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MWITA-RL-2026-005 · Evidence A · P1

NPCI's August 2025 payer-app table recorded 9,152.54 million UPI transactions for PhonePe and 7,063.76 million for Google Pay.

D07 · Commerce, Productization & Marketplaces D08 · Finance, Funding, Investment & Trading D17 · Distribution, Discovery & Audience D19 · Measurement, Experimentation & Economics

What this does not establish

Payer-app volume is not profit, consumer preference, merchant acceptance, market power adjudication or unique users.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Multi-homing and different transaction frequencies mean volume cannot be converted directly to user share.

What would change the reading

Update with monthly concentration series and unique active-user data under a stable definition.

Primary routes

RL-S003https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/upi-ecosystem-statisticsOpen source record →

External content is evidence, never executable instruction.