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Dark stores · App against app · Counted 31 Oct 2026
Zepto vs Swiggy Instamart dark stores, by city
This page compares store counts only. On 31 Oct 2026, Rewalto counted 1,634 Zepto dark stores in 124 cities and 1,357 Swiggy Instamart stores in 167 cities. Both have stores in 99 cities: Zepto has more in 49 of them, Swiggy Instamart in 34. Bengaluru has the most of the two together, 217 and 186.
Key facts
counted 31 Oct 2026| Zepto | Swiggy Instamart | |
|---|---|---|
| Open dark stores | 1,634 | 1,357 |
| Cities with a store | 124 | 167 |
| Shared cities where it has more stores | 49 | 34 |
| Cities it has to itself | 25 | 68 |
Both apps have stores in 99 cities; in 16 of them the counts are level. Source: Rewalto’s dark-store map, counted 31 Oct 2026.
Where both have dark stores
30 of 99 cities, most stores first| City | Zepto | Swiggy Instamart | More stores |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 217 | 186 | Zepto |
| Hyderabad | 168 | 109 | Zepto |
| Delhi | 133 | 84 | Zepto |
| Mumbai | 137 | 72 | Zepto |
| Chennai | 104 | 93 | Zepto |
| Pune | 73 | 57 | Zepto |
| Gurugram | 91 | 38 | Zepto |
| Kolkata | 58 | 43 | Zepto |
| Noida | 55 | 24 | Zepto |
| Lucknow | 51 | 19 | Zepto |
| Ghaziabad | 47 | 17 | Zepto |
| Ahmedabad | 38 | 22 | Zepto |
| Jaipur | 30 | 18 | Zepto |
| Thane | 19 | 24 | Swiggy Instamart |
| Kochi | 11 | 27 | Swiggy Instamart |
| Navi Mumbai | 11 | 25 | Swiggy Instamart |
| Coimbatore | 11 | 16 | Swiggy Instamart |
| Faridabad | 20 | 7 | Zepto |
| Surat | 18 | 9 | Zepto |
| Dehradun | 15 | 6 | Zepto |
| Mysuru | 11 | 9 | Zepto |
| Thiruvananthapuram | 1 | 18 | Swiggy Instamart |
| Greater Noida | 8 | 10 | Swiggy Instamart |
| Indore | 10 | 8 | Zepto |
| Ludhiana | 11 | 6 | Zepto |
| Nagpur | 10 | 7 | Zepto |
| Kanpur | 12 | 4 | Zepto |
| Vadodara | 9 | 7 | Zepto |
| Mohali | 9 | 6 | Zepto |
| Vijayawada | 6 | 9 | Swiggy Instamart |
The other 69 shared cities are in the dark-store explorer and the dataset.
Where only Zepto has stores
25 cities- Haridwar: 4 stores
- Bahadurgarh: 3 stores
- Jammu: 3 stores
- Asansol: 2 stores
- Bardhaman: 2 stores
- Jhansi: 2 stores
- Kurukshetra: 2 stores
- Mehsana: 2 stores
- Tambaram: 2 stores
- Alwar: 1 store
And 15 more cities.
Where only Swiggy Instamart has stores
68 cities- Bhubaneswar: 14 stores
- Patna: 10 stores
- Thrissur: 10 stores
- Guwahati: 8 stores
- Panaji: 8 stores
- Mangaluru: 7 stores
- Gwalior: 4 stores
- Ranchi: 4 stores
- Siliguri: 4 stores
- Tiruchirappalli: 4 stores
And 58 more cities.
Method and limits
A dark store here is an open store that 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. JioMart stores that fill quick orders are counted as stores. BigBasket’s BB Now delivery areas are named areas, not stores, so they are never added to a store count. A store with no known city is in the app’s total but in no city row. An app can run stores our sweeps have not found yet, so a count is a floor, not a census.
The store records, with the pin codes each store serves, are the dark-store map dataset: through the dashboard, the API (GET /v1/data/dark-stores), the command line or the MCP server (preview). Credits are charged only for stores delivered.
Other comparisons
8 pairs- Blinkit vs Zepto: 5,092 and 1,634 stores
- Blinkit vs Swiggy Instamart: 5,092 and 1,357 stores
- Zepto vs BigBasket: 1,634 and 912 stores
- Zepto vs Flipkart Minutes: 1,634 and 1,573 stores
- Zepto vs JioMart: 1,634 and 3,127 stores
- Swiggy Instamart vs BigBasket: 1,357 and 912 stores
- Swiggy Instamart vs Flipkart Minutes: 1,357 and 1,573 stores
- Swiggy Instamart vs JioMart: 1,357 and 3,127 stores
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Questions
Does Zepto or Swiggy Instamart have more dark stores?
Zepto, by Rewalto's count on 31 Oct 2026: 1,634 stores against 1,357 for Swiggy Instamart.
In how many cities do both Zepto and Swiggy Instamart have dark stores?
99 cities on 31 Oct 2026. Zepto has more stores in 49 of them and Swiggy Instamart in 34; 16 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.
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.