In August 2026 we tracked 184 products that both Amazon and Flipkart carried. On 54 of them the listings on the two sites showed a different MRP for the same item. That's 29%, or a little under one in three.
What's more useful than the headline is where they sit. They aren't spread evenly across the catalogue.
By category
We've only listed categories where at least 10 products were carried by both platforms. Below that, the percentages bounce around too much to mean anything.
| Category | With two MRPs | Products on both platforms | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straighteners | 15 | 38 | 39% |
| Hair dryers | 17 | 49 | 35% |
| Shavers | 3 | 12 | 25% |
| Trimmers | 13 | 57 | 23% |
| Toothbrushes | 2 | 10 | 20% |
Styling appliances have the most mismatches. Straighteners and hair dryers are 32 of the 54, and they're only 87 of the 184 products.
Trimmers are the biggest category we track and one with the fewest mismatches. That's worth saying, because the trimmer examples are the ones that travel, and they give the impression that trimmers have the most mismatches. They don't.
Why some categories have more mismatches
It isn't the appliance. It's the listing.
The MRP you see is submitted with the listing by whoever put it up, and that's often a marketplace seller rather than the brand. The more sellers a product has, the more separate entries exist, typed by more people, and the more chances one of them is stale.
Pack revisions do the same thing. When a printed MRP changes, old stock and old listings carry the old figure for a while, and two platforms won't update on the same day.
We can't see from outside which of those is driving the styling categories, and we're not going to guess. What we can say is that the disagreement sits in the listings rather than in the products.
What this does not show
Which listing is correct. In 53 of the 54 cases there was no third listing to adjudicate, so all we can say is that both figures can't be right. Only one case had enough evidence to point at a specific listing.
The reason. A stale entry, a variant mismatch and a typing error look the same from outside, and we do not guess at the reason.
The whole market. This is personal care appliances on two platforms, frozen on 31 August 2026. A different category could look nothing like it.
What to do with it
If you're buying a straightener or a hair dryer, the declared MRP is the number most likely to disagree, so the percentage next to it is the number least worth trusting. Open both listings and compare what you'd actually pay.
That's the same advice as everywhere else on this site. It just matters more in some aisles than others.
The full table, with every row and its confidence grade, is in the August 2026 edition of the index. It's frozen, so anything you quote from it stays where it is.
Based on the 184 products carried by both Amazon and Flipkart in the frozen August 2026 edition, captured 31 August 2026.