# Swiggy Instamart vs BigBasket dark stores, by city

This page compares store counts only. On 31 Oct 2026, Rewalto counted 1,357 Swiggy Instamart dark stores in 167 cities and 912 BigBasket stores in 90 cities. Both have stores in 79 cities: Swiggy Instamart has more in 42 of them, BigBasket in 24. Bengaluru has the most of the two together, 186 and 166.

Counted 31 Oct 2026.

## Key facts

| | Swiggy Instamart | BigBasket |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Open dark stores | 1,357 | 912 |
| Cities with a store | 167 | 90 |
| Shared cities where it has more stores | 42 | 24 |
| Cities it has to itself | 88 | 11 |

BigBasket also delivers to 12,467 named areas (BB Now delivery areas), shown apart: an area is not a store.

## Where both have dark stores

| City | Swiggy Instamart | BigBasket |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bengaluru | 186 | 166 |
| Hyderabad | 109 | 67 |
| Mumbai | 72 | 87 |
| Delhi | 84 | 74 |
| Chennai | 93 | 43 |
| Pune | 57 | 44 |
| Kolkata | 43 | 33 |
| Gurugram | 38 | 31 |
| Ghaziabad | 17 | 27 |
| Thane | 24 | 13 |
| Noida | 24 | 11 |
| Ahmedabad | 22 | 12 |
| Lucknow | 19 | 14 |
| Navi Mumbai | 25 | 8 |
| Kochi | 27 | 5 |
| Patna | 10 | 15 |
| Bhubaneswar | 14 | 10 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | 18 | 5 |
| Greater Noida | 10 | 12 |
| Faridabad | 7 | 14 |
| Nagpur | 7 | 14 |
| Visakhapatnam | 11 | 10 |
| Mysuru | 9 | 9 |
| Indore | 8 | 8 |
| Varanasi | 10 | 6 |
| Bhopal | 8 | 7 |
| Vijayawada | 9 | 5 |
| Guwahati | 8 | 5 |
| Ludhiana | 6 | 7 |
| New Town | 6 | 7 |
| Surat | 9 | 4 |
| Dehradun | 6 | 6 |
| Vadodara | 7 | 5 |
| Chandigarh | 3 | 8 |
| Prayagraj | 3 | 8 |
| Secunderabad | 7 | 3 |
| Jamshedpur | 3 | 6 |
| Kanpur | 4 | 5 |
| Mangaluru | 7 | 2 |
| Mohali | 6 | 3 |
| Raipur | 4 | 5 |
| Ranchi | 4 | 5 |
| Cuttack | 2 | 6 |
| Guntur | 7 | 1 |
| Kalamassery | 6 | 2 |
| Kozhikode | 7 | 1 |
| Kalyan | 3 | 4 |
| Zirakpur | 5 | 2 |
| Gwalior | 4 | 2 |
| Kharar | 4 | 2 |
| Puducherry | 5 | 1 |
| Vasai Virar | 4 | 2 |
| Warangal | 4 | 2 |
| Agra | 2 | 3 |
| Bidhannagar | 4 | 1 |
| Moradabad | 2 | 3 |
| Aligarh | 3 | 1 |
| Barasat | 2 | 2 |
| Bareilly | 1 | 3 |
| Belgharia | 1 | 3 |
| Gandhinagar | 1 | 3 |
| Howrah | 1 | 3 |
| Karimnagar | 2 | 2 |
| Khammam | 3 | 1 |
| Madhurawada | 2 | 2 |
| Nellore | 3 | 1 |
| Panchkula | 2 | 2 |
| Salem | 2 | 2 |
| Tirupati | 3 | 1 |
| Anantapur | 2 | 1 |
| Badlapur | 1 | 2 |
| Kurnool | 2 | 1 |
| Rajahmundry | 2 | 1 |
| Tumakuru | 1 | 2 |
| Bhilai | 1 | 1 |
| Jalahalli | 1 | 1 |
| Kalyani | 1 | 1 |
| Nizamabad | 1 | 1 |
| Sonipat | 1 | 1 |

## Where only Swiggy Instamart has stores

- Jaipur: 18
- Coimbatore: 16
- Thrissur: 10
- Panaji: 8
- Dombivli: 7
- Madurai: 6
- Nashik: 5
- Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: 4
- Meerut: 4
- Rajkot: 4

## Where only BigBasket has stores

- Ayodhya: 2
- Sambalpur: 2
- Asansol: 1
- Chinsurah: 1
- Durgapur: 1
- Kalaburagi: 1
- Khardaha: 1
- Madhyamgram: 1
- Muzaffarnagar: 1
- Serampore: 1

## Questions

### Does Swiggy Instamart or BigBasket have more dark stores?

Swiggy Instamart, by Rewalto's count on 31 Oct 2026: 1,357 stores against 912 for BigBasket.

### In how many cities do both Swiggy Instamart and BigBasket have dark stores?

79 cities on 31 Oct 2026. Swiggy Instamart has more stores in 42 of them and BigBasket in 24; 13 are level.

### How does Rewalto count a dark store?

Each open store Rewalto's own weekly sweeps found on the app, with every source merged into one record per store, counted by the city it was found in. BigBasket's BB Now delivery areas are not stores and are counted apart.

### Can I get the store list behind these counts?

Yes. The dark-store map is a Rewalto dataset: one record per store with its app, city and the pin codes it serves, through the dashboard, the API or the MCP server (preview). Credits are charged only for stores delivered.


Counts are of open dark stores found by Rewalto's own weekly sweeps. BigBasket's BB Now delivery areas are not stores and are never in a store count.

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Last content change: 2026-10-31