SoapNoteSoapNote vs Eka Care: free local-first EMR or cloud plan?
Eka Care is a polished, AI-native cloud EMR — and you pay for all of it, every year, whether you use the AI or not. SoapNote flips the deal: the complete clinic EMR is free forever for solo doctors, runs fully offline on your own computer, and AI is pay-per-use on top. Your records stay in your clinic either way.
SoapNote vs Eka Care, feature by feature.
Everything a solo clinic actually uses, compared honestly. Where Eka is strong, we say so below.
| Feature | SoapNoteFree + pay-per-use | Eka CarePro EMR listed at ₹5,999 |
|---|---|---|
| Cost & ownership | — | |
| Published starting price | ₹0 forever | ₹2,999 |
| Data stays on your computer | ✓ | ✗ Their cloud |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ✗ |
| You keep records if you stop paying | ✓ Always | ✗ |
| We never sell your data | ✓ | — |
| Clinic management | — | |
| Patient records & history | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Appointments & token queue | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Billing, invoices & prescriptions | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Built-in video tele-consultation | ✓ | ✓ |
| ABHA / ABDM linking | Roadmap | ✓ |
| AI & safety | — | |
| Ask AI from the patient's history Hindi / English / Hinglish | ✓ Pay-per-use | ✗ |
| Voice-to-note dictation | Coming | ✓ EkaScribe |
| AI billed only when you use it | ✓ | ✗ Annual bundle |
| Encrypted off-site backup, your key | ✓ Add-on | Their cloud |
| One-tap restore on a new computer | ✓ | N/A |
| Personal support when something breaks | RM (Pro) |
Pricing checked 24 August 2026 on Eka Care's official pricing page: plans are listed from ₹2,999 and Pro at ₹5,999. The page does not clearly label the billing period in its plan headings, so confirm the current offer directly. Eka Care and EkaScribe are trademarks of Orbi Health; SoapNote is not affiliated with Eka Care.
Running a group clinic? Compare like for like.
Eka Care's plans vary by features and hardware; SoapNote's Clinic plan is ₹14,999/year for up to three doctors and three staff seats, including tele-consultation and an online booking page. Confirm each vendor's current billing period, taxes and included seats before deciding.
Where Eka Care is genuinely strong.
If these are what you need most today, Eka may be the right tool — an honest comparison cuts both ways.
ABDM today, voice scribe today
Eka Care supports ABHA/ABDM linking right now, and EkaScribe turns consultations into structured notes by voice. Both are real, shipped features. ABHA linking is on our near-term roadmap and dictation is a planned add-on — if either is a hard requirement today, Eka is ahead on those two.
The economics and the ownership
Eka offers a cloud EMR with published paid plans; SoapNote offers the full solo EMR at ₹0 forever, stores records on your own computer, works fully offline, and charges for AI only when you use it.
Moving off Eka Care takes three steps.
We migrate your full patient history into SoapNote for you — free, by hand, with nothing re-typed.
Export from Eka
Download your patient data from Eka Care — or get on a quick call and we'll walk you through it in five minutes.
We migrate it — free
Our team maps and imports every patient, visit and prescription into SoapNote. No charge, no spreadsheets to wrangle.
Review & go live
Confirm everyone's there with their full history, and start seeing patients — now on software you own.
Once it's moved, your data lives on your own computer — and because there's no lock-in, you could just as easily take it elsewhere later. That's the whole point.
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