Marathi Matrimony Fees: What Free and Paid Plans Actually Get You
What Marathi matrimony sites, vadhu-var suchak kendras and melavas charge, what a free plan covers, what paid plans add, Vivah Swapn's plans as of November 2026, and the warning signs before you pay.
Raj Patil · Founder, Vivah Swapn
Raj Patil is the founder of Vivah Swapn and writes about matchmaking, building strong matrimony profiles, and Maharashtrian marriage traditions.
On a Marathi matrimony site you can usually make a profile, search and send interests for free, and you pay when you want to see contact numbers, start more conversations or call. On Vivah Swapn, as of November 2026, the free plan costs nothing for as long as you use it, and the three paid plans are Silver at ₹1,499 for 3 months, Gold at ₹2,999 for 12 months and Family at ₹4,999 for 12 months, GST included, paid once and never renewed on their own. Pay only when a free limit is what is actually stopping you, and never pay anyone who promises a marriage.
A family can meet fees in three places: a website, a local bureau, and a melava in the wedding season. Each charges in its own way, and the money goes furthest when you know what each fee buys before you pay it. This guide covers what a free plan gives you, what paid plans add, our own plans line by line, and the signs that a fee is not what it claims to be.
Marathi matrimony fees: three routes, three ways of charging
We compared the three routes on reach, privacy and effort in matrimony site, bureau or melava. Here is only the money side.
Online matrimony sites
An online service usually has a free plan and paid plans sold for a fixed number of months. What changes between plans is how many contact numbers you can see, how many conversations you can start, whether you can call, and how long the plan lasts. Before you compare prices, check four things on the plan page itself: the period, whether GST is included, whether the plan renews and charges you again on its own, and the refund rule. Two plans with the same price can differ a lot on these.
Vadhu-var suchak kendras and marriage bureaus
A bureau's fee is whatever it sets. The law that applies is the Maharashtra Regulation of Marriage Bureaus and Registration of Marriages Act, 1998. Under section 4, every marriage bureau in the State must be registered. Under section 5, the bureau must display its registration certificate prominently at its registered office, renew it every two years, and work only from the place named on it. Section 12(2) sets a fine of up to ₹5,000, simple imprisonment of up to six months, or both, for anyone who breaks the Act (official text, Government of Maharashtra).
The Act deals with the bureau's own registration. It does not fix what a bureau may charge a family. That makes the conversation before you pay the only protection you have: what the fee covers, for how long, and whether anything more is expected after an engagement. Our guide to choosing a marriage bureau lists the seven questions to ask.
Vadhu-var melavas
Each organiser sets its own fee and decides what it covers, such as the hall, the printed booklet or a meal. Some are free. In December 2025, Navbharat Live reported that the Nashik Zilla Parishad had planned a free, all-caste introduction meet for widowed, divorced and deserted women on 14 December, and then postponed it to hold it online in phases (Navbharat Live). Confirm the fee on the organiser's own number before you travel, and pay against a receipt. The vadhu-var melava guide covers the rest of the day.
Looking for a free vadhu var suchak kendra? What a free plan usually covers
Online, the free part is usually the start. You can create a profile, often for a son, daughter or sibling, search, and send a limited number of interests. What a free plan usually holds back is the step from interest to real contact: seeing a phone number, starting many conversations, and calling.
Vivah Swapn's free plan, as shown on our home page in November 2026, includes:
- creating a profile, for yourself or for your son, daughter or sibling
- 20 search results and 3 match suggestions a day
- 5 interests a week
- 5 new conversations, 30 chat messages and 5 photo requests a month
Every message you send counts toward the 30, replies included. A person on our team reads every profile before other members can see it, on the free plan as on the paid ones.
The free plan does not include contact numbers, voice or video calls, advanced search filters, or seats for relatives to help run the profile. A parent can still create and run the profile from their own account on the free plan, and one account can look after more than one profile.
Two more things cost nothing. The free biodata maker on our site makes a Marathi or English biodata as a PDF, a Word file or a picture, with no sign-up. Hiding your photos is a setting on every plan, free included.
What paid plans add
Contact numbers
On Vivah Swapn, each paid plan includes a number of contact unlocks for the whole period: 30 on Silver, 100 on Gold and 250 on Family. Seeing one member's number spends one unlock. A number you have unlocked stays visible to you after your plan ends.
The other side has a say too. Each member chooses who may see their number: no one, members on a paid plan, or only once an interest between you is accepted. Your number never appears on the profile itself. So a paid plan lets you see a number only when its owner allows it.
Chat
Paid plans raise the limits. Silver and Gold allow 20 new conversations a month and Family 40, with 100 messages a day on all three. Phone numbers and email addresses typed into a chat stay hidden unless both members' plans include sharing contact details, which every paid plan does. That stops a stranger from pulling your number out of the first message.
Voice and video calls
Calls happen inside the app, so neither side has to give out a number to talk. Silver includes 60 minutes of voice and 20 of video, Gold 240 and 80, and Family 480 and 160, for the plan's whole period. The minutes come from the caller's plan. Our first video call guide has tips for that conversation.
Photo privacy
On Vivah Swapn, photo privacy is free on every plan. Photos are shown to all members unless you hide them in settings, and then only members whose interest you accepted, or whose photo request you approved, can see them. What the plans change is how many photo requests you can send: 5 a month on Free, 30 on any paid plan.
Family managers
On paid plans, the profile's owner can invite relatives to help run it. Each relative gets their own login, the owner chooses what each one may do, and the owner can see what each one has done. Silver has 1 seat, Gold 3 and Family 5. Our guide for parents explains how families share the work.
Vivah Swapn plans as of November 2026
These figures come from the plans section of vivahswapn.com on 10 November 2026. The page reads them from our live plan catalogue, so if we change a plan, the page changes with it and this article may fall behind. Check there before you pay.
| Feature | Free | Silver | Gold | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹0 | ₹1,499 | ₹2,999 | ₹4,999 |
| Period | As long as you like | 3 months | 12 months | 12 months |
| Search results | 20 a day | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Advanced search filters | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Daily match suggestions | 3 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Interests | 5 a week | 20 a week | 20 a week | 20 a week |
| Contact numbers | No | 30 | 100 | 250 |
| New conversations | 5 a month | 20 a month | 20 a month | 40 a month |
| Chat messages | 30 a month | 100 a day | 100 a day | 100 a day |
| Share contact details in chat | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Photo requests | 5 a month | 30 a month | 30 a month | 30 a month |
| Voice calls | No | 60 minutes | 240 minutes | 480 minutes |
| Video calls | No | 20 minutes | 80 minutes | 160 minutes |
| See who viewed or shortlisted you | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Browse without showing in "who viewed" | No | No | No | Yes |
| Profile boosts | No | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| Family manager seats | No | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Profile reviewed first | No | No | No | Yes |
A profile boost lists your profile ahead of profiles without one in search, for a set number of hours.
Some arithmetic helps. Silver works out to about ₹500 a month, Gold to about ₹250 and Family to about ₹417. Per contact number, Silver is about ₹50, Gold about ₹30 and Family about ₹20. Gold costs twice as much as Silver and lasts four times as long, so if your search may go beyond three months, Gold costs less per month.
Payment terms
- Prices include GST. Nothing is added at checkout.
- One payment for the period. Our terms say payments are taken by Razorpay, and a membership does not renew by itself.
- Seven-day refund. Ask within seven days of a membership starting and we refund the full amount. After that, the terms allow a refund only for a duplicate payment, a fault on our side that kept you from using what you paid for, or where the law requires it.
- Bureau clients pay the same. Marriage bureaus can join our partner programme for free. A family a bureau brings pays the plan prices on the site, nothing more, and gets an invoice in its own name.
Warning signs before you pay
These apply to any website, bureau or individual.
- A large fee upfront, with nothing written. Ask what the money buys, for how long, and what happens if you stop. If the answer is only spoken, take it as unclear.
- A promise of a guaranteed marriage. A marriage needs two families and two people to agree. No website or bureau controls that. An offer framed as a guarantee is selling something else.
- Pressure to pay outside the platform. A plan on a website is bought through that website's own checkout. A request to send plan money to someone's personal UPI number, or a "discount" for paying a staff member directly, is a reason to stop.
- A plan that renews without asking. Read the plan page for the words on renewal before you enter card details.
- A payment expected after the engagement that nobody wrote down. If a bureau expects a success payment or a gift, settle the amount in writing before you register.
- A match who asks for money. Our terms forbid any member from asking another for money, gifts, loans or investments. The online matrimony safety guide describes how these scams work.
If money has already gone to a fraud, report it at once by calling 1930 or at cybercrime.gov.in. Those are the two ways to report a cybercrime that the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre of the Ministry of Home Affairs lists on its website. For a complaint against a service you paid, the Department of Consumer Affairs runs the National Consumer Helpline on 1915, 8 am to 8 pm, and on WhatsApp at +91 88000 01915.
How to decide whether to pay at all
- Finish the profile first. Add a clear recent photo, the details families ask about, and partner preferences that are not written too narrowly. A paid plan shows a thin profile to more people and fixes nothing about it.
- Use the free plan until a limit stops you. Notice which one. Being out of interests by Wednesday is a different problem from having five accepted interests and no way to reach the families.
- Pay for the limit you hit. If you want numbers and calls for a shortlist you already have, Silver's three months may be enough. If the search will take a year, Gold or Family costs less per month.
- Count the people helping. If two parents and a sibling will all run the search, the family manager seats decide the plan more than the price does.
- Pay on one platform at a time. With several paid plans at once, you can end up paying twice to reach the same families.
- Keep the receipt and note the refund window. On Vivah Swapn, that window is the first seven days.
If you work with a local bureau as well, tell it which families you already know from online, so it does not bring you the same ones.
Frequently asked questions
Is Vivah Swapn free? Yes. Making a profile is free, and so are searching, sending interests, starting a conversation and replying, within the free plan's limits. Contact numbers, calls and family manager seats are on paid plans.
How much does a Vivah Swapn plan cost? As of November 2026, Silver costs ₹1,499 for 3 months, Gold ₹2,999 for 12 months and Family ₹4,999 for 12 months. GST is included.
Does the plan renew on its own? No. Each membership is one payment for a fixed period, and it does not renew by itself.
Can I get my money back? If you ask within seven days of the membership starting, you get the full amount back. Write to support@vivahswapn.com.
If my plan ends, do I lose the numbers I unlocked? No. A number you unlocked stays visible to you after the plan ends.
Is a free vadhu var suchak kendra any good? Free is fine when you know what it covers. Ask a free kendra or melava what it charges later, for a booklet, for contact details or after a marriage is settled, and get that in writing.
Is a bureau fee fixed by law in Maharashtra? Not by the 1998 Act. It makes bureaus register, display the certificate and renew it every two years. It does not set what a bureau may charge families.
The useful question is never whether a plan is cheap. It is whether it removes the limit that is stopping you right now. Start free, finish the profile, see where you get stuck, and pay for that one thing. If you are searching now, you can browse reviewed profiles on our Marathi matrimony page.
Read next
- Matrimony site, bureau or melava: which is right for you
- How to choose a marriage bureau in Maharashtra
- Online matrimony safety: scams, red flags and what to do
- A parents' guide to the matrimony profile
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