by Ola Krutrim
Ola Maps - AI-Powered Maps, Geocoding API & Directions for India
Ola Maps is an AI-powered mapping and navigation platform built by Ola Krutrim (formerly Ola Electric's parent), headquartered in Bengaluru. Launched on July 8, 2024, it combines OpenStreetMap data with proprietary AI and GPS data to deliver navigation specifically optimized for India's complex road conditions. Over 10,000 developers signed up within the first months, with many migrating production workloads from Google Maps. The platform offers turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance, dynamic route optimization based on real-time traffic, offline maps for areas with poor connectivity, and public transport information. For developers, Ola Maps provides a full API suite — Directions, Autocomplete, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, and Places — with Android and iOS SDKs. The AI-first approach uses NLP for context-aware place search, adapting to local naming conventions and query intents that global platforms often miss. Pricing is Ola Maps' strongest play: 5 million free API calls per month per API covers over 90% of Indian developers and startups. Paid tiers are priced at 50% of Google Maps' rates. Startups building on ONDC get 3 years free. For end users, the navigation app is completely free. This aggressive pricing directly targets Google Maps' dominance in India's developer ecosystem. Best suited for Indian developers building location-based apps who want affordable, India-optimized mapping APIs, and for end users navigating Indian cities. However, accuracy is still a work-in-progress — multiple users have reported routing errors that required switching back to Google Maps. The platform is young and actively improving, but businesses with zero tolerance for navigation errors should still benchmark against Google Maps before full migration.
Information updated 1 years ago
Ola Krutrim
Hand-picked videos to help you get started — tutorials, demos, and reviews.
Introduction to Ola Maps
Navigation in Ola S1X+ | Ola S1X Plus में नेविगेशन कैसे यूज़ करें | How to Start Navigation |
Ola Maps Vs Google Maps Vs Map My India
Ola Maps is a powerful Indian alternative to these international apps:
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Yes, Ola Maps by Ola Krutrim is an Indian alternative to Apple Maps. It offers similar functionality while being developed and maintained in India.Explore other Indian alternatives to Apple Maps →
Yes, Ola Maps by Ola Krutrim is an Indian alternative to Waze. It offers similar functionality while being developed and maintained in India.Explore other Indian alternatives to Waze →
Yes, Ola Maps by Ola Krutrim is an Indian alternative to MapMyIndia. It offers similar functionality while being developed and maintained in India.Explore other Indian alternatives to MapMyIndia →
Ola Krutrim
Krutrim Contact Center is an AI-powered customer support platform by Ola Krutrim, India's first AI unicorn from Bengaluru. Multilingual chatbots across 22 Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi with native dialect understanding, automatic knowledge base updates, sentiment recognition, NLP analytics, and multi-channel interaction management. Built on India's sovereign AI cloud. Custom enterprise pricing. Zendesk and Genesys alternative.
Ola Krutrim
Krutrim is Ola’s Bengaluru-based AI arm, and what it sells has changed. It launched in 2024 as an AI Studio — a no-code model-building platform with a catalogue of multilingual Indian-language LLMs — but after halting its foundation-model and custom-chip programmes in late 2025 it now trades as Krutrim Cloud, an India-hosted GPU and CPU cloud aimed at enterprises. Indian data residency is still the core pitch; the model studio largely is not.
Ola Krutrim
Krutrim Cloud is India's first sovereign AI cloud, built by Ola Krutrim (India's first AI unicorn, January 2024). Get NVIDIA A100 GPU-as-a-service, distributed training clusters, low-latency inference and model fine-tuning — all hosted in Indian data centres with INR pricing and full data residency. Includes the open-source Krutrim-2 12B model trained on 22 Indian languages plus a Language Hub API. Best for Indian enterprises with data-sovereignty requirements.
Ola Krutrim
Krutrim Assistant (Kruti) — the agentic AI assistant from Bengaluru-based Ola Krutrim — is discontinued. Checked 2 Sep 2026: kruti.ai redirects to a maintenance-only page, and the app is delisted from both Google Play and the Apple App Store. It was pulled in April 2026 as Krutrim moved away from consumer AI toward cloud services. Consider Sarvam or Puch AI as live Indian alternatives.
National e-Governance Division (NeGD), MeitY
DigiLocker is the Government of India's official digital document wallet, run by the National e-Governance Division under MeitY and free for every citizen. Fetch your Aadhaar, PAN, driving licence, vehicle RC, board marksheets and insurance policies straight from the issuer — those carry the same legal force as the paper original under Rule 9A of the IT Rules, 2016. 72.4 crore accounts are registered, though DigiLocker's own dashboard shows only 25.45 crore of them active.
Lufick Technology Pvt. Ltd.
Document Scanner (Doc Scanner) is an AI-powered scanning and PDF creation app by Lufick Technology (Gurugram). 100M+ downloads, 4.6-star rating. Six scan modes (Document, ID Card, Book, Photo, QR, OCR), AI edge detection with ~90% accuracy, nine color filters, and full PDF toolkit (merge, split, password protect, compress). Multi-language OCR for Indian scripts plus signature scanner and Google Drive/Dropbox sync. Best Made-in-India alternative to banned CamScanner.
