Track AJIO vs Myntra India Fashion Pricing (2026 Guide)
Build an AJIO-vs-Myntra India fashion-pricing tracker with Thirdwatch — daily MRP, discount and brand-level deltas, Python recipes, and SKU matching tips.

Thirdwatch's AJIO Scraper and Myntra Scraper feed a cross-platform India fashion-pricing tracker — daily snapshot of the same brand or keyword watchlist on both platforms, compute price and discount deltas, surface where private-label vs third-party brands diverge. Built for India fashion ops, brand teams managing dual marketplace listings, growth analysts optimising marketplace spend, and price-comparison product builders.
▶ Skip the setup: Run this as a ready-to-go task on Apify → — pre-loaded with the exact configuration from this guide. No code required.
Why track AJIO vs Myntra India fashion pricing
India online fashion is a near-duopoly with Nykaa-Fashion as the close third. According to the RedSeer 2024 fashion ecom report, Myntra and AJIO together capture the majority of the roughly $9–10B online fashion GMV — and they price the same brand catalog differently. The same Levi's 511 slim jean retails at ₹2,799 on Myntra and ₹2,499 on AJIO over one weekend, and inverts the next. AJIO leans on Reliance Retail's house brands (AJIO Own, Netplay, Performax) for aggressive private-label discounting; Myntra leans on first-party HRX, Roadster and a deeper third-party catalog. The delta is structural, not noise.
For brand ops teams, growth marketers, and analysts, that delta is operational signal. The job-to-be-done is structured: a brand ops team manages 300 SKUs across both marketplaces and needs daily price-parity alerts. A growth team optimising marketplace ad spend wants to flag the cheaper-priced marketplace per SKU before it bids. A market analyst builds a longitudinal dataset of India fashion EOSS rhythms. A consumer price-comparison app ingests both as data layers. All reduce to dual-platform snapshots, SKU matching, and delta computation.
How does this compare to the alternatives?
| Approach | Reliability | Setup time | Maintenance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual price-checking across both sites | Low — doesn't scale beyond a handful of SKUs | Continuous analyst time | Continuous |
| Indian price-comparison SaaS (MySmartPrice, Pricepe) | High, but bundled with consumer UI and affiliate logic | Days | Vendor lock-in, paid tier |
| Thirdwatch AJIO + Myntra Scrapers | Production-tested, anti-bot handled | Half a day to wire up | Thirdwatch maintains both |
Indian price-comparison SaaS is priced for consumer-app operators bundling affiliate revenue. The Thirdwatch AJIO Scraper plus Myntra Scraper give you raw structured data at competitively priced pay-per-result, with no vendor lock-in and no use-case gating.
How to track AJIO vs Myntra prices in 5 steps
Step 1: How do I authenticate against Apify?
export APIFY_TOKEN="apify_api_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"Step 2: How do I pull both platforms in parallel?
Spawn one run for AJIO and one for Myntra against the same brand watchlist.
import os, json, datetime, pathlib
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
BRAND_WATCH = [
"levis 511 slim jean",
"allen solly mens shirt",
"biba kurta set",
"hrx tshirt",
"puma running shoes",
"tommy hilfiger polo",
"fossil mens watch",
]
ajio_run = client.actor("thirdwatch/ajio-scraper").call(
run_input={
"queries": BRAND_WATCH,
"sortBy": "popularity",
"maxResults": 60,
},
wait_secs=600,
)
myntra_run = client.actor("thirdwatch/myntra-scraper").call(
run_input={
"queries": BRAND_WATCH,
"maxResults": 60,
},
wait_secs=600,
)
ajio = list(client.dataset(ajio_run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
myntra = list(client.dataset(myntra_run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
today = datetime.date.today().isoformat()
pathlib.Path("snapshots").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
pathlib.Path(f"snapshots/ajio-{today}.json").write_text(json.dumps(ajio))
pathlib.Path(f"snapshots/myntra-{today}.json").write_text(json.dumps(myntra))
print(f"{today}: AJIO {len(ajio)}, Myntra {len(myntra)}")Step 3: How do I match the same SKU across AJIO and Myntra?
There is no shared product ID. Use brand as a hard filter and rapidfuzz for product-name similarity.
import pandas as pd
from rapidfuzz import fuzz, process
a = pd.DataFrame(ajio)[
[
"sku",
"brand",
"product_name",
"price",
"original_price",
"discount_percent",
"url",
]
]
m = pd.DataFrame(myntra)[
["product_id", "brand", "title", "price", "mrp", "discount_percent", "url"]
]
m = m.rename(columns={"title": "product_name"})
a["brand_key"] = a.brand.str.lower().str.strip()
m["brand_key"] = m.brand.str.lower().str.strip()
pairs = []
for brand_key, ag in a.groupby("brand_key"):
mg = m[m.brand_key == brand_key]
if mg.empty:
continue
for _, ar in ag.iterrows():
best = process.extractOne(
ar.product_name,
mg.product_name.tolist(),
scorer=fuzz.token_set_ratio,
score_cutoff=85,
)
if best:
mr = mg.iloc[best[2]]
pairs.append(
{
"brand": ar.brand,
"name_ajio": ar.product_name,
"name_myntra": mr.product_name,
"ajio_price": ar.price,
"myntra_price": mr.price,
"ajio_mrp": ar.original_price,
"myntra_mrp": mr.mrp,
"match_score": best[1],
}
)
matched = pd.DataFrame(pairs)
print(f"{len(matched)} matched SKU pairs")token_set_ratio at 85 is the production-tested cutoff for India fashion — high enough to avoid cross-style confusion ("slim fit" vs "regular fit"), low enough to absorb the platforms' inconsistent title formatting.
Step 4: How do I compute the price delta and flag arbitrage?
matched["delta"] = matched.ajio_price - matched.myntra_price
matched["delta_pct"] = (
matched.delta / matched[["ajio_price", "myntra_price"]].min(axis=1) * 100
)
arbitrage = matched[matched.delta_pct.abs() >= 10].copy()
arbitrage["cheaper_on"] = arbitrage.delta.apply(lambda d: "myntra" if d > 0 else "ajio")
print(
arbitrage[
["brand", "name_ajio", "ajio_price", "myntra_price", "delta_pct", "cheaper_on"]
].head(20)
)A 10%+ gap with both products in stock is the canonical arbitrage signal. Gaps below 10% are usually coupon-stack or shipping-fee noise and not worth alerting on.
Step 5: How do I post a daily delta digest to Slack?
import requests as r
def fmt(row):
sign = "+" if row.delta > 0 else ""
return (
f"*{row.brand} — {row.name_ajio[:40]}*: "
f"AJIO ₹{int(row.ajio_price):,} vs Myntra ₹{int(row.myntra_price):,} "
f"({sign}{row.delta_pct:.1f}% on {row.cheaper_on})"
)
top = arbitrage.sort_values("delta_pct", key=abs, ascending=False).head(10)
r.post(
"https://hooks.slack.com/services/.../...",
json={"text": "AJIO vs Myntra deltas today:\n" + "\n".join(top.apply(fmt, axis=1))},
timeout=10,
)For an active ops team a 10-row daily digest in Slack with the largest deltas is the right cadence — enough signal to act on without alert fatigue.
Sample output
A matched-pair record after running the joining logic above:
[
{
"brand": "Levi's",
"name_ajio": "Men's 511 Slim Fit Jean",
"name_myntra": "Men 511 Slim Fit Stretchable Jeans",
"ajio_price": 2499,
"myntra_price": 2799,
"ajio_mrp": 4999,
"myntra_mrp": 4999,
"ajio_discount": 50,
"myntra_discount": 44,
"delta_pct": -12.0,
"cheaper_on": "ajio",
"match_score": 91
},
{
"brand": "Biba",
"name_ajio": "Printed Anarkali Kurta Set with Dupatta",
"name_myntra": "Women Printed Anarkali Kurta with Dupatta",
"ajio_price": 2199,
"myntra_price": 2099,
"ajio_mrp": 3999,
"myntra_mrp": 3999,
"ajio_discount": 45,
"myntra_discount": 47,
"delta_pct": 4.6,
"cheaper_on": "myntra",
"match_score": 88
}
]The match_score field is your trust signal — scores above 90 are safe for automated alerting; 85–90 should be human-reviewed before pricing decisions; below 85 is filtered out by the pipeline.
Common pitfalls
Three things go wrong in production AJIO-vs-Myntra trackers. Brand-string normalisation — AJIO writes "Levi's" while Myntra sometimes writes "Levis"; lower-case + strip-apostrophes before joining or you'll miss half the pairs. Coupon-stack price drift — both platforms layer additional coupons at checkout that aren't reflected in the listing price; for headline-discount marketing comparison this is fine, but for effective-cost arbitrage you'll under-call the gap. Sale-window divergence — AJIO EOSS and Myntra EORS run on overlapping but not identical calendars; some "deltas" are just one platform being mid-sale and the other not. Flag sale windows in your downstream analytics and don't treat them as steady-state signal.
Thirdwatch handles AJIO's and Myntra's anti-bot defences transparently. Both actors emit consistent, dedupable rows from a single keyword input — small enough to run hourly during EOSS, cheap enough to run daily year-round on a 300-SKU watchlist.
Related use cases
Frequently asked questions
Why compare AJIO and Myntra prices?
AJIO and Myntra are the two largest pure-play India online fashion marketplaces and they price overlapping brands differently because of different seller bases, sale calendars, and coupon-stack rules. For brand ops teams managing dual listings, growth teams optimising marketplace spend, and consumer-app builders, the daily delta is operational signal worth tracking.
How do I match the same SKU across AJIO and Myntra?
There is no shared product identifier between AJIO and Myntra. Three approaches work in production: exact-substring match on brand plus product_name (best for known SKUs), fuzzy string distance for long-tail products, and image-perceptual-hash comparison when you can fetch image_url from both. Most pipelines use the first plus brand as a hard filter.
What's the right cadence for this tracker?
Daily during steady-state, every 2 to 4 hours during EOSS windows on either platform. AJIO and Myntra run their end-of-season sales on partly overlapping calendars; missing intraday price moves during those windows means missing the deal. For a 300-SKU watchlist, even hourly cadence stays affordable on pay-per-result pricing.
How do I read the AJIO discount_percent vs Myntra discount field?
AJIO returns a numeric discount_percent parsed from its display string. Myntra returns a similar percentage. Both reference the platform's stated MRP, but neither always reflects post-coupon effective price. For arbitrage decisions compute effective price as (price minus coupon_value) and ignore the headline percentage; for marketing-claim comparison use the headline directly.
How does this compare to Indian price-comparison apps?
Apps like MySmartPrice and Pricepe bundle cross-marketplace tracking with consumer ads and affiliate revenue. Building your own AJIO-plus-Myntra tracker on Thirdwatch actors is meaningfully cheaper for systematic operational use and gives you raw structured data instead of a consumer UI. SaaS wins when you need a customer-facing app on top of the data.
Are private-label vs third-party brand comparisons fair?
Not directly. AJIO Own, Netplay, Performax (private label) discount differently from third-party brands like Levi's, Allen Solly or Biba. Segment by brand category before comparing; AJIO private-label vs Myntra HRX private-label is a fair comparison, but AJIO Own vs Myntra Tommy Hilfiger is not.