By Harish Jonnalagadda
Publication Date: 2026-04-16 02:00:00
NVIDIA just launched GeForce Now in India, and I got early access to the cloud gaming service ahead of its debut in the country. If you don’t want to invest in a gaming machine and are interested in trying out cloud gaming, GeForce Now is the obvious choice in India, and now is the best time to get started with the service.
That’s because NVIDIA is being pretty aggressive with its pricing in India; GeForce Now starts at just ₹999 ($11) for the Performance tier, and the good news is that this is the 90-day plan. That means you’re basically paying just ₹333 ($3.5) a month to use the service in the country, and that’s a steal.
It’s a similar story with the Ultimate tier, which costs ₹1,999 ($21) for 90 days. Again, that means you’re shelling out just ₹666 ($7) a month to get the best of NVIDIA’s cloud gaming platform, and that’s just a third of what the same plan costs in the U.S. at $20 a month. Oh, and you can also buy 200GB of persistent storage as an add-on at just ₹299 ($3.20), and this also has a 90-day validity.
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Clearly, NVIDIA is looking to make inroads into India’s burgeoning gaming market, and the easiest way to do that is to undercut its rivals — which it is doing in a big way. The Xbox Game Pass Ultimate plan comes out to ₹1,389 ($15) a month, and with GeForce Now costing less than half, there’s no doubt that gamers will inevitably gravitate towards NVIDIA’s option.
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