Best Android Phones in India at Every Budget (2026)

India’s best Android phone changes with the budget: the moto g37 power under ₹15,000, the Samsung Galaxy M17 5G up to ₹25,000, the motorola edge 70 fusion up to ₹40,000, the OnePlus Nord 6 up to ₹70,000 and the realme GT 8 Pro above that.

Prices are what each maker’s India store charges for the version named, before bank-card and exchange offers. OnePlus’s are the “from” figures on its store. Nothing and POCO are left out because their India sites print no prices. Two of the phones in the table at the end, the Galaxy A17 and A37, are ones Oscar Frank, who runs this site, bought and used. The comparison of this year’s Galaxy A phones has the detail.

Under ₹15,000

Choose the moto g37 power at ₹14,999, for its 7,000mAh battery and 30W charging. It is one of three 5G phones we found in stock under ₹15,000 on the makers’ stores. Motorola gives it a Dimensity 6400 chip, a 6.7-inch 120Hz LCD at HD+ resolution, IP64 and a microSD slot, and the 4GB+128GB version at ₹16,999 is worth the ₹2,000 if you keep photos on the phone. Motorola’s page states no update promise, which is its real weakness.

To keep a phone for years, look at the Redmi A7 Pro 5G at ₹14,499. Xiaomi promises four Android upgrades with six years of security updates, and gives it a 6.9-inch 120Hz screen and a card slot that takes up to 2TB. The ₹500 saved costs you battery, at 6,300mAh, and charging, at a slow 15W. 64GB fills quickly, so the 128GB version at ₹15,499 is worth the extra ₹1,000. The 4G Redmi A7 Pro saves another ₹500 and keeps the same screen, battery and update promise.

Skip the moto g37 at ₹14,499 and the vivo T5e at ₹13,999. The g37 saves ₹500 on the g37 power and gives up 1,800mAh of battery, with charging that tops out at 20W. For the price of the 4G Redmi, the T5e has a smaller 5,500mAh battery, a 90Hz screen and an 8MP rear camera, and vivo’s page states no update promise.

Samsung lists the 4G Galaxy A07 at ₹13,499 and marks it out of stock. Oscar bought and used the A07 and rates it fine as a first phone or a spare, and nothing more.

₹15,000 to ₹25,000

The Samsung Galaxy M17 5G with 6GB at ₹22,999 is what we would buy here. Samsung’s spec sheet gives it a Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen, a stabilised main camera, the Exynos 1330 and 5,000mAh, with six OS upgrades and six years of security updates. The 25W charger is sold separately.

The REDMI 17 5G at ₹23,999 is the battery choice: 7,900mAh, 45W charging with the charger in the box, 6GB of memory, and four years of OS updates with six of security. The compromise is the screen, a 6.9-inch panel at HD+ resolution.

Motorola lists the moto g57 power 5G at ₹21,999 and marks it out of stock in every colour. If it returns, it has a sharper screen than the Redmi’s, 8GB of memory and the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4, the chip Xiaomi puts in the ₹36,999 Note 17 Pro, but Motorola states no update promise for it.

The Redmi and the Samsung take a microSD card of up to 2TB. The phones with expandable memory page has more.

To stay under ₹20,000, get the same Galaxy M17 5G with 4GB at ₹19,999. Below that, the Samsung Galaxy F70e 5G at ₹18,499 has 128GB, a 6,000mAh battery, a 120Hz LCD and security updates that Samsung’s spec sheet dates to January 2032. The iQOO Z11 Lite 44W 5G at ₹19,999 has a 6,500mAh battery and 44W charging, if charging speed matters more than its HD+ LCD.

Three to leave on the shelf. OnePlus’s store sells the OnePlus N6 from ₹22,499, with an 8,000mAh battery and 45W charging but 4GB of memory and an HD+ LCD, and OnePlus’s page states no update promise. Samsung’s Galaxy A08 at ₹18,499 is 4G only, while Samsung’s own 5G Galaxy F70e costs the same. The Galaxy F17 5G at ₹23,499 has 4GB of memory on a spec sheet that otherwise matches the M17, which gives you 6GB for ₹500 less, and its own 6GB version, at ₹26,499, is out of stock.

₹25,000 to ₹40,000

Motorola gives the motorola edge 70 fusion, at ₹30,999, a 6.8-inch 144Hz AMOLED screen, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, 7,000mAh, 68W charging and an IP68 and IP69 rating. OnePlus puts the same chip in the Nord CE6, from ₹34,999. The weak point is the promise of three OS upgrades and five years of security patches.

Under ₹30,000, the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G at ₹27,999 is Oscar’s budget pick of the five Galaxy A phones bought and used this year, for the Super AMOLED screen and the stabilised main camera. Against the Motorola, which is ₹999 over that line, it has a 90Hz screen, 5,000mAh and 25W charging, and a longer promise of six years. On paper the 6GB M17 is the better deal, ₹5,000 less for what Samsung’s two spec sheets barely separate.

The REDMI Note 17 Pro 5G at ₹36,999 is the battery choice, at 9,000mAh with a 67W charger in the box. The realme P4 Pro 5G costs the same ₹30,999 as the Motorola, with 256GB, a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 and 80W charging, but its page states no update promise.

The Samsung Galaxy A27 5G at ₹35,999 is poor value. It costs ₹5,000 more than the Motorola with a 5,000mAh battery, 25W charging and an IP64 rating. It is one of the five Oscar bought, and the complaint was the same: 25W charging and a weaker water rating than the phone it replaced.

₹40,000 to ₹70,000

The OnePlus Nord 6 is also our pick under ₹50,000, from ₹44,999 on OnePlus’s store. OnePlus gives it a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, a 9,000mAh battery, 80W charging, a 165Hz AMOLED screen and 256GB of storage, with four Android upgrades and six years of security updates.

The Samsung Galaxy A37 5G at ₹46,999 is the phone Oscar recommends to almost everybody after buying and using all five Galaxy A phones, for the bright 120Hz screen, IP68 rating and 45W charging, and it has Samsung’s software with up to six OS upgrades. Against the Nord it has half the storage and a 5,000mAh battery.

Further up, the iQOO 15R with 12GB+256GB at ₹59,999 has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 with 7,600mAh, 100W charging and the same four-plus-six promise. If you want to keep a phone longest, the motorola signature, also ₹59,999, has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, 50W wireless charging, and seven OS updates with up to seven years of security updates.

We would not pay for the Samsung Galaxy A57 5G at ₹62,999. Oscar used the A57 and found it shares the A37’s battery, charging speed, water rating and update promise. OPPO’s store page prints no price for the Reno16c 5G, which has a Dimensity 7300-Energy chip, 7,000mAh and 80W charging, so we cannot weigh it against these.

Flagships above ₹70,000

The realme GT 8 Pro at ₹72,999, is our pick for the most hardware per rupee. It has the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 6.79-inch QHD+ 144Hz AMOLED screen, 7,000mAh, and 120W wired with 50W wireless charging. The OnePlus 15, from ₹84,999, and the iQOO 15, at ₹85,999, use the same chip. The catch is that realme’s page, like OnePlus’s, states no update promise.

Google and Samsung put seven years in writing: Google on the Pixel 11 at ₹89,999, and Samsung on the Galaxy S26 Ultra at ₹1,54,999, which adds a 200MP camera and an S Pen. The S26 line is covered in our write-up of Samsung’s range. The motorola signature, one band down, makes the same promise at ₹59,999.

Avoid the Samsung Galaxy S26 at ₹1,02,999. Its 4,300mAh battery is smaller than the ₹23,499 Galaxy F17’s, its 25W charging is no faster, and Samsung India sells it with the Exynos 2600 in place of a Snapdragon.

What you will actually pay

Often less, with the right card. Makers advertise “from” prices below what the store charges: OnePlus’s home page offers the Nord 6 from ₹42,999 “incl bank offers” against ₹44,999 on its store, and Xiaomi’s phones page starts the REDMI Note 17 Pro Max 5G at ₹45,999 against ₹49,999 in its store list, without saying why. Exchange bonuses for an old phone come on top, and festive sales move these prices from week to week. Compare phones at the store price first, then apply whatever your card gets.

Jio’s 5G bands

Jio’s 5G page says its network is standalone and uses the 700MHz band for indoor coverage. Samsung’s spec sheets label that band n28 and the 3500MHz band n78. Every 5G phone in the table below from Xiaomi, Motorola, realme, Google and Samsung’s A, F and M lines lists both.

Update promises, maker by maker

They differ more by phone than by brand. Samsung gives six OS upgrades and six years of security updates on the Galaxy M17, F17, A17 and A37, and seven of each on the S26 line. Google gives seven years on the Pixel 11. Xiaomi gives four and six on the phones above, but two and four on the cheaper Redmi 15C 5G. Motorola promises seven years on the signature and three upgrades and five years on the edge 70 fusion, and states nothing for the g37 power or g57 power.

The Nord 6 and iQOO 15R get four upgrades and six years. realme’s P4s 5G gets three years of OS updates and four of security patches. The pages for the OnePlus N6, OnePlus 15 and realme GT 8 Pro give no figure.

Every phone’s specs in one table

The phone we would buy at each budget is in bold.