Each Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto, Blinkit and Instamart receipt adds fees on top of the price of your food or groceries, and each app shows those fees one order at a time. DineProfile reads every receipt back to your oldest order and adds up each kind of fee, so you can see how much you’ve paid in platform fees alone, how much in delivery fees, and how the fees on an average order have changed from year to year.
The fees on a delivery app receipt
The names vary a little from app to app. DineProfile groups the fees on your receipts into these kinds:
- Delivery fees pay for bringing the order to you. A membership or an offer often waives the delivery fee, and the report counts a waived delivery fee as a saving.
- Platform fees are a fixed amount the app adds to each order.
- Packaging is the restaurant’s charge for packing your food.
- Handling fees are what grocery apps such as Zepto, Blinkit and Instamart add to each order. The grocery fees guide covers those apps’ fees in detail.
- Small-cart fees apply when an order is below the app’s minimum amount.
- Rain and late-night fees apply in bad weather, at busy times or late at night.
Taxes are a separate line on your report. Some receipts put taxes and the restaurant’s packaging charge on one line, and your report keeps that combined line as one amount.
What your report shows about fees
- The total you’ve paid in fees, and the total for each kind of fee, with the number of orders that carried each kind.
- Your first platform fee: which app charged that fee, on what date and how much. Next to your first platform fee is your latest platform fee and the number of orders you’ve paid a platform fee on.
- A chart of the fees on an average order, month by month, with the platform fee’s share marked on each month, so you can see when fees went up.
- The fees an app waived, such as free delivery, counted as savings.
- The orders behind every fee. Tap any fee on your report to see the orders that carried that fee.
How platform fees have grown
Swiggy started charging a ₹2 platform fee on food orders in a few cities in April 2023, and Zomato started with ₹2 in August 2023. Both apps raised their platform fees many times over the next three years. By October 2024 Zomato’s platform fee was ₹10, and in September 2025 Swiggy raised its platform fee three times in three weeks, to ₹15 an order. In March 2026 Swiggy’s platform fee became ₹17.58 an order including GST, and Zomato’s platform fee became ₹14.90 before GST, which comes to the same ₹17.58 with GST. The platform fee can differ by city and by day.
Sources: Business Today on Swiggy’s first platform fee, Storyboard18 on Zomato’s increases to ₹10, Business Today on Swiggy’s September 2025 increases and Republic on the March 2026 fees.
Your report shows your own first platform fee and your latest platform fee, so you can see how much the fee grew on your orders.
GST on food delivery orders
- Restaurant food ordered through an app has carried 5% GST since 1 January 2022, and the app collects and pays that GST.
- The platform fee carries 18% GST.
- Delivery charges on app orders carry 18% GST since 22 September 2025.
Sources: ClearTax on GST for food delivery apps and the government’s GST FAQ of September 2025.
How to check fees in the apps yourself
Open any past order in Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto, Blinkit or Instamart and open the order’s bill. The bill lists that order’s fees and taxes. To find a total, you would need to open every order and add up each fee by hand. Someone who orders twice a week has more than 100 bills a year to add up.
Questions
How much platform fee have I paid on Swiggy and Zomato?
Connect Swiggy and Zomato to DineProfile. Your report adds up the platform fee on every receipt, and the report shows the first platform fee you paid and the latest platform fee you paid.
What is the platform fee on Swiggy and Zomato now?
As of March 2026, news reports put both apps’ platform fee at ₹17.58 an order including GST. The fee can differ by city and by day, and the bill of each order shows the platform fee you paid.
Does DineProfile count tips and taxes as fees?
No. Tips and taxes have their own lines on your report, so the fees total covers only the fees the apps and restaurants charged.
Can I see the fees on Zepto and Blinkit orders too?
Yes. DineProfile reads receipts from Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto, Blinkit and Instamart, including the handling fees, small-cart fees and late-night fees that grocery apps charge.
How far back does DineProfile read my receipts?
As far back as each app shows your orders. Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto and Blinkit show orders back to your oldest order. From what we’ve seen, Instamart shows only the past year.