VIDUR

VIDUR is an AI assistant for Indian tax, corporate and regulatory research and drafting, founded in 2022 and based in Gurugram. It covers Income Tax, GST, Companies Act, insolvency law, FEMA, SEBI and accounting standards, drawing on 250+ expert sources with clickable, verifiable citations. The product also markets 10,000+ AI templates and 5,000+ prompts, enterprise-grade security with a no-training-on-user-data claim, and access via web, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp. The audience is chartered accountants, auditors, accountants and corporate lawyers who need cited India-law answers without leaving practice workflows.

CA/CS professional pricing is published: Gold at ₹4,999 per year for 1,500 queries across four modules with web and mobile access and basic OCR; Platinum at ₹9,999 per year for unlimited queries, WhatsApp access, two AI training sessions and premium OCR up to 200 pages; Platinum Plus at ₹14,999 per year with five training sessions, 25 hours expert support, unlimited uploads, judgment summaries, case briefs and custom prompts. All those rates are exclusive of 18% GST. A one-month free trial offers full module access, unlimited queries, web/mobile/WhatsApp access and uploads up to five pages. Enterprise is custom, including org-specific repositories and workflows.

In day-to-day CA work, VIDUR fits the research and first-draft layer: querying a provision while reviewing a transaction, drafting a client note, preparing a notice reply skeleton, or checking FEMA/Companies Act intersections that general LLMs mishandle. Citations are meant to be opened and read; the product does not replace professional judgment or primary-source verification. WhatsApp and mobile access help when partners research away from the desktop. Templates and prompts speed repeat memo shapes once your firm standardises which ones juniors may use.

VIDUR is less compelling if you need Taxmann's curated commentary corpus specifically, or if your only pain is GST litigation matter tracking (compare Vaive.ai) or operational GST recon. Gold's 1,500-query cap can constrain busy seasons; Platinum's unlimited tier is the one to model for multi-user firms. It is not a filing or reconciliation product.

Spend the free month on live questions: a recent amendment, a GST dispute angle, a Companies Act procedural point, and one document-upload OCR test at your plan's page limit. Score citation usefulness and how often seniors rewrite drafts. Confirm the no-training claim in the contract, where prompts and uploads are stored, and how client facts in queries are treated under DPDP. Decide seats versus shared logins carefully for query caps on Gold. For Enterprise, ask how an org-specific repository is governed and who can publish firm prompts.

Firmwide rollout works better with a small prompt library your quality partner approves, rather than every article clerk inventing wild queries. Track which modules (IT, GST, corporate, etc.) your people actually use in the trial so Gold versus Platinum is an evidence-based buy. If WhatsApp access is enabled, set rules for what client identifiers may appear in chats. Platinum Plus expert-support hours should be scheduled against known busy periods, not left unspent. When comparing VIDUR to Taxmann.ai, separate "price per year" from "trust in corpus and commentary"; some partners will pay more for a branded research stack, others want WhatsApp-cited answers under ₹10k. Either way, keep circulars.nic and departmental sites in the verification habit. For articled assistants, pair VIDUR use with a short "how I verified this" note in the file until the firm trusts their citation hygiene. Measure average senior edit time on five drafts before and after VIDUR; if edit time does not fall, change prompts or plan tier before renewing.

The renewal trap is treating clickable citations as a licence to skip primary sources. VIDUR is built for affordable, cited Indian multi-law research with mobile and WhatsApp access; it still loses value the day juniors paste answers onto letterhead without opening the link. Stack it against Taxmann.ai and TaxBotGPT on corpus trust and price after the free month, pick the plan your module-usage data supports, and keep the verification habit written into firm policy so the AI assistant never becomes the unreviewed voice of the practice.