Quick Commerce
India is the leading real-world proof point for quick commerce at scale: the sector is estimated at $5-5.4 billion in 2025, growing roughly 17% that year -- the fastest of any major market -- with Blinkit (part of Eternal Limited, formerly Zomato) holding an estimated 45%-50% share ahead of Zepto and Swiggy Instamart at roughly 20%-25% each. Blinkit's own Q4 FY26 results (reported April 2026) show net order value of INR14,386 crore, up 95.4% year-on-year, across 2,243 dark stores, and mark the first quarter the business turned consolidated EBITDA-positive -- illustrating how long dark-store unit economics can take to mature even for the category leader. India's dark-store count across all operators is projected to reach 5,000-5,500 by fiscal year 2025-26 as competition intensifies.
What this market includes.
The precise boundary of this market and what has deliberately been excluded from it.
Market definition
Quick commerce (q-commerce) is on-demand delivery of groceries and everyday convenience items, typically within 10-30 minutes, fulfilled from dense networks of small local "dark stores" rather than large regional warehouses. It is a fast-growing subsector of E-commerce, currently most developed in India and parts of Southeast Asia.
Scope and exclusions
Included: dark-store-fulfilled grocery and convenience delivery apps (Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart in India; similar formats elsewhere). Excluded: restaurant food delivery (a related but separate GMV category, even where operated by the same parent company, as with Zomato/Eternal), and standard e-commerce delivery on a next-day or multi-day timeline.
How big it is, and where it is going.
Historical growth, the current market estimate, and forecast scenarios -- shown as ranges, not false precision.
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What is driving it, on both sides.
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Who buys, who competes, who leads.
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Customer segments
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Competitive landscape
Blinkit (Eternal Limited) leads India's quick-commerce market with an estimated 45%-50% share, ahead of Zepto and Swiggy Instamart at roughly 20%-25% each; all three are aggressively expanding dark-store counts (India-wide, approximately 2,525 dark stores across 100+ cities as of October 2025, projected to reach 5,000-5,500 by fiscal year 2025-26). Globally, the format is still nascent outside India and Southeast Asia, with the broader global quick-commerce market estimated at roughly $74-79 billion in 2024-2025 by one research house, alongside materially different estimates from others -- see Data limitations.
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Leading companies
How value moves, and who captures it.
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Unit economics
Quick commerce carries some of the most capital-intensive unit economics in e-commerce: dense dark-store networks and fast delivery windows require sustained capital spending well ahead of profitability. Blinkit reached consolidated EBITDA-positive status only in Q4 FY26 (reported April 2026) despite already operating over 2,000 dark stores and growing order value nearly 100% year-on-year, underscoring how long the model takes to mature even for the market leader.
What is changing the rules.
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Where this market is concentrated.
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What sits next to this market.
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Where the openings are, and where to stop.
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Market-entry opportunities
- Non-grocery category expansion (pharmacy, electronics accessories) within already-dense dark-store networks.
- Dark-store-as-a-service or shared-infrastructure models for smaller regional players unable to fund their own network.
Barriers to entry
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Risks
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What has just happened.
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Related markets.
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Related markets
Sources and review.
Every important figure on this page is traceable to a dated source. This page was last human-reviewed on 2026-07-15.
Data limitations
Global quick-commerce market-size figures vary enormously by research house -- from roughly $74-79 billion (2024-2025) in one report to a very different scale in others -- reflecting immature, inconsistent category definitions this early in the format's global rollout; India-specific figures cited here (market size, growth rate) come from industry market-research estimates rather than a single official government statistical source, since India's government retail statistics do not yet break out quick commerce as its own category. Company-level figures (Blinkit's order value, store count) are Eternal Limited's own audited disclosures and are the most reliable numbers on this page.
Methodology
This subsector page combines one listed company's own shareholder-letter disclosures (Eternal Limited/Blinkit) with third-party market-research estimates for category-wide sizing, and intentionally covers fewer modules than the parent E-commerce pillar page per this site's tiered depth approach for subsector pages. Last compiled 2026-07-15.