Search your city for today's CNG, PNG, LPG cylinder and Auto Gas prices (INR) and a per-city cost comparison. Updated daily from official city gas distributors and aggregators.
LPG updated 2 Sep, 7:00 AM · next revision 1 Oct 2026 · CNG/PNG revised irregularly by your local CGD operator
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₹/kg, ₹/SCM and ₹/litre can't be compared directly. Converting each to cost per kWh of usable energy is the only fair comparison, for Delhi, not your city?
PNG (₹4.68/kWh) works out cheaper than LPG (₹4.81/kWh) here, about 3% less per unit of energy, on top of PNG's convenience and safety advantages.
Energy content used: LPG 13.8 kWh/kg, CNG 13.1 kWh/kg, PNG 10.6 kWh/SCM, Auto LPG 6.9 kWh/litre, petrol 9.7 kWh/litre (reference only). Computed per city from that city's own prices, not a national average. Both gas types can move at their next revision — LPG monthly, CNG/PNG whenever their CGD operator revises.
CNG, or Compressed Natural Gas, is sold by the kilogram, priced by whichever city gas distribution (CGD) company holds the license for your area. There's no single national rate: each CGD company sets its own price based on local network costs and state taxes, so it varies city by city.
PNG, or Piped Natural Gas, reaches homes through underground pipelines and is billed by the standard cubic metre (SCM). Whether it's cheaper than LPG per unit of energy now depends on your city: 2026's LPG price revisions closed a gap that used to favour PNG almost everywhere, so in some cities (like Delhi) the two now cost about the same per kWh, while PNG still runs cheaper in others. See the energy comparison above for your own city's actual numbers. What PNG reliably offers regardless of price is convenience (no cylinder booking or delivery wait) and safety (no cylinder to store).
The LPG price shown is for the standard domestic 14.2 kg cylinder. State-owned oil marketing companies set it monthly, and it shifts from city to city depending on local delivery and logistics costs plus state VAT.
Auto LPG is LPG's automotive-grade version, sold at retail outlets as a vehicle fuel and priced per litre. It costs less than petrol litre for litre, though mileage runs a bit lower, so how much you actually save depends on your vehicle's specific LPG conversion setup.
PNG (₹4.68/kWh) works out cheaper than LPG (₹4.81/kWh) here, about 3% less per unit of energy, on top of PNG's convenience and safety advantages.
There's no single national price. Each city gas distribution (CGD) company - IGL in Delhi NCR, MNGL around Pune, and 300+ others licensed city-by-city - sets its own retail price based on its network costs, gas procurement, and transport. Natural gas also sits outside GST, so each state's VAT applies on top and varies the final price further, the same way petrol and diesel differ state to state.
India ended universal LPG subsidy years ago - the price shown here is what everyone pays at delivery, non-subsidised. The one exception is Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries, who still get a Direct Benefit Transfer of ₹300 credited to their bank account per cylinder, for up to 12 refills a year, AFTER paying the full price - it lowers the effective cost after the fact, not the price charged at the door.
LPG cylinder prices are revised once a month, on the 1st, by the state-owned oil marketing companies. CNG and PNG have no fixed schedule - each CGD operator revises its own price whenever its costs (gas procurement, network expenses) or the state's VAT rate change, which can mean weeks or months between revisions. This page checks for updates daily and only ever shows a "last revised" date it has actually observed, never a predicted one for CNG/PNG.
All three, CNG, PNG and LPG, are versions of the same basic fuel, natural gas or a gas blend, adapted for different uses. CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) is natural gas squeezed to a high pressure and stored in a cylinder, used mainly to run cars, autos and buses. PNG (Piped Natural Gas) is the same natural gas delivered continuously through underground pipes straight into a home or business, most often for cooking, so there's no cylinder to book or store. LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is a different gas blend, mainly propane and butane, compressed into liquid form and sold in a portable cylinder, the everyday cooking gas most Indian households already know. Auto LPG is that same LPG sold separately as a vehicle fuel at select pumps, a lower-volume alternative to CNG. All of them broadly track international crude oil and natural gas prices, though each moves on its own schedule rather than in lockstep.
CNG and PNG in most Indian cities are supplied by a City Gas Distribution (CGD) company that holds the exclusive license for that area, Mahanagar Gas in Mumbai, Indraprastha Gas in Delhi, and so on, and each CGD sets its own retail price based on its own network and gas-sourcing costs, which is exactly why the same fuel costs a different amount in different cities. There's no single fixed national CNG or PNG rate the way this can feel like there should be. LPG works differently: the standard domestic cylinder is priced by the state-owned oil marketing companies and revised on a monthly cycle, with the government providing a subsidy on a limited number of cylinders per household per year, which is why the price paid can differ from the market rate. None of the three follows a fixed public revision calendar the way petrol and diesel do (revised daily); a CGD or oil company changes its price whenever its own costs shift meaningfully.
Because CNG is priced per kilogram, PNG per standard cubic metre and LPG per cylinder or per kilogram, comparing the sticker prices directly is misleading, a fair comparison has to convert each to cost per unit of actual usable energy, which is exactly what this page's own city comparison table does. As a rough real-world guide, CNG is usually meaningfully cheaper than petrol per kilometre driven for a car that can use either, which is the whole economic case for converting a vehicle to CNG in the first place, and this page's payback calculator turns that into an actual number for a specific vehicle and city. Between PNG and LPG for home cooking, PNG tends to work out cheaper for a household that cooks often and stays in the same home long-term, since it skips both the cylinder deposit and the delivery wait, while LPG stays the simpler option for anyone renting or moving between homes.
There's no real "buy low" window for any of these the way there sometimes is for produce, gas prices don't follow a predictable seasonal cycle, they move when a CGD operator or an oil marketing company decides its own costs justify a change, which can happen at any point in the year. The one genuinely actionable timing advice is about your own subsidised LPG cylinder quota: since the subsidy applies to a capped number of cylinders a year, spacing refills to avoid running out of subsidised cylinders before the year resets is worth tracking if that benefit matters to your budget. Beyond that, the practical move is simply checking this page before a CNG fill-up or a new LPG connection decision, since price gaps between neighbouring cities or between LPG and PNG for your own usage pattern are usually a bigger saving than trying to time any single purchase.
Commuting impact: For auto and cab drivers running on CNG, fuel is one of the largest daily costs, so even a moderate CNG price rise cuts directly into take-home earnings on a route that's often already fare-capped by regulation, and fare revisions to reflect a fuel-cost change typically lag well behind the actual price move, leaving drivers absorbing the gap in the meantime. For an ordinary CNG car owner, the calculus is simpler but real: a sustained price rise shrinks the per-kilometre saving that made converting to CNG worthwhile in the first place, though CNG has typically stayed cheaper than petrol by enough of a margin that it usually remains the better option even after a price bump.
Economic impact: Because natural gas and LPG both move with international energy prices, a global spike shows up in Indian city gas prices too, and since transport and cooking costs feed into the price of nearly everything else, a sustained rise in gas prices is one of the inputs that can add to broader inflation, the kind of pressure the Reserve Bank of India watches when setting interest rate policy. Local logistics and delivery businesses running CNG fleets feel a price rise as a direct cost increase, one that gets passed on to customers with a lag rather than instantly, part of why prices for everyday goods and services can keep drifting up for a while even after a specific fuel cost has stabilised.
Decision-making impact: Converting a personal car to CNG is generally worth it for anyone driving a meaningful distance regularly, the more kilometres driven per month, the faster the conversion kit pays for itself purely from fuel savings, which is exactly what this page's payback calculator is built to estimate for a specific vehicle and driving pattern. Choosing between PNG and LPG for a home is less about price alone and more about how settled the living situation is: PNG's lower running cost only pays off over a longer stretch in one place, so it suits an owned home far more than a short-term rental, where LPG's simplicity and lack of installation still wins out.
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