Gas Stove Price India 2026: Amazon vs Croma Compared

We read both gas stove shelves on 27 August 2026 - thirty non-sponsored listings on Amazon and thirty-seven on Croma - and two models turned up on both. That is what makes this comparison worth doing: on a shelf where every brand sets its own list price, a like-for-like on the same model is the only honest way to say which retailer is cheaper.

On the first match the two are close and Amazon wins narrowly. On the second, Croma is Rs. 1,300 cheaper for the same model designation - and it is Amazon's listing that carries the eye-catching badge, because Amazon states the MRP of that stove as Rs. 7,09,900 against a Rs. 7,099 price. That is exactly one hundred times, a decimal-point error, and Amazon renders it as 99 per cent off.

Set the model matches aside and compare the floors instead - the cheapest listing at each burner count on each shelf - and Amazon wins all three, by a widening margin as you add burners. A four-burner starts at Rs. 2,869 on Amazon and Rs. 4,949 on Croma.

The reason is not that Croma marks up the same stock. It is that the two shelves stock different brands entirely. Amazon's popularity ranking surfaces online-native names - Lifelong, Longway, GREENCHEF, Everflame - that do not appear on Croma at all. Croma stocks Sunflame, Faber, Hindware, Kutchina, Crompton and Usha, none of which appeared on Amazon's first thirty. So the cheap end of Amazon's shelf is a different kind of product, not a better price on the same one.

Amazon's discount badges on this category run to 79 per cent, plus three listings showing 99 per cent because their stated MRP is exactly a hundred times their price. Croma's top out at 66 per cent, and thirty of its thirty-seven listings sit between 13 and 49 per cent.

That difference is about who sets the reference price. Amazon's cheap end is dominated by online-native brands that set their own list prices - a Lifelong stove at Rs. 1,599 is measured against a stated Rs. 7,500 nobody has ever been charged. Croma's shelf is mostly established kitchen brands whose stated MRPs their own retail channel uses, so the percentages stay in a believable band. Neither is lying to you exactly; but a 79 per cent badge and a 20 per cent badge on this evidence are not measuring the same thing, and the bigger one is worth less.

The cleanest illustration is Croma's own house brand: a Croma Classic two-burner at Rs. 1,999, 20 per cent off a stated Rs. 2,500. Rs. 2,500 is a plausible price for that stove. Compare it with the Amazon listing claiming 79 per cent off Rs. 7,500 and selling for Rs. 1,599 - similar money, wildly different stories.

If you are shopping by price alone and you are willing to buy an online-native brand, Amazon is cheaper - meaningfully so at three and four burners, where the gap runs to Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 2,080. That is a real saving and there is no trick in it.

If you want a specific established brand, check both. The one exact model match where the price differs materially went Croma's way by Rs. 1,300, and it went that way while Amazon's version of the same stove wore a 99 per cent badge. That is the single most useful warning this comparison produces: on this category the badge and the price are close to unrelated, and the listing that looks most discounted was the more expensive of the two.

On evidence, neither shelf is good and they are bad in opposite directions. Amazon publishes a rating on every listing but pools review counts across a brand's range, so 38,990 reviews can describe three different stoves. Croma publishes a rating on only ten of thirty-seven listings and its largest sample is 55. If reviews are how you decide, Amazon's unpooled counts - Butterfly's 25,274, Elica's 16,865, Milton's 15,402 - are the only large, product-specific samples available on either shelf.