What will preschool actually cost, and is there a place?
1844 ECDA-registered centres, as at 2026-09-17. Search by postal code to
see what is near you, or by name if you already have one in mind. Every fee is shown as
the centre published it — including the deposit and one-time charges that make the first
month two to three times the advertised figure.
What is changing
Three things are already decided and not yet reflected in most guides
online. Every figure here links to the government source it came from.
The subsidy income ceiling rises to S$15,000
The gross monthly household income ceiling for both the Infant and Childcare
Additional Subsidy and KiFAS rises from S$12,000 to S$15,000,
and the income bands are being restated. MSF expects more than 60,000 additional
families to qualify. If you were told you earn too much to apply, that may stop
being true on 1 January.
At the National Day Rally on 23 August 2026 the Prime Minister announced that
full-day childcare fees will fall to about S$150 a month and infant care to
about S$300, for every Singaporean child before means-tested subsidies.
Fees come down gradually from 2028, reaching those levels by 2030.
Nothing changes today, but a fee you are quoted now is not the fee you will pay for
the whole of your child's preschool years.
Full-day childcare at an Anchor Operator centre is capped at
S$610 a month excluding GST, and at a Partner Operator centre at
S$650. Infant care is capped at S$1,235 and S$1,290. Several guides — and
for a while one of ECDA's own pages — still carry the older S$640 figure, so it is
worth checking the date on anything you read about caps.
Comparing preschool costs in Singapore can be harder than it should be. Fees, deposits and subsidies are published across different sources, and working out the actual amount a family may need to pay often requires more calculation than expected.
This site brings that information together in one place and turns it into a clearer, more useful comparison — showing published fees, estimated costs after subsidies, and first-month expenses including deposits.
The goal is simple: make preschool costs easier to understand, compare and plan for, without hiding the details behind the numbers. The data stays as close as possible to the original ECDA sources and is checked regularly.
I built this after running into the same difficulty myself. It is an independent project, with no sponsored listings or paid placements.