Krutrim Alternative in India | unoblox

Krutrim is an Indian AI venture building large language models aimed at Indian languages and enterprises, alongside broader compute ambitions. unoblox sits next to that, not in place of it — a rupee-billed way to reach a much wider catalog of frontier and open models through one key, for the parts of a product that don't need a single lab's specific roadmap.

What Krutrim is building

Krutrim is developing its own foundation models for Indian languages and use cases, alongside stated ambitions in compute infrastructure. That's a distinct goal from unoblox, which doesn't build or train models of its own — it's a gateway that bills usage of models built by many labs, in rupees, from one Indian entity, and leaves the model-building to the labs that specialise in it.

Beyond one lab's roadmap

Most products end up needing more than one model family — something with a huge context window for one feature, something coding-specific for another, something with vision for a third. Consolidating those relationships under one GST-billed vendor is a genuine, practical simplification for finance and procurement, independent of how good any single lab's own models are. It also means a new model family becomes a line in a catalog to try, not a new vendor onboarding process.

Where Krutrim's own roadmap is the right call

For a product built specifically around Krutrim's own models — particularly where indic-language focus or its infrastructure roadmap is the whole point of the choice — going straight to Krutrim makes sense, and unoblox isn't trying to compete with that. unoblox is the layer for everything around it: the coding assistant, the vision-capable model, the huge-context-window summariser, all billed on the same rupee invoice as the rest of the stack instead of becoming separate vendor relationships to track.

Rupee pricing across model families

Model	Input ₹ / 1M tokens	Output ₹ / 1M tokens
Kimi K2.7	₹68.5	₹342.7
Gemma 4 31B	₹13.10	₹38.30
Qwen3 Max	₹120.95	₹604.77
GPT-5 mini	₹25.2	₹201.6

Calling it

curl https://api.unoblox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ub-gw-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"google/gemma-4-31b-it","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Summarise this support thread in three bullet points."}]}'

Frequently asked questions

Is unoblox a replacement for Krutrim's own models? No — different purpose. Krutrim builds its own foundation models; unoblox is a gateway to a broad multi-lab catalog under one rupee-billed key.

Do the external models on unoblox run on infrastructure located in India? No, not by default — inference for models like GPT, Claude, Qwen or Llama runs on each provider's own infrastructure. Select unoblox-hosted small models on unoblox do run on India infrastructure — check /models for which ones.

Can Krutrim and unoblox sit in the same product? Yes — there's no conflict in using both for different parts of a stack.

If it isn't data residency, what's the actual India benefit? Rupee billing, one monthly GST invoice, input tax credit eligibility, one endpoint, and no international card.

Is there a no-cost model to try first? Yes, Qwen3 1.7B is free (₹0).

Where do I check pricing for a model not listed here? /models shows the live rate for every model on the catalog.

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