Singapore's self-storage operators advertise percentages and free months side by side, and the two are not comparable until you spread both across the lease. We re-checked all eight on 28 September 2026, and against August almost everything has moved. Work+Store now runs the two deepest offers in the market, free 4 months plus 35% off on 55-65 sqft aircon at Kallang Bahru (about 57% off a year) and free 3 months plus up to 35% off on basic storage at three sites (about 51%), and it has started publishing rack rates from S$137 a month. Lock+Store's 50% at Ayer Rajah and 40% at Tanjong Pagar and Kaki Bukit were dated to end September, and on 5 October its homepage still showed them with that lapsed date and no replacement. Spaceship, which we listed in August as advertising nothing, now runs 30% off plus 2 months free and has opened physical self-storage units it did not have before. Extra Space renamed its campaign and pushed the flat 30% out to 30 November. StorHub's two-months-free card still reads sign up by 30 September, though its locker and two-for-one offers carry no end date. Only Storefriendly is still advertising nothing at all.
Every self-storage operator in Singapore advertises either a percentage or a run of free months, and the two are not comparable until you spread both across the lease.
> Quick view (re-checked 28 Sep 2026): Work+Store holds the two deepest offers, free 4 months plus 35% off on 55-65 sqft aircon at Kallang Bahru (about 57% off a year) and free 3 months plus up to 35% off on basic storage at three sites (about 51%). Published rates run S$25 a month for a StorHub locker to S$1,050 for a Spaceship XL unit. The catch: almost every headline is a teaser on the opening months, and the 30 September 2026 deadlines at Lock+Store and on StorHub's two-months-free have now passed.
The one calculation nobody does
StorHub says the quiet part out loud. On its own promotions page, the offer headlined "Two months free" carries the subtitle "up to two months free (up to 16% off 12 months)". Two months out of twelve is 16.7%. That is the operator itself telling you its headline is a sixth of a year, not a discount on a year.
Apply the same arithmetic to everything else:
- "50% off two months" (StorHub): two months at half price is one month saved. On a 12-month rental that is 8.3% off.
- "50% off 4 months" (StorHub's Jurong East and Jurong West locker deal): two months saved, so 16.7% off a year. Note the wording on their page, the normal monthly rate applies from the fifth month onwards.
- "Up to 3 months free" (Urban Space): 25% off a 12-month rental.
- "Free 3 months + up to 35% off" (Work+Store basic storage): nine months at 65% is 5.85 months of rent for a year, about 51% off, and this one covers 10 to 400 sqft at three sites.
- "30% off + 2 months free" (Spaceship self storage): ten months at 70% is 7 months of rent for a year, about 42% off.
- "Free 4 months + 35% off" (Work+Store aircon): eight months at 65% is 5.2 months of rent for a whole year, roughly 57% off. The deepest offer on this list, but the narrowest.
- "30% off" (Extra Space): applied to a prepaid term of 3 to 12 months, so it is simply 30% off, and it does not step back up.
The lesson is not that teaser rates are dishonest, because they are clearly labelled if you read the small print. It is that you cannot compare a percentage against a number of free months without converting both first, and the operators shouting the loudest numbers are not the ones offering the most money off.
What changed since August
Everything on this page was re-verified on 4 September 2026, and five of the eight operators had moved. A second check on 15 September found every one of those offers unchanged, with one addition: Extra Space now also shows a "Military Exclusive" card worth an extra 5% off storage rental. A third check on 28 September found two more changes: Lock+Store's Tanjong Pagar offer is now 40% off rather than 50%, and Extra Space has added a "Make Your Move. Pick Your Perk." card, 10% off storage with your choice of extras.
- Lock+Store deepened Ayer Rajah from "pay only 60%" to a straight 50% off, dropped the brand-new-unit size condition in favour of "regardless of storage unit size", and extended the deadline. It also added a Tanjong Pagar offer, which did not exist in August; it launched at 50% off and, by our 28 September check, had been cut to 40% off air-con storage of any size.
- Spaceship was listed here as advertising nothing. It now runs 30% off plus 2 months rent free on self storage and up to 40% off on door-to-door, and it has opened physical self-storage units, which changes what the company is, not just what it charges.
- Extra Space renamed its campaign from "Moving Season. Get Extra." to "Year-End Lock-In" and moved the deadline from 31 August out to 30 November 2026. Its wine-storage banner, which printed the impossible date "31 November 2026" in mid-September, has since been corrected to 30 November 2026.
- StorHub extended its two-months-free from 31 August to 30 September 2026, but the offer now lists 17 of its 18 facilities. Changi is on the 50%-off-two-months list and not on this one.
- Work+Store retired its single /promotion/ page, which now redirects to an enquiry form, and split its offers across four category pages instead. That is where the deals we could not see in August were hiding, including the basic-storage offer that is the best broadly available deal in the market.
The deadlines that matter
- 30 September 2026 (passed): Lock+Store's three branch offers (Ayer Rajah, Tanjong Pagar, Kaki Bukit) required a quote or booking by end September, and StorHub's two-months-free required sign-up by 30 September. On 5 October both banners were still up with those dates and no replacement, so ask before relying on either.
- 30 November 2026: Extra Space Asia's 30% off self storage.
- No end date published: Work+Store's whole catalogue and Urban Space's three-months-free. That is not the same as running forever, and Work+Store's terms reserve the right to withdraw any promotion without notice.
One operator is still advertising nothing
Worth saying plainly, because absence from every deal roundup gets read as an oversight rather than a fact. Storefriendly, eight facilities, all with 24/7 access, and the only operator here running robotic storage, has a promotions page in its main navigation, and as of 28 September 2026 it still lists no active offer. Store Room is a separate case: its promotion page was empty in August and its website did not respond at all on either port when we checked on 4 September, and it was still unreachable on 15 and 28 September, though ACRA still shows Store Room Pte Ltd as a live company, so call 6282 3966 rather than assuming anything from the site. Neither is a reason to strike them off, but if you are choosing between them and a discounted competitor you are comparing rack rate against promotional rate, and you should ask both for a written quote before deciding.
What to check before you sign
Get the renewal rate in writing, not just the promotional rate. Every teaser on this page reverts. StorHub's Jurong locker deal spells it out, normal monthly rate from the fifth month onwards, but most operators do not put the post-promotion figure on the poster. Ask for it as a number, for the specific unit, before you commit.
Ask how long the discount runs, not just what the minimum rental is. Lock+Store's September offers all stated a three-month minimum and none of them stated how long the 40% or 50% applied. Those are different questions and only one of them is answered on the poster.
Work out whether the discount is tied to a prepayment you cannot get back. Extra Space's 30% requires prepaying 3 to 12 months. Work+Store's terms state its promotions require full prepayment. StorHub's Jurong offer is auto-pay only. Prepaid rent is committed capital; if your renovation finishes two months early, you are unlikely to see it again.
Check the promotion applies to the unit and the branch you actually need. Work+Store's 57% offer is for 55-65 sqft aircon units at Kallang Bahru, and its far more useful basic-storage offer covers 10 to 400 sqft but only at Kallang Bahru, Ang Mo Kio and Eunos. StorHub's S$25 entry rate is for lockers at two Jurong sites. Lock+Store's September rates were branch-specific. A deal you cannot use at your size or your branch is not a deal.
Confirm 24/7 access at the branch, not the brand. Several chains advertise round-the-clock access as a group feature while individual sites differ. Storefriendly publishes Access Hrs: 24/7 on each of its eight branch listings, which is the level of specificity to look for. Ask about the branch you will actually use.
Read the insurance ceiling before you store anything valuable. Spaceship publishes its basic coverage plainly: S$1 per kilogram, up to S$200 per item, capped at S$1,500 per customer, with a S$30 excess per claim. Because it is paid by weight, a light laptop or camera is covered for a few dollars. That is fine for household clutter and nowhere near enough for equipment, instruments or collections. Ask every operator for their per-item cap and what it costs to raise it.
Do not over-rent. Every operator here has a size calculator. The commonest expensive mistake in self-storage is taking one band too large "to be safe", then paying for the extra square footage for a year.
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