84 Croma listings read on August 7, four aisles of 21 each. The badge tracks the aisle, and the deepest badges sit on the least believable stickers.
Four cleaning appliances, four Croma searches, 21 listings each. Sort them by discount and you are not sorting machines, you are sorting aisles. Robot vacuums here have a median badge of 60 per cent, chimneys 41, water purifiers 29 and dishwashers 18 - and four of the 21 dishwashers are under 10 per cent off while not one of the 21 vacuums is. The deepest badge in the pull, 87 per cent, rests on a stated MRP of Rs. 1,79,999 that we would not repeat as a saving. Ratings are thin and thin out further with price. The 23 picks below are read on the rupees and on the rating counts.
Every price below was pulled from Croma on August 7, 2026 and checked against the MRP on the listing. Stack them with the live codes on our Croma coupons page, which the deals desk re-verifies daily.
Twenty-one vacuum listings, median badge 60 per cent - the deepest of the four aisles by a wide margin, and the only one where nothing at all sits under 10 per cent off. It is also the aisle with the least believable stated MRPs: the 87 per cent listing that opens this page claims a Rs. 1,79,999 sticker. Read the rupees here, not the percentages, and note that the product with 178 ratings behind it is discounted 11 per cent.
Rs. 23,499 against a stated Rs. 1,79,999 - 87 per cent, and the number to be sceptical about.
Why it earned its spot It is the deepest discount in the pull and the clearest case of a stated MRP that should not be read as a saving.
Rs. 16,900, rated 4.8 by 59 buyers - the largest crowd behind any robot vacuum in the pull.
Why it earned its spot 59 ratings is the only robot-vacuum sample on this shelf big enough to carry any weight at all.
Rs. 24,900 for LiDAR navigation, rated 4.7 by 22 buyers.
Why it earned its spot It is the cheapest LiDAR-navigating robot here that carries a double-digit rating count.
Rs. 14,900 - the cheapest robot vacuum here with a real rating count behind it.
Why it earned its spot It sets the entry price for a robot vacuum on this shelf that has any published evidence at all.
Rs. 37,999 at 22 per cent - a robot vacuum from the aisle whose median badge is 60.
Why it earned its spot It is the counter-example inside the deepest-discounting aisle, and it costs more than every robot above it.
Rs. 74,999 on an 18 per cent badge - triple the price of the deepest-discounted robot.
Why it earned its spot At three times the price of the 87 per cent listing and a fifth of its badge, it shows how little the percentage tracks the machine.
Rs. 3,399, rated 4.2 by 178 buyers - the biggest crowd in the entire pull, on an 11 per cent badge.
Why it earned its spot 178 ratings is more than five times any other listing here, and it sits on one of the shallowest badges.
Twenty-one chimney listings, median badge 41 per cent, ceiling 57. elica dominates the aisle with eleven listings; Bosch's are the shallowest, capped at 25 per cent as part of a house range that holds across its dishwashers too. This is the aisle where the specification is easiest to compare - airflow in m3/hr, width in centimetres, ducted or ductless - and therefore the one where the badge matters least.
Rs. 10,849 at 57 per cent - the deepest discount in an aisle whose median is 41.
Why it earned its spot It tops the chimney aisle and shows where that aisle's ceiling sits, which is 30 points below the vacuum aisle's.
Rs. 4,199 - the cheapest chimney here, and the only one under 1000 m3/hr.
Why it earned its spot It is the floor of the aisle and the clearest illustration that the cheapest listing is cheap for a stated reason.
Rs. 12,490, rated 4.3 by 28 buyers - the largest crowd in the chimney aisle.
Why it earned its spot Twenty-eight ratings is the only sample in this aisle large enough to be worth reading.
Rs. 29,090 for a stated 1600 m3/hr, with no rating published.
Why it earned its spot It is the top of the airflow range in this aisle, and it comes with no buyer evidence at all.
Rs. 17,290 at 25 per cent - Bosch's eight listings here run 16 to 25 per cent and no further.
Why it earned its spot Bosch is the shallowest brand in the pull across eight listings, and this is the top of its range.
Twenty-one water-purifier listings, median badge 29 per cent, ceiling 52. This aisle holds the shelf's lowest published rating - a Croma unit at 1.4 out of 5 - a thousand rupees below a different Croma unit rated 3.9. It also holds the best-evidenced product on the page after the Eureka Forbes dry vacuum. The decision that actually matters here is not the badge but whether your water needs RO at all.
Rs. 8,190 at 52 per cent - the deepest discount in the 29 per cent aisle.
Why it earned its spot It marks the ceiling of the water-purifier aisle, which sits 35 points below the vacuum aisle's.
Rs. 8,999 for an 8-stage RO+UV+UF unit, rated 3.9 by 13 buyers.
Why it earned its spot It is the house-brand listing with enough ratings to compare against its own sibling four picks below.
Rs. 7,999, rated 1.4 out of 5 by eight buyers - the lowest score anywhere in the 84 listings.
Why it earned its spot It is the only listing here where the published evidence argues actively against the purchase, and that is worth showing.
Rs. 19,350, rated 4.4 by 25 buyers, on a 19 per cent badge.
Why it earned its spot It has the best combination of rating average and count in its aisle, and one of the shallowest badges in it.
Rs. 20,499 at 18 per cent - three ratings recorded, and no star average published.
Why it earned its spot It is the clearest example on the shelf of a rating count without a usable rating, which is worth flagging.
Twenty-one dishwasher listings, median badge 18 per cent, ceiling 35 - less than half the vacuum aisle's median, and four listings sit under 10 per cent off. It is also the aisle with the least buyer evidence: 17 of the 21 publish no rating at all. The entry price is Rs. 45,190, against Rs. 1,665 for a vacuum cleaner. Everything about this aisle argues for comparing capacity and installation type rather than badges.
Rs. 45,190 at 35 per cent - the deepest discount in an aisle whose median is 18.
Why it earned its spot It is the ceiling of the shallowest aisle on the shelf, and that ceiling is less than half the vacuum aisle's median.
Rs. 72,990 - the priciest dishwasher here, carrying exactly one published rating.
Why it earned its spot The most expensive machine in the aisle has the thinnest possible evidence behind it, which is the aisle's whole problem.
Rs. 52,990 - Rs. 20,000 below LG's own 15-place machine, for one fewer place setting.
Why it earned its spot Two machines from one brand, one place setting apart in capacity and Rs. 20,000 apart in price, is the clearest value comparison in the aisle.
Rs. 63,990, rated 4.7 by six buyers - the best score in the aisle, on a 16 per cent badge.
Why it earned its spot It carries the aisle's highest rating and one of its shallowest badges, repeating the pattern the whole page shows.
Rs. 58,990 for 16 place settings - the biggest machine here, badged 6 per cent.
Why it earned its spot The largest-capacity machine on the shelf carries one of its four sub-10-per-cent badges.
Rs. 58,690 against a stated Rs. 59,490 - Rs. 800 off, the smallest discount in the pull.
Why it earned its spot It closes the page because it is the opposite pole of the DREAME that opened it: same shelf, same day, 86 badge points apart.
Four rules the numbers on this page support. First: never compare badges across aisles, because a 30 per cent dishwasher is above its aisle median and a 30 per cent robot vacuum is well below its own - the same number means opposite things two clicks apart. Second: on robot vacuums specifically, ignore the stated MRP entirely; the stickers up there run to Rs. 1.8 and Rs. 2.3 lakh on machines selling in the twenties and thirties, and the only number worth comparing is the rupee price against other retailers. Third: read the rating count, not just the average - a 4.0 from one rater and a 4.2 from 178 are not the same claim, and this shelf shows both. Fourth: for chimneys and dishwashers, the installation decides the outcome more than the model does, so budget for the duct run or the plumbing before you optimise the machine. Card and bank offers that stack on these prices are tracked on our Croma coupons page, re-verified daily by the deals desk.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| DREAME D10 Plus Gen 2 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner & Mop with Self Emptying | Rs. 23,499 | Rs. 179,999 | 87% |
| ILIFE A20 Pro Robotic Vacuum Cleaner & Mop with Wi-Fi Connectivity | Rs. 16,900 | Rs. 69,999 | 76% |
| ILIFE T20s Pro Robotic Vacuum Cleaner & Mop with Advanced LiDAR Navigation | Rs. 24,900 | Rs. 99,990 | 75% |
| ILIFE V20 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner & Mop with Wi-Fi Connectivity | Rs. 14,900 | Rs. 49,999 | 70% |
| EUREKA FORBES Smartclean S2 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner & Mop with 3S Mopping | Rs. 37,999 | Rs. 48,999 | 22% |
| EUREKA FORBES Smartclean Robotic Vacuum Cleaner with Wi-Fi Connectivity | Rs. 74,999 | Rs. 91,000 | 18% |
| EUREKA FORBES Super Clean 800W Dry Vacuum Cleaner with Blower Function | Rs. 3,399 | Rs. 3,799 | 11% |
| elica FL 600 SLIM HAC MS NERO 60cm 1200m3/hr Ducted Auto Clean Wall Mounted Chimney | Rs. 10,849 | Rs. 24,990 | 57% |
| Croma AG1108 60cm 900m3/hr Ducted Wall Mounted Chimney with Push Button Control | Rs. 4,199 | Rs. 8,500 | 51% |
| elica WDFL 606 HAC LTW MS NERO 60cm 1200m3/hr Ducted Auto Clean Wall Mounted Chimney | Rs. 12,490 | Rs. 23,990 | 48% |
| FABER HOOD AETHER BLDC HC SC FL BK IN 60cm 1600m3/hr Ducted Auto Clean Chimney | Rs. 29,090 | Rs. 47,990 | 39% |
| BOSCH Series 4 60cm 1300m3/hr Ducted Auto Clean Wall Mounted Chimney | Rs. 17,290 | Rs. 22,990 | 25% |
| Livpure Daze 7L RO + UV + UF Water Purifier with Super Sediment Filter | Rs. 8,190 | Rs. 16,990 | 52% |
| Croma 7L RO + UV + UF + Minerals Water Purifier with 8 Stage Purification | Rs. 8,999 | Rs. 16,000 | 44% |
| Croma 7.5L UV + UF Water Purifier with Advance Copper Technology | Rs. 7,999 | Rs. 12,000 | 33% |
| KENT Grand Plus 9L RO + UV + UF + UV-in-tank + TDS Water Purifier with Zero Water Waste | Rs. 19,350 | Rs. 24,000 | 19% |
| AO Smith ProPlanet P4 Pro 5L RO + SCMT Water Purifier with Advance Recovery | Rs. 20,499 | Rs. 24,900 | 18% |
| Kutchina KEN DLX 12 Place Settings Built-in Dishwasher with Digital Display | Rs. 45,190 | Rs. 69,990 | 35% |
| LG 15 Place Settings Free Standing Smart Dishwasher with Top Control Panel | Rs. 72,990 | Rs. 99,999 | 27% |
| LG 14 Place Settings Free Standing Dishwasher with Inverter Direct Drive Motor | Rs. 52,990 | Rs. 64,999 | 18% |
| BOSCH Series 6 15 Place Settings Free Standing Dishwasher with Anti-Fingerprint Finish | Rs. 63,990 | Rs. 76,490 | 16% |
| IFB Neptune VX16 16 Place Settings Free Standing Dishwasher with Ion Tech | Rs. 58,990 | Rs. 62,590 | 6% |
| FABER FSID 8PR 14S 14 Place Settings Built-in Dishwasher with Salt & Rinse Aid Indicator | Rs. 58,690 | Rs. 59,490 | 1% |
On August 7, 2026 we read four Croma product searches - vacuum cleaner, water purifier, dishwasher and chimney - and kept every listing returning both a selling price and a stated MRP, discarding the rest, because a listing without an MRP cannot carry a badge and would distort the aisle medians this page is built on. Each search returned 21 qualifying listings, giving 84 in total, which is the denominator for every count and median here. Prices, stated MRPs and specifications are Croma's own as they displayed that day.
We took the median discount of each aisle first, and the page structure follows it: vacuum cleaners 60 per cent, chimneys 41, water purifiers 29, dishwashers 18. The spread within aisles is real too - the deepest badge in the pull is 87 per cent on a robot vacuum and the shallowest is 1 per cent on a dishwasher, and four of the 21 dishwashers sit under 10 per cent while none of the 21 vacuums does. We can measure the pattern and we cannot explain it. Category maturity, margin structure, brand-mandated pricing and how recently each aisle entered Indian homes are all plausible, none is visible from a product page, and we have not speculated about which applies.
The deepest badges on this shelf rest on the least credible stickers. The 87 per cent robot vacuum states an MRP of Rs. 1,79,999 against a selling price of Rs. 23,499 - a stated gap of Rs. 1,56,500 on a machine no Indian retailer lists near that figure. Other robot listings state Rs. 2,29,999 and Rs. 1,99,999. We report those numbers because they are what the listing says, and we say plainly in the copy that they should not be read as savings. A stated MRP is a seller's reference figure, not evidence of a past selling price, and on this shelf that gap is widest exactly where the badge is deepest.
Thirty-three of the 84 listings publish a star rating. They are not evenly spread: 70 per cent of listings under Rs. 10,000 carry one, against 12 per cent between Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 50,000, and 17 of the 21 dishwashers have none at all. Where a rating exists we show it with its count attached, because a 4.0 from one rater and a 4.2 from 178 are not the same claim and should not look the same. Where Croma records a count but publishes no average - the AO Smith purifier is one - no pill is set. No score on this page is ours; we have invented nothing to fill a gap.
Nothing on this page has been installed, plumbed, ducted or switched on by us. Every specification quoted - suction in m3/hr, place settings, purification stages, wattage, LiDAR navigation, auto-empty and auto-clean functions, zero-water-waste and recovery claims - is the listing's own, reported as the seller's claim and not verified. Two claims deserve particular caution: water-recovery ratios on RO purifiers, which depend heavily on input water quality, and airflow figures on chimneys, which are measured at the fan rather than through an installed duct run. Installation quality will affect a chimney or a dishwasher more than the choice of model.
We can report the size of the gap precisely and we cannot explain its cause. Across 84 listings read on August 7, 2026 - four searches returning 21 listings each - the vacuum-cleaner aisle had a median discount of 60 per cent and the dishwasher aisle 18, with chimneys at 41 and water purifiers at 29 in between. Four of the 21 dishwashers were under 10 per cent off; none of the 21 vacuums was. Category maturity is one plausible explanation, since robot vacuums are a crowded, recently-entered category with many competing brands while dishwashers in India are sold by a handful of established appliance houses. Margin structure, brand-mandated minimum pricing and stock age are equally plausible and none of them is visible from a product page, so we have not asserted any of them.
No, and we would say the same about the Rs. 1,99,999 and Rs. 2,29,999 stickers on other robot vacuums in the same aisle. A stated MRP is a seller's reference figure. It is not a promise that the product ever sold at that price, and where the figure sits five to eight times above the actual selling price on a machine no Indian retailer lists anywhere near it, the badge computed from it is arithmetic rather than information. This matters practically because discount sorting on any retail site ranks by that arithmetic - so the listings with the most inflated stickers float to the top of a 'best deals' sort. The number worth comparing is the rupee price against other retailers selling the same model.
They do different jobs and this shelf prices both. A robot vacuum maintains a floor that is already reasonably clear - it runs daily, picks up dust, hair and crumbs, and stops you sweeping. It cannot clean a sofa crevice, a car interior, a staircase edge or anything that requires pressing a nozzle into a corner. A corded dry vacuum does exactly those things and does not maintain anything on its own. The most-rated product in this entire pull is a Rs. 3,399 Eureka Forbes 800W dry vacuum with 178 ratings at 4.2, and the cheapest robot with any real rating count is Rs. 14,900. If you can only buy one and your home has stairs, upholstery or a car, buy the corded one. Most people who are happy with a robot own both.
It depends on your input water and no product listing on this shelf knows what that is. RO removes dissolved solids and is the right technology above roughly 500 TDS, which covers most borewell supply and many Indian municipal supplies. Below about 200 TDS, RO strips minerals you were better off keeping and wastes two to three litres for every litre it produces, and a UV plus UF unit does the job for less money and less water. A cheap TDS meter costs a few hundred rupees and will settle it in a minute. Note also what this shelf shows about assuming a brand is enough: two Croma purifiers here sit Rs. 1,000 apart and are rated 3.9 from thirteen buyers and 1.4 from eight. Read the rating count on the specific model.
Seventeen of the 21 dishwasher listings we read publish no star rating or review count, and of the four that do, three have fewer than ten ratings. The most likely explanation is straightforward: dishwashers are the most recently adopted appliance of the four aisles on this page in Indian homes, so far fewer people have bought one and returned to rate it. The practical consequence is that this is the aisle where buyer evidence helps you least and where the comparable facts - place settings, free-standing versus built-in, whether the machine has an inbuilt water softener for hard supply, and what the motor warranty actually covers - have to do all the work. It is also the aisle where installation matters most, because a badly plumbed dishwasher will underperform a better model well plumbed.






















