10 Best AI Tools for Hindi, Gujarati and Other Indian Languages
Gemini, ChatGPT, Sarvam, Bhashini, Google Translate and five more AI tools ranked for Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil and other Indian languages, with verified language lists and rupee prices.
On this page
- Key takeaways
- Quick picks: best AI tools for Indian languages at a glance
- Which Indian languages each AI tool supports
- The 10 best AI tools for Indian languages reviewed
- How to choose an AI tool for your Indian language
- Practical prompts for Hindi, Gujarati and regional language work
- Accuracy, tokens and privacy: what to watch for
- Frequently asked questions
- Our verdict: the best AI tools for Indian languages
The best AI tools for Indian languages in 2026 are Google Gemini and ChatGPT for everyday chat and writing in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil and other languages, Sarvam AI for an Indian-built assistant and voice APIs, and Google Translate or Microsoft Translator for quick, free translation. For voiceovers, ElevenLabs covers Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and more, and Bhashini and AI4Bharat’s IndicTrans2 serve government and developer projects across all 22 scheduled languages.
We checked each tool’s official language list on 10 October 2026, so the tables below show exactly which Indian languages each one supports, what it costs in rupees, and which tool fits chatting, translating, dubbing or building an app.
Key takeaways
- Best overall: Gemini, which officially supports 13 Indian languages including Gujarati, Odia and Assamese, with a free plan and AI Plus at Rs 399 a month.
- Best for writing: ChatGPT, whose interface supports Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Urdu, with UPI payment for Go and Plus.
- Best Indian-built option: Sarvam AI, with the Indus app and rupee-priced APIs for speech, translation and text in up to 22 Indian languages.
- Best for rare languages: Microsoft Translator covers Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Konkani, Kashmiri and Manipuri, and IndicTrans2 covers all 22 scheduled languages for free.
- Always have a native speaker check anything public, especially legal, medical or government text.
Quick picks: best AI tools for Indian languages at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini | All-round assistant in 13 Indian languages | AI Plus Rs 399/mo | Yes |
| ChatGPT | Writing, emails and study help | Go, about Rs 399/mo (reported) | Yes |
| Sarvam AI (Indus and APIs) | Indian-built chat, speech and translation | Pay as you go in INR | Free credits on sign-up |
| Google Translate | Fast free translation, camera and live speech | Free | Yes |
| Bhashini | Government and public services | Free public platform | Yes |
| Microsoft Translator | Rare scheduled languages, business documents | Azure pay as you go | 2M characters/mo on Azure |
| ElevenLabs | Voiceovers and dubbing | Starter $6/mo | Yes, 10k credits/mo |
| Meta AI Reels translation | Translating your Reels voice | Free | Yes |
| Claude | Long documents and careful Hindi writing | Pro $20/mo (about Rs 2,000) | Yes |
| AI4Bharat IndicTrans2 | Developers, all 22 scheduled languages | Free, open source | Yes |
Which Indian languages each AI tool supports
Hindi works almost everywhere; Gujarati, Odia, Assamese and smaller languages vary. This table uses each vendor’s published list; “Not listed” means it is not on the official page, not that the tool cannot attempt it.
| Language | Gemini | ChatGPT | Microsoft Translator | ElevenLabs | Meta Reels translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gujarati | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| Bengali | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Marathi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tamil | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Telugu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kannada | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Malayalam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| Punjabi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| Urdu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| Odia and Assamese | Yes | Not listed | Yes | Assamese only | Not listed |
| Maithili, Dogri, Bodo, Konkani, Kashmiri, Manipuri | Not listed | Not listed | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
The ChatGPT column reflects its interface languages. For the deepest coverage, Bhashini says it supports 36 Indian text languages and 23 Indian voice languages, and IndicTrans2 covers all 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
The 10 best AI tools for Indian languages reviewed
1. Google Gemini: Best all-round AI assistant in Indian languages
- Starting price: Free; AI Plus Rs 399/mo; AI Pro Rs 1,950/mo
- Free plan: Yes, Gemini 3.6 Flash with limited 3.1 Pro
- Best for: students, small businesses and anyone who wants one assistant for Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil and more
Google says the Gemini app is available in more than 70 languages, and its official list includes Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. That is the widest Indian-language list of any mainstream chatbot we checked.
India pricing is clear: AI Plus costs Rs 399 a month and AI Pro Rs 1,950. University students aged 18 and above can get AI Plus free for a year if they redeem by 31 December 2026, and Jio’s offer gives eligible customers on a Rs 349 or higher 5G plan Google AI Pro free for 18 months. Our Gemini pricing guide breaks down each plan, and our guide to free AI Pro plans in India explains how to claim the offers.
Skip it if: you need Maithili, Dogri, Bodo or other smaller scheduled languages, which are not on Gemini’s list.
2. ChatGPT: Best for writing and study help in Hindi and regional languages
- Starting price: Free; Go about Rs 399/mo and Plus about Rs 1,999/mo including GST (reported)
- Free plan: Yes, now on GPT-6 Luna
- Best for: emails, social posts, translations with explanations and exam prep
OpenAI’s language settings list 59 supported languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Urdu, so you can set the whole interface to your language. It is strong at rewriting tone (“make this Hindi message more formal”) and explaining translations, which helps learners.
In India, OpenAI accepts UPI for Go and Plus, and India is listed for rupee billing. Official INR prices did not load on OpenAI’s site, so treat Rs 399 for Go and Rs 1,999 for Plus as reported figures and see our ChatGPT Plus India price guide for the cheapest ways to pay. Compare it head to head in ChatGPT vs Gemini.
Skip it if: you mainly work in Odia, Assamese or smaller languages that are not in its supported list.
3. Sarvam AI: Best Indian-built AI for voice, translation and chat
- Starting price: pay as you go in INR, for example Rs 30 per hour of speech to text
- Free plan: free credits on sign-up (amount not stated)
- Best for: Indian startups, call centers and anyone who wants a homegrown option
Bengaluru-based Sarvam builds models specifically for Indian languages. Its site says it works “across 22 Indian languages”, with translation across 23 languages, speech to text in 12 Indic languages and natural text to speech voices in 11. Its Indus app, launched in beta on 20 February 2026 for iOS, Android and the web, lets you type or speak a question and get answers in text and audio, running on the Sarvam 105B model.
Builders get rupee pricing: Bulbul v3 text to speech costs Rs 3 per 1,000 characters, speech to text Rs 30 per hour of audio (Rs 45 with speaker labels), document translation Rs 0.005 per character, and the Sarvam 105B model Rs 29.28 per million input tokens and Rs 73.20 per million output tokens.
Skip it if: you want a polished consumer app with published plan prices today; Indus pricing was not stated when we checked.
4. Google Translate: Best free translator for travel and quick checks
- Starting price: Free
- Free plan: Yes
- Best for: travel, signboards, menus and one-off translations
Google Translate remains the fastest way to translate a sentence, a photo of a signboard or a conversation. In June 2024 Google used AI to add 110 languages, including Awadhi and Marwadi, which it described as languages close to Hindi. In December 2025 it began using Gemini to handle idioms and slang more naturally, launching first in the US and India, and it added a live headphone translation beta on Android in India that supports over 70 languages.
Download languages for offline use on patchy networks, and run longer text through Gemini or ChatGPT to fix tone.
Skip it if: you need a consistent brand voice across long documents.
5. Bhashini: Best for government services and public sector projects
- Starting price: free public platform
- Free plan: Yes
- Best for: government departments, civic tech and public information
Bhashini is India’s national language AI platform, run by the Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Ministry of Electronics and IT. According to an August 2026 government summary, it supports 36 Indian text languages, 23 Indian voice languages and 35 international languages, powers over 800 government websites and handles more than 24 million AI inferences a day.
Citizens mostly meet Bhashini inside government sites and apps; departments and civic developers should start here. The official site loads only with JavaScript, so check bhashini.gov.in directly for current tools and API access.
Skip it if: you want a general-purpose assistant for personal or marketing work.
6. Microsoft Translator: Best for rare scheduled languages and business documents
- Starting price: Azure AI Translator pay as you go
- Free plan: Yes, 2 million characters a month on Azure
- Best for: Maithili, Dogri, Bodo, Konkani, Kashmiri and Manipuri content
Microsoft has the broadest Indian list of the big tech tools, including Assamese, Bangla, Bhojpuri, Bodo, Chhattisgarhi, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Businesses can use Azure AI Translator, whose free tier includes “2 million characters” of translation a month, and which also translates whole documents. The paid per-character rate did not load on Microsoft’s page, so use the Azure calculator before you scale.
Skip it if: you need conversational help, not just translation.
7. ElevenLabs: Best for Hindi, Tamil and Gujarati voiceovers and dubbing
- Starting price: Starter $6/mo
- Free plan: Yes, 10k credits a month (about 10 minutes), no commercial license
- Best for: YouTubers, course creators and ad agencies
ElevenLabs lists Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Assamese, Nepali and Sindhi among its 90+ languages, with its Eleven v3 model covering 70+ languages. Turn a Hindi script into a voiceover or dub an English video into Tamil. The Starter plan at $6 a month adds a commercial license and instant voice cloning.
Coverage varies by model, so preview first. Our ElevenLabs pricing breakdown explains credits, and our list of the best AI voice generators compares alternatives.
Skip it if: you only need text, not audio.
8. Meta AI Reels translation: Best free way to reach new language audiences on Instagram
- Starting price: Free
- Free plan: Yes
- Best for: creators and brands posting Reels
Meta AI can translate your voice in a Reel into another language, with optional lip sync, and Meta says it is free. The feature launched with English, Spanish, Hindi and Portuguese, and in January 2026 added Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada on Instagram and Facebook. All public Instagram accounts are eligible; Facebook creators need 1,000 or more followers.
See our list of the best AI tools for Instagram Reels for editing and caption tools to pair with it.
Skip it if: your audience speaks Gujarati, Malayalam or Punjabi, which were not in Meta’s announced list.
9. Claude: Best for long Hindi documents and careful writing
- Starting price: Pro $20/mo, about Rs 2,000 including GST (press reports)
- Free plan: Yes, Sonnet and Haiku
- Best for: reports, contracts, research and long translations
Anthropic publishes multilingual test results for Hindi and Bengali, where even the small Haiku 4.5 model scores above 90% of its English performance on a translated knowledge test. Paid plans handle up to 1 million tokens on the newest models, so a long Hindi report is no problem.
Anthropic does not list Gujarati, Tamil or Telugu in that table and advises testing your own language, so try a sample first. Our Claude pricing guide covers rupee prices introduced in July 2026.
Skip it if: you need voice features in Indian languages; other tools here are stronger for speech.
10. AI4Bharat IndicTrans2: Best free, open-source model for developers
- Starting price: Free (you pay only for your own hosting)
- Free plan: Yes, MIT-licensed model checkpoints
- Best for: developers, researchers and startups building translation into products
IndicTrans2 comes from AI4Bharat, a research lab at IIT Madras, and its GitHub page says it “supports high-quality translations across all the 22 scheduled Indic languages”. The model checkpoints are MIT licensed, with Hugging Face versions for English to Indic, Indic to English and Indic to Indic translation, so you can run it on your own servers and keep data in-house.
It is a model, not an app, so you need technical skill; start with our guide to open source AI models you can use for free.
Skip it if: you are not comfortable with Python or cloud hosting.
How to choose an AI tool for your Indian language
- Check the official language list. Use the coverage table above, then confirm on the vendor page. If your language is not listed, test anyway, but expect weaker results.
- Decide between chat, translation and voice. Chat assistants (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Indus) write and explain. Translators (Google, Microsoft, Bhashini, IndicTrans2) convert text. Voice tools (ElevenLabs, Meta Reels translation, Sarvam’s speech APIs) handle audio.
- Test with your real content. Use a real customer message or product description, and ask a fluent speaker to rate the result.
- Compare rupee costs. Gemini AI Plus at Rs 399 and ChatGPT Go at a reported Rs 399 are the cheapest paid assistants. Free plans are enough for occasional use.
Save money: Before paying, check AI student discounts and the telecom bundles in our free Pro plans guide; many Indian users can get a paid tier free for a year or more.
Tip: Ask for the script you want. “Reply in Hindi using Devanagari script” and “reply in Hinglish using Roman script” give very different results, and most people texting in India want the second.
Practical prompts for Hindi, Gujarati and regional language work
These work in Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Indus.
- Translate with tone: “Translate this English product description into Gujarati for small shop owners in Surat. Keep it friendly and simple, under 80 words: [text]”
- Localize, do not just translate: “Rewrite this Diwali offer for a Tamil audience. Use local festival references where natural and keep the discount details exactly the same: [offer]”
- Check a translation: “Here is my English text and a Hindi translation. List any meaning changes, awkward phrases or wrong formality, then give a corrected version.”
For more ready prompts, see our 60 AI prompts for small business owners, and if you sell on WhatsApp, read our WhatsApp AI for business guide on multilingual customer replies.
Accuracy, tokens and privacy: what to watch for
Accuracy drops for smaller languages
Results are usually strongest in Hindi and Bengali and weaker in languages with less online text. Even strong tools mix up formal and informal address (aap vs tum) or gendered verbs, so read every output.
Indian scripts can use more tokens
OpenAI notes that its rule of thumb (about four characters per token) is for English, and other languages “can have different relationships between characters, words, and tokens”. In practice, the same message in Devanagari or Tamil script may use more of your usage limit or API budget than English. If you build on an API, test with a tokenizer first; our explainer on what tokens are in AI shows how.
Keep personal data out
Never paste Aadhaar numbers, bank details or patient records into a consumer chatbot; use business plans or self-hosted IndicTrans2 for sensitive work.
Watch out: Machine translation of legal, medical or official notices can change meaning. Always get a qualified human translator for documents with legal effect.
Frequently asked questions
Which AI is best for Hindi?
For everyday Hindi chat and writing, Gemini and ChatGPT are the strongest all-rounders, and both have free plans. Claude is excellent for long Hindi documents, and Anthropic publishes strong Hindi test results. For Hindi voiceovers, ElevenLabs is the best choice. For translation only, Google Translate is fast and free. Test two tools on your own text and keep the one that reads more naturally.
Does ChatGPT support Gujarati?
Yes. OpenAI’s language settings list Gujarati among 59 supported languages, along with Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Urdu. You can set the interface to Gujarati and chat in Gujarati script. Gemini, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator and ElevenLabs also list Gujarati, so you have several options for writing, translating and voice.
Is there a free AI tool for all 22 Indian languages?
For translation, yes. AI4Bharat’s IndicTrans2 is a free, open-source model that covers all 22 scheduled languages, but it needs technical setup. Bhashini, the government platform, supports 36 Indian text languages. Microsoft Translator covers most scheduled languages including Bodo, Dogri and Maithili. Mainstream chatbots like Gemini cover 13 Indian languages, not all 22.
What is Sarvam AI and is it free?
Sarvam AI is a Bengaluru company building AI models for Indian languages. It offers the Indus chat app, launched in beta in February 2026, plus APIs for text to speech, speech to text and translation priced in rupees. New API users get free credits on sign-up, and paid usage is pay as you go. Indus pricing was not published when we checked.
Can AI translate my Instagram Reels into Tamil or Telugu?
Yes. Meta AI translation for Reels is free and supports Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada among its languages, with optional lip sync. Any public Instagram account can use it where Meta AI is available. For other languages or more control, use ElevenLabs dubbing, which covers more Indian languages but costs money for commercial use.
Our verdict: the best AI tools for Indian languages
For most people, start with Gemini: it has the widest official Indian-language list, a free plan, and the cheapest paid tier at Rs 399, with free student and Jio offers on top. Add ChatGPT if you write a lot of English to Hindi or regional content, Google Translate for quick checks, and ElevenLabs or Meta’s Reels translation if you make videos. Developers and public sector teams should look at Sarvam’s rupee APIs, Bhashini and IndicTrans2 for coverage of smaller languages. For the wider picture, see our roundup of the best free AI tools.
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