What a groom costs, by size
Dog grooming prices in Singapore run $45 to $160 for a bath and tidy and $70 to $350 for a full groom, banded by dog size. De-shedding adds from $20, de-matting from $15 and a nail trim $10 to $25. Coat condition, not breed, decides where inside a band your own dog lands.
| Service | Small / toy | Medium | Large |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath & tidy | $45–75 | $65–95 | $90–160 |
| Full grooming | $70–130 | $110–200 | $150–350 |
| De-shedding (add-on) | from $20 | from $35 | from $60 |
| De-matting (add-on) | from $15 | from $25 | from $40 |
| Nail trim (add-on) | $10–20 | $10–20 | $15–25 |
Indicative ranges based on published Singapore salon rates (2026). Your matched groomer confirms the final quote.
. Synthesised from published Singapore rate cards. We set no prices.
How to place your own dog in a band
Price by dog size is the spine of every Singapore rate card. Small means roughly under 10kg, medium 10 to 20kg and large over 20kg on this page. Coat overrides size on curly, wool and double coats: a 6kg matted doodle takes the table time of a 12kg dog and is quoted like one, which is why two owners of the same weight of dog get different numbers.
- Under 5kg grooming price sits at the floor of the small band
- 5 to 10kg grooming, curly or wool coat: top of the small band
- 10 to 20kg grooming price: the medium band, drying time is the driver
- Over 20kg grooming price: the large band, and budget for the de-shed
Weight band pricing cut-offs differ between every published Singapore price list, which is one reason comparing two of them directly rarely works. A toy breed grooming price on one list starts where a mini dog grooming price ends on another, and a giant breed grooming price is frequently just marked POA. These are the cut-offs used here, stated so you can convert.
Where these figures come from
Every dog grooming price list in Singapore you can find on page one is one salon publishing its own rates. Searches for dog grooming cost singapore, dog grooming rates singapore and pet grooming price singapore all return the same handful of individual rate cards, and so do dog groomer prices singapore and grooming charges singapore. That is useful and it is not a market view.
If you came looking for a dog grooming singapore price list rather than one salon's menu, this is it, and a dog grooming price list singapore wide is only honest when it is a range. How much is dog grooming in singapore has no single answer because dog grooming prices singapore wide are not set by anybody, and the only honest version of a price list is a synthesised range with the sources and the date attached. The bands above are synthesised from the published rate cards of several independent Singapore salons and mobile groomers, taking the observed floor and the observed ceiling for each service at each size rather than any single business's list.
Where published rates conflicted, both figures are inside the band. One salon publishes a full groom for a mini or toy at $110 to $130. Another publishes a small full groom at $90. A third publishes from $85 to $120. All three are real, and the spread is a scissored finish against a clipper cut plus one to one time against a rotation. That is why the small full groom band here reads $70 to $130 rather than a single average nobody would recognise.
Last checked July 2026. Prices change annually in this market, so an indicative price range with a date on it is worth more than a confident figure without one, and independent groomer pricing moves at different times for different businesses. We set none of these rates.
A market rate grooming singapore figure does not exist as a published thing, so treat this as a price benchmark grooming quotes can be measured against rather than as a tariff. We are a matching service: the groomer you are matched with quotes you directly, and that quote is theirs. how this site makes money explains the arrangement in full.
7 things that move the price
Two dogs the same weight can be quoted sixty dollars apart, and the reason is never arbitrary. Here is what a groomer is actually pricing when they look at your dog, with a direction and a rough size against each one rather than the phrase prices may vary.
| Driver | Direction | Rough size of the effect |
|---|---|---|
| Dog size | Up with weight and large coat volume | Roughly triples from small to large |
| Coat type affects price | Curly coat pricing and a wool coat surcharge sit above a short coat cheaper groom | Adds 20% to 40% against a short single coat |
| Matting adds time | A matted coat quote is condition-led, charged as time | From $15 small to $40 large, then a time based grooming rate |
| Service level | A scissored finish costs more, a clipper cut cheaper | A full groom is roughly 1.6 to 2 times a bath and tidy |
| Behaviour surcharge, nervous dog or senior dog extra time | Nervous, senior or first-timers take longer | Often absorbed, sometimes a small surcharge |
| Mobile against studio | Mobile groomer cost runs above a studio grooming price | A mobile premium percentage of roughly 20% to 40% |
| Add-ons | Priced on top of the base groom | $5 to $10 each, double coat de-shed cost from $20 |
The de-matting surcharge, quantified
A dematting surcharge is charged as time rather than as a penalty, and it is the single largest source of quote anxiety in this market. Not one of the top seven results on the Singapore price search puts a figure on it. Go looking on the de-matting search instead and four salons publish four incompatible units: $10 per five minutes, about $30 per half hour, a from-price of $15 with no ceiling, and $60 for a twenty-minute session with two groomers. how de-matting is charged converts all four into what one job actually costs.
Our own add-on bands start at $15 for a small dog, $25 for a medium and $40 for a large one, and they are floors rather than ranges because the ceiling depends entirely on how long the coat takes. At least one Singapore salon caps the surcharge at half the grooming price and gives the first thirty minutes of detangling free, which means asking any groomer for a ceiling is a normal request rather than a cheeky one.
Scissored or clipped, the sixty dollar question
A clipper cut runs a blade over the coat at one guard length and is fast. A hand-scissored finish shapes the coat by eye, takes considerably longer, and sits at the top of every published band. That single choice is most of the gap between a $90 quote and a $130 one on the same small dog.
Neither is better. A clipper cut on a doodle in this climate is practical, comfortable and cheap. A scissored finish on a shih tzu you are showing is worth what it costs. What matters is specifying which you want when you ask for the quote, because a groomer quoting for a clip and an owner expecting scissoring is how a price argument starts. The same gap explains one to one time pricing against rotation salon pricing: a groomer who stays with one dog from bath to finish charges for the hour they are not spending on another.
- Puppy cut price and teddy bear cut price: full groom band, one even length all over
- Summer cut price and kennel clip price: full groom band, shorter guard, lasts longer
- Lamb trim cost: full groom band, body short and legs left fuller
- Full scissoring price: the top of the band, sometimes above it on a large coat
- Face trim price and top knot price: usually inside the groom, or $8 to $10 alone
What is included, and what is charged on top
Inclusions vary far more between salons than headline prices do, which makes comparing two quotes harder than it looks. what a full groom actually includes sets out the standard shape of the appointment, and the list below is what to check against any quote you are given.
| Item | Usually included | Usually charged on top |
|---|---|---|
| Bath and blow dry price, plus the brush-out | Yes | |
| Nail clipping cost, ear cleaning price, sanitary trim price, paw pad trim price | Yes, inside the groom | $5 to $10 each if bought alone |
| Full haircut or breed trim | In a full groom only | In a bath and tidy |
| Deshedding treatment cost, undercoat removal price | From $20 to $60 by size | |
| De-matting and mat removal cost | From $15 to $40, then by time | |
| Medicated shampoo surcharge, flea shampoo add on | Usually $10 to $20 | |
| Teeth brushing add on | About $5 | |
| Anal gland expression cost | Often, on request | About $5 alone |
| Puppy first groom price | Usually inside the bath and tidy band |
Get a real number for your dog
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What common Singapore breeds usually cost
There is no breed pricing in this market, only size and coat pricing, but almost every owner arrives with a breed rather than a weight. The table below applies the bands above to typical adult weights for the breeds Singapore households actually keep. It is a translation, not a separate tariff.
| Breed | Typical adult weight | Usual service | Expected range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maltese grooming price | 3 to 4kg | Full groom | $75 to $110 |
| Shih tzu grooming price singapore | 5 to 7kg | Full groom | $80 to $120 |
| Toy poodle groom cost | 3 to 5kg | Full groom, curly | $85 to $130 |
| Maltipoo groom cost | 4 to 6kg | Full groom, wool | $85 to $130 |
| Cavapoo grooming price | 6 to 9kg | Full groom, wool | $95 to $150 |
| Pomeranian grooming cost | 2 to 3kg | Bath, tidy and de-shed | $70 to $110 |
| Schnauzer grooming price | 6 to 9kg | Full groom, wiry | $90 to $140 |
| Shiba inu grooming price | 8 to 11kg | Bath and de-shed | $90 to $150 |
| Beagle grooming price | 10 to 13kg | Bath and tidy | $65 to $95 |
| Corgi grooming price | 10 to 14kg | Bath and de-shed | $110 to $170 |
| Doodle grooming price singapore | 12 to 20kg | Full groom, wool | $130 to $200 |
| Husky grooming cost singapore | 20 to 27kg | Bath and heavy de-shed | $180 to $300 |
| Golden retriever grooming price singapore | 28 to 34kg | Bath, de-shed and tidy | $150 to $250 |
Does the price change by area?
A little, and less than owners expect. Studio rent is the mechanism: a central area premium grooming slot in a shophouse near Orchard or Bukit Timah tends to sit at the top of the band, and a heartland groomer price in a Yishun or Punggol void deck unit sits nearer the middle. The gap is usually ten to twenty dollars on a small dog rather than a different band.
An HDB dog grooming price and a condo grooming price are the same price. Where you live changes travel rather than the work, and it only shows up on a mobile booking, where an island wide grooming price is normally flat with a surcharge for the far ends of the island rather than a different rate per town.
Yishun grooming price, Punggol grooming price and Tampines grooming price searches all come back to the same bands on this page. What genuinely differs by town is which groomers cover you and how many of them there are, which is a supply question rather than a pricing one.
Mobile grooming: what the premium actually buys
Mobile dog grooming price singapore searches usually end in the same question: how much more? The observed answer is roughly 20% to 40% above a studio slot for the same dog, and the gap is travel time rather than margin. A groomer doing four house calls a day covers less work than one doing seven dogs in a studio, and the price carries the difference.
Offset it honestly before you decide. A pet taxi surcharge or a ride-hail with a dog, where the driver accepts one at all, is frequently $20 to $30 of the difference on its own, and grooming with transport cost included is how several groomers price it anyway. The two hours you spend on a drop off grooming price run have a value too. what the mobile premium buys covers the three formats: a grooming van price at your block, a home visit groomer cost using your own bathroom, and studio drop-off.
For a nervous dog, a senior dog, or a household with no car, the premium is often the cheapest part of the arrangement. For a confident dog five minutes from a good studio, it is money spent on convenience, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to buy and worth naming as such.
What you are paying for
Most of a grooming bill is drying and brushing time rather than cutting. A finish like this is roughly two hours of work on a coat that was combable when it arrived, and closer to three on one that was not.
Three dogs, three real quotes
A band is only useful once you can place your own dog in it. Three worked examples, each with the reasoning that produces the figure.
A 5kg shih tzu, well brushed, studio full groom
Small band, good condition, no add-ons needed. Expect $85 to $95 for a clipper cut and closer to $110 to $130 for a hand-scissored finish. Nails and ears are inside the price. Nothing here should produce a surprise, and if the quote comes back above $130 the groomer is either scissoring or has seen something in the coat worth asking about.
A 9kg doodle, six weeks overdue, mobile
Medium band, curly coat, and the condition is the whole story. A full groom sits at $110 to $200, the mobile premium adds roughly 20% to 40%, and matting adds a de-matting charge from $25 that runs on time. A realistic expectation is $180 to $230, and it can go higher if the coat has felted at the armpits and back legs. This is the dog that produces most of the complaints about surprise charges in this market.
A 22kg corgi, de-shed plus bath
Large band, double coat, no haircut needed because there is nothing to cut. A bath and tidy at $90 to $160 plus a de-shedding treatment from $60 lands at roughly $150 to $220. Most of that money is drying and blowing out the undercoat, which on a corgi is the bulk of the appointment and the reason it takes two hours.
What stretching the interval costs you
Waiting an extra month rarely saves what owners think it saves. Extra brush-out time is chargeable time, and a coat that took twenty minutes to brush out at six weeks takes forty at ten. On a time-based add-on that difference is real money rather than goodwill.
Then the de-matting charge lands on top, and if the coat has gone past combing the answer is a clip-off, which resets a style you may have spent six months growing. A small dog groomed every six weeks at $95 costs about $825 a year. The same dog groomed every ten weeks at $95 plus a $30 de-matting charge each time costs about $650, so you do save, and you buy a permanently shorter coat and a less comfortable dog with the difference.
The largest cost is not on the invoice. A dog that has had two painful de-matting sessions becomes harder to groom for years, and every subsequent appointment takes longer, costs more and goes worse. That is the real price of stretching the interval.
How to keep your dog at the bottom of its band
Almost all of the spread inside a band is coat condition, and coat condition is free to control. keeping a coat combable between grooms covers the method properly: brushing to the skin in sections rather than over the top, ten minutes every second day rather than an hour on Sunday, and finishing with a metal comb because the comb is the test.
Book before the coat needs rescuing rather than after. A groomer working a clean coat is fast, and fast is cheap. Keep nails on their own three to four week cycle instead of waiting for the groom, because long nails add table time and are the cheapest thing on any menu to fix.
Say what you want at the point of booking. A clipper cut costs less than scissoring, a shorter guard length lasts longer between visits, and both are perfectly good outcomes if that is what you have asked for. Brush at home save money is not a slogan here: avoiding one de-matting fee a year pays for a month of the annual budget.
A year of grooming, budgeted
Nobody in this market publishes an annual figure, which is odd given that grooming is a standing cost rather than a one-off. how often your dog actually needs a groom sets the intervals by coat type; the table below turns those intervals into a year.
| Dog | Pattern | Per visit | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small, curly coat | Full groom every 6 weeks, 9 visits | About $95 | About $855 |
| Small, alternating | 5 full grooms, 4 bath and tidies | $95 and $60 | About $715 |
| Medium, wool coat | Full groom every 6 to 8 weeks, 8 visits | About $150 | About $1,200 |
| Large, double coat | Bath and de-shed every 8 weeks, 6 visits | About $185 | About $1,110 |
| Nails, any size | Every 3 to 4 weeks between grooms, 4 extra | About $15 | About $60 |
If/then: which service to book for your budget
The cheapest correct service beats a discount on the wrong one every time. a bath and tidy instead of a full groom is the most common right answer for a coat that is clean and combable but simply due, and de-shedding as an add-on is the right answer for a double coat that is not going to be cut at all.
| If this is your situation | Book this | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Budget tight, coat combs through cleanly | Bath and tidy | Roughly 40% less than a full groom |
| Comb catches and lifts the skin | De-matting first, style later | Cutting a matted coat properly is not possible |
| Fur all over the flat, comb runs clear | Bath plus de-shedding | No haircut needed on a double coat |
| Only the nails are a problem | Standalone nail trim | $10 to $25, under fifteen minutes |
| Puppy under 16 weeks | Short first session | A handling appointment rather than a haircut |
Is cheap grooming a false economy?
Is dog grooming expensive, or is cheap grooming the false economy? Not always, and pretending otherwise would be an upsell. Cheapest dog grooming singapore searches are perfectly reasonable, and value for money grooming is a real thing to look for. What a higher price buys is time: one to one attention rather than a rotation, a slower dry, a hand-finished coat. A confident, easy, short-coated dog does not need any of those things, and a fast efficient groom at the bottom of the band is genuinely the right purchase for that dog.
Where cheap goes wrong is specific rather than general. A nervous dog rushed through a rotation learns to dread the whole thing. A matted coat worked fast is worked painfully. A senior dog needs breaks. A flat-faced breed needs someone watching its breathing during the dry, and that is a handling question rather than a price one, which SPCA Singapore makes the same point about from the welfare side.
The useful question is not whether the groomer is cheap. It is whether the time in the quote matches the dog you are handing over.
Questions that stop a surprise charge
Four questions asked before the appointment prevent almost every pricing dispute in this market, and the five questions worth asking covers the rest of the conversation.
- What does that price include, item by item?
- What would push it higher, and by roughly how much?
- Will you call me before you exceed the quote?
- Is that for a clipper cut or a scissored finish?
- Are your prices GST inclusive?
Licensing and the costs around grooming
Grooming is not the only recurring cost attached to a dog here, and the licence is the one new owners meet first. For each of your first three dogs, AVS licence fees publish $15 for one year, $25 for two years, or $35 once for the life of the dog if it is sterilised. A non-sterilised dog is $90 a year, $165 for two years or $230 for three, with no one-time option at all.
The one-time $35 licence for a sterilised dog is available now, and it is the single cheapest piece of admin available to a Singapore dog owner. A 10% rebate applies to payments made online, by GIRO or through AXS. Microchipping comes first, because the application asks for the number, and the whole thing runs through licensing through PALS. Rates checked against AVS on 25 July 2026; confirm before paying.
Household limits shape this market more than any pricing decision does. HDB approved breeds allows one dog of an approved small breed in a flat, plus up to two cats, while private property allows up to three dogs or cats in total. That is why Singapore's grooming market is built around small dogs, and why the small band is the one most owners here will ever use.
Why we publish ranges rather than a rate card
We are a matchmaker, not a salon. We do not groom dogs, we do not employ groomers, and we do not set prices. Publishing a single confident figure we could not honour would make this page a rate card for a business that does not exist.
We have no interest at all in what you are then quoted, which is why the bands here are the observed market rather than the number that would convert best. We set no prices and take no share of what you pay. the four steps after you enquire sets out exactly what happens to an enquiry.
The matched groomer quotes you directly, based on your dog, its coat and the work in front of them, and it is a no obligation quote in the plain sense that nothing happens until you book it. If it comes back outside these bands, ask why. There is usually a real answer, and it is usually the coat.
What we do with your details
Your details go to the groomers we match you with and nowhere else. We do not sell contact details on and we do not pass them to unrelated third parties. The Personal Data Protection Commission sets the rules we work to, and you can ask us to delete your enquiry at any time by replying to any message from us.
Read before you book
Three guides worth ten minutes before you spend a hundred dollars: mobile against studio in full, the choosing guide, and the matting prevention guide that keeps you at the bottom of your band. groomers covering your town shows where matched groomers work if you would rather start from location.