Daraz vs PriceOye: what our own data shows
Is Daraz or PriceOye cheaper, and is that even the right question?
Written from Dhundo’s own price data. Reviewed 2026-08-08; figures from the 2026-08-08 data snapshot.
This is the comparison people ask for most, and the honest answer is more interesting than a winner. Daraz and PriceOye are not the same kind of shop, they do not stock the same mix, and their price distributions reflect that far more than they reflect who is undercutting whom. What follows is what Dhundo's own stored listings say about each, with the counts and the dates attached.
How much of each store Dhundo has read
Dhundo holds 1,13,755 stored listings from Daraz and 13,822 from Priceoye. Those are not catalogue sizes - they are counts of what our searches have caused us to read, so a bigger number means a store has been searched into more often, not that it necessarily stocks more.
That distinction matters for everything below. Every figure in this guide describes the listings Dhundo has read from each store, and generalising it to "Daraz is cheaper than PriceOye" would be extending a statement about a sample into a statement about two catalogues.
The price distributions are different shapes
For Daraz, the midpoint stored listing is Rs 2,895, with eight in ten between Rs 399 and Rs 8,829. For Priceoye, the midpoint is Rs 4,499, with eight in ten between Rs 2,049 and Rs 2,25,999.
Read those two bands next to each other and the story is a mix difference, not a pricing difference. One is a general marketplace whose long tail is small, cheap, high-volume goods; the other is concentrated in phones and consumer electronics, which start higher and go higher. A midpoint gap between them measures what each shop sells.
This is the trap in every "which store is cheaper" article. Comparing two stores' overall price distributions answers a question about assortment while sounding like an answer about value.
The comparison that does mean something
Per product. When both stores carry the same item under matching titles, the difference between their two prices is a real, checkable number, and that is what Dhundo puts on a product page: each store with the price it was showing when we last read it.
The phone category is where this works best, because handsets carry model numbers and storage sizes that both stores copy into their titles. Across the phone sample behind our phone guide, the typical cross-store gap on a matched handset was 9.4% - a real saving on the right handset, and not much on most of them.
So the useful workflow is: search the exact model, read the store column, and decide with both prices in front of you. "Which store is cheaper" is unanswerable; "which store is cheaper for this" is answered on the page.
Freshness is part of the comparison
The Daraz figures were computed from listings last read 2026-08-08, and the Priceoye figures 2026-08-06. Where two stores were last read on different days, part of any gap between them is simply that one number is older than the other.
Dhundo refreshes a store's listings when that store is searched, so the stores people search most carry the freshest prices. That is a reasonable behaviour for a search engine and a poor one to forget when reading a statistic, so both dates are printed here rather than averaged away.
Neither of these numbers is a review
Nothing on this page says which shop is better. It says how many listings Dhundo holds from each and how those listings are priced, and those are facts about a dataset rather than judgements about a business.
The things that actually decide whether a purchase goes well - how fast delivery is, whether a return is honoured, whether the seller on a marketplace listing is the marketplace itself or a third party - are not in a price feed. Dhundo does not publish ratings of stores or of products, and the ratings that appear on retailers' own pages are theirs; republishing them here as though they were reviews collected by Dhundo would be a fabrication, so they are not shown.
Where a marketplace is involved, one further distinction is worth carrying: a price on a marketplace listing is set by whichever seller holds that listing, not by the marketplace. Two listings at different prices inside the same marketplace are two sellers, which is why the store column names the storefront rather than implying a single price-setter behind it.
Mobile on Dhundo, in numbers
Computed from stored listings. Snapshot taken 2026-08-08; newest listing in the sample read 2026-06-21.
- Listings classified here
- 3,595
- Stores in the sample
- 11
- Midpoint price
- Rs 15,490over 858 listings
- Eight in ten sit between
- Rs 2,199 and Rs 3,74,900
- Found under the same name in more than one store
- 14 itemstypical gap 9.4%
Every figure above is recomputed on the Mobile category page each time it is served, so that page is always the fresher of the two.
What this guide cannot tell you
It cannot tell you which store is cheaper overall. That question does not have an answer, because the two shops sell overlapping but different assortments and any overall figure measures the assortment.
It cannot tell you either store's true catalogue size. Dhundo counts what it has read, not what exists, and what it has read is driven by what people have searched for.
It cannot tell you about delivery, returns or after-sales service, which for a large purchase can matter more than the price difference. Those are properties of the retailer, not of the listing.
Common questions
- So is Daraz cheaper than PriceOye?
- Not as a general statement, and any page that gives you one is comparing assortments. On a specific product carried by both, Dhundo shows both prices side by side and the answer is whichever number is lower that day.
- Why does Dhundo hold so many more listings from one store than the other?
- Because listings are read when a store is searched. The counts reflect search demand across Dhundo, not catalogue size, which is why they are described as stored listings rather than products available.
- How old are these numbers?
- Daraz was last read 2026-08-08 and Priceoye 2026-08-06. The guide itself was reviewed on its verified date, shown at the top of the page.