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What a website or app actually costs in Singapore (2026)

Real 2026 price ranges for websites, portals and apps in Singapore, plus GST, payment fees and the grant rules that catch charities out.

AbdullahSoftware Engineer

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The short answer

Most Singapore organisations pay between S$1,500 and S$10,000 for an agency-built website. A first version of a mobile app usually costs S$15,000 to S$40,000, and a bespoke case management system starts at around S$40,000.

For charities and social service agencies, grants change those numbers more than anything else. Eligible charities can get up to 80% of a digital project funded, but grants generally won't fund a project you've already started or paid for.

The build ranges below come from Singapore agencies' own published price guides, so treat them as indicative. GST, domain, payment and grant figures come from the provider or the government source, checked in September and October 2026.

Websites

According to Best Web Design, most Singapore SMEs land between S$2,000 and S$8,000. Agencies bill around S$100 to S$300 an hour (Homenest).

Some agencies publish fixed packages, which makes comparing easier. Xsquare lists a one to two page site at S$1,090 including GST, with the first year's hosting, domain and email included.

The price climbs with page count and custom design, and again when staff need to edit the site themselves. Community-facing charities often need Chinese, Malay or Tamil pages as well as English. Singpass login or a PayNow payment flow adds build time too.

Apps and portals

  • Lean first version, one platform: S$8,000 to S$25,000 (Power Digital).
  • Cross-platform first version (Flutter or React Native): S$15,000 to S$30,000 (Nodesify).
  • Mid-scale business app or case system: S$40,000 to S$80,000 (Nodesify).
  • Complex platform with several user roles: S$80,000 to S$180,000 (Power Digital).

Singapore app agencies bill around S$100 to S$250 an hour. Published starting prices range from S$8,000 to S$80,000, partly because offshore vendors and local studios compete for the same searches. Ask where the developers are and who answers the phone after launch.

Member portals, donation pages and booking systems usually work well as web apps in the browser. A web app skips app store listings, review processes, store fees and commission. Go native when the app must work offline, rely on push notifications, or use a camera or Bluetooth device.

What you pay after launch

  • Maintenance: plan for 15% to 25% of the build cost a year (Advisory Apps).
  • Website care plan: from S$488 a year at the budget end (Expertise Web Solution).
  • GST: 9% since 1 January 2024, if your vendor is GST-registered (IRAS).
  • .sg domain: about S$39 to S$49 a year at registrars (Oryon, Quape).
  • Apple Developer Program: US$99 a year. Registered charities can apply to have it waived if their apps are free and sell nothing in-app (Apple).
  • Google Play registration: US$25, paid once (Google).

No Singapore source publishes a maintenance benchmark, so the 15% to 25% figure comes from Malaysian agency data. It is still a sensible planning number.

A .sg domain also needs its admin contact verified through SGNIC using Singpass or Corppass, or the domain can be suspended (WebNIC). Charities registered with the Registry of Societies can use .org.sg.

Here is how it adds up. A portal quoted at S$40,000 with maintenance at 20% a year costs S$56,000 over three years. With 9% GST it is S$61,040, before hosting, domains or payment fees.

Payment fees

  • Stripe Singapore: PayNow 1.3%, local cards 3.4% + S$0.50 (Airwallex, WorldFirst).
  • HitPay: PayNow 0.65% + S$0.30 at S$100 and above, or 0.9% (minimum S$0.20) below S$100; local cards 2.8% + S$0.50 (HitPay).

Neither charges a set-up or monthly fee. On a S$50 PayNow donation, Stripe takes S$0.65 and HitPay S$0.45. On a S$500 donation the gap widens to S$6.50 against S$3.55.

The gateway matters less than how payments reconcile with your records, which is where staff hours go. We publish an open source PayNow QR library on npm and GitHub, free and auditable, and we build collection, GIRO and recurring payments that reconcile themselves.

Grants that change the budget

  • EDGE Grant, which replaced the Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG) on 30 September 2026: for Singapore-registered businesses with at least 30% local ownership. SMEs get up to 50% on most digital activities. Total support is capped at S$100,000 a year, and only S$30,000 of that can go on digital solutions and enterprise systems. Non-profits, societies and voluntary welfare organisations can't apply.
  • Transformation Sustainability Scheme, formerly Tech-and-GO!: for NCSS members and MSF-funded social service agencies. Covers up to 80% for up to 3 years, with bespoke digital projects funded up to S$150,000 and pre-scoped solutions up to S$40,000 each.
  • Charities Capability Fund, ICT grant for digital solutions: for registered charities. Covers up to 80%, capped at S$40,000 per charity over five years.

The EDGE rule that catches businesses out is timing. Submit your application on the Business Grants Portal before you start work or pay a deposit, or it won't be supported. You can pay after submitting and before approval, but if the application is rejected, that cost is yours. EDGE reimburses you after the project is completed and paid in full, so you need the cash up front (EDGE Grant FAQ). Many guides online still describe PSG, which stopped taking new applications on 29 September 2026.

The Charities Capability Fund asks for three comparable quotes above S$6,000, and its current tranche runs to 31 March 2027 (Werkdone).

To see the difference, take a S$50,000 bespoke case system. A social service agency funded at 80% under the Transformation Sustainability Scheme would pay S$10,000 of it.

What to check before you sign

  1. Whose name is on the domain, hosting, app store and payment gateway accounts? They should all be yours, with the vendor added as a user.
  2. Who owns the code? Under the Copyright Act 2021 the creator owns it unless it is assigned to you, so the contract needs a written assignment.
  3. What does maintenance cover? Ask about security updates, backups and restore tests, monitoring, how many hours of changes, and response times.
  4. What is the three-year total, including GST?
  5. If you're using a grant, is the vendor on its pre-approved list where one exists, and have you held off starting or paying until the application is in?
  6. How is personal data handled? Under the PDPA your organisation stays responsible for data a vendor processes for you. A notifiable breach must be reported to the PDPC within three calendar days, and penalties reach S$1 million, or 10% of Singapore turnover for organisations turning over more than S$10 million.

We go through these in more detail in Questions to ask an IT vendor in Singapore.

How we quote

We have built software for Singapore organisations since 2014. Every quote is fixed for the scope we agree and given in dollars. You own the code, and the domain, hosting and gateway accounts are registered in your name, so your team can take it over or take it elsewhere.

Recent work from our team:

  • Friends in Deed, a crowdfunding platform for Girls' Brigade Singapore with one-to-one gift matching and a live public total, running since 2021.
  • The HealthServe lifeline app, a 24/7 multilingual helpline for migrant workers that is still running.
  • An ongoing project with a dementia care centre in Singapore.
  • A renewal system for a membership council that replaced the spreadsheet they used to track renewals, with an app their members use directly.
  • A church website moved from WordPress to Sanity, so their team can update it themselves.
  • Certainty HelpDesk, our own helpdesk product. Tickets, tasks, chat and a client portal sit in one place, so a request never gets re-typed into a separate project tool, and every request keeps a full history for clients and funders who ask where things stand.

We handle Singpass integration and PayNow collection as part of our builds.

If you are planning around a grant, our advisory work covers grant and PDPA advice at a fixed price. We audit what you have and tell you what to fix first, and we say plainly when something should be left alone.

After launch, FlexiTech gives you a named engineer for an agreed share of their week, for one fee in dollars. Eight months later, when something breaks, the person fixing it already knows your systems. If you have a quote in hand and want a second opinion, send it to us through our contact page.

♥ DigiHwy Certainty

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