"Indian Gmail", "gmail India", "Indian email id": thousands of people type these into Google every month, and they mean two different things. Some want a free personal email address from an Indian company, ideally in their own language. Others want email for their business on their own domain, hosted in India, with a rupee invoice. Both exist, both come from the same company in Jaipur, and this post says which is which so you do not sign up for the wrong one.
For individuals: DataMail, free, in your language
DataMail is a free personal email service from Data Xgen Technologies, the company behind XgenPlus. The difference from Gmail is the address: DataMail gives you an email address in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu and six more languages, so a Hindi speaker can have an address written in Devanagari and receive mail from Gmail and Outlook users on it. It was the first email service in the world to do this, and the work is recorded in ICANN's Universal Acceptance case studies. It is free, it runs on the XgenPlus platform, and it is the answer for anyone who searched "Indian Gmail" meaning a personal address.
For businesses: XgenPlus, email on your own domain
If "Indian Gmail" meant email for your company, the answer is different. A business needs addresses on its own domain (you@yourcompany.in), several users, department addresses like sales@ and support@, Outlook and phones, and an invoice with GST. That is XgenPlus: business email hosted in Indian data centres from ₹21 per user per month, with IMAP, SMTP and ActiveSync on every plan, an on-premise edition for organisations that must keep mail on their own servers, and the same Indian-language addresses available beside the English one. BSNL runs its consumer and business email on it, and the Government of Rajasthan and Bharat Petroleum sign in to it every day. The full explanation of what makes an email service Indian is in the Indian email service guide.
Why people look for an Indian email service at all
- Where the data lives. Gmail and Outlook.com store personal mail in data centres chosen by Google and Microsoft. An Indian service keeps it in India, which matters to some people on principle and to regulated businesses by rule.
- Language. No global provider offers an email address in an Indian script. DataMail and XgenPlus do.
- A company you can reach. Indian support, an Indian invoice with GST, and, for businesses, a person on the phone.
- Price, for businesses. Google Workspace's entry plan is ₹270 per user per month in India; XgenPlus starts at ₹21. The 2026 comparison of business email costs in India has the full table.
Which one do you need?
| You want | Use | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| A personal email address from an Indian company, in your language | DataMail | Free |
| Email for a shop, clinic, firm or startup on your own domain | XgenPlus, from the Starter plan | ₹21 per user per month, yearly; 30-day trial at ₹2 |
| Email for a bank, PSU or government office on your own servers | XgenPlus Enterprise, on-premise | Per-user licence and annual maintenance, on quotation |
Individuals: create a DataMail account and pick an address in your language. Businesses: start the ₹2 trial on your real domain, or read the startup page if you are setting up email for a new company this month.
