Bharat FTK vs Magnet AXIOM
Magnet Forensics · Canada · Commercial — US$5,000+ / seat / year
Magnet AXIOM is powerful and mature but foreign, priced in USD, and tuned for North American law. Bharat FTK covers the same core artifact-recovery surface — browsers, chat apps, cloud caches, mobile databases — with BSA §63 output, BNS/BNSS copilot and UPI-native parsers that AXIOM does not ship.
Capability matrix
| Capability | Bharat FTK | Magnet AXIOM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | US$5,000+ / seat / year |
| Works fully offline | Yes — air-gap safe, zero telemetry | Yes |
| BSA Section 63 certificate | Yes — one-click, court-ready | No |
| BNS / BNSS / BSA legal copilot | Yes — offline RAG on full corpus | No |
| UPI / Paytm / PhonePe / GPay triage | Native, per-VPA breakdown | No native support |
| IPC ↔ BNS / CrPC ↔ BNSS translator | Built-in | No |
| Installer footprint | ~110 MB · single .exe · runs from USB | ~2 GB · Windows installer |
| Data sovereignty | 100% Made in India · never leaves the machine | Canadian vendor · US-jurisdiction cloud connectors optional |
Migrating from Magnet AXIOM?
AXIOM cases can be run alongside Bharat FTK — use AXIOM's rich carving on foreign artifacts and Bharat FTK for India-specific evidence and court output.
Other comparisons
Bharat FTK v3.1.0
Free. Single .exe. No install, no account. Runs on any Windows 10/11 (64-bit) machine or USB — even fully offline.
Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) · ~110 MB · Runs from USB · No install, no account. Until we complete code-signing, Windows SmartScreen may show an "unknown publisher" prompt on first run — click More info → Run anyway.