Physics Wallah
Affordable exam prep for JEE and NEET
The Four Mismatches · Physics Wallah
System-native
For a student in India, the country it was built for.
LanguageFits
Teaches in the classroom languages of India.
- The maker lists: Hindi, English
- Classrooms in India use: Hindi, English
DeviceFits
Works on a phone, what most students in India use.
Independence: our publisher builds learning products too. We never review or score its products, and no tool pays to be listed or to rank higher — how we assess fit.
What it does
What the AI actually does — The 'Alakh AI' suite — a multimodal doubt-solver (text/image/speech to a text answer plus a short teacher-style video) built on GPT-4o via Azure, with a Microsoft Research collaboration.
Why it was built — Built a mass audience on free YouTube teaching, then converted it into India's cheapest serious exam-prep brand.
Who built it
- Company
- Physics Wallah Limited
- Founders
- Alakh Pandey · Prateek Maheshwari
- HQ / origin
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Founded
- 2020 (grew from a YouTube channel started 2016)
- Model
- B2C
- Exam systems
- JEE · NEET · CBSE
- Languages
- Hindi · English
- Pricing
- Courses from ~₹2,999; founder-pledged under ₹5,000
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
Where it sits
Physics Wallah is on the Learning Tools Index, in exam prep & regional platforms, built in India.
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