CoRover.ai

BharatGPT-powered assistants for Indian government and enterprise, as a managed service

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RECATOOLS Score
7.2 / 10
Capability
8.5
Value for money
7
Ease of use
6.5
ASEAN readiness
5.5
API quality
7
Founded
2016
HQ
Bengaluru, India
Users
1.8B aggregate reach; 60–65M MAUs; 2–4M DAUs (April 2026)
Launched
2016; AskDISHA (IRCTC) launched October 2018
Developer
Ankush Sabharwal (CEO), Kunal Bhakhri, Manav Gandotra, Rahul Ranjan

Overview

CoRover.ai is a Bengaluru conversational-AI company that builds and runs chat, voice, video, WhatsApp and IVR assistants for Indian enterprises and government bodies, including IRCTC's AskDISHA. Its assistants combine classic NLP with its own BharatGPT models and third-party LLMs across Indian and foreign languages. Pricing is a published managed-service rate card: a one-time implementation fee, a monthly subscription and usage charges.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Implementation
$12,500 one-time
₹10,00,000, paid in advance
  • One AI assistant for one website, app or use case
  • Fewer than 250 classic-NLP intents and 25 pages of generative-AI content
  • English, text and voice input
  • Standard analytics dashboard
Usage above 100,000 messages
₹2.5 to ₹0.82 per message
Sliding scale by monthly volume
  • Bot responses free; user messages charged
  • WhatsApp and RCS at Meta or carrier rates plus a CoRover fee
Extra language or channel
$4,000 each
₹3,00,000 each
  • Per additional language
  • Per additional channel such as WhatsApp, IVR, Teams or SMS
  • Custom integrations at $300 (₹20,000) per person-day
VoiceBot / IVR
₹2.75/minute
AI IVR voicebot
  • Generative library voice +₹2.5/minute
  • Generative cloned voice +₹10.5/minute in English, ₹20 in other languages
VideoBot
From ₹7,50,000 setup
Basic tier; ₹2,00,000 subscription (period not stated in the PDF)
  • Basic: AI-generated avatar, 50,000 queries included
  • Standard: ₹10 lakh setup, cloned voice, 75,000 queries
  • Premium: ₹15 lakh setup, real-time GenAI avatar, 2,500 minutes

Use cases

Government citizen-service chatbots for transport, finance, and public utilities Railway and travel ticketing automation with voice and text bots Banking and financial services conversational agents (NPCI, LIC, HDFC) Multilingual customer support automation for large Indian enterprises Offline-capable edge AI deployments for low-connectivity rural environments

What you can produce with CoRover.ai

  • A managed AI assistant deployed on web, app, WhatsApp, IVR or other messaging channels
  • Conversations in English plus Indian and foreign languages, by text and voice
  • Voicebots for phone lines and video-avatar bots
  • Live-chat handoff to human agents with conversation context
  • An analytics dashboard of queries, feedback and accuracy
  • Integrations with ERP, CRM, databases and custom APIs
  • Access to gated BharatGPT models on Hugging Face
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ASEAN Perspective

CoRover.ai in Southeast Asia

CoRover.ai has not made confirmed inroads into ASEAN markets as of mid-2026; its flagship deployments are entirely within India's government and financial services sectors. However, the platform's deep multilingual architecture and BharatGPT Mini's offline-first, low-compute design could be relevant to markets like Indonesia, the Philippines, or Vietnam — where rural connectivity is patchy and local-language support is commercially critical. ASEAN enterprises evaluating CoRover should expect to engage as early-market adopters, with the understanding that ASEAN-language training data, local support SLAs, and regional compliance coverage are not yet publicly documented.

RECATOOLS Verdict

CoRover has real production deployments in Indian public services, AskDISHA for IRCTC among them, and in October 2026 was reported as the government's choice for a national AI assistant platform starting with DigiLocker. Its own BharatGPT models are available, gated, on Hugging Face, and it publishes a full price list, which few enterprise vendors do.

The scale figures on its site are its own and should be checked in a pilot. At $12,500 to implement and $5,000 a month before usage, with 10% annual increases, it suits large Indian organisations needing Indic-language channels; smaller teams and buyers outside India have cheaper self-serve options.

Desk research by RECATOOLS from public sources, written with AI assistance — not a hands-on test. How we review

What we found

CoRover.ai is a Bengaluru company, operated by CoRover Private Limited, that builds chat, voice, video and WhatsApp assistants for large Indian organisations and runs them as a managed service. Its best-known deployment is AskDISHA, the IRCTC railway assistant, which CoRover's case-study page calls India's first government AI chatbot and credits with more than 150,000 queries a day at 90% accuracy and over 178 million passengers served. Those are CoRover's figures, and the AskDISHA site returned a service-unavailable error when checked on 14 October 2026. Earlier versions of this page also gave AskDISHA ten billion interactions; CoRover's own page attaches that number to a different assistant, KSRTC's AskVaani, so it has been dropped.

BharatGPT is the in-house model family. CoRover publishes gated models on Hugging Face under a custom licence: BharatGPT-mini, about 500 million parameters by its own model file, BharatGPT-3B-Indic, and BharatGPT-Instruct, about five billion parameters, uploaded in September 2026. CoRover says Instruct beats a model fifteen times its size on reasoning benchmarks; that is a vendor claim.

Government work is the bigger story. On 8 October 2026 The Economic Times reported that the Centre had chosen CoRover to build a national unified AI assistant and bot platform, beginning with DigiLocker. In September CoRover and Tech Mahindra announced a partnership pairing BharatGPT with Tech Mahindra's Project Indus model.

Unusually for an enterprise vendor, prices are published, in a downloadable PDF: $12,500 one-time to implement one assistant, then $5,000 a month for licence, hosting and support with 100,000 user messages included, plus per-message charges above that, with bot replies free, and per-minute voicebot rates. Besides Bengaluru, CoRover lists offices in New Delhi and London. The terms add 10% a year and require three months' notice to cancel. Funding is modest beside the deployments: a $4 million Series A led by Venture Catalysts in 2024 and an undisclosed HDFC Bank investment in 2025.

Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.

Notable facts

  • AskDISHA, CoRover's chatbot for IRCTC, handled over 10 billion passenger interactions and is recognised as the first AI chatbot deployed by any government organisation in India.
  • BharatGPT Mini (534M parameters) was launched at VivaTech Paris 2025 in the presence of an Indian government minister and can run fully offline on edge devices — it reportedly guided 400 million pilgrims at Maha Kumbh 2025 without an internet connection.
  • CoRover is the first and only conversational and generative AI company globally to achieve CMMI Maturity Level 5 — the highest process-maturity rating in software engineering.
  • CoRover won the National Startup Award 2022 (Government of India) in the Enterprise Technology / CRM category and topped the NASSCOM Product Conclave 2022 most-innovative-product list.

Frequently asked questions

AskDISHA is the official AI chatbot of IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation), built and operated by CoRover. Launched in October 2018, it handles roughly 150,000 passenger queries per day — covering ticket bookings, PNR status, cancellations, and travel information — across web and mobile channels in English and Hindi, with 90% response accuracy.
CoRover advertises a free chatbot entry point on its website, but there is no publicly documented free tier with defined limits. The platform is not open-source; the enterprise product is proprietary. CoRover has published the BharatGPT-3B-Indic model weights on Hugging Face for research use, but the core platform and BharatGPT Mini are closed commercial products.
CoRover supports 100+ languages and has offices in London, and lists presence in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia. However, all its major production deployments are within India. Businesses outside India — particularly in ASEAN — would be engaging as early-market adopters, as ASEAN-language training data, local support SLAs, and regional compliance coverage are not yet publicly documented.

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