About GoldPrices.sg & Our Methodology

GoldPrices.sg is an independent comparison of the gold and silver rates Singapore shops publish online. As of 23 Oct 2026, 7:04 PM SGT it tracks 27 rates from 9 sources. We do not buy or sell gold.

What the numbers are

Selling price (Buy): what the shop charges you per gram of gold. For jewellery, a making charge and 9% GST are usually added.
Cash buyback (Sell): what the shop pays you per gram when you sell, after it tests and weighs the gold.
Trade-in: what your old gold is worth per gram towards a new piece at the same shop. It is not cash.
Bank bar prices: UOB's buy and sell prices for its 1 kg 999.9 gold bar, divided by 1,000 to show per gram. Banks buy back bars, not jewellery.

Purity

999 (24K): 99.9% gold.
916 (22K): 91.6% gold, the most common jewellery purity in Singapore.
750 (18K): 75% gold.
999 silver: 99.9% fine silver (bank silver accounts are priced per troy ounce, 31.1 g; we show per gram).

How we collect and check rates

Several times a day an automated collector reads each source's public rate page once, identifying itself as GoldPricesSGBot, waiting between requests and following each site's robots.txt, including crawl delays.
Each number is copied exactly as shown, with the shop's own timestamp where it gives one, and our check time.
Selling, cash buyback and trade-in rates are stored separately and never mixed.
Every value is compared with the international spot price × purity. Values outside a plausible range (for example a buyback far above spot) are dropped and logged, never corrected or guessed.
If a shop's page can't be read, its last good rate (less than 36 hours old) is shown and labelled; older rates are removed.
A shop whose own timestamp is 3 or more days old is labelled “Not updated recently”.

Spot reference

The international spot price (gold-api.com XAU and XAG in USD per troy ounce, converted with open.er-api.com USD/SGD) is shown for context only. No shop buys or sells at spot.

Featured shops and ranking

Rankings are always by published rate: lowest selling price, highest buyback. Featured shops are partners; rankings are always by published rate. Currently featured: none.

Sources checked but not included

SK Jewellery: Rates are filled in by script from /api/, which the site's robots.txt disallows.
Poh Kong: Website did not respond (connection failed) when checked on 22 Oct 2026.
Lee Hwa Jewellery: Website shows a 'coming soon' page with no gold rates.
Malabar Gold & Diamonds: Gold rate page loads its numbers by script; nothing readable in the page.
Joyalukkas: No gold rates found in the Singapore page's HTML.
BullionStar: Prices are per product and load by script; no per-gram rate in the page.
Silver Bullion: Shows international spot prices and per-product prices, not a per-gram shop rate.
GoldSilver Central: Prices and buy-back are per coin or bar product, not per gram.

Indicative rates. These are the per-gram rates each shop publishes on its website. Jewellery prices usually add a making (workmanship) charge and 9% GST on top of the gold rate; investment-grade gold (bars) is GST-exempt. Buyback offers are made after the shop tests and weighs your gold, and can differ for damaged, hollow, stone-set or branded pieces. Confirm the rate with the shop before you go.

Corrections

Spotted a wrong rate? Shops and readers can reach us via our contact form.