What "up to 50% off with the PSG grant" really means

If you’ve shopped for a website in Singapore, you’ve seen the banner: “PSG pre-approved, up to 50% off!”

The Productivity Solutions Grant is real, useful, and worth understanding. But “up to 50%” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and most agencies won’t walk you through the maths. So here it is.

The two numbers that matter

Every pre-approved package has two prices in its official paperwork:

1. The package price: what you pay the vendor.
2. The qualifying cost: the portion the grant actually co-funds.

The grant pays up to 50% of the qualifying cost, not of the package price. For cheaper, templated packages, the two numbers are usually the same, and 50% means 50%. But qualifying costs are capped. For the premium custom e-commerce packages (the S$9,000–10,000 tier most agencies steer you toward), the qualifying cost is typically capped around S$5,600. That cap is set for the e-commerce solution category; non-e-commerce website packages may carry a different cap.

Worked example. A S$10,000 e-commerce package with a S$5,600 qualifying cost gets a maximum grant of S$2,800. You pay S$7,200. That’s a 28% discount, not 50%. On the official price sheets we studied across the major pre-approved e-commerce vendors, premium packages consistently land at 28–31% real discount. “Up to 50%” is only true at the bottom of the range.

Three things to check before you sign a grant-led quote

1. Is the vendor actually listed right now? Pre-approved status isn’t permanent: appointments run roughly a year at a time, and listings churn. Some agencies keep the badge on their website after their listing lapses. Don’t take the claim for granted; search the official PSG directory yourself for the vendor’s name. If they’re not there, the grant claim isn’t current, whatever the website says.

2. Read the Annex 3, it tells you the real price of your solution. Every pre-approved solution has a public PDF (“Annex 3”) listing exactly what the package includes: page counts, product limits, revision rounds, the package price and the qualifying cost. This is the closest thing to published pricing and will allow you to make a more educated decision. If a vendor’s quote doesn’t match their own annex, ask why.

3. Ask: “What’s your price without the grant?” This is the question that separates honest pricing from grant-inflated pricing. If the answer is vague, or the no-grant price mysteriously matches the post-grant price, the grant isn’t saving you money; it’s absorbing a markup.

Where we stand

LaunchSite is not a PSG pre-approved vendor, and that’s a deliberate choice for now. Our prices are published on this site and they’re the same with or without a grant: S$1,800 / S$4,500 / S$5,500 base, every add-on listed.

If a grant-subsidised package from a listed vendor genuinely beats our price for the scope you need, take it, sincerely. The grant exists to help you. Just do the two-minute directory check and the annex read first, so you know what you’re comparing.

And if you’d like a second pair of eyes on any quote (ours included), read our free Quote Decoder checklist. It’s the same list we’d use.

Prices and grant parameters verified against official sources in July 2026. Grant terms change; always confirm current figures at gobusiness.gov.sg.