All 21 dishwashers on Croma's shelf, read on 25 August. The biggest machine is not the most expensive one to fill.
We read Croma's dishwasher shelf on 25 August 2026 and seated all 21 machines, Rs. 46,894 to Rs. 72,990. Place settings is the only capacity number every listing states, so we divided price by settings on every card. The ratio runs Rs. 3,199 to Rs. 5,199 and it does not follow the price tag: the 16-setting IFB at Rs. 58,990 is cheaper per setting than the 12-setting machine costing Rs. 9,800 less. Every built-in here sits in the expensive half of that table, and Croma publishes no rating at all for fourteen of the twenty-one.
Every price below was pulled from Croma on August 25, 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.
The entry half of the shelf, and where the two best capacity-per-rupee machines in the whole read sit - along with the smallest dishwasher here, which costs more per setting than a machine holding four more.
Rs. 46,894 for a 13-place Bosch with glass protection - Rs. 3,607 per setting.
Why it earned its spot The lowest total price here, from the brand with the most listings on this shelf.
Rs. 47,990 for fifteen place settings - Rs. 3,199 each, the best ratio on the shelf.
Why it earned its spot Two settings more than the cheapest machine, for Rs. 1,096 more money.
Rs. 49,190 for twelve place settings - Rs. 4,099 each, on a 35 per cent badge.
Why it earned its spot The only 12-setting machine here, and it costs more per setting than a 16.
Rs. 49,490 for a 14-place Bosch with voice control - Rs. 3,535 a setting.
Why it earned its spot The second-best per-setting ratio in the read, at under fifty thousand rupees.
Rs. 51,490 for the smart version of the card above - Rs. 2,000 for the finish and the app.
Why it earned its spot Two thousand rupees between a white 14-place Bosch and a stainless one.
Rs. 51,790 for a 14-place Kutchina with a digital display - 35% off a stated Rs. 79,990.
Why it earned its spot Kutchina's second listing, at the same 35 per cent badge and a higher list price.
Rs. 54,990 for LG's 14-place machine with an inverter direct-drive motor.
Why it earned its spot A brushless motor with a long warranty history, at Rs. 3,928 a setting.
Eight machines where the per-setting figure starts climbing. The first built-in appears, the two mildest discount badges on the shelf appear, and one LG costs Rs. 2,500 more purely for being black.
Rs. 58,990 for sixteen place settings at Rs. 3,687 each - the largest capacity here.
Why it earned its spot The joint-largest machine on the shelf, at the third-best ratio and the second-mildest badge.
Rs. 59,290 for a 14-place built-in elica - Rs. 4,235 a setting, and the ratio jumps.
Why it earned its spot The first built-in on this page, and the point where the per-setting figure steps up.
Rs. 61,990 for a 14-place Electrolux - Rs. 4,428 a setting, the second-dearest ratio in this chapter.
Why it earned its spot A stated Rs. 89,990 list price on a fourteen-setting free-standing machine.
Rs. 62,990 for LG's 15-place smart dishwasher in Prime Silver - Rs. 4,199 a setting.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest fifteen-setting machine here after the IFB VX15, at a much worse ratio.
Rs. 62,990 for a 16-place IFB with three AI wash programmes, at 4 per cent off.
Why it earned its spot The smallest discount claim in this read, on the joint-largest machine.
Rs. 63,990 for a 15-place Bosch with anti-fingerprint finish, showing 4.8 from nine ratings.
Why it earned its spot The highest average on the shelf - and only nine people wrote it.
Rs. 63,990 for a 14-place FABER built-in - Rs. 4,571 a setting, the third-dearest ratio here.
Why it earned its spot Joint-mildest badge on the shelf, on one of the worst per-setting ratios.
Rs. 65,490 for LG's 15-place smart machine in Matte Black rather than Prime Silver.
Why it earned its spot Two thousand five hundred rupees for a colour, and a Rs. 9,000 higher stated MRP.
Six machines at the top of the shelf, four of them paying for something other than capacity - a cabinet cut-out, a hidden control strip, a darker finish. The worst per-setting ratio in the read is here.
Rs. 67,990 for the 15-place Bosch anti-fingerprint machine in Black Inox.
Why it earned its spot The same Bosch as the shelf's best-rated machine, Rs. 4,000 more for a darker finish.
Rs. 68,990 for a 14-place Bosch built-in - Rs. 4,928 a setting, the second-dearest here.
Why it earned its spot Bosch's lower platform, in a built-in body, at more money than its Series 6 free-standing machines.
Rs. 72,400 for a 15-place built-in Bosch with a self-cleaning filter.
Why it earned its spot The largest built-in on the shelf, at Rs. 4,827 a setting.
Rs. 72,790 for fourteen settings in a built-in elica - Rs. 5,199 each.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 5,199 a setting, the worst ratio of the twenty-one machines here.
Rs. 72,990 for a 15-place Electrolux against a stated Rs. 1,06,990 - a 32 per cent badge.
Why it earned its spot A list price of Rs. 1,06,990 on a free-standing machine, and the deepest badge above Rs. 70,000.
Rs. 72,990 for LG's 15-place machine with the controls hidden on the door top edge.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 10,000 above the same LG with a front panel, for a hidden control strip.
First: divide the price by the stated place settings before anything else, because on this shelf the ratio swings by Rs. 2,000 and the largest machine is not the dearest to fill. Second: decide free-standing or built-in early, since every built-in here sits in the expensive half of that table and the premium is for cabinetry rather than capability. Third: ignore the discount badge, because two brands here run a fixed percentage across their whole range and one states a Rs. 1,06,990 list price on a machine its competitors list Rs. 30,000 lower - the same pattern we found on Croma refrigerators and washing machines. Fourth: check installation and plumbing separately, since a dishwasher needs an inlet, a drain and a socket, and none of these listings quote what that costs.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosch Series 6, 13 settings, Rs. 46 | Rs. 46,894 | Rs. 61,490 | 24% |
| IFB Neptune VX15, 15 settings, Rs. 47 | Rs. 47,990 | Rs. 56,190 | 15% |
| Kutchina KLEANMATE ECO, 12 settings, Rs. 49 | Rs. 49,190 | Rs. 75,990 | 35% |
| Bosch Series 6 voice, 14 settings, Rs. 49 | Rs. 49,490 | Rs. 58,990 | 16% |
| Bosch Series 6 steel, 14 settings, Rs. 51 | Rs. 51,490 | Rs. 62,990 | 18% |
| Kutchina EXCEL, 14 settings, Rs. 51 | Rs. 51,790 | Rs. 79,990 | 35% |
| LG inverter direct drive, 14 settings, Rs. 54 | Rs. 54,990 | Rs. 64,999 | 15% |
| IFB Neptune VX16, 16 settings, Rs. 58 | Rs. 58,990 | Rs. 62,590 | 6% |
| elica built-in, 14 settings, Rs. 59 | Rs. 59,290 | Rs. 73,690 | 20% |
| Electrolux UltimateCare 700, 14 settings, Rs. 61 | Rs. 61,990 | Rs. 89,990 | 31% |
| LG smart silver, 15 settings, Rs. 62 | Rs. 62,990 | Rs. 82,999 | 24% |
| IFB Neptune SX16, 4% badge, Rs. 62 | Rs. 62,990 | Rs. 65,490 | 4% |
| Bosch Series 6 anti-fingerprint, 15 settings, Rs. 63 | Rs. 63,990 | Rs. 76,490 | 16% |
| FABER built-in, salt indicator, Rs. 63 | Rs. 63,990 | Rs. 66,500 | 4% |
| LG smart matte black, 15 settings, Rs. 65 | Rs. 65,490 | Rs. 91,999 | 29% |
| Bosch Series 6 Black Inox, 15 settings, Rs. 67 | Rs. 67,990 | Rs. 79,490 | 14% |
| Bosch Series 4 built-in, 14 settings, Rs. 68 | Rs. 68,990 | Rs. 78,290 | 12% |
| Bosch Series 6 built-in, 15 settings, Rs. 72 | Rs. 72,400 | Rs. 86,090 | 16% |
| elica built-in hidden heater, Rs. 72 | Rs. 72,790 | Rs. 87,490 | 17% |
| Electrolux 15 settings, Rs. 1,06 | Rs. 72,990 | Rs. 106,990 | 32% |
| LG top control, 15 settings, Rs. 72 | Rs. 72,990 | Rs. 99,999 | 27% |
Place settings is the one capacity figure every dishwasher listing on this shelf states, and it means the same thing on all of them: one setting is a dinner plate, a side plate, a bowl, a glass and cutlery. Dividing price by settings gives a figure that runs from Rs. 3,199 to Rs. 5,199 across these twenty-one machines, and it does not follow the total price. The 16-setting IFB VX16 at Rs. 58,990 is cheaper per setting than the 12-setting Kutchina at Rs. 49,190 and the 14-setting LG at Rs. 54,990. Every card prints the figure so you can see which machines are large and which are merely expensive.
Five of these twenty-one are built-in machines designed to sit inside kitchen cabinetry, and all five land in the top half of the per-setting table at Rs. 4,235 to Rs. 5,199. The clearest measurement is within one brand: Bosch's built-in Series 4 with fourteen settings costs Rs. 68,990 while its free-standing Series 6 with fifteen settings costs Rs. 63,990 - a lower platform and less capacity for five thousand rupees more. That gap is the cabinetry, not the machine, and no listing states it. Where a card is a built-in we say so and price it accordingly.
Croma publishes no rating and no rating count at all for fourteen of the twenty-one dishwashers seated here. Of the seven that show anything, the counts are one, one, two, four, seven, nine and nine - and two of those seven show a count with no average attached. The largest body of feedback on this entire shelf is nine ratings. So no card on this page carries a rating pill, no average is quoted as a judgement, and we have not borrowed ratings from Amazon, Flipkart or a manufacturer's own site to fill the gap. Every assessment here rests on stated capacity, stated features, brand service network and price.
Both Kutchina machines here carry exactly 35 per cent off. IFB's SX16 and FABER's built-in both carry 4 per cent. A discount that is constant across a brand's range is a pricing convention rather than an event, and it tells you how the brand sets its list price rather than what you are saving. The extremes on this shelf are instructive: Electrolux states Rs. 1,06,990 for a free-standing fifteen-setting machine that Bosch lists at Rs. 76,490 and LG at Rs. 82,999. We print every badge because Croma does, and we judge every machine on its selling price.
LG's fifteen-setting front-control machine appears twice on this shelf: Prime Silver at Rs. 62,990 against a stated Rs. 82,999, and Matte Black at Rs. 65,490 against a stated Rs. 91,999. Same capacity, same body, same platform - a Rs. 2,500 difference in selling price and a Rs. 9,000 difference in list price, which is what makes the black version's badge look five points deeper. Bosch's silver and black Series 6 pair moves in the opposite direction, with the badge shrinking as the price rises. Where our pull returned the same machine in two finishes we have seated both and printed the comparison rather than describing it.
A place setting is defined as one dinner plate, one side plate, one bowl, one glass and a set of cutlery - which is why Indian kitchens routinely need more settings than the family size suggests. A single Indian meal for four can produce a kadhai, a pressure cooker and its inserts, two or three serving bowls and a tawa before anybody has eaten off a plate, and those items eat capacity fast. As a working rule: 12 to 13 settings suits two people, 14 to 15 suits a family of four who cook daily, and 16 is the size for a joint family or anyone who entertains. On this shelf the extra capacity is often cheap: the 15-setting IFB Neptune VX15 at Rs. 47,990 costs only Rs. 1,096 more than the 13-setting Bosch, and the 16-setting IFB VX16 costs less per setting than the 12-setting Kutchina.
Only if your kitchen already has, or is being designed with, a cabinet cut-out for it. The premium is real and measurable on this shelf: all five built-in machines here sit in the expensive half of the per-setting table at Rs. 4,235 to Rs. 5,199, against Rs. 3,199 to Rs. 4,866 for free-standing. The sharpest single comparison is within Bosch's own range - its built-in Series 4 with fourteen settings costs Rs. 68,990 while its free-standing Series 6 with fifteen settings costs Rs. 63,990. That is a lower platform and one less setting for five thousand rupees more, and the difference is the cabinetry-fitted body, not the washing. A built-in also needs a carpenter as well as a plumber. Buy free-standing unless the flush fit is worth a five-figure sum to you.
Because the stated MRP is set by each brand and constrains nothing. On this shelf, both Kutchina machines carry exactly 35 per cent off - a figure that constant across a range is a pricing policy rather than a promotion - while IFB's flagship SX16 and FABER's built-in both carry 4 per cent, the mildest claims here. The extremes are more instructive than the middle. Electrolux states Rs. 1,06,990 for a free-standing 15-setting machine that Bosch lists at Rs. 76,490 and LG at Rs. 82,999. And LG lists the same 15-setting machine at Rs. 82,999 in Prime Silver and Rs. 91,999 in Matte Black, which is what makes the black version's badge five points deeper on a product selling Rs. 2,500 apart. Read the selling price; the percentage is not a saving you can bank.
For most Indian family kitchens, the IFB Neptune VX15 at Rs. 47,990 is the strongest listing on this shelf: fifteen place settings at Rs. 3,199 each, the best capacity-per-rupee ratio in the read, a no-pre-rinse claim, and IFB's own Indian service network behind a plumbed-in machine. If you cook for a joint family, the IFB Neptune VX16 at Rs. 58,990 gives you sixteen settings at Rs. 3,687 each and carries one of the two mildest badges here, which usually signals a list price near reality. If you want Bosch specifically, the Series 6 fourteen-setting at Rs. 49,490 is the best-value machine in its range at Rs. 3,535 a setting, and the fifteen-setting Series 6 at Rs. 63,990 adds an anti-fingerprint finish and no-pre-rinse. Avoid paying built-in prices unless you have the cabinet cut-out.
Several listings on this shelf state 'no pre-rinse required' explicitly - the two IFB Neptunes, three of the Bosches, both fifteen-setting LGs and both top-end Bosch built-ins - which means the machine's filtration and wash programme are designed to handle food residue directly. That is a genuine time saver and the feature that decides whether a dishwasher replaces washing-up or merely follows it. Salt is a separate matter and it is not optional in most of India: hard water scales the heating element and the interior, and dishwasher salt regenerates the softening resin that prevents it. Only one listing in this read - the FABER built-in - states salt and rinse-aid indicators, which tell you when to top up. On every other machine here you will need to track that yourself, and none of these listings quotes a water-hardness limit.




















