Is Foodpanda cheaper than Grab in Singapore? Not on delivery. Both apps price the fee dynamically, both land in the same S$1.99-S$4.99 band on a normal order, and the gap on any given basket comes down to which code happens to be live that day. The subscriptions are where there is a real answer, and it splits two ways. GrabUnlimited and pandapro both cost S$5.99 a month, but GrabUnlimited falls to about S$4.99 on the S$59.88 annual plan, so it is the cheaper subscription outright. pandapro is the one that discounts the food rather than the delivery: its current benefit list carries unlimited 20% off at more than 2,000 restaurants, which on a S$40 order is worth more than any delivery waiver either app can hand you. We read Grab's promo-code page, the GrabUnlimited page and foodpanda's deals page on 26 August 2026, and every August code on both apps expires 31 August.
Two apps, the same hawker stall, and the number at checkout is rarely the same.
> Quick view: both subscriptions cost S$5.99/month. GrabUnlimited is cheaper annually (S$59.88, about S$4.99/month), but pandapro discounts the food rather than the delivery (20% off at 2,000+ restaurants). Every August code on both apps expires 31 August 2026.
Singapore's fastest food delivery app on average, at 28 minutes in our testing across central Singapore. The strongest fast-food lineup, with exclusive partnerships at McDonald's, KFC, Burger King and most major chains, and roughly 77% of the Singapore market in 2026. GrabUnlimited is S$5.99/month, or S$59.88 for 12 months (about S$4.99/month, which Grab prices as a 16% saving), with a free first month for new members. It gives up to S$3 off the delivery fee at any store (min. spend S$15), plus free delivery and up to 30% off at GrabUnlimited preferred stores and, as a limited-time perk, 20% off Food Pickup at all food stores. Note what the perk is: a delivery-fee credit capped at S$3 per order, not a discount on the food itself, so its value stops growing once your basket passes about S$15. Grab's algorithm also rewards loyalty, and the more you order, the more personalised (and often larger) promo codes you will see. Best for speed, fast-food lovers, small frequent orders, and anyone who orders often enough to benefit from personalised discounts.
GrabUnlimited S$5.99/month, or S$59.88 for 12 months (about S$4.99/month) with a free first month: up to S$3 off delivery at any store (min. spend S$15), free delivery and up to 30% off at preferred stores, plus 20% off Food Pickup at all food stores (limited time). GrabFood codes re-read off Grab's own promo page on 7 Sep 2026, all valid to 30 Sep 2026: GFNEW (free delivery on a first order, min S$10, capped S$8, new users), PICKUP20 (20% off pick-up at selected merchants, capped S$8), PICKUP15 (15% off pick-up at selected merchants, capped S$8), NEWGOHOST (10% off group orders of 3 or more, min S$30, capped S$8), GRPGO5 (5% back in GrabCoins on group orders, min S$30, capped 4,500 GrabCoins, Mon to Fri), MBSEP (S$5 off, min S$35, Maybank) and DBSFOODSG (S$4 off, min S$40, DBS/POSB). Three August codes did not survive the month change: PICKUPNEW30, the 30%-off first pick-up code, is gone with only PICKUP15 added in its place, and HSBC5FOOD has no September successor. MBAUG became MBSEP, so the Maybank code is renamed monthly rather than retired. The page refreshes monthly.
Valid till 30 Sept 2026
The better value play once your basket gets past about S$25, and the only one of the two that discounts the food rather than the delivery. pandapro is S$5.99/month, and its current benefit list on foodpanda's own deals page reads: unlimited free delivery on restaurant orders above S$25, unlimited 20% off at more than 2,000 restaurants (minimum spend and caps vary by brand), free delivery from pandamart, Cold Storage and Giant, and 20% off pick-up restaurants plus an extra 5% at more than 4,000 stores. That 20% is the number to weigh: it is worth S$5 on a S$25 order and S$8 on a S$40 one, against a Grab delivery credit that stops at S$3. Two perks foodpanda promoted at the March 2026 launch, an unlimited S$3 off delivery above S$15 and the On-Time Promise S$5 late voucher, no longer appear on that benefit panel as of 26 August 2026, so do not budget for them. Foodpanda remains the stronger app for hawker and zi char stalls, and pandamart means groceries and dinner in one session. Average delivery time of 34 minutes is slower than Grab. Best for larger baskets, grocery-plus-meal orders, and hawker food.
pandapro S$5.99/month: unlimited free delivery on restaurant orders above S$25, unlimited 20% off at 2,000+ restaurants, free delivery from pandamart, Cold Storage and Giant, and 20% off pick-up plus an extra 5% at 4,000+ stores. VERIFICATION GAP, 7 Sep 2026: foodpanda's deals page blocked every read we attempted this week, so the August code list below could not be re-confirmed at source and the dated card codes have been dropped rather than carried forward on trust. The pandapro subscription terms above come from foodpanda's own membership pages and are stable. Of the codes we carried, the two standing new-user ones still appear across foodpanda's own listings: NEWPANDA (50% off a first order) and NEWPU (first pick-up order). The August-dated card codes DBS4OFF40, DBS8OFF80 and PL3OFF30 ran to 6 Sept 2026 and are treated as expired. Most foodpanda vouchers are 'selected users only', so the code that matters is the one shown in your own account, not the one in any roundup.
| GrabFood | Foodpanda | |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | GrabUnlimited S$5.99/month, or S$59.88 for 12 months (about S$4.99/month, priced as a 16% saving) | pandapro S$5.99/month |
| Free trial | First month free for new members | Not stated on foodpanda's current deals page |
| Delivery perk | Up to S$3 off delivery at any store (min. spend S$15); free delivery and up to 30% off at preferred stores | Unlimited free delivery on restaurant orders above S$25 |
| Food discount | Up to 30% off, preferred stores only | Unlimited 20% off at 2,000+ restaurants (min. spend and caps vary by brand) |
| Groceries | Not covered by the GrabUnlimited free-delivery perk | Free delivery from pandamart, Cold Storage and Giant |
| Pickup discount | 20% off Food Pickup at all food stores (limited time) | 20% off pick-up, plus an extra 5% at 4,000+ restaurants |
| Delivery fee, no subscription | S$1.99-S$4.99 typical, surge at peak, small-order surcharge | S$1.99-S$4.99 typical; a 'delivery as low as S$2.99' offer runs on selected restaurants to 30 Aug 2026 |
| Platform / service fee | Charged per order, shown at checkout, no published fee schedule | Charged per order, shown at checkout, no published fee schedule |
| Average delivery time | 28 min (our central Singapore testing) | 34 min (our central Singapore testing) |
| Strongest coverage | Fast food, with exclusive McDonald's, KFC and Burger King; roughly 77% market share | Hawker and zi char stalls, plus pandamart groceries |
| When the August codes die | 31 Aug 2026, card codes included | 31 Aug 2026; the DBS and PayLah! codes run to 6 Sept 2026 |
This is the question most people arrive with, and the honest answer is that neither app is reliably cheaper on a one-off order. Both price delivery dynamically, so distance, demand and time of day all move the number, and both typically land in the S$1.99-S$4.99 band on a normal order, with surge pricing above that at peak hours and a small-order surcharge on top if your basket is too thin.
What actually decides the cheaper app on any given night is which promo code happens to be live and whether your bank card has a running discount. Both pages now run on a monthly clock, and on 26 August 2026 both sets expire within days of each other. The only method that works is to build the same basket in both apps and compare the final total, delivery fee, service fee and surcharges included, before you check out.
Both cost S$5.99/month, so the price is not the deciding factor. What they discount is.
GrabUnlimited discounts the delivery. Up to S$3 off the delivery fee at any store (min. spend S$15), free delivery and up to 30% off at GrabUnlimited preferred stores, and, as a limited-time bonus, 20% off Food Pickup at all food stores. It is also the cheaper plan if you commit: S$59.88 for 12 months, which Grab prices as a 16% saving and works out at about S$4.99/month, with a free first month for new members.
pandapro discounts the food. Its current benefit list on foodpanda's own deals page reads: unlimited free delivery on restaurant orders above S$25, unlimited 20% off at more than 2,000 restaurants (minimum spend and caps vary by brand), free delivery from pandamart, Cold Storage and Giant, and 20% off pick-up restaurants plus an extra 5% at more than 4,000 stores.
That difference is the whole comparison, and it is arithmetic rather than opinion. Grab's delivery perk is capped at S$3 per order, so S$3 is the most it can ever be worth on a single basket. A 20% food discount is worth S$5 on a S$25 order and S$8 on a S$40 order before brand caps. The crossover sits somewhere around S$15 to S$20 of food: below it, GrabUnlimited's delivery credit is the bigger line; above it, pandapro's food discount is, and it keeps growing while Grab's does not.
So: order small and often, or eat mostly at Grab's preferred stores, and GrabUnlimited is the better subscription. Order S$30 and up, or buy groceries in the same session, and pandapro is.
Two pandapro perks worth striking off your list. foodpanda's March 2026 launch coverage described an unlimited S$3 off delivery above S$15 and an On-Time Promise paying a S$5 voucher when an order arrives more than 10 minutes late. Neither appears on foodpanda's current pandapro benefit panel, checked 26 August 2026. Most write-ups still quote both. Treat them as lapsed until foodpanda lists them again.
Grab publishes a promo-code page it updates monthly, and every GrabFood code on it runs to 31 August 2026:
GRPGO5 is the one we missed in our August check. It stacks a rebate onto the same group orders NEWGOHOST discounts, so a new host running a three-person order can take both.
foodpanda's deals page has settled onto the same monthly clock. The LOBANG code we listed on 14 August expired on 16 August and is gone from the page. What is running now, all to 31 August 2026:
Its bank codes DBS4OFF40 (S$4 off, min S$40), DBS8OFF80 (S$8 off, min S$80) and PayLah!'s PL3OFF30 (S$3 off, min S$30, valid on delivery and pick-up) run to 6 September 2026. All three are app-only, capped at 2 redemptions per user with weekly limits, and do not work with Apple Pay or other contactless wallets.
The catch on the foodpanda side is unchanged: most of its headline vouchers are flagged "applicable for selected users only", so the code you see in-app is not always the code your friend sees. Grab's are more uniformly available but skew towards bank-card tie-ups and new-user offers, and its algorithm layers personalised discounts on top based on your order history.
Winner: a tie on generosity, but Grab is easier to plan around. Check both pages before a big order.
GrabFood has more exclusive restaurant partnerships, including McDonald's, KFC and Burger King, and it holds roughly 77% of the Singapore market in 2026 after absorbing most of the restaurants that moved across when Deliveroo closed. Foodpanda has the wider selection of local hawker and zi char stalls, and pandamart puts groceries in the same basket.
Winner: a tie. It depends on what you are craving.
Based on our testing across multiple orders in central Singapore, Grab averaged 28 minutes while Foodpanda averaged 34 minutes.
Winner: GrabFood for speed.
Neither app publishes a fixed price list. Base delivery fees move with distance, demand and time of day, and in practice both typically land in the S$1.99-S$4.99 band on a normal order, with surge pricing pushing them higher at peak hours. Small-order surcharges apply on both. foodpanda is currently running a delivery as low as S$2.99 offer on selected restaurants to 30 August 2026, which is the only published floor either app puts in writing.
Winner: a tie. There is no reliable base-fee winner. Compare the final total in both apps before you commit.
The delivery fee is the number both apps show you upfront, but it is not the whole bill. On a Singapore order you can expect up to four separate charges on both platforms:
Neither Grab nor Foodpanda publishes a standing fee schedule, and both revise these charges periodically, which is why any specific figure ages badly. The only number that is reliably correct is the one in the checkout breakdown on your own order, immediately before you pay. Expand it on both apps and compare the totals, not the headline delivery fees.
With both subscriptions at S$5.99/month, the choice comes down to the size of your basket rather than the price of the plan. Go with GrabFood if you want speed, the widest fast-food lineup, small frequent orders, and the cheapest subscription on the 12-month plan at about S$4.99/month. Go with Foodpanda pandapro if your orders run S$30 and up, if you buy groceries as well as meals, or if you lean on hawker and zi char stalls, because a 20% discount on the food beats a S$3 delivery credit long before the bill gets large. Power users should keep both apps installed and compare the final total, promo codes included, before every order.
Not reliably, and not in either direction, if you mean the delivery fee. Both apps price delivery dynamically, so the fee moves with distance, demand and time of day, and both typically land in the S$1.99-S$4.99 band on a normal order, with surge pricing above that at peak hours and a small-order surcharge if your basket is too thin. Neither publishes a fixed price list, so there is no standing winner on fees. What decides the cheaper app on any given order is which promo code is live that day and whether your bank card has a running discount, and on 26 August 2026 both apps' August sets expire on 31 August. On subscriptions there is a clearer answer, and it depends on your basket size. Both plans are S$5.99/month, and GrabUnlimited falls to about S$4.99/month on the S$59.88 annual plan, so it is the cheaper subscription. But GrabUnlimited discounts the delivery fee and caps that at S$3 per order, while pandapro's current benefit list includes unlimited 20% off at more than 2,000 restaurants, which is worth S$5 on a S$25 order and S$8 on a S$40 one before brand caps. Small frequent orders favour Grab; baskets of S$30 and up favour Foodpanda. The only method that actually works on a single order: build the same basket in both apps and compare the final total, delivery fee and surcharges included, before you check out.
They cost the same at S$5.99/month, so it comes down to what each one discounts. GrabUnlimited discounts the delivery: up to S$3 off the delivery fee at any store (min. spend S$15), plus free delivery and up to 30% off at preferred stores and 20% off Food Pickup as a limited-time bonus. It is also the cheaper plan if you commit, at S$59.88 for 12 months, which Grab prices as a 16% saving and works out at about S$4.99/month, with a free first month for new members. pandapro discounts the food: its current benefit list is unlimited free delivery on restaurant orders above S$25, unlimited 20% off at more than 2,000 restaurants, free delivery from pandamart, Cold Storage and Giant, and 20% off pick-up plus an extra 5% at more than 4,000 stores. The arithmetic decides it. Grab's delivery credit is capped at S$3 per order, so S$3 is the ceiling. A 20% food discount is worth S$5 on a S$25 basket and S$8 on a S$40 one before brand caps, and it keeps growing while Grab's does not. The crossover sits around S$15 to S$20 of food. One warning: foodpanda's March 2026 launch also promoted an unlimited S$3 off delivery above S$15 and an On-Time Promise paying S$5 when an order runs more than 10 minutes late, and neither is on its current benefit panel, checked 26 August 2026.
Read off both official pages on 26 August 2026. Grab's promo-code page updates monthly and every GrabFood code on it runs to 31 August 2026: GFNEW (free delivery on a first order, min spend S$10, capped S$8, new users), PICKUPNEW30 (30% off a first pick-up order, no minimum spend, capped S$8), PICKUP20 (20% off pick-up, capped S$8), NEWGOHOST (10% off group orders with at least 3 members, min S$30, capped S$10), GRPGO5 (5% back in GrabCoins on group orders, min S$30 before discounts, capped 4,500 GrabCoins, Monday to Friday), and the card codes MBAUG (S$5 off, min S$35, Maybank), HSBC5FOOD (S$5 off, min S$35, HSBC) and DBSFOODSG (S$4 off, min S$40, DBS/POSB). foodpanda's deals page, also to 31 August: NEWPANDA (50% off a first delivery order, capped S$6), NEWPU (40% off a first pick-up order, capped S$8), NEWGROCER (40% off a first pandamart or Shops order, capped S$12), EXTRAOFF (S$6 off Guardian, min spend S$60), free delivery on a first restaurant order and on a first grocery order with no code needed, 20% off pick-up rising to 25% for pandapro members, 40% off selected pick-up items at The Autobus, Popeyes, Soup Restaurant, Jinjja Chicken and Luckin Coffee, and 15% off top picks. Its bank codes DBS4OFF40 (S$4 off, min S$40), DBS8OFF80 (S$8 off, min S$80) and PL3OFF30 (S$3 off, min S$30, PayLah!) run to 6 September 2026, are app-only, cap at 2 redemptions per user and do not work with Apple Pay. Both sets expire within days of each other, so check the pages again in September rather than reusing these.
Both apps add a small platform or service fee to every order, on top of the delivery fee, and it appears as its own line in the checkout breakdown. Neither Grab nor Foodpanda publishes a standing fee schedule for Singapore, and both revise these charges periodically, so any specific figure you find quoted online ages quickly. Read the amount off your own order summary before you pay rather than trusting a number from an older article. Two other charges are worth knowing about. The small-order fee is not a flat penalty but the difference between your basket and the store's minimum order value, so a S$4 basket against a S$10 minimum adds roughly S$6, and adding one more item is usually cheaper than paying it. Surge pricing lands on the delivery fee at peak meal times. Because the fee stack differs order by order, comparing the headline delivery fee between the two apps tells you very little, so expand the full breakdown in both and compare the final totals.
They are different kinds of company that happen to overlap on food delivery. Grab is a super-app: food delivery sits alongside ride-hailing, GrabMart groceries, GrabExpress parcels and GrabPay financial services, all on one account, and GrabUnlimited spans several of them. Foodpanda is a dedicated delivery platform owned by the German group Delivery Hero, focused on food plus its own pandamart quick-commerce grocery stores and partnerships with Cold Storage and Giant. On the ground the practical differences are these. GrabFood carries the wider restaurant list, roughly 77% of the Singapore market in 2026, with exclusive McDonald's, KFC and Burger King partnerships, and it absorbed most of the restaurants that moved across when Deliveroo closed. It was also faster in our testing, averaging 28 minutes against Foodpanda's 34. Foodpanda is the stronger app for hawker stalls and zi char, its pandapro subscription is the only one of the two whose free delivery covers supermarket groceries, and it is the only one that discounts the food itself rather than the delivery fee.
Foodpanda. It remains the stronger app for hawker stalls and zi char, and its pandamart service adds grocery items in the same session. GrabFood carries the wider overall restaurant list, holding roughly 77% of the Singapore market in 2026 after picking up most of the restaurants that moved across when Deliveroo closed, and it has the stronger fast-food lineup with exclusive partnerships at McDonald's, KFC and Burger King. If hawker food is most of what you order, start with Foodpanda. If you want the widest choice overall, start with Grab.
Yes, if you order more than a couple of times a week. Promo codes on the two platforms rarely overlap, so having both lets you take whichever is running the better offer that day. What you cannot do is stack codes across apps, or usually stack more than one promo code within a single order, since most codes are one per order, though a bank card discount will often apply on top of an app code. The subscriptions are the part not worth doubling up on: at S$5.99/month each, paying for both only makes sense if you genuinely order from both several times a week. Pick the one that matches your basket, keep the other app for its codes.
GrabUnlimited: first month free for new members, then S$5.99/mo (or S$59.88/year, about S$4.99/mo)
pandapro S$5.99/mo: unlimited 20% off at 2,000+ restaurants, free delivery above S$25
