Most Indian school ERP vendors charge between ₹8 and ₹15 per student per month. Few publish it. The figure usually arrives after a demo, by which point you have spent an hour and it is awkward to walk away.
For a 500-student school that band works out at roughly ₹48,000 to ₹90,000 a year for core modules. What moves a quote within it: student count, how many modules you switch on, whether the parent app is branded for your school, how much historical data needs migrating, and WhatsApp message volume.
The costs that are not usually in the headline figure are onboarding and training, data migration from your existing registers or Excel, report card template setup for your board, and per-message charges once WhatsApp use goes past an included allowance. Ask for all four in writing before comparing two quotes, because one vendor bundling them and another charging for them can invert which looks cheaper.
For reference, our plans work out at ₹4.40 to ₹6 per student per month at each plan's student ceiling, or ₹3.67 to ₹5 on annual billing. A school well under a plan's ceiling pays proportionally more per student, which is why the ceiling is stated on every card below rather than left for you to work out.
For the full breakdown, including the charges vendors leave out of a quote and how to put two quotes on the same basis, see our guide to school ERP software cost in India. Two schools on the Foundation plan, Sri Sankalpa Concept School and World Vidya Sports Sainik School, describe what they actually got for it.