Every rate on this site comes from the same process, run once a day. This page sets out exactly what that process is, so you can judge the numbers for yourself.
Where the rates come from
Our starting point each morning is the published market listings for solar panels sold in Pakistan — the per-watt rates and panel prices that importers and large distributors put out publicly. We collect those for every brand and model we track, which currently runs to 42 brands and over 130 individual panel models.
Published listings are a starting point, not the finished number. They go stale, they sometimes carry prices nobody is actually selling at, and they rarely say whether a panel is in stock this week.
How we verify them
Our team holds supplier contact details across all the major cities of Pakistan, and we are in constant contact with them. Rates are verified daily against multiple dealers before they go out. Where a published figure does not match what dealers are quoting, the dealer quotes decide.
This is also how stock status gets set. A panel marked In Stock is one dealers say they can actually supply; Out of Stock and Discontinued rows stay on the page deliberately, because knowing a model has gone is useful when a quote lands on your table naming it.
What the numbers on each table mean
- Rs/W — the price per watt for that specific panel. This is the figure to compare across models, because it is independent of panel size.
- Panel price — what one panel of that model costs. It is the per-watt rate multiplied by the panel’s wattage, so the two always agree.
- Per kW — what 1,000 watts of that panel costs. We calculate this ourselves. It is the quickest way to compare a 585 W panel against a 650 W one without doing arithmetic in your head.
- Status — whether dealers are currently supplying that model.
Where we quote a single headline rate for a brand, it is the lowest in-stock price per watt for that brand. Ranges show the lowest and highest in-stock figures. Out-of-stock and discontinued models are excluded from every headline figure, because a price you cannot buy at is not a price.
Panel prices are not system prices
The tables on this site price panels. A working system also needs an inverter, mounting structure, wiring, protection and labour. Where we quote installed system costs, we say so and we show the components. Treat a panel rate as roughly half to two-thirds of what a complete system costs per kilowatt.
Why prices differ between cities
They genuinely do. Transport from the import points, local competition and what a given dealer has sitting in a warehouse all move the number. Our city pages carry the rates reported for that city rather than a national average, so if you are buying in Multan or Peshawar, check the page for your city rather than the national table.
How often this updates
Rates refresh daily. The timestamp shown with each table is the last time the figures were refreshed, not the date the page was written. We also record the figures every day and keep the series, which is what the price trend charts on our brand pages are built from — that history is our own, collected day by day.
What we get wrong
Prices in this market move fast and we will sometimes be behind. A rate here is a guide for negotiating, not a quotation, and the final number on your invoice is between you and your dealer. If you see a figure on this site that does not match what you have been quoted, tell us — corrections from readers who are actually buying are the most useful signal we get.
Abubaker Jalil
Abubaker Jalil is an electrical engineer and a graduate of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar. He tracks panel, inverter and battery prices across Pakistan's wholesale solar markets and writes the buying guides on this site. If a dealer has quoted you a figure that does not match what you see here, write to info@solarpricepakistan.com.pk and it gets checked.