Uber had added autos, to its app in April, but removed them in December. Uber says it has over 250,000 driver partners on its platform, and is available in 26 cities - its latest launches were in Ajmer, Jodhpur, Mangalore and Udaipur. 6,808 crores) in India by 2016, the company stated in an email. Uber began its India operations in 2013, and currently has over 200 full time employees, and plans to invest $1 billion (Rs. Another data point from the report shows that Ola's active users have decreased 12 percent while Uber's have gone up by 3 percent in the same period - however, none of the data that Uber has shared actually contradicts the numbers we're seeing, since it doesn't include the base figure being used to calculate the percentages.

This data shows that in terms of the number of new users added each month, the two apps are closer - Ola still has a lead, but it was ahead by 7.5 percent in July 2015, and is leading by 6.74 percent in current app installs in 2015. Instead, Uber shared information from app analytics platform Similarweb that compares the current install rates for the two apps. We also asked Uber to confirm the details about app installs, and although the company stated that it could not share specific data, it did not contradict the figures we shared. Ola also remarked that WhichApp's survey data does not track install data on TaxiForSure's app - Ola acquired TaxiForSure in March 2015, adding the cars and users from that service to its own platform. 'Immense availability and a wide range of mobility options for different use cases makes us the most preferred platform for millions,' says Anand Subramanian, Senior Director, Marketing Communications at Ola. The gap in iOS app installs might be smaller, or even skewed in the other direction, but according to Statista data for December, Android has a 64.32 percent share of the Indian market, while iOS is a mere 1.82 percent, so this gives a fairly clear picture of which app has been downloaded more in India. Ola says it has over 25 million customers in India, as of October 2015. The Ola app has been downloaded more than twice as much as Uber, according to a survey by WhichApp, based on app data of over 90,000 Android users from India.Īccording to Quettra's Asia data, which tracks installs on Android devices, Ola Cabs app installs lead Uber four to one as of the end of May 2015. The number of cars, the fares they offer, and of course, the number of customers on both platforms shows the difference between the two.Īpp install data seems to indicate that Ola has the lead in India. There are a number of different things to consider when comparing the two companies. Here's how the two companies stack up against each other. Uber's playbook hasn't seen it take a position of dominance in India, where Ola is providing real competition. 6,713 crores) in 2015 alone, valued at over $5 billion (approximately Rs.

It raised over $900 million (approximately Rs. Doing this, Uber has scaled globally to 67 countries and 360 cities, taking on governments and taxi unions around the world, and completing a billion rides by the end of 2015.īefore Uber arrived in India though, another company was able to implement a similar model here, and today, Ola is one of the most well-funded tech startups in India. Uber's business model depends on being the middleman between the taxi driver and the rider, and managing transactions on the app. It's hard to believe that a company whose only product is an app on your phone that calls taxis it doesn't even own, is valued at $62.5 billion (approximately Rs.

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