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Research on independent gyms in India

How independent Indian gyms really run — payments, software, retention, entry hardware and GST — from GymSetora's own benchmark of gym owners, with the sample, method and limits published next to every figure.

Research · 2026State of independent gyms in India 2026Benchmark of 50 independent gyms in Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune: UPI vs static QR, registers vs software, 90-day dropout, biometric failures and GST invoices.Read the report

How we do research

Gym-level answers from owners only, aggregated. No member names, phone numbers, payments or attendance records.
No gym is named, and every figure states who it is a share of.
Estimates and differences between groups are labelled as such, with their limits.
Third-party market figures link to their source with the date we read it.
Free to quote with credit and a link to the report.

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