Is IKEA Cheaper in Germany? Than Austria Yes, Than Lithuania No: We Priced 100 IKEA Best Sellers in 4 Countries

Than Austria, mostly yes; than Lithuania, no. We priced the first 100 items on IKEA Germany's best-seller list on November 13, 2026, by article number, on the IKEA sites of Germany, Austria, Portugal and Lithuania, all in euros. Of the 89 sold in both Germany and Austria, Germany was cheaper on 50 and Austria on 21. Of the 79 sold in both Germany and Lithuania, Lithuania was cheaper on 43 and Germany on 18, and the 72 items sold in all four countries cost €2,217.86 in Lithuania, €2,399.34 in Germany, €2,497.36 in Austria and €2,724.60 in Portugal. Germany was cheaper on some big shelves and beds, such as BILLY, IVAR and the BESTÅ TV bench; Lithuania was cheaper on most small home goods. Each country's prices came from one POST /api/v1/ikea/items call on Scavio's IKEA API, 1 credit for up to 100 article numbers.

The question comes from r/IKEA, where a shopper posted a gallery comparing IKEA prices in Germany and Lithuania, added Lithuania's minimum wage, and asked readers to correct any mistakes. The thread drew 80 upvotes and 90 comments and is the top Google result for "ikea prices in other countries". One of the most upvoted replies was simply: "compare IKEA prices in DE and AT". So we did both, and added Portugal, the subject of an earlier r/IKEA thread (105 upvotes, 117 comments) whose author found IKEA Portugal more than a quarter dearer than Germany.

How we compared

We did not pick the items. POST /api/v1/ikea/deals with type: "top_seller" and country: "de" returned IKEA Germany's best-seller list, 275 items, and we kept the first 100: DRÖNA boxes, POKAL glasses, KALLAX and BILLY shelves, BESTÅ, IVAR, SAMLA, bedding and lamps. Then one items call per country priced all 100 article numbers on that country's site between 18:22 and 18:23 UTC. All four countries use the euro, so nothing is converted. These are online list prices including each country's VAT, not shelf prices; where a site showed an IKEA Family member price, we used the regular price everyone pays.

What the prices show

• Germany against Austria: Germany mostly cheaper. Of 89 items sold in both, Germany was cheaper on 50, the same on 18 and dearer on 21. Austria's median price was 11.1% above Germany's. Austria was cheaper on some, such as the GALANT sliding-door cabinet at €449 against €499.
• Germany against Portugal: close, Germany ahead. Of 80 items sold in both, Germany was cheaper on 39, the same on 17 and dearer on 24, and the median gap was zero. Portugal's 72-item total was still the highest of the four, €2,724.60, because it was dearer on the bigger items: GALANT at €699 against €499, a STOENSE rug at €99.99 against €49.99.
• Germany against Lithuania: Lithuania cheaper more often. Of 79 items sold in both, Lithuania was cheaper on 43, the same on 18 and dearer on 18, with a median price 7.9% below Germany's. The 72 items sold in all four countries cost €181.48 less in Lithuania than in Germany.
• What a country does not sell is not counted. 11 of the 100 were not sold in Austria, 20 in Portugal and 21 in Lithuania. We left those out rather than filling them in.

The split is by kind of product. Here are the furniture and household names shoppers ask about, the same article number in each country:

In this table Germany was cheapest or tied on every furniture row but TROFAST, though not on all furniture: the BESTÅ storage combination with doors (79057526) was €298 in Lithuania against €330 in Germany. On the small things that fill a basket, Lithuania was often far lower: BLÅHAJ at about half the German price, the KARMSUND floor mirror at €44.99 against €99.99, the LEN cot quilt at €8.99 against €19.99.

The September 1 price cuts, country by country

IKEA's Europe price cut is the one reason IKEA itself gave for prices moving this autumn: Ingka Group and the other franchisees are investing €1.2 billion "to lower prices across markets in Europe", and "the selection of products and price decrease will differ from market to market" (Ingka Group, September 1, 2026). The data shows that difference:

• Germany: 13 of the 100 carried "Neuer niedriger Preis" (price_tag: "new_lower_price") with a previous price, valid from September 1, 2026 to August 31, 2027: KALLAX, IVAR, both BESTÅ items, two BILLY / OXBERG combinations, DRÖNA and six IKEA 365+ kitchen items. POÄNG and the HEMNES daybed carry the same tag from September 1.
• Austria and Portugal: of those 13, Austria sold all 13 and showed a previous price on 8; Portugal sold 11 and showed one on 9, some of them dated October 1 rather than September 1.
• Lithuania: sold 12 of the 13 and showed no previous price or price tag on any of its 79 items. Its KALLAX was €49.99, the same as Germany's cut price, with nothing to say it had been higher. The Lithuanian KALLAX product page returned no previous price either.

So a shopper in Lithuania sees no "new lower price" labels. Of the 14 items IKEA Germany marks with a new lower price that Lithuania also sells, 6 now cost the same in both countries, 3 less in Germany and 5 less in Lithuania: the cuts mostly brought Germany level. On the other 65, Lithuania was cheaper on 38 and Germany on 15.

What this cannot tell you

This is one day, November 13, 2026, and 100 items chosen by IKEA Germany's own best-seller list, so it leans toward what sells in Germany; a Lithuanian best-seller list could look different. These are online list prices including each country's VAT, and VAT rates differ between the four countries; we did not net them out. IKEA's US terms say "Pricing may differ from store to store," and the same is likely true in Europe. And we make no claim about why IKEA prices one country above another beyond what IKEA has said about its cuts.

Run the comparison yourself

import requests

API = "https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_SCAVIO_API_KEY"}

# 1. The article numbers: IKEA Germany's best sellers (1 credit)
top = requests.post(f"{API}/deals", headers=HEADERS, timeout=120,
                    json={"type": "top_seller", "country": "de", "page_size": 100}).json()
item_nos = [it["item_no"] for it in top["data"]["items"]]

# 2. One items call per country, up to 100 article numbers each (1 credit each)
prices = {}
for country in ["de", "at", "pt", "lt"]:
    r = requests.post(f"{API}/items", headers=HEADERS, timeout=120,
                      json={"item_nos": item_nos, "country": country}).json()["data"]
    prices[country] = {it["item_no"]: it["price"] for it in r["items"]}
    print(country, r["currency"], len(r["items"]), "sold,", len(r["not_found"]), "not sold")

for no in item_nos[:10]:
    print(no, [prices[c].get(no) for c in ["de", "at", "pt", "lt"]])

That is 5 credits for the whole comparison. To price one product in up to 10 countries, POST /api/v1/ikea/compare with {"item_no": "30373588", "countries": ["de", "lt", "at", "pt", "fr", "nl", "it", "es", "gb", "se"]} returned BLÅHAJ at €27.99, €14.99, €24.99, €22, €24.99, €27.99, €25 and €19.99, GBP 25 and SEK 299, for 10 credits. How to get IKEA prices by country covers every endpoint with captured responses, and the best IKEA price comparison APIs has the same basket across 16 euro countries.

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