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August 4, 2026
Sri Lanka now has a healthy cluster of websites that try to answer one deceptively simple question: what is a fair price? A few years ago the only options were the classifieds themselves — you scrolled ikman.lk or Riyasewana, eyeballed twenty listings, and guessed. Today there are dedicated analytics sites that do the arithmetic for you.
That is genuinely good for buyers. But the sites are not interchangeable. Each one was built around a different idea of what a price tool is for, and picking the wrong one costs you time — or worse, money.
This guide compares Welandapola.com with three other Sri Lankan platforms people often mention in the same breath: VehiclePriceCheck.com, PriceMart.lk, and AdFinder.lk. We have tried to be fair rather than flattering — each of these does something well, and we say so.
| Platform | Core idea | Covers | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welandapola.com | Whole-economy price index | Vehicles, vegetables, fruits, fuel, gas, gold, rice, dairy, meat, seafood, electronics, hotels, cost of living | English, Sinhala, Tamil |
| VehiclePriceCheck.com | Brand-by-brand used car insights | Used cars only | English |
| PriceMart.lk | Used car analytics and visualisation | Used cars only | English |
| AdFinder.lk | AI-powered ad alerts | Vehicles, real estate, high-value listings | English, Sinhala, Tamil |
If you only ever buy cars and you want charts, PriceMart is a strong tool. If you want to be told the moment a specific ad appears, AdFinder is built for exactly that. If you want to check what anything costs in Sri Lanka — including your weekly vegetables and this month's gas cylinder — Welandapola is the only one of the four that covers it.
What it is: a used-car price insight site organised primarily by brand. You pick a manufacturer — Toyota, Suzuki, BMW, BYD, Tata, and a long tail of others including Zotye and Vauxhall — and drill into that brand's price picture. The homepage runs a live ticker of recent model-year estimates (a 2024 Volkswagen T-Cross at roughly LKR 14.8M, a 2004 Hyundai Atos at roughly LKR 2.4M, and so on), which gives you an immediate feel for the market before you have clicked anything.
What it does well: brand coverage is broad, and the brand-first structure matches how a lot of people actually shop. If you have already decided you want a Mitsubishi and just need to know what Mitsubishis go for, the path from homepage to answer is short. It also derives its numbers from real classified listings rather than manufacturer MSRPs, which matters in a market where sticker prices and street prices diverge sharply.
Where it stops: it is used cars, and only used cars. There is no Sinhala or Tamil interface. And because the model is brand-then-model browsing, it is less suited to the "I have Rs. 6 million, what are my options across every brand?" question that most first-time buyers actually start with.
What it is: the most chart-forward of the group. PriceMart aggregates listings from ikman.lk and Riyasewana and turns them into genuine analytics: price distribution by year of manufacture, daily average price trends with year-by-year overlays, mileage-versus-price scatter plots, a side-by-side comparison tool for any two models, a budget finder, a listing-volume leaderboard, and a district-level heat map. It has added a tax/import-duty calculator, community owner reviews, and a 3D car viewer. It is free with no sign-up.
What it does well: honestly, the analytics are good. The mileage-versus-price scatter in particular is the right way to look at used cars — it shows you the shape of the market rather than a single average, so you can see whether that low-mileage listing is genuinely a bargain or an outlier priced by an optimist. The comparison tool and budget finder are well-judged additions.
Where it stops: again, vehicles only, and English only. Its data pipeline is explicitly built on two classified sources, so its view of the market is as broad as those two sites and no broader.
Of the three competitors here, PriceMart is the one whose feature set overlaps most with Welandapola's vehicle section. If cars are your only interest, it is a reasonable alternative, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.
What it is: something meaningfully different — an alerting platform rather than a browsing one. Founded in 2024 and describing itself as Sri Lanka's first AI-powered ad discovery platform, AdFinder lets you set your criteria once and then watches listings around the clock, pushing you SMS, WhatsApp, or email alerts when something matches. It covers vehicles, real estate, and other high-value categories, and it also publishes vehicle price trends — minimum, average and maximum movements by model and manufacturing year — from daily advertised prices across multiple marketplaces. The interface is available in English, Sinhala, and Tamil.
What it does well: the alert model solves a real problem. In a thin market, the good listing is gone in hours, and no amount of price analysis helps if you saw the ad on day three. For a buyer with a specific target — a particular model, year, and budget — AdFinder's watch-and-notify approach is arguably more useful than any chart.
Where it stops: it is oriented toward high-value classifieds. It will not tell you what beans cost in Dambulla this morning, what LP gas went up to, or where the gold rate closed. It is a discovery layer over the classifieds, not a price index for the economy.
Honestly: AdFinder is less a competitor to Welandapola than a complement. Use AdFinder to be notified; use Welandapola to decide whether the price in that notification is fair.
Three of the four sites above are vehicle tools. That is the crux of the difference.
1. It is a price index for the whole economy, not one category. Vehicles are only one section of Welandapola. The same site tracks daily wholesale and retail prices for vegetables and fruits from economic centres like Dambulla, Meegoda and Narahenpita; fuel and LP gas; daily gold rates by carat; rice, dairy, meat, seafood, bakery, beverages and household goods; electronics; hotels; and cost-of-living data. Most households make far more vegetable decisions than car decisions, and no other site on this list covers that.
2. English, Sinhala and Tamil throughout. AdFinder also offers all three. VehiclePriceCheck and PriceMart are English-only. For a price tool aimed at the whole country, that is not a cosmetic difference — a market trader in Dambulla and a buyer in Jaffna should not need English to find out what their own produce is worth.
3. Analysis tools beyond a single listing. Price trends, regional heat maps, location statistics, market comparisons across districts, a vehicle price estimator, a tax calculator, and per-market comparison pages for vegetables and fruits. The point is not to show you one number but to show you how that number is moving and how it differs by where you are standing.
4. You can sell, not just look. Welandapola lets you list items for sale and price them using the same market data buyers are checking. That closes the loop: the seller and the buyer are arguing from the same numbers, which tends to produce faster, fairer deals.
5. Free, fast, and built to stay fast. Everything above is free with no paywall, and the site is engineered to load quickly on mobile data — which is how most Sri Lankans will actually open it.
Be honest about what you are trying to do:
There is no shame in using two. Set an alert on AdFinder, then sanity-check the asking price against Welandapola's data before you call the seller. A well-informed buyer uses whatever gets them to a fair number.
The Sri Lankan price-transparency space has improved enormously, and the sites above deserve credit for that. VehiclePriceCheck makes brand-level pricing easy to reach. PriceMart's charts are genuinely well built. AdFinder solves the timing problem that pure price data cannot.
What none of them do is cover the full range of what a Sri Lankan household actually buys, in the language that household speaks. That is what Welandapola.com is for — daily-updated prices across vehicles, food, fuel, gold and commodities, with comparison and trend tools on top, free, in English, Sinhala and Tamil.
Start at welandapola.com and check the price before you pay it.