Short answer: Minaions is an AI tender assistant with a generous entry point: according to its documentation (September 2026), tender search is free, 10 eligibility checks a month are free, and deeper analysis and document generation are bought with pay-as-you-go credits whose prices are not published. Grovia Tender is a company-first AI Bid Operating System with published plans from ₹0 to ₹14,999 a month: it builds a Company DNA from your documents, proves every eligibility criterion with evidence, recommends Go or No-Go with reasons, drafts the proposal from your own facts, fills the document checklist, prices the BOQ with your approval and assembles the package, then learns from the result.
What does Minaions offer?
According to its documentation (September 2026), Minaions provides:
- Free tender search with scanning of GeM and CPPP, and the ability to upload a tender document.
- Eligibility checks, 10 a month free, that report gaps and compliance risks.
- Multi-company profiles, useful for consultants who manage several bidders.
- Templates for proposals and financial proposals, and bid assembly.
- Pay-as-you-go credits for analysis and document generation, with no refunds. Credit prices are not published.
The free eligibility checks are a real benefit for a first-time bidder who wants to test the water without a subscription, and the GeM scan is useful, because Grovia Tender does not read GeM at all (GeM is bot-protected and our reader policy rules it out).
What does Grovia Tender offer?
Grovia Tender is built by Webzworld for Indian businesses with no tendering experience, and for the consultants who serve them. It is built around the company rather than the tender. The chain, in order (see How it works):
- Company DNA, set up once from plain questions and from your uploaded GST, MSME, ISO, completion and financial documents, which the AI reads into facts with expiry tracking.
- Tender in, by upload (PDF, ZIP, DOCX, XLSX, URL), forwarded alert emails, your own data-vendor key, or a notice from our identified portal reader. Every lane gets the identical pipeline.
- Relevance filter on industry, state and value against turnover before any AI is spent.
- Eligibility with evidence: PASS, FAIL or NEEDS REVIEW per criterion, with the proving document. Unsupported PASS claims are downgraded by a validator and never stored as fact.
- Fit score, Bid Potential and Go/No-Go with reasons, from deterministic rules; AI only phrases.
- Risk register: EMD, LD, PBG, payment cycle, timelines, penalties.
- Corrigendum diffs and score refresh.
- AI drafting with every claim traceable to a document, auto-filled document checklist, and BOQ pricing that waits for your approval.
- Bid package and portal checklist; you submit. Bid learning after the result.
Minaions vs Grovia Tender: comparison table
| Minaions | Grovia Tender | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry offer | Free search plus 10 eligibility checks a month (per their docs) | Free plan ₹0: Company DNA, limited discovery, 1 GB vault, 1 user |
| Paid model | Pay-as-you-go credits, no refunds, prices not published | Pro ₹3,999/mo (5 bids) · Business ₹14,999/mo (25 bids) · Enterprise custom · pay-per-bid from ₹1,999; GST extra |
| Discovery | GeM and CPPP scan, uploads | Identified portal reader for CPPP and state portals (notices), forwarded alerts, vendor key, upload; no GeM |
| Tender documents | Partial | On upload or forward; notices link to the portal |
| Company profile | Multi-company profiles | Company DNA read from documents; re-scores every tender on change |
| Eligibility | Gaps and risks | Per criterion with evidence; OR-alternatives handled |
| Go/No-Go with reasons | Partial | Yes, deterministic |
| Risk register | Compliance risks | EMD, LD, PBG, payment, timelines with severity |
| Corrigendum | — | Diff plus score refresh |
| Drafting | Templates | From own documents, every claim traceable, validated |
| Document checklist | Partial | Auto-filled from vault |
| BOQ pricing | Financial proposal templates | Extraction, cost build-up, GST; human approval required |
| Bid package | Bid assembly | Package plus portal checklist; never submits |
| Learning | — | Bid memory, win/loss |
| Built for zero experience | Partial | Yes, a design rule |
| Human-in-the-loop guarantee | Not stated | Enforced in code |
Free credits or a subscription: which pricing model suits you?
Minaions' model is attractive when you are exploring: no commitment, free searches, free checks up to a monthly cap, and you pay only for what you generate. Two things to weigh. First, credit prices are not published, so the total cost of a full bid is not known until you are in the product. Second, credits are non-refundable per their documentation.
Grovia Tender's model is a company subscription with a published price list. The Free plan lets you set up Company DNA and see what the system knows about you. Pro at ₹3,999 a month covers a company bidding a few tenders a month; Business at ₹14,999 covers bid teams and consultants with 25 bids, team roles and analytics. A bid is counted only when you open a bid workspace; discovery, eligibility checks and Go/No-Go recommendations are not metered against the allowance. Pay-per-bid from ₹1,999 covers the one-off case. Details on Pricing.
Neither model is wrong. Credits suit occasional, exploratory use. A subscription suits a company that intends to bid regularly and wants the cost known in advance.
Where Minaions has the edge
- Free eligibility checks with no plan at all, which Grovia Tender does not offer in the same form.
- GeM scanning. Grovia Tender's portal reader does not touch GeM, by policy (see portal reader policy). For GeM, see our GeM bidding guide for first-time bidders.
- Zero-commitment entry for a consultant testing several company profiles.
Where Grovia Tender has the edge
- Evidence, not just a verdict. Every criterion points to the document that proves it, and the rules engine, not the model, does the arithmetic.
- The whole chain in one workspace, from relevance filter to package and learning, including corrigendum diffs and BOQ pricing with approval, which Minaions' documentation does not list.
- Company-first re-scoring. A new certificate updates every open opportunity.
- Designed for beginners. One next action per screen, plain-English reasons, glossary tooltips, drafts complete by default with gaps as questions.
- Human in the loop, enforced. No code path submits, signs or approves pricing; the package builds only after approval. Tenant isolation and audit trail are standard; see Security.
- Known cost. Every plan is published.
For tender consultants
Both tools acknowledge that one person often bids for many companies. Minaions does this with multi-company profiles on credits. Grovia Tender does it with multi-organisation support, team roles and analytics on the Business plan, and treats each client as a separate isolated tenant with its own Company DNA, vault and bid memory.
Which should you choose?
Pick Minaions if you want free searches and a handful of free eligibility checks with no commitment, and you are content to buy credits as you go. Pick Grovia Tender if you want a company-first system that proves eligibility, decides Go/No-Go with reasons, drafts from your own documents, prices with your approval, packages the bid and learns, at a published price. See the wider field in Best AI tender software in India and the closest rival in ContraVault vs Grovia Tender.
Set up your Company DNA for free and upload a tender: app.groviatender.com/register.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
- Minaions documentation (docs.minaions.com)
- Grovia Tender pricing (groviatender.com)
Competitor details reflect their public pages on the dates cited and can change; we correct errors on request at info@groviatender.com.