Talabat Mart Grocery Price Index — Basket Cost by Branch 🛒

Track what a real grocery basket actually costs on Talabat Mart, compared across branches and cities. No other tool on the Store does this: everyone else scrapes raw product lists, this one turns those prices into a cost-of-living signal you can act on.

Give it a basket of staples (rice, oil, milk, eggs, bread, and whatever else you choose) and a list of branches, and it returns each branch's total basket price, ranks the cheapest, and shows the exact matched product and price for every item.

What you get, per location

• Branch identified automatically from any address, mall, or neighbourhood name, the same way you'd search delivery locations in the Talabat app
• A priced basket: for every item you asked for, the cheapest matching product's exact name, price, discount, stock status, and category
• A basket total, and a rank across all the branches you requested in the same run, cheapest first
• Optionally, the full catalog scanned at that branch (hundreds of real products with live prices), for broader price research beyond the basket

Who this is for

• Journalists and economists tracking real food-price inflation in MENA cities, run the same basket weekly or monthly and watch the total move
• Expats and residents comparing which branch or city is actually cheaper for everyday shopping
• FMCG brands and retailers doing competitive pricing research on Talabat Mart's assortment
• Researchers studying quick-commerce pricing across Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Jordan

How to use it

1. List the locations you want priced: a country (egypt, uae, kuwait, qatar, bahrain, oman, or jordan) and an area name for each, e.g. {"country": "egypt", "area": "Maadi, Cairo"}.
2. List the basket items you want priced, in English keywords. The default is a standard staples basket: rice, sunflower oil, sugar, eggs, milk, chicken breast, bread, tea, tomatoes, bananas.
3. Click Start. Each location becomes one row, with its full basket breakdown nested inside.

Output example

{
  "country": "egypt",
  "area": "Maadi, Cairo",
  "branchName": "talabat mart New Maadi",
  "currency": "EGP",
  "basketItemsFound": 10,
  "basketItemsRequested": 10,
  "basketTotal": 759.7,
  "isCheapestBranch": true,
  "priceRankAmongLocations": 1,
  "basket": [
    { "keyword": "rice", "matchedTitle": "Zaeem Rice, 1kg", "price": 40.95 },
    { "keyword": "milk", "matchedTitle": "Tom Oat Milk, 1L", "price": 114 }
  ]
}

How matching works, and its limits

Each keyword is matched to the cheapest real product whose title contains every word of that keyword as a whole word (so "tea" never matches inside "steak"), with basic plural handling ("tomato" matches "tomatoes" and back). For common fresh produce, the Actor prefers a match from the Fruit & Veg category over a processed item elsewhere (so "banana" prefers the fruit over banana-flavoured milk, when the fruit is in the scanned categories).

This is a best-effort keyword match, not a guarantee. At a given branch, the closest match to your keyword may occasionally be a processed or related product rather than the plain staple, especially if the branch happens to be out of stock on the plain item that day. Every row shows the exact matchedTitle that was priced, so you can always see precisely what was compared, and drop or override any item that doesn't look right for your use case.

Coverage and reliability

Talabat Mart requires a delivery location to be set before it shows prices, the same way the real app does. This Actor drives that step the same way a real shopper would, and uses residential proxy by default for consistency. A location that can't be resolved is reported with a clear status instead of failing your whole run.

Saudi Arabia and Iraq are not currently included; Talabat Mart's public web presence in KSA wasn't confirmed at build time.

Legal note

This Actor reads only prices Talabat shows publicly to any visitor, without logging in or placing an order. Prices change frequently and are shown as observed at run time. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable law and Talabat's terms. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Talabat or Delivery Hero.

Questions or a basket item that's not matching well?

Open an issue on the Issues tab. Requests for more countries, category filters, or scheduled price-tracking runs are welcome.