Kruti
Ola Krutrim's agentic assistant — discontinued as of April 2026
Overview
Kruti was Ola-backed Krutrim's task-executing AI assistant, promising to book cabs, order food and pay bills across 13+ Indian languages; the app went dark in April 2026 amid layoffs and a company-wide pivot to cloud services, and remains inaccessible as of mid-2026.
Pricing
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What you can produce with Kruti
- Discontinued as of April 2026 — app and website no longer functional
- Formerly: voice/text booking for cabs, food and bill payments via Ola
- Formerly: native support across 13 Indian languages (roadmap to 22)
- Formerly: free consumer tier plus a developer embed SDK
ASEAN Perspective
Kruti in Southeast Asia
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Kruti launched in June 2025 as Ola-backed Krutrim's answer to agentic AI: a text-and-voice assistant meant to actually book your cab or pay your electricity bill rather than just chat about it, with native support across 13 Indian languages and a roadmap to 22. It never found an audience — under 500,000 downloads worldwide by the time it disappeared.
By April 2026 the app was gone from the App Store, Google Play and the Ola app itself, with no shutdown announcement; the website still shows a maintenance placeholder as of July 2026. The timing lines up with roughly 200 layoffs at Krutrim, the dissolution of its linguistics team, a shelved Krutrim 3 model, and a broader pivot toward AI cloud infrastructure. Treat this as a case study in agentic-AI ambition outrunning execution, not a product to evaluate for use — it doesn't function anymore.
What people say
Kruti arrived in June 2025 pitched as one of the first India-built agentic assistants: instead of just answering questions, it was supposed to execute — booking a cab through Ola, paying a bill, ordering food, generating images, or running multi-step research, in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and ten other languages at launch, tuned for low-bandwidth conditions. Krutrim, backed by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, positioned it as a showcase for its own foundation model plus fine-tuned open-source models, with a free consumer tier and an SDK for developers to embed the assistant elsewhere.
Adoption never matched the ambition. By the time it vanished, download figures cited in Indian tech press (Inc42, Entrackr) put total installs at under 500,000 worldwide — thin for a product tied to Ola's ride-hailing user base. There's little public record of hands-on user reviews on G2, Capterra or Reddit; what exists is almost entirely trade coverage rather than end-user commentary, which itself says something about how little traction the product had outside press cycles.
The app went offline across web and app stores in mid-April 2026 with no shutdown notice from Ola or Krutrim — visitors to kruti.ai got, and still get as of July 2026, a placeholder page reading the site is "under maintenance." The disappearance followed roughly 200 job cuts at Krutrim across 2025, including the team that had trained the assistant's language models, and a decision to shelve the next-generation Krutrim 3 LLM. Reporting from Medianama and TheOutpost in May 2026 describes a wider retreat: Krutrim pausing both chip design and foundation-model work to refocus on AI cloud infrastructure, where it can compete on hosting rather than models.
Nothing published since suggests a relaunch. For a directory entry, the honest framing is past tense: Kruti was a real, funded attempt at a consumer agentic assistant that shipped, got measured adoption, and was quietly wound down within a year — not a product anyone can sign up for today.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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