Swiggy Instamart dark stores and cities in India
Updated October 2026
Swiggy Instamart has 1,296 dark stores in 197 cities and towns, the third-biggest store network among India’s dark-store apps. You can order groceries, fresh produce and daily needs on Instamart, inside the Swiggy app or in the separate Instamart app. Orders come from a dark store near you.
Its biggest cities are Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. Instamart reaches more cities than Zepto but far fewer than Blinkit.
Find a Swiggy Instamart store near you
Type your city or 6-digit PIN code to see where Swiggy Instamart has dark stores close to your address.
Cities with the most Swiggy Instamart dark stores
- 1 Bengaluru Karnataka 171 dark stores
- 2 Hyderabad Telangana 103
- 3 Chennai Tamil Nadu 89
- 4 Delhi Delhi 75
- 5 Mumbai Maharashtra 65
- 6 Pune Maharashtra 52
- 7 Kolkata West Bengal 37
- 8 Gurugram Haryana 34
- 9 Navi Mumbai Maharashtra 24
- 10 Noida Uttar Pradesh 23
- 11 Thane Maharashtra 23 dark stores
- 12 Ahmedabad Gujarat 18
- 13 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 18
- 14 Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh 17
- 15 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 17
- 16 Coimbatore Tamil Nadu 16
- 17 Jaipur Rajasthan 16
- 18 Bhubaneswar Odisha 14
- 19 Kochi Kerala 14
- 20 Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh 13
Towns outside the top 20 are in the Swiggy Instamart city list.
Swiggy Instamart dark stores by state
- Maharashtra 204 stores
- Karnataka 198 stores
- Tamil Nadu 139 stores
- Telangana 121 stores
- Uttar Pradesh 102 stores
- Kerala 83 stores
- Delhi 75 stores
- West Bengal 59 stores
- Haryana 51 stores
- Andhra Pradesh 50 stores
- Gujarat 43 stores
- Punjab 29 stores
- Rajasthan 28 stores
- Madhya Pradesh 26 stores
- Goa 17 stores
- Odisha 17 stores
- Assam 13 stores
- Bihar 11 stores
- Uttarakhand 8 stores
- Jharkhand 7 stores
- Chhattisgarh 6 stores
- Puducherry 5 stores
- Chandigarh 3 stores
- Meghalaya 1 store
Swiggy Instamart delivery charges and fees
Topping up past the minimum often costs less than the fees. Rival apps set these charges differently, and delivery fees by app compares them.
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Delivery fee below ₹199 | ₹30 |
| Delivery fee on carts of ₹199 to ₹299 | ₹16 |
| Fees waived above | ₹299 |
| Free Instamart delivery for Swiggy One members | Above ₹199 (plans from ₹149 a month) |
| Handling fee | Charged on carts below ₹299, plus GST |
| Handling fee on carts below ₹299 | ₹9.80 |
| Small-cart fee on carts under ₹99 | ₹15 |
Before you order on Instamart
- Compare Swiggy One with other memberships before you pay for a plan.
- For a big stock-up, look for Maxxsaver, Instamart’s bulk-cart option.
Who owns Swiggy Instamart, and how it works
Swiggy Instamart is the quick delivery service of Swiggy Ltd, the listed food-delivery company. It started in 2020 inside the Swiggy app and has had its own app since January 2025.
- Owner
- Swiggy Ltd, listed on NSE and BSE (Swiggy Instamart Pvt Ltd from 1 Apr 2026)
- Headquarters
- Bengaluru
- Cities
- 133 cities (30 Sep 2026)
- Places with a store
- 197, counting suburbs and nearby towns separately
- Store model
- Marketplace for now; moving to selling its own stock after Swiggy capped foreign ownership at 49.5% (Aug 2026)
- Delivery promise
- Sold as 10-minute delivery until January 2026, when the claim was dropped after the Labour Ministry asked apps to stop using it.
- Categories
- Groceries, Maxxsaver bulk carts, Electronics, Beauty, Gifting
- Membership
- Swiggy One
Instamart added 69 stores in July–September 2026. Its stores added up to 4.92 million sq ft at 30 June 2026.
Instamart orders, sales and users
- Gross order value of ₹9,230 crore in July–September 2026, up 31% year on year.
- Contribution margin broke even in May 2026 but was −1.0% of GOV in July–September 2026, with an adjusted EBITDA loss of ₹895 crore.
- About 412.2 million orders in FY26.
- Each Instamart store handled about 1,093 orders a day in January–March 2026, the fewest of the big three. Instamart added 122 stores in FY26.
Orders per store per day is an outside estimate, not a company figure. It shows how busy each store is, not how many people use the app.
Instamart customer care, jobs, selling and franchise
- Instamart customer care and complaints
- How to sell on Instamart
- Dark store jobs and pay
- Dark store franchise across apps
Instamart’s orders, losses and store openings come out each quarter in Instamart results by quarter.
Instamart vs Blinkit, Zepto and other apps
Questions people ask about Swiggy Instamart
How many dark stores does Swiggy Instamart have?
The company’s own last figure was 1,240 (30 Sep 2026).