How much BIS CRS registration costs in 2026: government fees, worked totals and the costs BIS does not set

There are two kinds of cost, and they need to be kept apart:

1. Government fees paid to BIS. These are published. On the fee table on the CRS portal, a new application costs an application fee of Rs 1,000^[1], an annual licence fee of Rs 1,000^[1] and a processing fee of Rs 50,000 that includes one test report^[1]. Each additional test report is Rs 20,000^[1]. GST is charged on top of all of them^[1].
2. Private charges. Lab testing, an Authorised Indian Representative (for foreign factories) and any consultant you hire. BIS does not set these. Lab prices are at least visible: every BIS-recognised lab declares its charges on BIS LIMS, and for IS 13252 (Part 1) they run from Rs 25,000 to Rs 2,00,000 with a median of about Rs 63,750^[2]. Consultant fees are only what firms advertise.

Read this first: the fee table is from 2018 and has been overtaken. The BIS (Conformity Assessment) Amendment Regulations, 2026 were notified on 25 February 2026^[4], and BIS has said CRS licences are now granted for five years with fees paid annually in advance^[5]. BIS has not yet published a revised fee table, and we could not find the full amendment text. So the figures below are the published fees, which BIS's portal still shows. They are the best official numbers available, but your invoice on the portal may differ. If you want to run your own numbers, use our CRS fee calculator, or the compliance cost estimator to add WPC, LMPC and EPR on top. The rules behind each fee are on BIS CRS fees, and every regulator's fees side by side are in India compliance fees 2026.

This is the fee structure published on the CRS portal, dated 4 June 2018. All amounts exclude GST^[1]; see how GST applies below. The processing fee was revised from Rs 25,000 to Rs 50,000 in that table^[1].

What is confirmed. The Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) Amendment Regulations, 2026 were notified as F. No. BS/XI/11/01/2025-26 dated 25 February 2026, with a corrigendum dated 28 April 2026^[4]. BIS has stated that, following the amendment, a CRS licence is granted for five years at first and renewed for a further five years, with fees paid annually in advance^[5]. If the annual fee and production details are not received by the due date, the suspension, deferment, cancellation and expiry provisions of the regulations apply^[6].

What is not yet published. We could not find the full gazette text on the BIS website or the e-Gazette, and the fee structure PDF on the CRS portal is still the 2018 table^[1]. The 2018 renewal pricing, built around two- to five-year renewals^[1], does not fit a five-year licence with annual fees, so it may be superseded.

What is reported, but not confirmed from an official text. A consultant source has reported that under the amendment the CRS processing fee becomes Rs 25,000 per year, payable annually in advance, with application, annual licence and renewal application fees of Rs 1,000 each and Rs 20,000 per additional test report^[7]. The same source reports that if the annual fee and production statement are missed, the licence is suspended for 90 days from the due date, and paying within that window with a Rs 5,000 late fee revokes the suspension; otherwise the licence is cancelled^[7]. Treat these as reported figures until BIS publishes the revised schedule. We do not use them in the worked totals below.

These totals add up the government fees on the published table for a new application: application fee^[1], one year's annual licence fee^[1], the processing fee including the first test report^[1], and Rs 20,000 for each additional report^[1]. GST is added on top^[1]; we do not show a GST amount because the rate applied is not stated in the fee table.

How many test reports you need depends on your models. Samples are chosen using MeitY's grouping and series guidelines, and series models can be covered through supplementary reports referring to an accepted original report^[8]. The lab and the series guidelines decide this, not the fee table. For most electronics categories BIS allows up to 10 models in one series^[9].

• Annual licence fee years. The table lists the annual licence fee at Rs 1,000^[1]. We have included one year. Under the 2018 regime the first licence ran for two years^[10], and under the 2026 rules fees are paid annually in advance^[5]; the portal invoice shows what is actually charged.
• The 2026 restructuring. If the reported Rs 25,000-per-year processing fee is confirmed^[7], the first-year cost and the cost over five years will both differ from these totals.
• Concessions. Indian micro and small enterprises and start-ups may pay a reduced processing fee; see below.
• Brands. A separate CRS application is needed for each brand unless the brand owner is the same^[8]. Two brands means two sets of application and processing fees.
• Lab, AIR and consultant charges. None are included, because none have an official figure.

Under the Conformity Assessment Amendment Regulations of 6 March 2024, the Scheme-II (CRS) processing fee concession was 80% for micro enterprises and start-ups, 50% for small enterprises and 20% for medium enterprises. From 1 June 2026 it was scheduled to become 20% for all MSMEs^[11].

It has been reported that the February 2026 amendment extended the 80/50/20 concessions to 31 May 2029, but we have not verified that from the gazette text^[11], so we cannot tell you which rate applies today. Check the concession the portal applies when you pay.

The arithmetic below shows the processing fee (Rs 50,000 on the published table^[1]) at each concession rate. It is our calculation, not a BIS figure, and assumes the concession is applied to the processing fee alone.

The separate 2026 concessions for the ISI mark (Scheme-I) are on the marking fee, not the CRS processing fee; see the ISI mark guide.

Most extra cost comes from things you do after the first grant, or from having to redo work. These are the official charges that add up:

Adding models is called inclusion. You generate a test request, get the lab report and apply online on Form VIII A^[12]. The fee is Rs 30,000 including one test report, plus Rs 20,000 for each additional report^[1].

Worked examples on the published table, before GST:

• New models covered by one test report: Rs 30,000.
• New models needing two test reports: Rs 30,000 + Rs 20,000 = Rs 50,000.
• New models needing four test reports: Rs 30,000 + 3 x Rs 20,000 = Rs 90,000.

Whether additional series models covered by a single test report attract any extra charge is not stated in the published fee table. Removing models is done online through Model Withdrawal on payment of the applicable fee^[13], but we did not find that amount in the published fee structure.

Under the published 2018 table, renewal costs an application fee of Rs 1,000, an annual licence fee of Rs 1,000 and a renewal processing fee of Rs 50,000, plus Rs 25,000 for each additional year where you renew for more than two years. Renewals of two, three, four or five years were allowed^[1].

This table is built for the pre-2026 regime. Since the 2026 amendment, BIS has said CRS licences run for five years and are renewed for five, with fees paid annually^[5], so the renewal pricing below may no longer apply to your licence. It is shown because it is still the table BIS publishes. The timing rules are on CRS renewal, and our licence renewal date tool works out when to file.

None of these is a BIS fee, but they are no longer a black box. Labs must declare their prices to BIS, and consultants advertise theirs. The table shows which items have an official figure and what the rules say about each; the next two sections give the actual numbers.

For the commonest CRS standards, recognised labs declare charges of roughly Rs 20,000 to Rs 4,80,000 per test report, excluding taxes, with medians between about Rs 45,000 and Rs 80,000. These are the labs' own declared prices on BIS's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), checked on 1 November 2026.

Three rules make these figures more useful than a consultant's guess. A recognised lab declares its charges when it is recognised or renewed, and they stay fixed for three years unless the standard changes^[18]. LIMS shows the clause-wise breakup and any tests a lab excludes, such as components under clause 1.5 of IS 13252 (Part 1)^[2]. And the lab must issue the report within 7 days of finishing testing^[18].

Compare like with like: a cheap quote that excludes component tests can end up dearer than a mid-priced one that covers the whole standard. Lists of labs by city are on BIS labs in Delhi NCR and BIS labs in Bengaluru, and the rules are on CRS test labs.

Consultant fees are not regulated, so the only figures are what firms publish, and they are reported prices, not official ones. On their own price pages, one consultancy lists a professional fee of Rs 14,999 plus Rs 10,000 extra for foreign or non-MSME applicants, and Rs 7,500 for a renewal^[21]; another sells a Rs 7,899 consultation and a Rs 1,06,000 certification package, both plus GST, without saying whether BIS fees or lab charges are inside^[22]. Some well-known firms publish no prices at all and quote on request^[23].

Two warnings. First, consultant tables often show an "application fee" that does not match BIS's table; one shows Rs 15,340 where the published application, licence and processing fees come to Rs 52,000^[21]. Ask what the line actually pays for. Second, a recognised lab must not use agents or pay referral commissions^[18], so a consultant cannot legitimately be paid by the lab it sends you to.

For how to vet a firm, see how to choose a BIS consultant and our directories of BIS consultants, including Delhi and Mumbai.

GST is charged on every BIS CRS payment, because all amounts in the fee structure exclude tax^[1]. BIS's fee table says only "as applicable" and does not print a rate. A sample BIS tax invoice indexed online shows IGST at 18% on a Rs 1,000 application fee^[26]; we could not open the file itself, so treat 18% as likely rather than confirmed.

If the rate is 18%, the arithmetic is simple: the Rs 52,000 one-report total becomes Rs 61,360, and each Rs 20,000 additional report becomes Rs 23,600. Lab and consultant prices are also quoted before GST^[2][21], so add tax on those too. A registered business can usually claim the GST back as input tax credit, but check that with your accountant before you rely on it.

These totals add the published BIS fees, the median declared lab charge for the standard and, where a consultant is used, one firm's published fee. They are our arithmetic, before GST, and assume no MSME concession. Your lab, model count and consultant will move them.

• Small: an Indian LED driver maker, one model family, one test report to IS 15885, self-filed.
• Medium: a foreign power bank factory with three series needing three reports to IS 13252, using a consultant.
• Complex: a foreign lithium cell and battery maker filing ten reports to IS 16046, with a consultant package.

Build the budget in the order the money is spent. Each step below names the cost and where its figure comes from.

Getting CRS wrong usually costs more than the registration itself, through penalties, port charges and repeat testing.

• At the port. A DGFT notification is reported to make BIS registration a condition of import for notified electronics^[27]. A 2023 CBIC instruction reportedly has customs check the registration for every consignment, test samples before out of charge, and send back or destroy failing goods at the importer's cost^[28]. Goods held under a prohibition can draw a customs penalty of up to their full value or Rs 5,000, whichever is greater^[29].
• Storage while you wait. Container storage keeps running. One Mundra CFS tariff charges nothing for three days, then Rs 405 a day for a 20-foot container, rising to Rs 2,610 a day by days 27 to 30^[30]. On our arithmetic, 30 days of ground rent on one 20-foot container at that CFS comes to Rs 37,760 before GST, and shipping-line demurrage is separate. More on this in why shipments get held at Indian ports.
• In the market. Importing or selling CRS goods without a valid registration is punishable with up to two years in prison or a fine of at least Rs 2 lakh, extendable to ten times the value of the goods^[31].
• At BIS. BIS does not refund fees when an application is rejected after processing^[32], and a report older than 90 days is not accepted^[8], so a slow file can mean paying the lab twice. Common causes are on CRS rejections.
• After grant. Surveillance costs are borne by the registered entity^[33]; see CRS surveillance.

We cannot give an official five-year figure yet, because BIS has not published the revised fee table. What we can show is the arithmetic both ways, so you can see the risk.

On the published 2018 table, a one-report licence costs Rs 52,000 to grant. Under the 2026 rules, licences run five years with fees paid annually in advance^[5]. A consultant source and a law firm both report the processing fee as Rs 25,000 a year^[7][34]. If that is right, year one is Rs 1,000 + Rs 1,000 + Rs 25,000 = Rs 27,000, and each later year about Rs 26,000 (licence fee plus processing), so five years come to roughly Rs 1,31,000 before GST. The same law firm reports the 80/50/20 MSME concessions running to 31 May 2029^[34], which would cut a micro enterprise's processing fee to Rs 5,000 a year.

The practical point: under any reading, missing an annual payment is expensive. A reported Rs 5,000 late fee cures a 90-day suspension, after which the licence is cancelled^[7]. Put the due dates in the compliance calendar.

• Get the series grouping right before testing. Fewer test reports means fewer Rs 20,000 additional-report fees^[1]. Ask the lab to group models under MeitY's series guidelines^[8].

• Put all launch models in the first application. An inclusion later costs Rs 30,000 for the first report^[1], against Rs 20,000 for an additional report in the original application^[1].

• File fast. A report older than 90 days on receipt is not accepted^[8], which means paying the lab twice.

• Answer queries within the window. BIS gives at least 30 days to fix deficiencies^[8].

• Send the affidavit straight away. If the original affidavit is not received within 30 days, the application or licence is liable for cancellation^[16].

• Never miss a renewal or annual payment. The late fee is Rs 5,000^[3], and an expired licence means starting over.

• Check your MSME status. If you are an Indian micro, small or medium enterprise, a processing fee concession may apply^[11].

• Compare declared lab prices. They are fixed for three years once declared^[18], so a quote that is far above the LIMS figure deserves a question.

• Test components and the end product together. Parallel testing is a permanent, voluntary option for all CRO categories, but you carry the risk if a component fails^[35].

• Use free migration. BIS charges no fee to migrate registered models to IS/IEC 62368-1:2023 through the Standard Revision option^[36].

For the step-by-step on the portal itself, see how the BIS CRS portal works. If you want a second opinion on your model grouping before you pay a lab, ask for a free compliance check.