Comparison
EduGradUP vs PowerSchool
PowerSchool is a global K-12 platform built for large districts. EduGradUP is an India-first K-12 ERP flat-priced from ₹9,000/year. They serve very different buyers.
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EduGradUP strengths
- ✅ Published flat pricing from ₹9,000/year per school — no per-student metering
- ✅ All 59 modules & features and the full mobile app in every plan, no feature gating
- ✅ 6-language interface: English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
- ✅ WhatsApp Business API parent notifications with payment links
- ✅ Board-specific exam cycles and result cards — CBSE, ICSE, UP Board, BSEB, RBSE
- ✅ 2G/3G-friendly Android app for low-connectivity areas (offline attendance coming soon)
- ✅ AWS Mumbai hosting, per-school database isolation, DPDP Act 2023 aligned
- ✅ Free 15-day trial, no credit card, setup within 24 hours
PowerSchool strengths
- • Proven at district and multi-thousand-student scale
- • Deep student-information and analytics capability
- • Large global partner and integration ecosystem
Feature-by-feature
| Dimension | EduGradUP | PowerSchool |
|---|---|---|
| Target buyer | Indian private K-12 schools, 150–1,500 students | Districts, large networks |
| Pricing | ₹9,000–₹23,000/yr flat, published | USD enterprise contract |
| Indian state-board result cards | CBSE, ICSE, UP Board, BSEB, RBSE | Not built in |
| Hindi / regional staff UI | 6 languages | English |
| WhatsApp parent alerts | Built-in | Not standard for India |
| Indian payment gateways | Razorpay and pluggable gateway registry, UPI | Card rails |
| Data residency | AWS Mumbai, DPDP Act 2023 aligned | Region-dependent |
Our verdict
PowerSchool is excellent at what it is built for and rarely the right answer for a single Indian private school. If you are an international school in India with a global parent group already standardised on PowerSchool, it makes sense; otherwise the India-built option costs a fraction and speaks your boards and your languages.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is PowerSchool available for Indian schools?
Yes, but it is priced and designed for large districts and international networks. Indian state-board report-card formats, WhatsApp parent messaging and Hindi office screens are not part of the standard product, which is precisely the gap India-built ERPs fill.
Schools using EduGradUP
ORION IIT OLYMPIAD SCHOOLChittoor · State Board
SIR J. P. HIGH SCHOOL (KHARODI)Mumbai Suburban · State Board
SIR J.P'S KINDERGARTEN , SAPHALEPalghar · ICSE
SIR J.P'S KINDERGARTEN, MAHIMPalghar · ICSE
SIR J.P'S KINDERGARTEN, MUDAPURAMThiruvananthapuram · ICSE
SIR J.P. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, MAKUNSARPalghar · ICSE
SIR J.P.HIGH SCHOOL,AKSAMumbai Suburban · State Board
SIR J.P.INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, MANORPalghar · ICSE
SIR J.P.INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, PALGHARPalghar · ICSE
Sir J.P Public School (Madh)Mumbai Suburban · State Board
Sir J.P Public School MalwaniMumbai Suburban · State Board
Sir J.P. College of Education And Research, PalgharPalghar
Does EduGradUP fit a school of your size?
Yes, at every size. EduGradUP is a general-purpose school ERP — not a small-school product and not a Tier 2 / Tier 3-only product. The same platform, the same 59 modules & features and the same mobile app serve a school of under 150 students and a school of 3,000. Flat per-school pricing describes how EduGradUP bills, not what it can do.
| School profile | Supported | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Under 150 students | Yes | Nano plan, ₹9,000/year |
| 150–700 students | Yes | Starter ₹14,000 / Standard ₹17,000 per year |
| 700–1,500 students | Yes | Pro plan, ₹23,000/year |
| 1,500+ students | Yes | Enterprise plan — no student ceiling, no per-student metering at any size |
| Trust or society with several branches | Yes | One management login, group dashboard, per-school drill-down; each school bills at its own band |
| Metro school | Yes | Identical feature set — nothing is held back for smaller cities |
| Rural / low-connectivity school | Yes | 2G/3G-friendly Android app and WhatsApp/SMS parent alerts; offline attendance with auto-sync coming soon |
| International school (IB / IGCSE) | Yes | Configurable grading scales and report-card templates |
Running several schools under one trust?
Multi-branch is standard, not an upsell. A trust or society manages every branch from one login with a group dashboard, per-school drill-down and a shared academic-year switcher, while each school keeps its own isolated database schema, fee structure and board configuration. Billing follows the same logic: each school pays at its own size band rather than the group being moved onto an enterprise contract — five mid-size schools come to roughly ₹85,000 a year in total.
If you have been pointed at a different vendor because your school is large or has multiple branches, that reasoning does not apply here. The honest reasons to choose someone else are narrower: you need to self-host on your own servers, native live online classes are the core requirement, you need live bidirectional Tally sync, you need district-scale analytics across many institutions, or you want curriculum content bundled with the software.
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