84 listings read on August 12. Priced per litre, the geysers run 7.6x apart for the same water - and the cheapest machine on the shelf sells some of the dearest. Twenty picks.
We read 84 Croma geyser and water purifier listings on August 12, 2026 and seated 20. Priced per litre of stored water, the 42 geysers run from Rs. 206 to Rs. 1,575 a litre - a 7.6x range for the same commodity - and every one of the ten cheapest litres is in a 25-litre tank. The cheapest machine on the shelf sells water at Rs. 1,000 a litre. On the purifier side, RO costs about Rs. 8,000 more than UV, and which one is right depends on your tap.
Every price below was pulled from Croma on August 12, 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.
Four storage geysers at Rs. 280 to Rs. 472 a litre - every one of them a 15 or 25-litre tank, and all of them cheaper water than anything in the next chapter.
Rs. 6,999 for 25 litres - Rs. 280 a litre, the lowest cost per litre among the geysers on this page.
Why it earned its spot Twenty-five litres for less than a six-litre tank two chapters down.
Rs. 8,990 for 25 litres - Rs. 360 a litre, at 40 per cent off a stated Rs. 14,991.
Why it earned its spot A branded 25-litre tank at Rs. 360 a litre, against a median of Rs. 625.
Rs. 6,690 for 15 litres - the lowest geyser price here, at Rs. 446 a litre and 48 per cent off.
Why it earned its spot The lowest absolute price on the shelf is not the lowest price per litre.
Rs. 11,799 for 25 litres - Rs. 472 a litre, from the brand that only makes water heaters.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 472 a litre, from a manufacturer that does nothing else.
Four heaters from Rs. 741 to Rs. 1,392 a litre - including one that costs Rs. 1,350 more than a 25-litre tank for nineteen litres less.
Rs. 2,999 for 3 litres - the lowest price in the read, and Rs. 1,000 a litre.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest listing here is also among the most expensive water on it.
Rs. 8,349 for 6 litres - Rs. 1,392 a litre, the most expensive stored water we seated.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 1,350 more than a 25-litre tank, for nineteen fewer litres.
Rs. 10,100 for 10 litres - Rs. 1,010 a litre, with a glass-coated tank and 8 ratings at 3.9.
Why it earned its spot Glass lining is a real durability feature, at four times the cheapest litre.
Rs. 7,414 for 10 litres at 54 per cent off - the largest geyser discount in the read.
Why it earned its spot Fifty-four per cent off, and a copper element rather than an alloy one.
Five tanks from Rs. 8,699 to Rs. 15,100, including the same capacity from one brand at four stars and at five.
Rs. 8,699 for 15 litres - Rs. 580 a litre, horizontal mounting, 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Why it earned its spot A horizontal tank is the answer when there is no vertical wall space.
Rs. 10,399 for 15 litres - Rs. 693 a litre, and the 5-star version of the tank above.
Why it earned its spot The fifth star costs Rs. 1,700 within one brand's own range.
Rs. 11,899 for 15 litres - 35 per cent off, from a brand built on Indian voltage conditions.
Why it earned its spot V-Guard's whole business is electrical protection, which matters on a geyser.
Rs. 12,499 for 15 litres - Rs. 833 a litre, and Rs. 600 above the same brand's other 15-litre.
Why it earned its spot Six hundred rupees separates two 15-litre tanks from one brand.
Rs. 15,100 for 25 litres - Rs. 604 a litre, the dearest geyser we seated.
Why it earned its spot The most expensive geyser here is still cheaper per litre than every small one.
Seven machines from Rs. 7,490 to Rs. 18,360 - and a UV-versus-RO decision that depends entirely on what comes out of your tap.
Rs. 7,490 for a UV purifier - the lowest purifier price here, at 19 per cent off.
Why it earned its spot UV without RO is the right buy on municipal water and the wrong one on borewell.
Rs. 7,999 for an 8-stage RO + UV + UF machine - half of a stated Rs. 16,000, and 3.9 from 13.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 7,999 for RO is Rs. 11,000 under the RO median of Rs. 18,925.
Rs. 9,490 for a 5-stage UV machine - 28 per cent off, 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Why it earned its spot Two thousand more than the cheapest UV, from the biggest name in water heating.
Rs. 15,999 for a 4L UV + UF purifier - 44 per cent off, from the shelf's most-listed brand.
Why it earned its spot Aquaguard had 17 listings in this read - more than any other water brand.
Rs. 14,499 for an 8L RO + UV + copper machine - 3.1 from 7 ratings, the lowest average we seated.
Why it earned its spot A 3.1 average on seven votes is weak evidence of a real problem.
Rs. 17,999 for the 8L RO + UV + alkaline machine - 4.8 from six ratings, which is not a sample.
Why it earned its spot The best average on the shelf rests on six votes, so we attach no pill.
Rs. 18,360 for a 7L RO + UV + UF + alkaline machine - 29 per cent off a stated Rs. 25,990.
Why it earned its spot Almost exactly the RO median of Rs. 18,925, which makes it the reference machine.
First: divide the price by the litres before you compare anything - on this shelf that number runs from Rs. 206 to Rs. 1,575 for the same water, and buying bigger is almost always buying cheaper. Second: measure the wall before you order, because a horizontal tank fits above a door where a vertical one does not, and this is the specification people get wrong. Third: test your water's TDS before choosing between UV and RO; that decision is worth Rs. 8,000 and no badge on this page comes close to it. Fourth: ask the annual filter-change price on any purifier, because the lifetime cost lives there and no listing states it - the same buried running cost we found across the cleaning appliance aisle. Fifth: treat the BEE star rating as a running-cost decision, not a quality one - within one brand here the fifth star costs Rs. 1,700 at identical capacity, and it only pays back if you heat water daily, the same arithmetic we ran on the wattage read.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croma 25L 5 star geyser | Rs. 6,999 | Rs. 11,000 | 36% |
| Symphony Sypher 25L geyser | Rs. 8,990 | Rs. 14,991 | 40% |
| Voltas Aqua Prime 15L geyser | Rs. 6,690 | Rs. 12,790 | 48% |
| Racold Omnis RS 25L geyser | Rs. 11,799 | Rs. 20,099 | 41% |
| Croma 3L instant geyser | Rs. 2,999 | Rs. 5,000 | 40% |
| Crompton Solarium Care 6L geyser | Rs. 8,349 | Rs. 11,500 | 27% |
| AO Smith Finesse 10L geyser | Rs. 10,100 | Rs. 13,100 | 23% |
| Bajaj Maestro 10L geyser | Rs. 7,414 | Rs. 16,130 | 54% |
| Racold CDR DLX 15L geyser | Rs. 8,699 | Rs. 12,549 | 31% |
| Racold Omnis RS 15L geyser | Rs. 10,399 | Rs. 17,699 | 41% |
| V-Guard Pebble Metro 15L geyser | Rs. 11,899 | Rs. 18,260 | 35% |
| V-Guard Luxecube Elite 15L geyser | Rs. 12,499 | Rs. 17,799 | 30% |
| Havells Bianca Plus 25L geyser | Rs. 15,100 | Rs. 24,990 | 40% |
| Pureit Classic UV purifier | Rs. 7,490 | Rs. 9,250 | 19% |
| Croma 7L RO + UV + UF purifier | Rs. 7,999 | Rs. 16,000 | 50% |
| AO Smith Intelli UV purifier | Rs. 9,490 | Rs. 13,090 | 28% |
| Aquaguard Aspire Slimtech 4L | Rs. 15,999 | Rs. 28,500 | 44% |
| Native by UC M1 8L RO purifier | Rs. 14,499 | Rs. 20,999 | 31% |
| Native by UC M2 Pro 8L RO | Rs. 17,999 | Rs. 28,999 | 38% |
| Livpure Allura Premia 7L RO | Rs. 18,360 | Rs. 25,990 | 29% |
Across the 42 geysers in this read the cost per litre runs from Rs. 206 to Rs. 1,575 - a 7.6x range for the same commodity - against a median of Rs. 625. Every one of the ten cheapest litres sits in a 25-litre tank, and the single cheapest listing on the whole shelf, a Rs. 2,999 three-litre instant heater, is among the dearest water on it at Rs. 1,000 a litre. So we rank this shelf by rupees per litre rather than by price or by badge, and we state that number on every geyser card, because it is the only figure that makes a six-litre and a twenty-five-litre listing comparable.
These are different machines for different water and the listings blur them. UV kills bacteria and viruses and removes nothing dissolved, which is correct for treated municipal supply and useless on borewell or tanker water; RO removes dissolved solids and wastes water doing it. In our read the 16 non-RO purifiers had a median price of Rs. 10,545 against Rs. 18,925 for the 26 RO machines, so getting this decision right is worth roughly Rs. 8,000 - far more than any discount on this page. We name which technology each machine uses on its card and we do not rank one against the other.
Only 34 of the 84 rows carry a rating at all, and the largest sample anywhere in the read is 17 votes. The best average we found, a 4.8, rests on six ratings; the worst, a 3.1, rests on seven. Neither is evidence. We quote every rating and its count in the specification line so readers can see exactly how thin the basis is, and we rank on none of them - which in this category is less costly than it sounds, because a geyser's real performance is decided by your water hardness and your supply voltage rather than by a consensus.
Four things determine what one of these appliances actually costs you. Capacity, priced per litre above. The BEE star rating, which is standing heat loss and only pays back if you heat water daily - within one brand's range here the fifth star costs Rs. 1,700 at the same capacity. The tank lining and element coating, which are what hard water attacks, and which matter enormously in some Indian cities and not at all in others. And on purifiers, the annual filter change and membrane replacement, which is where the lifetime cost sits and which no listing on this shelf states. We flag each on the relevant card.
Bigger than you think, because capacity is the cheapest thing on this shelf. In our August 12, 2026 read of 42 Croma geysers, the cost per litre of stored water ran from Rs. 206 to Rs. 1,575 against a median of Rs. 625, and every one of the ten cheapest litres sat in a 25-litre tank. A 25-litre Croma geyser at Rs. 6,999 costs Rs. 1,350 less than a six-litre Crompton at Rs. 8,349. The practical guide is roughly this: three litres for a kitchen sink or a hand basin, six to ten litres for a single-person shower, fifteen litres for a family bathroom with a shower, and twenty-five litres if anyone in the house takes bucket baths or if two people bathe back to back. The only genuine reasons to buy small are wall space and the fact that a larger tank takes longer to heat from cold - not price.
It depends entirely on how often you heat water, and this shelf lets you price the question exactly. Two Racold fifteen-litre tanks appear in our read from the same maker at the same capacity: Rs. 8,699 at four stars and Rs. 10,399 at five - so the fifth BEE star costs Rs. 1,700. What the star rating measures is standing heat loss, the energy a full tank wastes staying hot between uses. In a household that heats water twice a day through a long winter, that difference typically pays back in three to five years and then keeps paying. In a holiday home, a guest bathroom or a house that uses the geyser three months a year, it never pays back. Buy the fifth star for the bathroom you use daily and the fourth for the one you do not.
It depends on what comes out of your tap, and it is the single most expensive decision on this shelf - worth about Rs. 8,000. In our read the 16 non-RO purifiers had a median price of Rs. 10,545 and the 26 RO machines Rs. 18,925. UV purification kills bacteria and viruses but removes nothing dissolved, which makes it correct for treated municipal supply with low total dissolved solids and useless against the dissolved salts in borewell or tanker water. RO forces water through a membrane and removes those solids, at the cost of wasting several litres for every litre it produces. The test is your water's TDS, which a plumber or the purifier company will measure free: below roughly 300 ppm, UV is enough and RO is money wasted on stripping minerals you then pay a machine to add back; above that, RO is the only option that works.
The filter changes, and no listing on this shelf states them. A purifier needs its pre-filters and carbon replaced roughly annually and its RO membrane every two to three years, and across most brands that runs somewhere between Rs. 2,000 and Rs. 6,000 a year depending on the model and your water quality - which over five years can exceed the purchase price of the cheaper machines on this page. Two things follow. First, ask the seller for the annual maintenance contract price before you buy, and compare that alongside the purchase price rather than after it. Second, prefer a machine with a proper sediment pre-filter, because sediment is what shortens membrane life and the membrane is the expensive consumable. One specification worth asking about that no listing here publishes is the recovery ratio - how many litres an RO machine wastes per litre it delivers.
For a family bathroom, the Croma 25-litre geyser at Rs. 6,999 is the cheapest water on the page at Rs. 280 a litre and is a five-star model - if the wall takes it, nothing else here is close on value. If you want a specialist brand and hard water is a concern, the Racold Omnis 25-litre at Rs. 11,799 has a titanium-coated element and comes from a company that makes nothing but water heaters. For a kitchen sink, the Rs. 2,999 Croma instant heater is the right product even though it is the dearest water here - just do not buy it as a household's only geyser. On purifiers, get your TDS tested first: if it is low, the Pureit UV at Rs. 7,490 is all you need, and if it is high, the Croma RO at Rs. 7,999 is Rs. 11,000 below the RO median, with the caveat that you should confirm the annual filter cost before ordering.



















