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Lead Rate Per Kg — 10-Day Movement
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Lead Rate Per Kg — Today's Figure
The lead rate per kg in India today comes to ₹165.53, built from a live per-gram benchmark of ₹0.17 on September 17, 2026. Getting from one to the other is just a multiplication by 1,000. What matters more is which figure people actually use — and for lead, it's the kilogram, not the gram, from the very first conversation.
Here's the conversion table at today's rate:
- 1 gram: ₹0.17
- 10 grams: ₹1.66
- 100 grams: ₹16.55
- 1 kilogram: ₹165.53
- 1 metric tonne: ₹165,528.00
One honest caveat: this is a benchmark rate, not a scrap invoice. A used-battery scrap dealer will quote you a lower number than this per kilogram, because their price already bakes in a discount for impurities, plate condition and their own smelting costs before that scrap becomes usable lead again.
Lead Rate Per Kg and Other Weight Units
Today's Lead rate is Less than One Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Lead costs Two Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹0.17 | Less than One Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹1.32 | One Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹1.66 | Two Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹16.55 | Seventeen Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹165.53 | One Hundred and Sixty Six Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹4.69 | Five Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹5.15 | Five Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹165,528.00 | One Lakh Sixty Five Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Eight Rupees |
Why the Per-Kg Framing Fits Lead So Naturally
Compare lead to gold for a moment. Gold gets priced per gram because people buy it in gram-sized quantities — a chain, a coin, a small bar. Lead has no equivalent. Nobody purchases a gram of lead for personal use, so there was never a reason for a per-gram retail convention to develop. The kilogram, and at true industrial scale the tonne, is the unit that shows up on an actual purchase order.
What actually moves under that per-kg number
Roughly two production paths feed the lead that eventually gets priced here. Primary lead comes from mined ore — often extracted alongside zinc, since the two metals frequently occur together in the same ore bodies, in countries including China, Australia, Peru, the United States and Mexico. Secondary lead comes from recycling, overwhelmingly from used lead-acid batteries, and this recycled stream makes up an unusually large share of total supply compared to most other metals tracked on this site.
That recycling-heavy structure is part of why the per-kg rate tends to behave in a fairly orderly way. A well-established collection and smelting network for used batteries means supply doesn't depend entirely on new mining output the way it might for a metal with little to no secondary-supply chain.
Lead Rate Per Kg — Last 10 Days
The most recent Lead price on record (2026-09-17) is Less than One Rupees per gram.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹0.16 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹0.16 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹0.16 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹0.16 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹0.17 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹0.17 | — |
Using This Rate as a Working Reference
If you're a scrap dealer, a small battery trader, or simply trying to understand why lead keeps showing up in industrial and automotive news, treat the per-kg rate here as an anchor rather than a final invoice figure. Real transactions layer freight, dealer margin and — for recycled material — a purity discount on top of this benchmark.
Demand for the underlying metal keeps coming overwhelmingly from one place: lead-acid batteries, both the automotive starter type under a car's bonnet and the larger stationary batteries used for backup and telecom power. That single, dominant use case is worth understanding on its own — the site's lead-acid batteries explained page covers exactly why this older battery chemistry has held its ground.
For the fuller trend behind today's number, the lead price history page carries the recorded data further back than the 10-day window shown above.
Lead Rate Per Kg — FAQs
The lead rate per kg in India today is ₹165.53, calculated from a live per-gram benchmark of ₹0.17 as of September 17, 2026. Multiply the per-gram figure by 1,000 and you land on the kilogram number.
Because that is how lead is actually bought and sold. There is no retail counter for lead the way there is for gold. Battery manufacturers, ingot traders and scrap recyclers all negotiate in kilograms at the small end and metric tonnes at the large end, so the kilogram figure is the practical, real-world unit even though the database underneath stores the raw number per gram.
Not directly. This page tracks a benchmark lead rate derived from the LME/MCX market. Actual used-battery scrap is priced at a discount to that benchmark, reflecting the lead content recoverable after smelting, the condition of the plates, and the buyer's own processing costs — a scrap dealer's quote and this benchmark will never match exactly.
At today's rate, 1 metric tonne of lead works out to ₹165,528.00. Industrial lead purchases — for battery plants or large ingot orders — are typically negotiated at this scale rather than by the kilogram.
Generally no. Lead is an established, deeply traded base metal on the LME with a long trading history and a supply chain that leans heavily on recycling, which tends to smooth out sudden shortages. That gives it steadier day-to-day behaviour than a newer, narrower market like lithium, though normal base-metal volatility still applies.
