) provides GST return filing, e-invoicing, e-way bills, and income-tax tools for Indian businesses, CAs, and enterprises. It focuses on automating compliance and reconciliation, such as GSTR-2B matching for input tax credit, rather than full bookkeeping, and also offers self-service income-tax filing for individuals.
Best for
- Indian businesses managing GST filing and reconciliation
- CAs and tax professionals serving multiple clients
- Enterprises needing e-invoicing and e-way bills
Who should avoid it
- Businesses issuing tens of thousands of invoices per GSTIN, because the per GSTIN invoice cap triggers a bigger contract
- Buyers who need a fixed multi year price, because renewal quotes have been reported to move sharply upward each year
What Clear (ClearTax) does
What we verified about Clear (ClearTax)
Read from Clear (ClearTax)’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed37
- Vendor management
- vendor management is a named Clear Finance Cloud module
- Two factor auth
- 2FA is listed under granular access control
- Multi gstin management
- the platform handles many GSTINs under one PAN at once
- IP whitelisting
- IP whitelisting is named in the data protection measures
- GST return filing
- supports filing GSTR-1 through 9C from a single screen
- Gstr 2b reconciliation
- reconciliation targets accurate GSTR-2B for input tax credit
- E invoicing
- e-invoicing is a named Clear product alongside GST filing
- Developer API
- end-to-end secure APIs connect Clear to enterprise systems
- Audit trail
- full audit trails and compliance-driven data archival are supported
- Advance tax computation
- advance tax filing and a calculator are offered
- Branch level access control
- branch-level controls exist for e-invoicing and e-way bills
- CA assisted filing
- hire an expert plans put a CA on your return
- Capital gains computation
- plans cover mutual funds, stocks, crypto and property sale gains
- ERP data ingestion
- GL-Stream streams raw general ledger data from any ERP
- Error validation
- over 200 validations flag ingestion errors on the interface
- Esop rsu taxation
- a dedicated service covers ESOP and RSU tax filing
- E way bills
- e-way bill generation is part of the compliance suite
- Fno and intraday taxation
- F&O and intraday income is handled in higher ITR plans
- Gstr 1 vs 3b vs books
- tax liability comparison runs at section, GSTIN and PAN level
- Gstr 2a 2b pull
- pulls GSTR-2A and 2B across months and years in seconds
- Gstr 9 table 8a report
- GSTR 9 Table 8A report download is a named report
- Historical invoice retrieval
- pulls historical GSTR-1 and 3B invoices since GST inception
- Hsn summaries
- reporting includes summaries by HSN code
- Huf registration
- HUF services are listed among consumer offerings
- Income tax filing
- self-service ITR filing is offered for individuals
- Invoice discounting
- Clear Finance Cloud lists invoice discounting as a supply chain product
- Invoice management system actions
- smart recommended IMS actions handle post-reconciliation discrepancies
- Itc matching
- AI matching claims 10,000 documents a minute to detect tax credits
- Master item and contact directory
- a master directory of items and contacts is created once and reused
- Nri tax filing
- NRI and foreign income filing is a listed service
- Pan level filing
- returns can be viewed, consolidated and filed across GSTINs by PAN
- Purchase register management
- purchase register preparation and frequency control prevent ITC delays
- Smart reports
- 30 or more PAN and multi-PAN comparison reports are available
- Table 4 automation
- auto-calculates ITC and populates Table-4 of GSTR-3B
- Tax notice management
- a Notice Management plan handles income tax notices
- TDS compliance
- direct tax solutions sit alongside indirect tax in the platform map
- Vendor communication
- custom emails and reminders can be sent to vendors by invoice
What people use it for2
- Issue GST invoices
- e-way bill generation is required for goods movement in India
- File GST returns
- self and CA-assisted ITR filing serve salaried and business filers
Works with2
- Sap
- the page names SAP integration meeting SAP's recommended requirements
- Microsoft dynamics
- Microsoft integration is named alongside SAP for GST and e-invoicing
Terms, compliance and how you buy19
- Soc2 certified
- SOC 2 compliance is claimed alongside ISO 27001
- Iso 27001 certified
- ISO 27001 certification is stated in the security section
- Cloud hosted
- described as a cloud-based GST software with no IT or SOP changes
- Aes 256 encryption
- AES-256 encryption is used at rest and in transit
- Enterprise and CA firm oriented
- 4,000 enterprises and 80,000 tax experts are cited as customers
- GST extra on plan price
- listed plan prices exclude 18 percent GST
- Gstin count caps
- the professional expert pack covers up to 300 GSTINs with 5 users
- GST software pricing not published
- GST software pricing is not on one public page and needs sales
- India built
- an Indian product built against GSTN rules rather than adapted later
- India only
- the entire product is scoped to Indian GST and income tax law
- INR pricing
- CA-assisted ITR plans are quoted in rupees from about ₹1,299
- Large consumer base
- the consumer product claims 8 million users filing returns
- Not full bookkeeping
- our verdict says it complements rather than replaces accounting software
- Per gstin invoice cap
- the expert pack limits each GSTIN to 3,000 invoices a year
- Quote only enterprise
- enterprise GST deployments arrive through a sales conversation
- Regular vapt
- regular vulnerability assessment and penetration testing is claimed
- Self serve consumer filing
- individuals can start filing directly without any sales contact
- Steep renewal increases
- reviewers report renewals moving from about ₹6,000 to ₹22,000
- Uptime claim
- the page claims 99.99 percent uptime with multiple redundancies
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Does Clear (ClearTax) give a GST invoice in India?
Clear (ClearTax) issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is Clear (ClearTax) good for Indian small businesses?
Clear (ClearTax) is worth evaluating for Indian buyers, but the final fit depends on pricing limits, support, integrations, and setup effort.
Does Clear (ClearTax) have a free plan?
Clear (ClearTax) lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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