Men's Sandal Price September 2026: AJIO vs Myntra, From Rs. 300

Both shelves were read within an hour of each other on the morning of 28 September 2026 - 36 men's sandal listings on AJIO and 32 on Myntra, logged out, in India, with nothing purchased. The first thing to say is how close they are.

AJIO's median selling price is Rs. 717. Myntra's is Rs. 701 - a difference of Rs. 16, or 2%. Their median stated MRPs are Rs. 2,199 and Rs. 2,245, also 2% apart. On the two numbers that actually determine what you pay and what you are told you saved, these shelves are the same shelf.

And yet AJIO's median discount badge is 53.5% and Myntra's is 67%. Not because Myntra is cheaper - it is cheaper by sixteen rupees at the median - but because the percentages land differently across the two assortments. If you were choosing a site by the size of the numbers on the tiles, you would pick the one that saves you almost nothing.

This is not a gap in our reading. Not one of AJIO's 36 men's sandal listings carried a star average or a rating count - the fields are simply empty in AJIO's own search response. We have found the same thing on AJIO's other shelves, so it appears to be how the site works rather than a quirk of this category.

Myntra, on the same morning, published a rating on 27 of its 32 listings, at a median of 989 ratings and a median star average of 4.19. The largest count was 5,504. For a product where the only question that matters is whether the strap survives a monsoon, that is a meaningful difference in what a shopper has to go on.

One honest qualification we would rather give than let the figure stand unexamined: Myntra's counts are pooled across linked listings. The same 5,504 ratings appear on three separate Big Fox listings priced Rs. 703, Rs. 705 and Rs. 705; the same 4,011 appear on two Duke listings at Rs. 605 and Rs. 626. So a big number describes a product family rather than the exact pair in the photograph. It is still twenty-seven published counts against zero.

Median comparisons across two differently stocked shelves only go so far, so we checked which brands appear on both. Three do: Bata, El Paso and Neemans.

El Paso is the cleanest comparison on this page. AJIO lists it at Rs. 690 and Rs. 696; Myntra lists it at Rs. 699. That is a spread of nine rupees. But AJIO states MRPs of Rs. 2,999 and Rs. 2,899 while Myntra states Rs. 3,599 - so the identical shoe money produces badges of 77%, 76% and 81%. The percentage is moving because the stated MRP is moving, and nothing else is.

Bata runs the other way and is the most interesting row. AJIO's four Bata listings show badges of 5%, 7%, 12% and 19% - the shallowest numbers on either shelf - at prices from Rs. 445 to Rs. 1,208. Myntra's single Bata is Rs. 629 at 30%, with 595 ratings, and its Bata comfit is Rs. 1,187 at 34% with 115. A shoe house with physical stores carries a list price it has to stand behind, and AJIO's Bata tiles show exactly what that looks like.

Two qualifications on that table. First, only El Paso is close to a like-for-like - the Bata rows are different models of floater and comfort sandal, and the Neemans row is explicitly a different shoe (AJIO's strappy and slip-on models against Myntra's Breezy Fluff), so it compares what each shelf offers from that brand rather than one product's two prices.

Second, and worth noticing: the Neemans row is the one place where the difference is real money. Myntra's Neemans sells at Rs. 791 while AJIO's cheapest is Rs. 1,199 - and Myntra's carries 1,760 published ratings against AJIO's none. If you want that brand, this read says look at Myntra first.

The medians hide one real difference in stock. AJIO has eleven listings under Rs. 500; Myntra has one. AJIO's floor is Rs. 300 (a Red Tape flip-flop at 86% off a stated Rs. 2,199) against Myntra's Rs. 486. So if the budget is genuinely under five hundred rupees, one of these shelves has eleven options and the other has one.

At the top it reverses mildly. AJIO has two listings above Rs. 1,500, topping out at Rs. 2,564; Myntra's dearest sandal in this read was Rs. 1,433. Between those ends the two are nearly interchangeable - 27 of 36 and 27 of 32 listings sit under Rs. 1,000.

The brand mixes differ too, which is worth knowing if you shop by label. Myntra's shelf is led by HRX with seven listings and Big Fox with six; AJIO's by Lee Cooper with five and Bata with four. Neither is a bad set; they are just different rooms of the same market.

Start on Myntra, for one reason only: 27 of its 32 listings tell you what other buyers thought, at a median of 989 ratings and 4.19 stars, and AJIO's 36 tell you nothing. On a Rs. 700 purchase where fit and strap durability are the whole question, that is the only decision-grade information either shelf offers.

Go to AJIO if the budget is under Rs. 500, where it has eleven options to Myntra's one, or if you want Bata specifically - its four Bata listings at Rs. 445 to Rs. 1,208 are the shallowest-discounted and most conventionally priced shoes in the whole read, which on a shoe house is usually a good sign rather than a bad one.

And do not choose the site on the badge. Myntra shows the bigger median percentage, 67% against 53.5%, while being cheaper by sixteen rupees - the right answer for the wrong reason. On the one brand where both shelves charge the same money, El Paso, the badge differs by five points purely because the two sites state different MRPs. Nothing here was bought or worn; this is a record of what two shelves listed on 28 September 2026.