Two hundred and five razor listings read on one morning. The cost of a single blade spans 268x, and the thing that sets it is not the brand on the box.
We read two hundred and five unique non-sponsored razor and blade listings on amazon.in on 13 September 2026, and the shelf turns out to hide the only number that matters. Blades are sold in boxes - Rs. 95, Rs. 599, Rs. 3,143 - and the box price is set mostly by the count inside it. Divide one by the other and a single blade runs from Rs. 1.90 to Rs. 499. What sets that 268x spread is not the brand: Gillette sells a double-edge blade at Rs. 113.40 and a cartridge at Rs. 39.17. It is the system.
Every price below was pulled from Amazon on September 13, 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.
Nine double-edge listings from the Rs. 1.90 floor to a Gillette blade at Rs. 113.40, including all three rungs of the Feather pack ladder and the 53,463-rating box in the middle.
Rs. 95 for 50 double-edge blades — Rs. 1.90 each.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest blade in this read that carries a real rating sample.
Rs. 125 for 50 blades — Rs. 2.50 each, from 770 ratings.
Why it earned its spot Sixty paise more a blade for more than twice the rating evidence.
Rs. 289 for 50 blades — Rs. 5.78 each, 4.2 stars.
Why it earned its spot Sits at the median of the double-edge shelf plus a bit, with a named brand behind it.
Rs. 1,299 for 100 blades — Rs. 12.99 each, 4,351 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The best-evidenced hundred-blade box here, at seven times the shelf floor.
Rs. 3,143 for 200 blades — Rs. 15.71 each, 55% under the same brand's 10-pack.
Why it earned its spot The lower rung of this page's steepest pack ladder.
Rs. 1,792 for 100 blades — Rs. 17.92 each, 53,463 ratings.
Why it earned its spot Fifty-three thousand ratings, by far the largest sample in this read.
Rs. 566 for 30 blades — Rs. 18.87 each.
Why it earned its spot The middle rung between this brand's 200-count and its 10-count.
Rs. 347 for 10 blades — Rs. 34.70 each, 1,424 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The top rung of the ladder, and the easiest one to buy by accident.
Rs. 1,134 for 10 blades — Rs. 113.40 each, 60x the shelf floor.
Why it earned its spot Proof that the format does not guarantee the rate.
Five disposables inside a nine-rupee window — including the pack ladder that saves two percent, and the pooled rating count that appears on both of its rungs.
Rs. 212 for 25 disposable razors — Rs. 8.48 each.
Why it earned its spot The floor of the disposable band, at half its median.
Rs. 139 for a razor plus 12 blades — Rs. 11.58 a shaving head, 3,365 ratings.
Why it earned its spot Twelve heads and a handle for less than one premium cartridge.
Rs. 329 for 20 disposables (16 plus 4 free) — Rs. 16.45 each.
Why it earned its spot The pack ladder that barely exists.
Rs. 200 for 12 razors (8 plus 4) — Rs. 16.67 each.
Why it earned its spot Gillette's disposable, priced within twenty paise of the value brands.
Rs. 168 for 10 disposables — Rs. 16.80 each.
Why it earned its spot The other rung, and the pooled rating that cannot tell them apart.
Seven cartridge listings from the cheapest refill on the shelf to Rs. 499 a head, with both rungs of the Mach3 ladder that cuts 39 percent off the rate for buying the big box.
Rs. 235 for 6 cartridges — Rs. 39.17 each, 5,240 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The floor of a band whose median is Rs. 137.38.
Rs. 249 for 4 cartridges — Rs. 62.25 each, 966 ratings.
Why it earned its spot An Indian D2C brand at 38% under the equivalent Mach3 two-pack rate.
Rs. 1,583 for 16 cartridges — Rs. 98.94 each, 39% under the 2-pack.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest way to run the most common cartridge system in India.
Rs. 526 for 4 cartridges — Rs. 131.50 each, 4,931 ratings.
Why it earned its spot Seated because the women's shelf prices differently and should be shown.
Rs. 325 for 2 cartridges — Rs. 162.50 each, on 34,767 ratings.
Why it earned its spot India's most-bought cartridge pack, at the page's worst mainstream rate.
Rs. 1,857 for 10 cartridges — Rs. 185.70 each.
Why it earned its spot The bulk rate on the five-blade system, still 55x the DE floor.
Rs. 998 for 2 cartridges — Rs. 499 each, 263x the cheapest blade here.
Why it earned its spot The dearest consumable in the read, in the smallest available pack.
First: divide before you compare. Price divided by the blade count in the title is the only figure that puts two shaving listings side by side, and this shelf writes its counts badly enough that the division needs checking - one listing here reads "Pack Of 2" and holds ten blades. Second: the system sets the rate, not the brand. Double-edge blades ran to a median of Rs. 3.38 in this read, disposables Rs. 16.90 and cartridge refills Rs. 137.38, and the same manufacturer appears near the top and the bottom of that list. Third: check the ladder rather than assuming it - Feather's 200-blade box is 55% cheaper per blade than its 10-blade tin, and the Mach3 sixteen-pack is 39% cheaper than its two-pack, but the LetsShave disposable saves you two percent for doubling the order. Fourth: ignore the badge, because there is not one. Not a single listing in this read displayed a struck-through MRP with a discount attached, the same near-total absence we found on Amazon's grocery shelves and its diaper aisle.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topaz Platinum double-edge, 50 blades | Rs. 95 | Rs. Rs. 1.9 each | 50 in pack% |
| Laser Ultra double-edge, 50 blades | Rs. 125 | Rs. Rs. 2.5 each | 50 in pack% |
| LetsShave Advanced double-edge, 50 blades | Rs. 289 | Rs. Rs. 5.78 each | 50 in pack% |
| Parker double-edge, 100 blades | Rs. 1,299 | Rs. Rs. 12.99 each | 100 in pack% |
| Feather Hi-Stainless, 200 blades | Rs. 3,143 | Rs. Rs. 15.71 each | 200 in pack% |
| Astra Platinum, 100 blades | Rs. 1,792 | Rs. Rs. 17.92 each | 100 in pack% |
| Feather Hi-Stainless Platinum, 30 blades | Rs. 566 | Rs. Rs. 18.87 each | 30 in pack% |
| Feather double-edge, 10 blades | Rs. 347 | Rs. Rs. 34.7 each | 10 in pack% |
| King C. Gillette double-edge, 10 blades | Rs. 1,134 | Rs. Rs. 113.4 each | 10 in pack% |
| DORCO Klass 2 disposables, 25 razors | Rs. 212 | Rs. Rs. 8.48 each | 25 in pack% |
| Gillette Guard, razor plus 12 blades | Rs. 139 | Rs. Rs. 11.58 each | 12 in pack% |
| LetsShave Pro 2 Plus, 20 disposables | Rs. 329 | Rs. Rs. 16.45 each | 20 in pack% |
| Gillette Presto, 12 disposables | Rs. 200 | Rs. Rs. 16.67 each | 12 in pack% |
| LetsShave Pro 2 Plus, 10 disposables | Rs. 168 | Rs. Rs. 16.8 each | 10 in pack% |
| Gillette Vector Plus, 6 cartridges | Rs. 235 | Rs. Rs. 39.17 each | 6 in pack% |
| Bombay Shaving Sensi Smart 3, 4 cartridges | Rs. 249 | Rs. Rs. 62.25 each | 4 in pack% |
| Gillette Mach3, 16 cartridges | Rs. 1,583 | Rs. Rs. 98.94 each | 16 in pack% |
| Gillette Venus, 4 cartridges | Rs. 526 | Rs. Rs. 131.5 each | 4 in pack% |
| Gillette Mach3, 2 cartridges | Rs. 325 | Rs. Rs. 162.5 each | 2 in pack% |
| Gillette Fusion 5, 10 cartridges | Rs. 1,857 | Rs. Rs. 185.7 each | 10 in pack% |
| Gillette Labs, 2 cartridges | Rs. 998 | Rs. Rs. 499 each | 2 in pack% |
A shaving aisle is priced in boxes — Rs. 95, Rs. 599, Rs. 3,143 — and the box price is set mostly by how many blades are inside it. So every card here leads with the figure the packaging never puts in a readable size: the cost of one blade, which is the selling price divided by the count stated in the product title. Across the 73 listings where that division is possible and unambiguous, one blade runs from Rs. 1.86 to Rs. 499.00 — a 268-fold spread on a shelf where everything does the same job.
Pack counts on this shelf are written badly and often. One listing reads “Pack Of 2” and contains ten blades; another reads “1/2 Blades” and contains a hundred; a third reads “50 In 1 (Pack Of 4)” and contains two hundred. Four of the 77 counted listings state their count so ambiguously that we could not divide them honestly, so they are excluded from every figure on this page, and the count on all 21 seated cards was checked against both the title and the pack photograph before it was used.
The obvious guess is that brand sets the rate. It does not; the system does. Double-edge blades on this read: 21 listings, Rs. 1.86 to Rs. 113.40, median Rs. 3.38. Disposable razors: 8 listings, Rs. 8.48 to Rs. 98.17, median Rs. 16.90. Cartridge refills: 39 listings, Rs. 13.59 to Rs. 499.00, median Rs. 137.38. The median cartridge costs 40.6 times the median double-edge blade, and Gillette sells at both ends — its King C. line at Rs. 113.40 a double-edge blade, its Vector Plus at Rs. 39.17 a cartridge.
This is the correction the per-blade number needs. A five-blade cartridge carries a pivoting head, a lubricating strip and a guard bar, and it is designed to be used for weeks; a double-edge blade is a folded sheet of steel that goes into a metal handle you buy once and keep for years. We price the consumable, and the consumable is genuinely what you keep re-buying — but nothing on this page tests closeness of shave, comfort or how many shaves a blade lasts, and those differences are real.
Bigger is usually cheaper per blade here, and by wildly different margins. Feather's double-edge blade is Rs. 34.70 each in the 10-count tin and Rs. 15.71 in the 200-count — the big box is 55 percent cheaper per blade. Gillette Mach3 is Rs. 162.50 a cartridge in the 2-pack and Rs. 98.94 in the 16-pack, 39 percent cheaper. But LetsShave's Pro 2 Plus disposable is Rs. 16.80 each at ten and Rs. 16.45 at twenty — a 2 percent saving for doubling the order. Both rungs of all three ladders are seated below.
In this read of 205 unique non-sponsored listings on 13 September 2026, the cheapest blade with a real rating sample behind it was Rs. 1.90 — a Topaz Platinum double-edge box, 50 blades for Rs. 95, at 4.1 stars from 346 ratings. Two other double-edge boxes sat within sixty paise of it. Those are all double-edge blades, which need a metal safety-razor handle you buy once. If you want a complete disposable razor rather than a blade, the floor was Rs. 8.48 a razor; if you want a cartridge refill, the floor was Rs. 39.17 a cartridge. Prices change daily and the live listing is authoritative.
On this read, roughly forty times at the median. The 21 double-edge listings we could divide came in at a median of Rs. 3.38 a blade; the 39 cartridge listings came in at a median of Rs. 137.38 a cartridge. That is a 40.6x gap for the consumable. Two honest caveats. A cartridge lasts longer for most people than a single double-edge blade, so the per-shave gap is smaller than the per-blade gap, though we did not test how much smaller. And the format does not guarantee the rate in either direction — the dearest double-edge blade in this read was Rs. 113.40, well above the cheapest cartridge.
No, and the difference between ladders is dramatic. Feather's Hi-Stainless double-edge blade is Rs. 34.70 each in the 10-count tin and Rs. 15.71 in the 200-count box — 55 percent cheaper per blade. Gillette Mach3 is Rs. 162.50 a cartridge in the two-pack and Rs. 98.94 in the sixteen-pack, 39 percent cheaper. But LetsShave's Pro 2 Plus disposable is Rs. 16.80 each in the ten-pack and Rs. 16.45 in the twenty-pack, which is a saving of thirty-five paise a razor. All three ladders were read in the same session and all six rungs are seated on this page. The only reliable method is to divide each pack yourself.
Because the count is written for the retail box rather than for a search result, and boxes are packed in tucks. On this shelf we found a listing titled “Pack Of 2” that contains ten blades in two tucks of five, one titled “1/2 Blades” that contains a hundred, and one titled “50 In 1 (Pack Of 4)” that contains two hundred. We excluded all four such listings from every figure on this page rather than guess, and hand-checked the count on all 21 cards we seat. If you are comparing yourself, read the count off the pack photograph as well as the title.
Not on this read. Not one of the 205 unique non-sponsored listings displayed a struck-through MRP with a percentage attached — the discount badge is simply absent from this shelf, the same way it is largely absent from Amazon's grocery and diaper aisles. There is one thing not to confuse with a discount: on consumables amazon.in sometimes prints a per-unit rate in the slot where a struck-through MRP would sit, and several razor tiles here carry a figure below the selling price for that reason. That is a rate, not an offer. The saving available on this shelf comes from pack size and from system choice, not from a badge.




















