Upgrade advisor
Upgrade when something is failing,
not when something newer exists.
We weigh the real gain against the net cost after trade-in and the age of what you own. For most two-year-old devices the honest answer is to keep it, and this will say so.
How the answer is worked out
- What actually gets better. Both products are compared area by area — performance, camera, battery, display and the rest. A gain of fewer than 12 points out of 100 in an area is treated as one you would not notice, so it does not count in favour of upgrading.
- What it really costs. The new one is priced at today's best price, after any card offer. What yours would sell for is estimated from how fast that kind of device loses value over three years and how old yours is — two years unless you tell us otherwise — and taken off.
- How old yours is. Age adds pressure to upgrade a little at a time, reaching its full weight at five years.
- The score. Those three are weighed 45% for the improvement, 35% for how much improvement each ₹10,000 of the net cost buys, and 20% for age, into a score out of 10. A low score means keep what you have, and the advisor says so.
Scores come from each product's specification sheet and price, the same ones shown on its product page, so two products without scores cannot be compared here.
Straight answers
Questions people ask
4 answered here. Tap one to open it — every answer is written out in full, not summarised.
01When is upgrading actually worth it?
When what you own is failing or genuinely cannot do what you need, rather than when something newer exists. The advisor weighs the real gain against the net cost after trade-in and the age of what you already own, and for most two-year-old devices it will tell you to keep it.
02What does net cost mean here?
The price of the new device minus what the old one is worth, so that two upgrades costing the same to buy are not treated as costing the same. Trade-in value is modelled from a resale figure and the age of your device — it is an estimate, not a quote from a retailer, and a shop may offer less.
03Will it ever tell me not to buy anything?
Yes, and that is its most common answer. A recommendation to keep what you own earns this site nothing, which is exactly why it is worth printing.
04What does it compare — specifications or scores?
Both, ranked by how much you gain for each rupee of net spend. A newer chip that only shows up in a benchmark is not a gain; a battery that lasts a working day when the old one does not is, and the ranking is built to tell those two apart.