Jhana
AI paralegal for Indian law: 16M+ judgments, cited search, drafting
Overview
Jhana is a Harvard-founded AI paralegal for Indian law, searching 16M+ judgments and statutes with cited results, plus drafting and bulk document review. Backed by Freshworks and Eka Software founders, it serves 10,000+ users including 150+ judges and registrars.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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.
- 10 paralegal sessions/mo
- 15 search queries/mo
- Document intel for 30 files
- 35 paralegal sessions/mo
- 45 search queries/mo
- 60 document downloads/mo
- Unlimited paralegal chat
- Unlimited search
- Unlimited document downloads
- Custom seat counts
- Dedicated onboarding
- SLA support
What you can produce with Jhana
- Searches 16M+ Indian judgments and statutes with citations
- Paralegal chat for legal research and case summarization
- Suit: bulk document review, extraction and OCR indexing
- Agentic DOCX drafting
- Free tier: 10 paralegal sessions, 15 searches, 30-file document intel/month
- Adopted by 150+ judges/registrars across 5+ courts
ASEAN Perspective
Jhana in Southeast Asia
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Jhana is the most credible attempt yet at an AI paralegal built specifically for Indian law, not a repackaged general model with a legal skin on top. The National Legal Archive claim, 16M+ judgments and statutes with citation-backed results, is real and differentiating in a market where Westlaw-style tools are expensive and Indian case law is scattered across court websites. The free tier (10 paralegal sessions, 15 searches, 30-file document intelligence a month) is generous enough to actually test the product before paying, and adoption among judges and registrars, not just private-practice lawyers, is a meaningful signal.
The catch is scope: this only works for Indian law, so it's irrelevant outside that jurisdiction. Pricing also isn't fully public; you need to sign in to see plan details beyond the headline numbers, and as a startup on a $1.6M seed round, longevity is unproven. For Indian solo practitioners and small firms doing research and drafting, it's worth trying before defaulting to a legacy subscription.
What people say
On Legally India, a forum practicing Indian lawyers use to compare research tools, jhana comes up as one of the go-to recommendations when someone asks about reliable AI legal research, alongside competitors like Lucio and Jurisphere. One lawyer described using it for about a week while still in beta and said it had already earned a permanent bookmark, an early, informal endorsement rather than a scored review.
The clearest data point on document handling comes from Teja Boggaram, an associate at Transcorporate Legal Services LLP, who used the Suit product to index handwritten seizure records and called the output "accurate, searchable, and verifiable", a specific, checkable claim rather than generic praise, and a good test of the OCR-plus-citation pipeline the company built its pitch around.
Bar & Bench, one of India's main legal trade publications, profiled jhana as the work of three Harvard graduates building AI tooling for Indian lawyers, which lines up with the company's own framing as a "frontier legal intelligence lab" spun out of Harvard research. The $1.6M seed round, led by Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham and Eka Software founder Manav Garg, closed in December 2023, small by AI-startup standards, but the investor names carry weight in Indian tech circles.
On scale: the company reports 10,000+ users, 150+ judges and registrars across five-plus courts, 100,000+ paralegal sessions and 200,000+ searches against the archive. Court-side adoption is a harder thing to fake than marketing copy, and it suggests the citation accuracy holds up under scrutiny a private-practice user might not apply.
What's harder to verify from outside is exactly where the free tier stops being useful. Public pricing pages list a Basic plan around ₹3,300/month and a Pro plan around ₹5,000/month, both excluding 18% GST, with enterprise pricing starting near ₹54,000/month for 15 seats, but the full feature breakdown between tiers sits behind a login, so prospective users have to sign up to see the real gates.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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