Singapore has more laundry pickup services than it has laundromats worth walking to, and every one of them leads with a per-kilogram number. Those numbers are close enough to look interchangeable — $5, $6, $7 — and far enough apart in practice that the cheapest-looking service can be the most expensive one for the load you actually have in the basket.
The reason is that none of these companies sells laundry by the kilo alone. Each one sets a gate somewhere: a minimum order value, a minimum weight, a fixed bag size, a delivery fee below a threshold, or a price list quoted before GST. Move the size of your load and the gate you hit changes, and so does the ranking.
We priced the same job — one ordinary 6kg household load of everyday clothes, collected and returned — across seven services on 21 August 2026, using each company's own published rates and its own ordering system rather than any aggregator. Here is what that load actually costs:
- Laundryheap — $34.90. A flat bag price for 6kg mixed wash-and-fold, collection and delivery included, no minimum order. The whole bill.
- The Laundry Store — $39.24. 6kg at $6.00/kg is $36, plus 9% GST. Still $0.76 under its $40 free-delivery bar, so a delivery charge would apply on top.
- Piing! — $39.99. 6kg at $5.00/kg is $30 — the cheapest washing here — but $30 is below Piing!'s $40 free-delivery threshold, so a $9.99 delivery fee lands.
- Tumble — $50. Pay-as-you-go is $7.00/kg, which would make 6kg $42, except no Tumble order under $50 can be placed at all since its 11 May 2026 pricing change.
- The Care — $54. Its 5kg Regular bag is $30, but 6kg doesn't fit, so you move up to the 10kg Large bag.
- Eazihome — can't be ordered. Its minimum is $70 for non-members, $50 for members.
- Presto Drycleaners — not applicable. It prices garments individually rather than by weight.
So the service with the lowest advertised rate finishes fifth on a normal load, and the one that never mentions a per-kilo price at all finishes first.
Where the cheapest kilo actually is
Flip the question — assume you can fill a big bag — and the answer moves again, to a service that doesn't market itself on price at all. The Care sells a 15kg Extra Large wash-and-fold bag for $73.50. That is $4.90 a kilo, and it is the lowest published rate we found anywhere in this comparison. It undercuts Tumble's best subscription tier ($5.00/kg on the X-Large plan) and requires no subscription to access — you can order a single bag.
Go one step further into subscriptions and The Care's MAX plan is $170 a month for four 10kg bags, which is 40kg of laundry with collection and delivery for $4.25 a kilo. That's the floor of this whole market as at August 2026.
The practical rule that falls out of all this: below about 8kg, buy a fixed bag price and ignore per-kilo rates entirely. Above 10kg a week, every dollar is in the bag size or the plan.
The three things that quietly change the price
GST. The Laundry Store states on its own price list that all prices are exclusive of GST. Its $6.00/kg is therefore $6.54 and its $6 shirt is $6.54. Everyone else on this list publishes what you pay. It's a small gap on one shirt and a real one on a $180 wedding gown, where 9% is $16.20.
Speed surcharges. Laundryheap's 24–48 hours is standard, not express — you don't pay extra for it. Piing! offers next-day Express. At the other end, The Laundry Store charges 100% more for a 1–2 day turnaround and 50% more for 3–4 days, so a rush job there is literally double. Tumble's pay-as-you-go is 5 working days and its subscription is 2, which is the widest single gap between a company's own two tiers on this list.
Who actually washes it. Laundryheap says openly that orders are cleaned by vetted local partner facilities rather than its own plant — that's how it covers the island in 24 hours. Tumble says the opposite just as plainly: it doesn't outsource, and each customer's load goes through its own machine separately. Neither is wrong, but if you care about your clothes not sharing a drum with a stranger's, only one of those sentences is the one you want.
Curtains: the job where the quotes diverge most
Curtain cleaning is priced by weight nearly everywhere, and the takedown is nearly always separate — which is where quotes that look similar stop being similar.
| Service | Curtain rate | Takedown |
|---|---|---|
| Eazihome | $9 / kg | Not included |
| Laundryheap | $9 per day-curtain panel; $9 / kg blackout | 7-day service |
| The Laundry Store | From $10 / kg | Not stated |
| The Care | Day $11 launder / $14 dry clean per panel; night $11 / $14 per kg | In-home steam cleaning available |
| Presto | $15.30 / kg | $16.80 / kg with dismantling |
Presto is the only one that prices the labour transparently: the $1.50/kg difference between its two lines *is* the takedown-and-rehang. Weigh one dry panel before you call — heavy blackout curtains from a single bay window run 6–8kg, so the difference between $9/kg and $16.80/kg on a three-window flat is not a rounding error.










