WeWork India Prices: What a Day Pass, a Desk and a Cabin Actually Cost

WeWork does not publish a price list, which is why thousands of people a month search for what one costs. So here are the numbers, taken from the 95 WeWork centres listed on Dexwork across Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad.

These are quoted rates from live listings. They move with the building, the floor and how empty the centre is, so treat them as the shape of the market rather than a rate card.

The headline numbers

City by city

Median price for a desk, per seat per month:

Note the spread inside a single city. Mumbai runs from ₹14,699 to ₹60,000 depending on whether you are in Andheri or in BKC. The city average tells you almost nothing. The building tells you everything.

How it compares with everyone else

The median coworking seat across all 2,600 plus coworking spaces on Dexwork is ₹8,000 a month. WeWork sits at ₹19,849, roughly 2.5 times that.

What the premium actually buys

• The buildings. WeWork takes Grade A towers in the best micro markets. If clients visit, the address does some of your selling.
• Consistency. A centre in Pune runs like a centre in Gurgaon. For a distributed team that is worth real money.
• All Access. One membership, any city, useful if your people travel.
• Things get fixed. Better wifi, better furniture, staff who deal with problems without being chased twice.

What is usually not included

Ask about each of these before you sign, because they are where the monthly bill grows:

• Meeting room hours past your monthly credit, at around ₹4,500 an hour
• Car parking, quoted separately in most towers
• Printing past a page allowance
• Air conditioning outside building hours
• GST at 18% on the whole invoice

When it is not worth it

For a ten person team, the gap between WeWork at ₹19,849 and a good local operator at ₹9,500 is ₹12.4 lakh a year. That is a senior hire, or eighteen months of runway extension on a small burn.

The honest test: would you say the name of your building to a customer? If it never comes up, you are paying for something nobody sees.

Four cheaper ways to get the same thing

1. Same building, different operator. Grade A towers usually house two or three. One International Centre in Lower Parel has both WeWork and Awfis in it, at very different prices.
2. Day passes for the days that matter. ₹399 when a client visits, something cheaper as your base.
3. Move one micro market. In Mumbai, BKC at a ₹22,999 median against Andheri East at ₹12,000 is about fifteen minutes on the road.
4. Negotiate. Published rates are opening positions, particularly for six seats or more on a twelve month term. Ask for the first month free, or for meeting room credits, if the rate will not move.

The short version

WeWork is a good product at a price that only makes sense when the address is doing work for you. If it is, take it. If your team just needs somewhere good to sit, the same quality is available at half the money one street away.

Compare for yourself: coworking spaces, day passes and managed offices across eleven cities.