Twenty-two chimneys read on 26 August, Rs. 4,199 to Rs. 25,749. Two of the badges are arithmetic errors. So we priced the airflow instead.
We read Amazon India's kitchen chimney shelf on 26 August 2026 and seated 22 models from Rs. 4,199 to Rs. 25,749. Two of them advertise 99 per cent off, and in both cases the stated MRP is exactly one hundred times the price - a field entered in paise, not a discount. Since the badges cannot be compared, every card here prices what the category is really sold on: suction. That works out anywhere from Rs. 4.7 to Rs. 15.6 per m3/hr, and the expensive end is not always the one moving the most air.
Every price below was pulled from Amazon on August 26, 2026 and checked against the MRP on the listing. Stack them with the live codes on our Amazon coupons page, which the deals desk re-verifies daily.
Ten chimneys under Rs. 8,000. Stated airflow runs 900 to 1,400 m3/hr, the ratings cluster stubbornly at 3.9, and the biggest discount badge on the page belongs to a listing whose MRP field is broken.
Rs. 4,199, and an MRP of Rs. 4,19,900 - exactly one hundred times the price.
Why it earned its spot The 99 per cent badge is an artefact of an MRP field carrying paise, not a discount.
Rs. 4,999 for a 900 m3/hr 60 cm chimney, 58 per cent off a believable Rs. 11,990.
Why it earned its spot V-Guard is a mainstream Indian appliance brand, and Rs. 11,990 is a credible list price.
1,117 ratings at 3.9 - the biggest crowd at the cheap end of this shelf.
Why it earned its spot The most-rated chimney under Rs. 6,000, and the cheapest rupee-per-m3/hr on the page.
Rs. 5,499, three-speed push controls, 348 ratings at 3.9.
Why it earned its spot A stated 45 per cent off Rs. 10,000 - the smallest badge in the budget band.
Glen's Rs. 5,799 pyramid, 310 ratings at 3.9, baffle filter.
Why it earned its spot Glen is the largest presence in this pull - six listings from Rs. 5,799 to Rs. 24,999.
Faber at Rs. 6,299 - 4.7 from only 24 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The best average on the cheap half of the shelf, from the smallest sample.
Whirlpool at Rs. 6,390, cassette filter, 364 ratings at 3.9.
Why it earned its spot The listing title claims five years of warranty - the longest at this price.
The cheapest filterless chimney here that is not carrying a broken MRP.
Why it earned its spot Filterless means no mesh to scrub - and an oil collector to empty instead.
Rs. 7,390, 1000 m3/hr, 4.6 from 40 ratings.
Why it earned its spot A specialist brand with a real 1000 m3/hr, below the Rs. 10,000 wall.
1,400 m3/hr for Rs. 7,999 - and nine people have rated it.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 5.7 per m3/hr with auto-clean, from a brand with no track record on this page.
Ten listings in the band most kitchens buy from, including the two Elica and Faber models whose rating counts appear twice in this pull, and the cheapest 90 cm hood in the read.
Rs. 10,699 buys filterless 1200 m3/hr from Glen, with 508 ratings behind it.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest listing here that combines a real crowd with a filterless design.
A 90 cm T-shape at Rs. 10,899, with 1,226 ratings at 4.1.
Why it earned its spot Ninety centimetres of hood for less than most 60 cm auto-clean chimneys.
KAFF's 1,450 m3/hr at Rs. 11,100, 634 ratings at 3.9.
Why it earned its spot The highest stated airflow under Rs. 12,000 from a brand with a service network.
Rs. 11,800, 4.5 - from a count Faber also shows on its 90 cm chimney.
Why it earned its spot A Faber auto-clean under Rs. 12,000; the 678 ratings are not this listing's alone.
Rs. 11,999 for a 90 cm filterless hood, 182 ratings at 4.1.
Why it earned its spot A 90 cm hood at a 60 cm price, from the brand with six listings on this page.
4,459 ratings at 4.5 - a count Elica also shows on its 90 cm listing.
Why it earned its spot The biggest crowd in the read, attached to two Elica listings rather than one.
Rs. 13,290 for a plug-and-play chimney that needs no duct at all.
Why it earned its spot For a rented flat or a kitchen with no external wall, this is the only shape that works.
Rs. 14,499 for a full-grill 90 cm Elica, 668 ratings at 4.5.
Why it earned its spot High airflow across a wide hood - the configuration for a kitchen that fries daily.
Rs. 14,999 for a BLDC motor, 1,500 m3/hr and 715 ratings at 4.5.
Why it earned its spot BLDC motors draw less power and run quieter - the first one on this page.
Rs. 15,490, 1,350 CMH, 406 ratings at 4.2.
Why it earned its spot Hindware's kitchen line, priced above Elica for less stated airflow.
Two BLDC chimneys at the top of the read - one carrying the same 100x MRP defect as the cheapest listing on the page, and one with the highest stated airflow and ten ratings to its name.
Rs. 24,999 against a stated Rs. 24,99,900 - the same 100x defect, at the top of the shelf.
Why it earned its spot A twenty-five lakh rupee kitchen chimney does not exist; the MRP field is wrong.
1,800 m3/hr, 90 cm, Rs. 25,749 - and only ten ratings.
Why it earned its spot The highest stated suction in the read, on the thinnest evidence at the top end.
First: measure the hob before anything else, because a 60 cm hood over a four-burner hob leaves the outer burners uncovered and no amount of suction fixes geometry. Second: divide the price by the stated m3/hr and compare that number rather than the badge - on this shelf it ranges from Rs. 4.7 to Rs. 15.6 for the same unit of air. Third: decide the maintenance question honestly, because a baffle filter needs scrubbing every few weeks and a filterless hood needs an oil cup emptied; the one that never gets done is the wrong choice. Fourth: check what installation actually costs at checkout, since ducting and masonry are usually excluded - the same unpriced-extras problem we found across Amazon's wider kitchen appliance shelf. Then check the live coupon page before checkout.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUWA 60cm, MRP 100x the price, Rs. 4 | Rs. 4,199 | Rs. 1,000 m3/hr | Rs. 4.2/m3/hr% |
| V-Guard M10 Pro 900 m3/hr, Rs. 4 | Rs. 4,999 | Rs. 900 m3/hr | Rs. 5.6/m3/hr% |
| INALSA 1100 m3/hr, 1,117 ratings, Rs. 5 | Rs. 5,199 | Rs. 1,100 m3/hr | Rs. 4.7/m3/hr% |
| Wonderchef baffle filter, Rs. 5 | Rs. 5,499 | Rs. 1,050 m3/hr | Rs. 5.2/m3/hr% |
| Glen Hood Aqua pyramid, Rs. 5 | Rs. 5,799 | Rs. 1,000 m3/hr | Rs. 5.8/m3/hr% |
| Faber SION, 4.7 from 24, Rs. 6 | Rs. 6,299 | Rs. 900 m3/hr | Rs. 7.0/m3/hr% |
| Whirlpool 5-year warranty claim, Rs. 6 | Rs. 6,390 | Rs. 900 m3/hr | Rs. 7.1/m3/hr% |
| V-Guard C10 filterless, Rs. 6 | Rs. 6,999 | Rs. 1,000 m3/hr | Rs. 7.0/m3/hr% |
| Faber Pluto 1000 m3/hr, Rs. 7 | Rs. 7,390 | Rs. 1,000 m3/hr | Rs. 7.4/m3/hr% |
| Cadlec 1400 m3/hr, 9 ratings, Rs. 7 | Rs. 7,999 | Rs. 1,400 m3/hr | Rs. 5.7/m3/hr% |
| Glen Senza filterless, 508 ratings, Rs. 10 | Rs. 10,699 | Rs. 1,200 m3/hr | Rs. 8.9/m3/hr% |
| Livpure Fenix 90cm, 1,226 ratings, Rs. 10 | Rs. 10,899 | Rs. 1,400 m3/hr | Rs. 7.8/m3/hr% |
| KAFF 1450 m3/hr, Rs. 11 | Rs. 11,100 | Rs. 1,450 m3/hr | Rs. 7.7/m3/hr% |
| Faber 60cm autoclean, 678 shared, Rs. 11 | Rs. 11,800 | Rs. 1,200 m3/hr | Rs. 9.8/m3/hr% |
| Glen Anya 90cm, Rs. 11 | Rs. 11,999 | Rs. 1,200 m3/hr | Rs. 10.0/m3/hr% |
| Elica 60cm, 4,459 shared ratings, Rs. 12 | Rs. 12,890 | Rs. 1,350 m3/hr | Rs. 9.5/m3/hr% |
| Beyond ductless Cube Pro, Rs. 13 | Rs. 13,290 | Rs. 1,400 m3/hr | Rs. 9.5/m3/hr% |
| Elica 90cm full grill 1600, Rs. 14 | Rs. 14,499 | Rs. 1,600 m3/hr | Rs. 9.1/m3/hr% |
| Elica 60cm BLDC 1500, Rs. 14 | Rs. 14,999 | Rs. 1,500 m3/hr | Rs. 10.0/m3/hr% |
| Hindware Skyla Neo 1350, Rs. 15 | Rs. 15,490 | Rs. 1,350 m3/hr | Rs. 11.5/m3/hr% |
| Glen KOPPA, MRP 100x the price, Rs. 24 | Rs. 24,999 | Rs. 1,600 m3/hr | Rs. 15.6/m3/hr% |
| Elica 90cm 1800 m3/hr, 10 ratings, Rs. 25 | Rs. 25,749 | Rs. 1,800 m3/hr | Rs. 14.3/m3/hr% |
Two of the thirty-seven listings in this pull carry an MRP exactly one hundred times their selling price: RUWA at Rs. 4,199 against a stated Rs. 4,19,900, and Glen's KOPPA at Rs. 24,999 against Rs. 24,99,900. Both therefore print a 99 per cent discount badge on Amazon's search page. No kitchen chimney has been sold for four lakh or twenty-five lakh rupees; this is a price field entered in paise, a defect we have found repeatedly on Amazon's Indian listings. Both cards say so plainly and neither badge is treated as a discount anywhere on this page.
Every listing here leads with suction in m3/hr - or CMH, which is the same measurement written differently - so every card on this page states what a cubic metre per hour costs. The rate is not linear and the spread is wide: INALSA charges about Rs. 4.7 per m3/hr at Rs. 5,199, Glen's KOPPA charges Rs. 15.6 at Rs. 24,999, and Hindware's Rs. 15,490 model is the worst ratio among the mainstream brands. Airflow is not the only thing you are buying - motor type, hood width, service network and filter design all cost money - but it is the number the shelf advertises and it should be priced.
Amazon pools ratings across a product's variations, and chimney makers sell one hood in two widths. Our pull found Elica's 60 cm and 90 cm 1350 m3/hr chimneys both showing 4.5 from 4,459 ratings, its two 1500 m3/hr listings both showing 1,552, and Faber's 60 cm and 90 cm autoclean chimneys both showing 4.5 from 678. Where our own pull found a count repeated, the card says so. It matters practically as well as editorially: if the crowd is judging the model rather than the width, the wider hood carries the same evidence for a few hundred rupees more.
Six of the twenty-two chimneys seated here carry averages built on fewer than fifty ratings - nine on the Cadlec, ten on the top Elica, seventeen on the RUWA, twenty-four on the Faber SION, forty on the Faber Pluto and forty-one on the V-Guard C10. None of them renders a pill; each card prints the average with its count attached and says the sample is too thin. A 4.7 from twenty-four people is not evidence that a chimney is better than a 3.9 from 1,117, and on an appliance you will own for a decade the size of the crowd matters more than the score.
Suction figures, filter types, motor types and warranty lengths on this page are quoted from Amazon's listing titles, which sellers write. Chimney airflow is measured at the impeller with no ducting attached, so the figure on the box is always higher than the air a fitted chimney moves through a bend and a wall sleeve - and no listing here publishes a noise figure, which is the specification owners complain about most. We have not installed, run, measured or opened any chimney on this page.
Because the MRP field is wrong, not because the chimney is nearly free. Two listings in our 26 August 2026 read carry a stated MRP exactly one hundred times their selling price: the RUWA GARNET at Rs. 4,199 against Rs. 4,19,900, and Glen's KOPPA HSR at Rs. 24,999 against Rs. 24,99,900. Amazon computes the badge arithmetically from whatever the seller enters, so a price typed in paise and rendered in rupees produces a 99 per cent badge automatically. No kitchen chimney has ever been sold at either figure. The practical rule for this whole shelf: read the selling price, divide it by the stated suction, and treat every percentage as decoration - the honest badges here are the small ones, in the 45 to 58 per cent range, on brands like Wonderchef, V-Guard and Whirlpool whose list prices their dealers actually charge.
The working rule used across the Indian market is that the chimney should exchange the kitchen's air roughly ten to twelve times an hour, so multiply the kitchen's volume in cubic metres by twelve. A typical Indian kitchen of about 3 by 2.5 metres with a 3-metre ceiling is around 22 cubic metres, which points at 900 to 1,100 m3/hr - the entry band on this page. Cooking style pushes it up faster than room size does: daily deep-frying, tadka and open-flame roasting need 1,200 to 1,500 m3/hr, and an open-plan kitchen where the cooking area shares air with the living room needs the 1,600 to 1,800 m3/hr at the top of this shelf. One caveat: these figures are measured at the impeller with no ducting, so a chimney fitted with two bends and a long duct run moves less air than its box claims.
It is a maintenance choice more than a performance one. A baffle filter is a stainless steel plate assembly that traps grease and has to be removed and scrubbed every three to six weeks in a kitchen that fries - cheap, effective, and a job most households skip. A filterless chimney spins the grease out and collects it in a removable oil cup, which takes seconds to empty, and usually adds an auto-clean cycle that heats the collector to loosen residue. On this page filterless designs start around Rs. 6,999 against Rs. 4,999 for the cheapest baffle model. Both still need an annual professional clean of the duct and impeller. The honest test is who in the house will actually do the maintenance: if the answer is nobody, pay the extra for filterless.
Match the hood to the hob, not to the budget. A 60 cm chimney suits a two- or three-burner hob; a four-burner hob or anything wider than about 70 cm needs a 90 cm hood, because whatever rises outside the hood's capture area ends up on the ceiling regardless of how much suction the motor claims. The price gap is smaller than most buyers expect - on this page the cheapest 90 cm listing is Rs. 10,899, which undercuts several 60 cm auto-clean models, and Faber's 90 cm autoclean costs Rs. 990 more than its 60 cm twin while sharing the same 678 ratings. The real extra cost of going wider is installation: a 90 cm hood fitted where a 60 cm one used to be usually needs the duct opening re-cut, which is masonry work that Amazon's installation charge does not cover.
Generally not, and this is where the budget for a chimney purchase goes wrong. The prices on this page are the appliance only. Standard installation - mounting, a short duct run and a wall sleeve - is usually quoted separately by the brand's service partner, and anything non-standard is extra: cutting a new duct opening, long duct runs, false ceilings and elbow bends all add labour and material. Two of the listings in this read state free installation in their titles, which is a seller claim rather than a marketplace guarantee, and one states a five-year warranty; read both in the product documentation rather than the title. Budget roughly Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 3,500 above the listed price for a standard fit, and get the duct route confirmed before you order a 90 cm hood.





















