Is groww.in safe?
http://groww.in/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Groww is a long-established Indian investment platform with clean security checks but a steady stream of user complaints about pricing errors, failed trades and unhelpful support
groww.in is the storefront of Groww, an Indian online investing service offering stocks, ETFs, IPOs, mutual funds and margin trading, run by Nextbillion Technology Private Limited and its group companies. The domain is over ten years old, the connection is encrypted, and no security engine flagged it. What pulls the score below the Safe band is the operator side: reviewers describe incorrect exit prices, abnormal price swings, failed report downloads and scripted or unresponsive support. That is a service-quality and dispute-handling problem rather than evidence of fraud, so the site lands in Low Risk rather than High Risk.
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The exit price was shown incorrectly, even going far beyond my actual capital. Prices were fluctuating abnormally within seconds, making normal ... I have…"
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Consumers report mostly dissatisfied experiences, frequent customer service failures, requests for refunds, and comments that price level is high."
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "I have been trying to download/view my F&O report for the financial year 2024-2025, and every single time the app throws an error saying "Something went wrong"…"
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 3871 days old, consistent with an established brand rather than a throwaway site.
- SupportsZero malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
groww.in is the storefront of Groww, an Indian online investing service offering stocks, ETFs, IPOs, mutual funds and margin trading, run by Nextbillion Technology Private Limited and its group companies. The domain is over ten years old, the connection is encrypted, and no security engine flagged it. What pulls the score below the Safe band is the operator side: reviewers describe incorrect exit prices, abnormal price swings, failed report downloads and scripted or unresponsive support. That is a service-quality and dispute-handling problem rather than evidence of fraud, so the site lands in Low Risk rather than High Risk.
A real brokerage platform, not a lookalike
The site's own terms describe Groww Services as stockbroking, demat accounts, mutual funds, UPI payments and margin funding, delivered by the company or its affiliates. The homepage leads with Stocks and an ETF screener, and the terms define the operator as Nextbillion Technology Private Limited together with its holding, subsidiary and group companies.
The commercial path is ordinary for a broker: a margin calculator, a pricing page for brokerage and charges, a buy-now-pay-later margin trading product, and IPO subscription instructions. The only outbound links in the reviewed material point to the Indian market regulator and to the company's own payments domain, not to unrelated third-party funnels.
Clean technical checks, weaker operator record
Nothing technical stood out. The registrable domain is 3871 days old, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the browser threat feed returned no warning, and 93 security engines reported zero malicious and zero suspicious detections. None of that speaks to how the service treats customers once money is on the platform.
The adverse evidence is customer experience. One reviewer says the exit price was displayed incorrectly, even exceeding their actual capital, with prices fluctuating abnormally within seconds, and that screenshots and recordings submitted as proof were not properly considered. Another review summary describes mostly dissatisfied experiences, frequent customer service failures and refund requests. A third account describes repeated errors when trying to download an F&O report for the 2024-2025 financial year.
These are complaints about reliability and dispute handling, not reports of stolen funds, fake withdrawals or impersonation. They justify caution about relying on the platform for time-sensitive trades and about how quickly problems get resolved, but they do not establish a scam mechanism.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 62 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 31 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Clean
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBrokerage/Trading, Finance
- BitDefenderfinancial
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekeronline brokerage and trading
- Sophosstocks and trading
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Groww your wealth
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Groww your wealth
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Groww - Online Demat, Trading and Direct Mutual Fund Investment in India
- Meta description
Start Online Investing in Stocks & Direct Mutual Funds with India's No. 1 Stock Broker - Groww. Equity Trading, F&O, Direct Mutual Funds with Zero-commission & 24x7 support.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-and-conditions-growwRead
- Refund / returns policy/calculators/mutual-fund-returns-calculatorRead
- Pricing/pricingRead
- Support / FAQ/helpRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Groww - Online Demat, Trading and Direct Mutual Fund Investment in India
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 62 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Financial Service
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 3871 days old, consistent with an established brand rather than a throwaway site.
- 02Zero malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no Safe Browsing warning, and a valid encrypted connection.
- 03The terms name Nextbillion Technology Private Limited and its group companies as the operator of the broking, demat and mutual fund services.
Web research findings
Independent findings for groww.in, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Trustpilotopen
"The exit price was shown incorrectly, even going far beyond my actual capital. Prices were fluctuating abnormally within seconds, making normal ... I have real-time screenshots and screen recordings clearly proving these issues, but they were not properly considered."
- PissedConsumeropen
"Consumers report mostly dissatisfied experiences, frequent customer service failures, requests for refunds, and comments that price level is high."
- LinkedInopen
"I have been trying to download/view my F&O report for the financial year 2024-2025, and every single time the app throws an error saying "Something went wrong" while the browser says "Opps! Unable to fetch data"."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domaingroww.in
- Redirects togroww.in
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesplus.google.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 1, 2016Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 6, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
groww.in has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (grievances@groww.in).
- Phone number listed (417-2019).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for *.groww.in.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://groww.in/
- 2206https://groww.in/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The exit price was shown incorrectly, even going far beyond my actual capital. Prices were fluctuating abnormally within seconds, making normal ... I have…" · 3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Consumers report mostly dissatisfied experiences, frequent customer service failures, requests for refunds, and comments that price level is high."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 5, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 5, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is groww.in a scam or is it safe?
Is groww.in safe to use?
Has groww.in been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is groww.in on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the groww.in domain?
Does groww.in have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is groww.in hosted?
Is groww.in a well-known website?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Groww is a long-established Indian investment platform with clean security checks but a steady stream of user complaints about pricing errors, failed trades and unhelpful support
groww.in is the storefront of Groww, an Indian online investing service offering stocks, ETFs, IPOs, mutual funds and margin trading, run by Nextbillion Technology Private Limited and its group companies. The domain is over ten years old, the connection is encrypted, and no security engine flagged it. What pulls the score below the Safe band is the operator side: reviewers describe incorrect exit prices, abnormal price swings, failed report downloads and scripted or unresponsive support. That is a service-quality and dispute-handling problem rather than evidence of fraud, so the site lands in Low Risk rather than High Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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