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Groww Brokerage Calculator

Groww's delivery pricing has three moving parts most people miss: a percentage, a cap, and a floor. You pay whichever is lower out of twenty rupees or 0.1% of order value — but never less than five. That floor reshapes small orders dramatically while capping large ones early. Enter both legs of your trade to see exactly where your order size lands, with every statutory levy and the depository charge itemised alongside.

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How to use this calculator

  1. Enter buy-side turnover for the order you are planning.
  2. Add sell-side turnover when you exit — each leg is a separate executed order.
  3. Check where brokerage lands: percentage zone below ₹5,000 orders, cap zone above ₹20,000.
  4. Note the DP line on sells; Groww waives its share entirely under hundred-rupee debits.
  5. Compare against zero-brokerage rivals using the same turnover before deciding where the trade belongs.

The formula behind it

Per executed order, brokerage equals max(min(0.1% × order value, ₹20), ₹5). Three regimes follow: orders under five thousand rupees pay the ₹5 floor (a steep percentage in disguise); between five and twenty thousand the 0.1% rate applies cleanly; beyond twenty thousand the twenty-rupee ceiling flattens everything. On top sit the universal levies — STT 0.1% each side, exchange fees at ₹2.97 per lakh plus IPFT's paisa-per-lakh, SEBI's ten-per-crore, 0.015% stamp duty on buys, eighteen percent GST on the broker-revenue stack — and a sell-side DP charge of roughly twenty rupees that vanishes for tiny debit values.

Worked example

A first-time investor splits an entry into four orders of ₹4,000 each rather than one ₹16,000 order, assuming splitting saves money on a percentage-only model. Her friend insists batching is cheaper on Groww. Both run their versions here.

Inputs used in this worked example
Split plan4 orders × ₹4,000
Batched plan1 order × ₹16,000

Step by step

  1. Split: each order floors at ₹5 → 4 × ₹5 = ₹20 buying brokerage
  2. Batched: 0.1% of ₹16,000 = ₹16 buying brokerage
  3. Statutory levies are identical in both paths
  4. Difference: ₹4 extra per leg, ₹8 across the round trip

The batched order wins by about eight rupees overall — small money today, but the pattern scales: floors quietly tax fragmentation, which is why this calculator prices your actual order count, not just value.

Frequently asked questions

Why is there a minimum charge at all?

The ₹5 floor covers execution economics on tiny orders where 0.1% would be paise. It only binds below ₹5,000 per order — above that, the percentage takes over naturally until the ₹20 cap arrives.

When does Groww waive the DP charge?

When a sell's debit value falls below ₹100, Groww drops its own fee and only the depository's ₹3.50 (or ₹3.25) applies with GST. Micro-exits are therefore nearly free on that line; anything normal pays the full ~₹20.

Does Groww charge AMC?

No annual maintenance charge currently applies to the demat and trading account, which matters for investors who park positions for years — recurring costs can outweigh per-trade differences.

How does this compare with Zerodha for large orders?

Above twenty thousand rupees per order, Groww earns ₹20 per order while Zerodha earns nothing on delivery — so large single trades favour Zerodha by forty rupees per round trip, before considering each platform's other features.

Floors, caps, and the shape between them

Every capped-percentage structure draws a distinctive cost curve: steep at the start where the floor dominates, linear through the middle where the percentage rules, flat after the cap bites. Groww's version puts those kinks at ₹5,000 and ₹20,000 per order. Knowing which zone your typical ticket occupies tells you instantly whether order-splitting helps (never, inside the floor zone), hurts (mildly), or is irrelevant (past the cap). The calculator makes the zone visible by pricing any hypothetical size you type.

Sellers should also watch the interplay between the floor and the DP waiver. Exiting a ₹60 position pays no Groww DP component, making micro-profit-taking unusually cheap; exiting ₹6,000 triggers the full twenty-rupee line. Neither is wrong — but strategies built on frequent small harvests versus rare large exits experience genuinely different schedules, and pretending otherwise leads to bill shock at settlement.

Where Groww fits in a multi-broker life

Plenty of Indian investors hold two accounts deliberately: one zero-delivery platform for long-term accumulation, one capped-percentage account where intraday or F&O economics dominate. Groww's schedule straddles both worlds — delivery priced like a trader's tool, F&O at a familiar flat twenty — so its competitiveness depends entirely on which behaviour dominates your month. Run last quarter's actual orders through the comparison table on the parent page; ten minutes of data beats a year of advertising.

Finally, keep the AMC-free feature in perspective. For a portfolio left untouched for years, avoiding a few hundred rupees of annual maintenance compounds into real money relative to trade-cost differences that may total tens of rupees annually. Cost optimisation is portfolio-specific arithmetic — precisely what pages like this one exist to make concrete.

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Last updated . Figures are re-verified against official sources on every revision — see our methodology.

Disclaimer

Brokerage schedules, statutory levies, and DP charges are set by each broker and the exchanges, and they are revised without notice. Figures shown are estimates for education and planning only. We are not SEBI-registered investment advisers and nothing on this site is investment advice. Always cross-check the broker's latest pricing page before relying on a cost estimate here.