![Three 27-inch computer monitors sold in India — an LG, a BenQ and a curved MSI gaming panel — arranged as a colour-block layout, on this page comparing Amazon and Croma monitor prices]()
Croma's monitor shelf badges 45% off. Amazon's badges 33%. Croma's median monitor still costs Rs. 2,925 more.
We read both shelves on 5 September 2026 — 86 listings in all. Below: the three monitors that appear on both and what they cost at each, how the medians split by screen size, and the one difference between these retailers that is not about price at all.
📅 Both shelves read 5 September 2026
Amazon Rs. 10,875 median vs Croma Rs. 13,800
BenQ GW2790: Rs. 10,850 at both retailers
📅 Update log:
5 Sep 2026 — first published. Amazon's 44 listings came from its own popularity-ranked search results for 27 inch monitor, 24 inch monitor and gaming monitor; Croma's 42 came from its own listing response for monitor, two pages. Both were read on 5 September 2026 as a logged-out visitor with nothing purchased. Both retailers re-rank and re-price without notice, so we re-read both shelves and log what has changed here.
Croma badges deeper and charges more
We read both monitor shelves on the morning of 5 September 2026: 44 listings from Amazon.in's own search results and 42 from Croma's own listing pages, 86 in total. The headline pair of numbers is the whole story in miniature. Croma's median badge is 45% off against Amazon's 33% — and Croma's median monitor costs Rs. 13,800 against Amazon's Rs. 10,875.
The two shelves are also stocked differently, which matters when you read medians: 34 of Amazon's 44 listings are under Rs. 15,000 against 23 of Croma's 42, and Croma carries ten monitors above Rs. 25,000 where Amazon carried two. Part of that price gap is Croma simply stocking more of the expensive end.
So the fair comparison is not shelf against shelf. It is the same monitor against itself — and three models appeared on both.
| Measure | Amazon | Croma |
|---|
| Listings read | 44 | 42 |
| Price range | Rs. 6,499 – Rs. 81,999 | Rs. 6,144 – Rs. 1,23,490 |
| Median price | Rs. 10,875 | Rs. 13,800 |
| Median badge | 33% off | 45% off |
| Under Rs. 10,000 | 18 of 44 | 10 of 42 |
| Under Rs. 15,000 | 34 of 44 | 23 of 42 |
| Above Rs. 25,000 | 2 of 44 | 10 of 42 |
| Listings carrying a star rating | 43 of 44 | 12 of 42 |
Three monitors on both shelves: Rs. 0, Rs. 761 and Rs. 9,200 apart
The BenQ GW2790, a 27-inch Full HD IPS panel, costs Rs. 10,850 at both retailers — same price, same stated MRP of Rs. 17,990, same 40% badge. On the single model we could match exactly, the two shelves are indistinguishable.
The Lenovo L27-4C is the interesting one. Amazon sells it at Rs. 11,729, Croma at Rs. 12,490, and both quote the identical stated MRP of Rs. 14,490. Because the reference price is the same, the badge difference — 19% off at Amazon, 14% at Croma — is purely a restatement of the Rs. 761 price gap. That is the clearest demonstration on this page of what a discount percentage actually encodes.
At the top of the range the gap widens: the Samsung Odyssey G8 27-inch 4K is Rs. 81,999 on Amazon and Rs. 91,199 at Croma, both measured against the same stated Rs. 1,95,000. Croma's badge reads 53%, Amazon's 58%, and the buyer pays Rs. 9,200 more at the deeper-sounding one. We make no claim about why the prices differ.
| Same model, both shelves | Amazon | Croma | Gap | Stated MRP (both) |
|---|
| BenQ GW2790 27in FHD IPS | Rs. 10,850 | Rs. 10,850 | Rs. 0 | Rs. 17,990 |
| Lenovo L27-4C 27in FHD IPS | Rs. 11,729 | Rs. 12,490 | Rs. 761 | Rs. 14,490 |
| Samsung Odyssey G8 27in 4K | Rs. 81,999 | Rs. 91,199 | Rs. 9,200 | Rs. 1,95,000 |
₹ Read the size, then the price. At 27 inches — the size both shelves stock most — Amazon's median is Rs. 11,729 across 15 listings and Croma's is Rs. 14,271 across 18. At 23.8 and 24 inches the order flips: Croma's medians (Rs. 9,990 and Rs. 8,132) sit below Amazon's (Rs. 10,499 and Rs. 9,219), though Croma had only three 24-inch listings to Amazon's 14.
| Screen size | Amazon listings | Amazon median | Croma listings | Croma median |
|---|
| 22 inch | — | — | 2 | Rs. 6,367 |
| 23.8 inch | 3 | Rs. 10,499 | 5 | Rs. 9,990 |
| 24 inch | 14 | Rs. 9,219 | 3 | Rs. 8,132 |
| 27 inch | 15 | Rs. 11,729 | 18 | Rs. 14,271 |
| 32 inch | 2 | Rs. 21,490 | 8 | Rs. 24,844 |
The cheap end of each shelf
Under Rs. 7,000 both retailers have something. Amazon's floor is a ZEBRONICS EA124 24-inch at Rs. 6,499, badged 74% off a stated Rs. 24,999. Croma's is a SAMSUNG Essential 22-inch at Rs. 6,144 at 47% off, with a ZEBRONICS MT120 24-inch at Rs. 6,999 badged 74% off a stated Rs. 26,999.
Those two ZEBRONICS listings are worth pausing on: the same brand, at both retailers, at almost the same price, both badged 74% off stated MRPs near Rs. 25,000 — roughly four times what anyone is charged. We cannot verify whether either stated MRP was ever a live selling price, we make no claim either way, and no wrongdoing by Amazon, Croma or ZEBRONICS is alleged or implied. It is simply where the deepest badges on both shelves are found.
Croma's own house-brand monitors sit here too: three listings at a median of Rs. 8,999, including a 23.8-inch borderless panel at Rs. 7,490 badged a comparatively modest 25% off.
| Amazon, cheapest listings | Price | Stated MRP | Off | Ratings |
|---|
| ZEBRONICS EA124 24 inch LED | Rs. 6,499 | Rs. 24,999 | 74% | 3.8 · 1,887 |
| ViewSonic VA240A-H 24 inch FHD | Rs. 6,835 | Rs. 13,000 | 47% | 4.4 · 38 |
| FRONTECH Ultima 24 inch Curved | Rs. 6,925 | Rs. 17,500 | 60% | 3.6 · 447 |
| AOC 24B30H2 23.8 inch FHD IPS 120Hz | Rs. 6,999 | Rs. 17,990 | 61% | No rating |
| Samsung 24 inch Flat IPS FHD | Rs. 7,458 | Rs. 15,200 | 51% | 4.2 · 988 |
| LG 24U411A-BN 24 inch FHD | Rs. 7,499 | Rs. 17,000 | 56% | 4.2 · 1,266 |
| Croma, cheapest listings | Price | Stated MRP | Off | Ratings |
|---|
| SAMSUNG Essential 22 inch FHD IPS | Rs. 6,144 | Rs. 11,700 | 47% | No rating |
| SAMSUNG Essential S3 22 inch FHD IPS | Rs. 6,590 | Rs. 13,700 | 52% | No rating |
| ZEBRONICS MT120 24 inch FHD VA | Rs. 6,999 | Rs. 26,999 | 74% | No rating |
| Croma 23.8 inch FHD IPS Borderless | Rs. 7,490 | Rs. 9,999 | 25% | No rating |
| SAMSUNG Essential S3 24 inch FHD IPS | Rs. 8,132 | Rs. 16,800 | 52% | No rating |
| BenQ GW2490 23.8 inch FHD IPS | Rs. 8,750 | Rs. 13,990 | 37% | No rating |
The real difference is evidence, not price
Forty-three of Amazon's 44 monitor listings carry a star rating, and many carry serious volume — the BenQ GW2790 has 2,314 ratings at 4.4, the Acer KA270 has 915 at 4.4, the ZEBRONICS EA124 has 1,887 at 3.8. You can read the reviews before spending Rs. 11,000.
Only 12 of Croma's 42 listings carry a rating at all, and the counts are tiny: the Croma F Series 27-inch shows 5.0 from 3 ratings, a DELL Plus 27-inch shows 4.7 from 3, the Lenovo L27-4C shows 4.0 from 1. A five-star average built on three ratings tells you almost nothing, and thirty of Croma's listings tell you nothing at all.
This is the same pattern we found comparing AJIO with Myntra: the price gap between Indian retailers on identical stock is usually small, and the gap in how much published evidence you get is not. If you want to buy on reviews, Amazon's shelf is the one carrying them — and once you know the model, the price is a two-tab check anyway.
| Listing | Retailer | Price | Off | Ratings shown |
|---|
| BenQ GW2790 27 inch | Amazon | Rs. 10,850 | 40% | 4.4 · 2,314 |
| BenQ GW2790 27 inch | Croma | Rs. 10,850 | 40% | No rating shown |
| Acer KA270 P6 27 inch 144Hz | Amazon | Rs. 10,999 | 35% | 4.4 · 915 |
| Croma F Series 27 inch FHD | Croma | Rs. 10,280 | 49% | 5.0 · 3 ratings |
| Lenovo L27-4C 27 inch | Amazon | Rs. 11,729 | 19% | 4.3 · 312 |
| Lenovo L27-4C 27 inch | Croma | Rs. 12,490 | 14% | 4.0 · 1 rating |
| DELL Plus 27 inch FHD IPS | Croma | Rs. 14,099 | 50% | 4.7 · 3 ratings |
How this page was read, and what it does not tell you
Both shelves were read on the morning of 5 September 2026 as served to a logged-out visitor in India with nothing purchased and no account used. The Amazon side is 44 listings from amazon.in's own popularity-ranked search results for the queries “27 inch monitor”, “24 inch monitor” and “gaming monitor”, de-duplicated on ASIN. The Croma side is 42 listings from croma.com's own listing response for “monitor”, two pages. Every selling price, stated maximum retail price, star rating and rating count is the retailer's own published figure reproduced without adjustment; discount percentages come from the published price and MRP fields, and medians, counts, size groupings and the model matching are ours.
What that means for what you can conclude. These are two samples of two much larger catalogues, taken once, from result sets that both retailers rank, personalise and re-rank continuously, and the two shelves are not stocked identically — Croma carried ten monitors above Rs. 25,000 to Amazon's two, which lifts its median. Comparing medians across differently-stocked shelves describes the shelves, not the retailers' pricing policies, which is why the matched models are reported separately. Sizes were parsed from listing titles and a size group with two or three listings is a thin sample. Prices change without notice; coupon codes, bank card offers, exchange discounts, store credit, delivery charges, extended warranty bundles and anything applied at checkout are not visible in listing data and can move your final price in either direction at either retailer, and the prices and terms shown at your checkout prevail over anything here. We cannot verify whether any stated maximum retail price was ever a live selling price and make no claim either way; no wrongdoing by Amazon, Croma, or by BenQ, Lenovo, Samsung, LG, Acer, Dell, MSI, ZEBRONICS, AOC, ViewSonic, FRONTECH, HP or any other brand named is alleged or implied. Ratings and rating counts are each retailer's own figures, reproduced without auditing them, and a shelf carrying fewer ratings is a statement about published data rather than about product quality or after-sales service. Nothing here is a judgement of panel quality, colour accuracy, refresh-rate performance, build, warranty handling, installation or delivery: no monitor was unboxed, connected or tested by us, and a discount percentage is not a recommendation to buy.
The short version
Read on 5 September 2026, Croma's monitor shelf badges deeper (45% median against 33%) and costs more (median Rs. 13,800 against Rs. 10,875). Some of that is stocking: Croma carries ten monitors over Rs. 25,000 to Amazon's two.
On the models that appear on both, the honest answer is narrow. The BenQ GW2790 is Rs. 10,850 at both. The Lenovo L27-4C is Rs. 761 cheaper on Amazon off an identical stated MRP. The Samsung Odyssey G8 is Rs. 9,200 cheaper on Amazon. The bigger gap is evidence: 43 of 44 Amazon listings carry a star rating, against 12 of 42 at Croma, where the counts run one to four.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Amazon or Croma cheaper for monitors in September 2026?
On the shelves we read on 5 September 2026, Amazon's median monitor was Rs. 10,875 against Croma's Rs. 13,800, but the two shelves are stocked differently — Croma listed ten monitors above Rs. 25,000 to Amazon's two, which lifts its median. The cleaner test is the three models that appeared on both: the BenQ GW2790 was Rs. 10,850 at both retailers, the Lenovo L27-4C was Rs. 11,729 on Amazon against Rs. 12,490 at Croma, and the Samsung Odyssey G8 was Rs. 81,999 against Rs. 91,199. Amazon was cheaper or equal on all three, by Rs. 0 to Rs. 9,200. Checkout offers at either retailer can change that.
Why does Croma show bigger discount percentages than Amazon?
Because a badge is the gap between a selling price and a stated maximum retail price, and on the shelves we read Croma quoted higher reference prices more often. The Lenovo L27-4C makes the mechanism visible: both retailers state the same MRP of Rs. 14,490, so the badge difference (19% off at Amazon, 14% at Croma) is nothing more than the Rs. 761 price difference restated as a percentage. The Samsung Odyssey G8 runs the other way — Amazon's 58% badge beats Croma's 53% off the same stated Rs. 1,95,000, and Amazon is also Rs. 9,200 cheaper. We cannot verify whether any stated MRP was ever a live selling price and make no claim either way.
What is the cheapest monitor at Amazon and at Croma right now?
In our samples, Croma's cheapest was a SAMSUNG Essential 22-inch Full HD IPS panel at Rs. 6,144 (47% off a stated Rs. 11,700), and Amazon's was a ZEBRONICS EA124 24-inch at Rs. 6,499 (74% off a stated Rs. 24,999, rated 3.8 on 1,887 ratings). Under Rs. 7,500 both shelves also carried ViewSonic, FRONTECH, AOC and Croma's own house-brand panels. These are the cheapest listings our queries surfaced rather than a claim about the cheapest monitor either retailer sells.
Which is the better size to buy, 24-inch or 27-inch?
We can only report what the shelves priced — no monitor was connected or tested by us. On price, 27 inches is where both retailers stock most heavily: Amazon listed 15 at a median of Rs. 11,729, Croma 18 at a median of Rs. 14,271. The 24-inch class is roughly Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 3,000 cheaper — Amazon's median was Rs. 9,219 across 14 listings, Croma's Rs. 8,132 across three. At 23.8 and 24 inches Croma was the cheaper shelf; at 27 inches Amazon was. Panel type, refresh rate and resolution vary widely inside every one of those groups.
Do Croma monitor listings have customer ratings?
Mostly not, in the sample we read. Twelve of Croma's 42 monitor listings carried a star rating, and those counts ran from one to four ratings — a Croma F Series 27-inch showed 5.0 from three, a DELL Plus 27-inch 4.7 from three, the Lenovo L27-4C 4.0 from one. On Amazon, 43 of 44 listings carried a rating, frequently in the hundreds or thousands: 2,314 ratings on the BenQ GW2790, 1,887 on the ZEBRONICS EA124. If published review volume matters to your decision, that is the largest difference between the two shelves. Ratings are each retailer's own figures, reproduced without auditing them.
Prices & codes last verified: 5 September 2026
Both shelves behind this page were read on the morning of 5 September 2026 as served to a logged-out visitor in India with nothing purchased and no account used. The Amazon side is 44 listings from amazon.in's own popularity-ranked search results for the queries 27 inch monitor, 24 inch monitor and gaming monitor, de-duplicated on ASIN; the Croma side is 42 listings from croma.com's own listing response for monitor, two pages. Every selling price, stated maximum retail price, star rating and rating count is the retailer's own published figure reproduced without adjustment; discount percentages are computed from the published price and MRP fields, and medians, counts, size groupings and the matching of models across shelves are ours. These are two samples of two much larger catalogues, taken once, from result sets both retailers rank, personalise and re-rank continuously, and the shelves are not stocked identically: Croma listed ten monitors above Rs. 25,000 to Amazon's two, which lifts its median, so comparisons of medians describe these samples rather than either retailer's pricing policy. Screen sizes were parsed from listing titles and the smaller size groups are thin samples. Prices change without notice; coupon codes, bank card offers, exchange discounts, store credit, delivery charges, extended-warranty bundles and anything applied at checkout are not visible in listing data and can move your final price in either direction at either retailer, and the prices and terms shown at your checkout prevail over anything here. We cannot verify whether any stated maximum retail price was ever a live selling price and make no claim either way, and no wrongdoing by Amazon, by Croma, or by BenQ, Lenovo, Samsung, LG, Acer, Dell, MSI, ZEBRONICS, AOC, ViewSonic, FRONTECH, HP or any other brand named is alleged or implied. Ratings and rating counts are each retailer's own figures reproduced without auditing them; a shelf carrying fewer published ratings is an observation about listing data, not a statement about product quality, warranty support or after-sales service. Nothing here is a judgement of panel quality, colour accuracy, refresh-rate performance, build quality, installation or delivery — no monitor was unboxed, connected, measured or tested by us — and a discount percentage is not a recommendation to buy. Zoutons may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page; it does not change what you pay, and nothing here was reviewed or approved by Amazon, Croma or any brand named.
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