HP vs Lenovo Laptop Price India November 2026: Both Claim Double

We read the laptop listings each brand's own India store was showing on 31 October 2026: 12 on hp.com/in-en and 7 on lenovo.com, logged out, from India.

Both stores print a reference price of roughly double what they actually charge. HP's median stated MRP is 2.06 times its own selling price and Lenovo's is 1.82 times. The largest single gap in the read is Rs. 2,94,559 — a gaming laptop selling at Rs. 2,18,999 against a stated Rs. 5,03,401.

On Amazon or Flipkart, a struck-through price is typed by a seller who did not make the product, and we have written about that pattern many times. These two reads are different: the company that manufactures the laptop is printing both the selling price and the reference price on its own website. There is no third party to attribute the figure to.

We report both numbers exactly as each store publishes them. Nothing on this page asserts that any stated MRP is false or improper, or that HP or Lenovo has done anything wrong — publishing a list price alongside a promotional price is ordinary and lawful retail practice. What it does mean for a shopper is that a 65% badge on a manufacturer's own store is not more dependable than a 65% badge anywhere else, and should be read the same sceptical way.

HP's listings run Rs. 71,452 to Rs. 2,40,990, median Rs. 1,28,749, with badges from 18% to 65%. Four OmniBook 5 listings share one stated MRP structure — three at Rs. 1,09,999 against Rs. 2,26,309 and one at Rs. 1,29,999 against Rs. 2,68,313 — all badged 51% or 52%.

Lenovo's laptop listings run Rs. 82,991 to Rs. 1,40,991, median Rs. 1,00,491, with badges from 16% to 55%. The read also returned two tablets and a monitor from the same page; those three are excluded from every laptop figure quoted here.

Line all 19 listings up by range and the two stores behave almost identically. The business and premium lines carry the smallest claims on both sites — HP's ProBook at 1.22x and 18%, Lenovo's Yoga Slim at 1.20x and 16%, ThinkPad at 1.41x and 28%. The mainstream consumer lines carry the largest — HP's OmniBook up to 2.83x and 65%, Lenovo's IdeaPad up to 2.26x and 55%.

That ordering is the useful takeaway, because it is consistent across two independent manufacturers: the deeper the badge, the more of it is coming from the reference figure rather than from the price.

Across all 19 laptop listings in this read, there is no star average and no rating count anywhere — not on hp.com and not on lenovo.com. On a Rs. 1,00,000-plus purchase, the brand's own store gives you a specification, a price and a badge, and no indication of what any other buyer thought.

We report that absence as an absence. It is not evidence that the machines are good or bad, and it is not unusual for a manufacturer's direct store. It does mean that if reviews matter to your decision, this is not where you will find them.