Compare maaya.works vs Clear (ClearTax)
vsClearIndia's deepest filing tools. We are the books those tools need to be clean.
Clear is India's market-leading compliance platform — deep GST filing, ITC and e-invoice tools trusted at enterprise scale. maaya.works is the system of record underneath: daily-maintained, AI-kept books so you arrive at filing with nothing left to reconcile.
Free forever for single users · GST-native books · Always filing-ready
These two products are complementary, not competing.
Clear is a filing and compliance layer. maaya.works is the books. Two rows go to Clear — if filing depth is the whole question, it is the right answer.
Side by side
The honest scorecard
The system of record versus the compliance layer that processes it.
What it is
The product
Your system of record — the actual books, GST-native, with an AI team
A compliance and filing layer that processes data from your books
The data problem
Who does the daily entry
An AI team drafts bills, invoices and follow-ups — you approve
You or your team prepare and reconcile the data before filing
The books at filing time
Always current — entries posted daily, GST splits enforced throughout
Depends on how current your underlying accounting system is
The ledger
Append-only, immutable — provenance on every entry; AI approval-gated
Processes and files data; does not hold the system of record
Where Clear leads
GST filing & ITC depth
GST-native books, India-hosted
Market-leading GST filing, ITC reconciliation, e-invoice and e-way bill (per their materials)
TDS & income tax filing
TDS tracking native to the books
Deep TDS, ITR and income tax filing tools (per their materials)
Cost
To begin
Free forever for single users
Paid plans (per their materials)
Credit where it is due
What Clear got right
India's compliance depth is genuine — and genuinely hard to build.
what clear got right
Made GST manageable for millions
When GST rolled out in 2017, Clear helped millions of Indian businesses navigate the complexity. The depth of their filing and ITC tooling is real, hard-won and genuinely valuable.
what clear got right
The deepest compliance tooling in India
By their own account, Clear handles e-invoice, e-way bill, ITC reconciliation and income tax at scale. That compliance depth took years to build and it is a genuine lead in the category.
what clear got right
Trusted by enterprises and CAs
Large enterprises and the CA firms that serve them trust Clear for the most complex compliance scenarios. That trust was earned in practice, not marketing.
The real difference
Compliance starts in the books — not at filing
How you keep the books determines how much work filing takes.
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Compliance is where the books end up — maaya.works is where they live
A filing tool is as clean as the books it processes. If the books are maintained daily by an AI team, with GST splits enforced on every entry, you arrive at filing with nothing left to reconcile — not a pile of transactions to clean up the week before the deadline.
clean up at filing time → always filing-ready books
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GST compliance in the ledger, not on top of it
In maaya.works, the right HSN code, GST rate and ITC eligibility are enforced by the system of record at the moment of entry — not validated later by a compliance layer. Errors are caught at source, not found at filing.
validate before you file → correct at the point of entry
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From data-for-filing to books-that-run-the-business
Clear answers the question: "are we compliant?". maaya.works answers the question: "are we profitable, and are our books current?" — with an AI team that keeps them that way. Many businesses want both, and can have both.
compliance layer → live books + compliance native
No spin
Where Clear still wins
Said plainly — these are real, specific advantages.
filing depth
The deepest GST and ITC tooling in India
Clear's GST filing, ITC reconciliation and e-invoice capabilities per their own materials are genuinely deep and trusted at enterprise scale. maaya.works has GST-native books; Clear has the filing depth.
tax filing
Income tax and TDS return filing
Clear's income tax and TDS filing tools are mature and trusted by CAs. maaya.works tracks TDS in the books; it does not file returns for you.
enterprise scale
Built for enterprise complexity
If you are a large enterprise with high GST transaction volumes and complex ITC scenarios, Clear's tools are purpose-built for exactly that. maaya.works is focused on the SMB and growing business.
Honest advice: keep Clear for filing and use maaya.works for the books.The two together — AI-kept, always-current books feeding into Clear's deep filing tools — is a better answer than either alone for most Indian SMBs.
Works with Clear
Use both — they are better together
Three steps to books that are always filing-ready.
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Start free — keep Clear for filing
Open maaya.works in one field, no card. Keep using Clear for your GST and ITR filings — the two are complementary, not competing.
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Let an AI team keep the books daily
Your AI team drafts entries as transactions happen. GST splits are enforced at the point of entry, so the books are filing-ready before you even open Clear.
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Arrive at filing with nothing to reconcile
When the filing date arrives, feed clean, daily-maintained, GST-native books into Clear. No last-minute cleanup sprint.
Who is behind it
Built by a team that has shipped enterprise software for 15 years
maaya.works is built by Maaya Software Solutions Pvt Ltd — 15 years of enterprise software from Chennai, serving 453+ businesses across 13 countries. The same people now stake their name on your books.
Append-only ledgerApproval-gated AIHosted in India (ap-south-1)GST · e-invoice ready
Straight answers
maaya.works and Clear — common questions
Should I use maaya.works instead of Clear?
They are not alternatives — they are complementary. maaya.works is your system of record (the live books). Clear is a filing and compliance layer. Many businesses will want both: daily-maintained, AI-kept books in maaya.works, and Clear for the actual GST returns and ITC reconciliation.
Can maaya.works file my GST returns?
Not today — maaya.works keeps GST-native books with the right splits on every entry. For the actual return filing (GSTR-1, GSTR-3B), your CA or a filing tool like Clear handles that. The books are always filing-ready.
Will my books in maaya.works feed into Clear cleanly?
Yes — maaya.works exports GST-structured data that your CA can use for filing. Because HSN codes and GST rates are enforced at the point of entry, the data arriving at your CA or filing tool is already correct.
I just need to file GST. Should I use Clear?
Yes. If you have a separate accounting system and just need to file returns and reconcile ITC, Clear is excellent and purpose-built for that. Come to maaya.works when the question is keeping the actual books — and having an AI team do the daily work.
Is it really free to start?
Free forever for single users, no card to begin. You pay only as you add AI capacity and grow.
Books that are always filing-ready.
Start free and let an AI team maintain your GST-native books daily — so the month-end cleanup sprint disappears.
Free forever for single users · Works alongside Clear