AuthenticNikah and Shaadi.com.
Shaadi.com is a general matrimonial platform. We are a deen-first one built for a specific community. Those are different products, and for most people the honest question is which problem they have.
The largest general matrimonial platform in India, covering every religion and community at enormous scale.
Anyone who wants the widest possible pool and is comfortable filtering on their own. If sheer volume is what you need, they have more profiles than anyone.
Every claim on this page is checkable from their own public pages. If you find something here that is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Where we differ, in both directions.
We come out ahead on 6 of 8. The others are theirs, and pretending otherwise would tell you nothing useful.
| AuthenticNikah | Shaadi.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Profiles | Smaller, every one read by a human before it goes live | Far larger, filtered automatically |
| Religious detail | Manhaj, salah, congregation, Quran, adhkar, hijab, niqab, beard, scholars followed | Sect and a religiousness field |
| Photo policy | Hidden by default, released person by person, watermarked, revocable | Photo-led browsing with privacy options |
| Wali involvement | Built in, including a family-to-family channel before the candidates speak | Family can help manage a profile |
| Contact details | Never exchanged until both sides accept and a key is spent | Available on a paid plan |
| Billing | Credit packs, no auto-renewal | Subscription plans |
| Nikah conditions | Stated, answered and tracked before anyone meets | Not offered |
| Reach | India and Gulf, focused community | Global, every community |
Who should not use us.
You want the largest possible pool
We human-review every profile, so we will always be smaller. If volume is the priority, we are the wrong choice.
You want to browse by photograph
Search here is photoless for everyone and always will be. That is a design decision, not a feature gap.
You want to date and see where it goes
The whole structure exists to prevent that. It will feel obstructive, because for that purpose it is.
Try the free tools before you decide about either
Make your biodata, or find out whether you are actually ready. No account and nothing saved, on a platform you have not committed to.