Mutual Funds in India
Compare every scheme by returns, risk, cost and holdings — with our own quality tier on each fund, so a ranking tells you something beyond last year's winner.
- Funds:
- 1,920
- Fund houses:
- 51
- Total AUM:
- ₹76.47 Lakh Cr
What do you want to do?
- Grow long termWhat compounds over 5–10 years?569 funds
- Park cashWhere do I keep money for days or weeks?235 funds
- Save taxWhich ELSS fund, and what is the lock-in?59 funds
- Steady, lower riskIncome with less volatility than equity?372 funds
- Precious metalsHow do I hold gold or silver?46 funds
- Low-cost indexCheapest way to track an index?363 funds
- Retirement & childrenSaving for retirement or a child’s education?42 funds
Mutual fund FAQs
How should I start choosing a mutual fund?
Start from what you are trying to do rather than from a list of funds. Parking money for a few weeks, compounding for ten years, and saving tax are different problems with different fund types — and the numbers are not comparable across them. The groups on this page separate those questions.
Why do you not show one single list of top funds?
Because a single ranking mixes things that cannot be compared. A gold fund-of-fund tracking a metal price and a large-cap equity fund will sit next to each other with wildly different returns, and neither number tells you anything about the other. Each group here is ranked on the measure that actually matters for it.
How many mutual funds are there in India?
There are roughly 1,700 open-ended fund variants available as Direct-plan Growth options, spread across SEBI’s equity, debt, hybrid, solution-oriented and other categories. Counting every plan and option variant separately gives a much larger number, because one fund can have Direct/Regular and Growth/IDCW versions.