Sanitary pads are sold by the pack and used one at a time, and the two numbers are nowhere near each other.
We read Flipkart's period care shelf on 25 September 2026 and priced every listing by the piece. Below: where the sub-Rs. 4 pads are, why the 0%-off pack is dearer per pad than a 65%-off one, and the twenty-nine listings that describe a single liner.
📅 Shelf read 25 September 2026
Cheapest Rs. 3.12 a pad; dearest Rs. 19.90 a pad
Whisper's 0%-off 40-pack is Rs. 12.00 a pad - nearly four times the cheapest rate
📅 Update log:
25 Sep 2026 — first published. The 177 listings came from flipkart.com's own search results for "sanitary pads", "menstrual cup" and "panty liner", two pages of each, read as a logged-out visitor in India with nothing purchased. Only the 99 pad and liner listings whose stated piece count we could read without guessing are used in any per-piece figure on this page; six listings whose "Pack of" line counts packs rather than pieces were excluded. Flipkart re-prices without notice, so we re-read this shelf and log what has changed here.
One pad costs Rs. 3.12 or Rs. 19.90, on the same search page
We pulled Flipkart's results for "sanitary pads", "menstrual cup" and "panty liner" on 25 September 2026 and divided every price by the number of pieces the listing itself states. Of 177 distinct listings, 99 print a count we could read without guessing. Across those 99 a single piece costs between Rs. 1.63 and Rs. 42.30.
Split by what the thing actually is, the picture is tighter and more useful. Sanitary pads run from Rs. 3.12 to Rs. 19.90 a pad, with a median of Rs. 5.20. Panty liners run from Rs. 1.63 to Rs. 42.30, with a median of Rs. 2.78. The cheap end of the pad shelf is 80-piece jumbo packs at Rs. 250 to Rs. 277; the dear end is 10 and 15-piece packs from the organic and biodegradable labels.
Nothing on the search page shows you this number. Two listings sitting side by side at Rs. 271 and Rs. 199 are Rs. 3.39 and Rs. 4.97 a pad respectively - the cheaper-looking ticket is the dearer pad - because one holds 80 pieces and the other 40. The pack price and the piece price disagree far more often than they agree on this shelf.
| Measure | Flipkart period care, 25 September 2026 |
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| Distinct listings returned | 177 |
| Menstrual cups | 58 |
| Period-panty listings | 14 |
| Pad and liner listings with a readable piece count | 99 of 105 |
| Cheapest piece in the read | Rs. 1.63 (a liner, 100 for Rs. 163) |
| Dearest piece in the read | Rs. 42.30 (a liner, 10 for Rs. 423) |
| Sanitary pads: cheapest to dearest | Rs. 3.12 to Rs. 19.90 a pad |
| Sanitary pads: median rate | Rs. 5.20 a pad |
| Panty liners: median rate | Rs. 2.78 a liner |
| Menstrual cups: price range | Rs. 132 to Rs. 783, median Rs. 239 |
| Listings publishing no rating at all | 32 of 99 |
| Largest rating count on the shelf | 514,971 (everteen, on two listings) |
| Cailin Care pantyliner listings | 29, of which 27 show no rating |
The 65%-off pad is cheaper per pad. The 0%-off pad is not.
Sort the 50 pad listings by whether the brand is a name most shoppers could recall and the discount badge splits almost perfectly - in the direction people do not expect. The 27 listings from familiar names carry a median badge of 40% off and cost a median Rs. 6.39 a pad. The 23 from labels that are not household names carry a median badge of 65% off and cost Rs. 3.95.
On this shelf, then, the big badge is broadly telling the truth about the rate - which is the opposite of what we have found on apparel, where an inflated stated MRP does the work. The single largest badge among the pads is 81% off, on a Rs. 194 40-pack that works out at Rs. 4.85 a pad - below the Rs. 5.20 median. The single smallest is 0% off, on Whisper Choice Nights at Rs. 480 for 40 pads, which is Rs. 12.00 a pad and the third-dearest rate on the shelf.
What the badge does not tell you is anything about the product. The dear end of the pad shelf is almost entirely organic-cotton and biodegradable listings in small packs: Pee Safe's 10-pack at Rs. 19.90 a pad, Anandi's 10-pack at Rs. 15.20, Carmesi's 10-pack at Rs. 13.70. Whether what is inside those packs justifies four times the rate is not a question a price page can answer, and we do not try to.
| Sanitary pads, 50 listings | Familiar-name brands | Everything else |
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| Pad listings in the read | 27 | 23 |
| Median discount badge | 40% off | 65% off |
| Median price per pad | Rs. 6.39 | Rs. 3.95 |
| Cheapest pad in the group | Rs. 4.03 (Stayfree Secure XL) | Rs. 3.12 (NANO soft ultra comfort) |
| Dearest pad in the group | Rs. 19.90 (Pee Safe Organic Cotton) | Rs. 15.20 (Anandi Organic) |
| Listings publishing no rating | 0 of 27 | 6 of 23 |
Twenty-nine listings, one pantyliner, twenty-nine product names
The single largest block of listings in this read is not a big brand. Twenty-nine of the 177 listings are Cailin Care pantyliners, and with two exceptions they describe the same thing: a 155mm ultra-thin liner in a pack of 50, at Rs. 136 or Rs. 139, against a stated MRP of Rs. 399.
What differs is the name. DailyCare1022. DailyCare1011. DailyCare1038. GentleSecure. SoftFreshWear. LightFeel. GentleComfortPlus. RegularUnderwearCare. EverydayBalanced. EverydayConvenient. DailyCleanCare Fit. Protective Fit. DailyFit. DailySecure. DailyMenstrualCare. The stated size, pack count and price are the same across the group; the product name is not.
Twenty-seven of the 29 publish no rating at all, and the two that do carry the same figure - 4.1 from 792 - on two differently-named listings. That is worth knowing for a practical reason: if you filter this shelf by rating count you will not see any of them, and if you filter by price you will see fifteen results that are, as far as their own descriptions go, one product.
₹ The check worth thirty seconds. Find the piece count in the title or the "Pack of" line, divide the price by it, and compare that number rather than the ticket or the badge. On this shelf that single step is the difference between Rs. 3.12 and Rs. 19.90 a pad, and it is the only step that catches the Rs. 271 pack being cheaper per pad than the Rs. 199 one.
Two cup brands, two opposite ways of counting ratings
Fifty-eight of the 177 listings are reusable menstrual cups, priced from Rs. 132 to Rs. 783 with a median of Rs. 239. Cups are sold one to a box, so there is no per-piece arithmetic to do - but there is something else.
Pee Safe lists its small, medium and large cups at an identical Rs. 265, and all three carry one shared rating count: 4.3 from 35,392. SIRONA lists its small, medium and large at an identical Rs. 296, and all three carry different counts - 93,745, 46,731 and 44,935. Same shelf, same week, opposite behaviour. Which means a rating count on this shelf may describe one size or a whole family, and nothing on the tile tells you which.
FLORENZE goes further. Six separate listings for a single cup, at five different prices - Rs. 137, Rs. 141, Rs. 141, Rs. 143, Rs. 194 and Rs. 199 - against two different stated MRPs, Rs. 499 and Rs. 798, for descriptions that read identically apart from the size word. DAYNACARE lists its large cup at Rs. 323 with a 19% badge and at Rs. 355 with a 29% badge: the dearer listing wears the bigger discount, and neither publishes a rating.
| Menstrual cups, 58 listings | What the listings say | What the ratings do |
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| Pee Safe | Small, medium and large, all Rs. 265 (MRP Rs. 327, 19% off) | One shared count: 4.3 from 35,392 on all three |
| SIRONA | Small, medium and large, all Rs. 296 (MRP Rs. 349, 15% off) | Three different counts: 93,745, 46,731 and 44,935 |
| FLORENZE | Six single-cup listings at Rs. 137, 141, 141, 143, 194 and 199 | 12,768 / 5,162 / 97 / 470 / 586 / 1,851 - all different |
| DAYNACARE | Large listed at Rs. 323 (19% off) and Rs. 355 (29% off) | No rating on any of its four listings |
| senziwash | Medium listed at Rs. 179, Rs. 180 and Rs. 360 | 2,951 / 797 / 1,113 - all different |
| Gynocup | Medium listed at Rs. 189 and Rs. 207 | One shared count: 4.1 from 2,543 on both |
| FemiSafe | Medium at Rs. 173 and Rs. 349, small at Rs. 169 | 757 / 2,332 / 347 - all different |
| POSSUM | One small cup at Rs. 783, the dearest cup in the read | No rating published |
| Pads under Rs. 5 a pad: 24 of 50 | Pack price | Pads stated | Per pad | Rating |
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| NANO soft ultra comfort XXXL 40pcs | Rs. 125 | 40 | Rs. 3.12 | 4.0 from 23 |
| soft & secure Soft & Rash Free XXL | Rs. 250 | 80 | Rs. 3.12 | 4.0 from 1,839 |
| soft & secure Period Care Drynet XXL | Rs. 130 | 40 | Rs. 3.25 | 4.2 from 2,517 |
| pipasa Premium Cotton Feel | Rs. 271 | 80 | Rs. 3.39 | no rating published |
| soft & secure Jumbo Maxi Dry Combo | Rs. 271 | 80 | Rs. 3.39 | 4.2 from 50,905 |
| jumbo extra comfort Dry Feel Regular | Rs. 271 | 80 | Rs. 3.39 | 4.2 from 604 |
| VELORA Soft Feel XXL Trifold | Rs. 271 | 80 | Rs. 3.39 | 4.0 from 6,801 |
| soft & secure Jumbo Dry Maxi Combo of 2 | Rs. 271 | 80 | Rs. 3.39 | 4.2 from 31,983 |
| soft & secure Cotton Pad XXXL Combo of 2 | Rs. 273 | 80 | Rs. 3.41 | 4.1 from 921 |
| Surali Jumbo Maxi XXXL Combo | Rs. 277 | 80 | Rs. 3.46 | 3.9 from 875 |
| jumbo extra comfort Dry Feel Regular | Rs. 156 | 40 | Rs. 3.90 | 4.0 from 784 |
| soft & secure XXXL Jumbo Dry Napkin | Rs. 158 | 40 | Rs. 3.95 | 4.2 from 50,905 |
| soft & secure Jumbo XXXL Heavy Flow | Rs. 158 | 40 | Rs. 3.95 | 4.1 from 12,525 |
| STAYFREE Secure Cottony Soft XL | Rs. 161 | 40 | Rs. 4.03 | 4.3 from 170 |
| NANO Soft XXXL Extra Long Night | Rs. 162 | 40 | Rs. 4.05 | 4.0 from 369 |
| Padycare PAD XXL | Rs. 165 | 40 | Rs. 4.12 | no rating published |
| niine Dry Comfort Extra Long, Combo of 2 | Rs. 300 | 72 | Rs. 4.17 | 4.1 from 57,555 |
| STAYFREE Secure Nights Cottony Comfort | Rs. 172 | 40 | Rs. 4.30 | 4.2 from 606 |
| everteen Period Care XL Soft, 2 packs | Rs. 384 | 80 | Rs. 4.80 | 4.3 from 64,178 |
| STAYFREE Secure Nights Cottony Comfort | Rs. 193 | 40 | Rs. 4.83 | 4.4 from 64,137 |
| Sarah Premium XL | Rs. 194 | 40 | Rs. 4.85 | no rating published |
| everteen Period Care XL Soft, 1 pack | Rs. 194 | 40 | Rs. 4.85 | 4.3 from 64,178 |
| everteen Period Care XXL Soft | Rs. 199 | 40 | Rs. 4.97 | 4.3 from 514,971 |
| everteen Period Care XXL Dry | Rs. 199 | 40 | Rs. 4.97 | 4.3 from 3,892 |
| Pads over Rs. 5 a pad: 26 of 50 | Pack price | Pads stated | Per pad | Rating |
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| Pee Safe Organic Cotton Biodegradable | Rs. 199 | 10 | Rs. 19.90 | 4.4 from 2,764 |
| Anandi Organic Biodegradable XXL | Rs. 152 | 10 | Rs. 15.20 | 4.4 from 745 |
| Anandi Organic Biodegradable XXL | Rs. 219 | 15 | Rs. 14.60 | 4.4 from 745 |
| Carmesi Sensitive 10 XL | Rs. 137 | 10 | Rs. 13.70 | 4.3 from 2,331 |
| BlissNatural All Night Comfort XXL 320mm | Rs. 245 | 18 | Rs. 13.61 | 4.4 from 961 |
| BlissNatural Ultra Soft XL 280mm Value Pack | Rs. 435 | 34 | Rs. 12.79 | 4.6 from 1,263 |
| Whisper Choice Nights XXL (0% off) | Rs. 480 | 40 | Rs. 12.00 | 4.2 from 9,650 |
| Carmesi Sensitive 30 Large | Rs. 333 | 30 | Rs. 11.10 | 4.5 from 4,654 |
| everteen XXXL Ultra-Thin Overnight | Rs. 299 | 30 | Rs. 9.97 | 4.3 from 13,014 |
| Nua All Night Comfort 320mm XXL | Rs. 284 | 30 | Rs. 9.47 | 4.5 from 4,263 |
| Nua Complete Comfort 30 Heavy Flow XXL | Rs. 269 | 30 | Rs. 8.97 | 4.5 from 51,126 |
| Nua Complete Comfort 30 Medium Flow XL | Rs. 269 | 30 | Rs. 8.97 | 4.5 from 51,126 |
| Nua Complete Comfort 42 Heavy Flow XXL | Rs. 314 | 42 | Rs. 7.48 | 4.6 from 14,806 |
| STAYFREE Secure Xpert XL | Rs. 285 | 40 | Rs. 7.12 | 4.4 from 1,033 |
| Nua Complete Comfort 42 Medium Flow XL | Rs. 299 | 42 | Rs. 7.12 | 4.5 from 5,360 |
| MISS N MOMS Jumbo Cotton Soft XXL | Rs. 266 | 40 | Rs. 6.65 | no rating published |
| Nua MyWave Night Heavy Flow XXL | Rs. 179 | 28 | Rs. 6.39 | 4.3 from 898 |
| MISS N MOMS Maxi Thick XXL | Rs. 242 | 40 | Rs. 6.05 | no rating published |
| niine Naturally Soft Ultra Thin XL+ | Rs. 300 | 50 | Rs. 6.00 | 4.4 from 38,539 |
| niine Dry Comfort Ultra Thin 320mm XL+ | Rs. 300 | 50 | Rs. 6.00 | 4.4 from 35,397 |
| Ozemi Natural Bamboo Biodegradable 280mm | Rs. 174 | 30 | Rs. 5.80 | 4.2 from 1,253 |
| niine Naturally Soft XXL+ Combo of 2 | Rs. 447 | 80 | Rs. 5.59 | 4.2 from 10,464 |
| Nua MyWave Night XXL | Rs. 199 | 36 | Rs. 5.53 | 4.4 from 47 |
| niine Dry Comfort Extra Long, Combo of 1 | Rs. 195 | 36 | Rs. 5.42 | 4.1 from 57,555 |
| Extra Sure Jumbo XXL | Rs. 233 | 40 | Rs. 5.83 | 4.3 from 355 |
What a per-pad rate does not tell you
Nothing on this page was opened, worn, used or tested. Every per-piece figure here is our own arithmetic - the listing's price divided by the count the listing itself states - and it is a rate, not a price you can pay. We did not count the pieces in any pack.
A rate says nothing about the things that actually separate these products: length, absorbency, top-sheet material, what the core is made of, and whether a pack of ten lasts you as long as a pack of forty. A Rs. 3.12 jumbo pad and a Rs. 19.90 organic-cotton pad are not the same object, and this page does not claim they are. What it claims is narrower: within one shelf, on one day, the piece price is a number you can check and the tile does not show it.
"XXL", "320mm", "100% rash-free", "plant-based", "anti-bacterial", "biodegradable", "up to 100% leakage protection", "FDA Approved", "Gynaecologist Recommended", "toxic free" and every other phrase quoted on this page is each listing's own printed text on flipkart.com, reproduced as printed and not verified by us. Nothing here is medical, gynaecological or hygiene advice, and a product's own instructions, materials list and usage guidance prevail over anything on this page.
Buy by the piece, and read the "Pack of" line before the badge
The lowest pad rates with a real sample behind them are soft & secure's 80-pad packs at Rs. 250 to Rs. 273 (Rs. 3.12 to Rs. 3.41 a pad, with counts from 921 to 50,905 ratings) and jumbo extra comfort's 80-pack at Rs. 271 (Rs. 3.39, 604 ratings). All of them require spending Rs. 250 or more in one go, and all of them are labels you will not have heard of.
If you want a brand you recognise, Stayfree's Secure Cottony Soft 40-pack at Rs. 161 is Rs. 4.03 a pad and everteen's Period Care XXL 40-pack at Rs. 199 is Rs. 4.97 with the largest rating count on the whole shelf - 514,971, though that one figure appears on two of its listings. niine's 72-pad combo at Rs. 300 is Rs. 4.17 with 57,555 ratings.
What we would not do is read Whisper Choice Nights' Rs. 480 ticket as a bulk buy - at 0% off and Rs. 12.00 a pad it is the third-dearest rate here; treat a 10-piece organic pack at Rs. 19.90 a pad as comparable to a 40-piece pack on price alone; or assume two Cailin Care liners with different product names and identical Rs. 399 MRPs are two different products.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cheapest sanitary pad per piece on Flipkart?
In our 25 September 2026 read, two listings tie at Rs. 3.12 a pad - NANO soft ultra comfort at Rs. 125 for 40 pads (4.0 from 23 ratings) and soft & secure's XXL pack at Rs. 250 for 80 (4.0 from 1,839). Next is soft & secure's Period Care Drynet at Rs. 130 for 40, which is Rs. 3.25 with 2,517 ratings. Among names most shoppers would recognise, Stayfree Secure Cottony Soft at Rs. 161 for 40 pads is the cheapest at Rs. 4.03 a pad.
Is a bigger pack of sanitary pads cheaper per pad?
On this shelf, usually - but the ticket price hides it. An 80-pad pack at Rs. 271 works out at Rs. 3.39 a pad while a 40-pad pack at Rs. 199 is Rs. 4.97, so the listing that looks Rs. 72 dearer is the cheaper pad by a third. The exceptions are at the premium end: Carmesi's 30-pack at Rs. 333 is Rs. 11.10 a pad and its 10-pack at Rs. 137 is Rs. 13.70, so the larger pack saves 19 per cent rather than the 30 to 40 per cent the jumbo packs manage. Always divide by the stated count.
Does a bigger discount mean a cheaper pad on Flipkart?
On this shelf it broadly does, which is unusual. The 27 pad listings from familiar-name brands carry a median 40% badge and a median Rs. 6.39 a pad; the 23 from less-known labels carry a median 65% badge and Rs. 3.95 a pad. The clearest case is at the bottom of the badge range: Whisper Choice Nights is the only 0%-off listing in the read and, at Rs. 480 for 40 pads, is Rs. 12.00 a pad - the third-dearest rate on the shelf. The badge is still not a substitute for the arithmetic.
Why do so many Flipkart pantyliner listings look identical?
Because a large block of them is one product family listed many times over. Twenty-nine of the 177 listings we read are Cailin Care 155mm pantyliners, nearly all in packs of 50 at Rs. 136 or Rs. 139 against the same stated Rs. 399 MRP, under names like DailyCare1022, GentleSecure, SoftFreshWear and RegularUnderwearCare. Twenty-seven of the 29 publish no rating at all, and the two that do share one count of 792. If you sort this shelf by price you will see the same liner fifteen times before you see a second product.
Do menstrual cup ratings on Flipkart cover all sizes?
It depends entirely on the brand, and the tile does not say which. Pee Safe's small, medium and large cups all sit at Rs. 265 and all three show one shared count of 35,392. SIRONA's small, medium and large all sit at Rs. 296 and show three different counts - 93,745, 46,731 and 44,935. So an identical count across sizes means pooled feedback for a product family, while different counts mean each size is rated on its own. Cups in this read ran from Rs. 132 to Rs. 783 with a median of Rs. 239.
Prices & codes last verified: 25 September 2026
The shelf behind this page was read on 25 September 2026 as served to a logged-out visitor in India, with nothing purchased and no account used: 177 distinct listings from flipkart.com's own search results for "sanitary pads", "menstrual cup" and "panty liner", two pages of each. Of those, 58 are menstrual cups, 14 are period-panty listings and 105 are sanitary pads or panty liners; only the 99 pad and liner listings whose stated piece count we could read without guessing are used in any per-piece figure here. Six listings whose "Pack of" line counts packs rather than pieces — a "Pack of 2" holding 40 pads each, a "Pack of 4" holding 20 — are excluded from every number on this page regardless of price, because a rate computed from a number we guessed is not a rate. Every selling price, stated MRP, discount percentage, star average and rating count is Flipkart's own published figure reproduced without adjustment. Every per-piece figure is our own arithmetic, the listing's price divided by the count it states, and is a rate rather than a price you can pay; no pack was opened and no pieces were counted, so a stated count is the seller's figure and not ours. Median rates, band counts and the familiar-name split are our own arithmetic over these listings on this date and describe this particular set rather than Flipkart's full catalogue; the grouping of brands into "familiar-name" and "everything else" is our own editorial judgement about name recognition and nothing more, and a product Flipkart sells that did not appear in these searches would not appear here. Where several listings share an identical rating count, that is Flipkart or the seller pooling feedback across a product family, so such a count describes the family rather than the single listing shown; where counts differ across sizes of one product, they do not. Per-piece rates compare price against count only: pad length, absorbency, top-sheet material, core composition, wings, disposal bags and formulation differ between these products and are not reflected in any figure here, so a cheaper rate is not a claim that two products are equivalent. "XXL", "XXXL", "320mm", "280mm", "100% rash-free", "plant-based", "organic cotton", "biodegradable", "anti-bacterial", "anion", "toxic free", "zero irritation", "up to 100% leakage protection", "4X absorption", "FDA Approved", "latex & BPA free", "Gynaecologist Recommended" and every other phrase quoted here is each listing's own title text, reproduced as printed and not verified by us. Nothing on this page was opened, worn, used, inserted, counted or laboratory-tested, and no claim about absorbency, safety, material content, skin suitability, hygiene or performance is made or implied. Period care products are used on and in the body: nothing here is medical, gynaecological, hygiene or health advice, and each product's own instructions, materials list, size guidance and usage directions prevail over anything on this page. The pack photographs in the banner are retail listing images of sanitary pads from brands priced on this page, uploaded to our own CDN; they illustrate the category and are not the source of any price here. No wrongdoing by Flipkart, by any seller, or by Whisper, Stayfree, Sofy, Nua, everteen, Carmesi, Pee Safe, SIRONA, niine, Azah, BlissNatural, Anandi, Ozemi, Cailin Care, soft & secure, jumbo extra comfort, NANO, VELORA, Surali, pipasa, Padycare, MISS N MOMS, Sarah, Extra Sure, FLORENZE, DAYNACARE, senziwash, Senzicare, Gynocup, FemiSafe, LadyGo, Namyaa, SAFEEN, Imasafe, POSSUM, Zoy, PLUSH or any other brand named is alleged or implied; listing a product under several names or at several prices is a description of what the search page showed on one day, not an accusation. Rating averages and counts are as published on the date of reading and change continuously. Prices change without notice; coupons, bank offers, delivery charges and anything applied at checkout can move your final price in either direction, and the price shown at your checkout prevails over anything here. Zoutons may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page; it does not change what you pay.