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COE prices

How much is a COE now, ah? This round’s premiums for every category, how much they jumped or dropped, the PQP to renew, every premium since 1990, and when the next bidding is.

📅 Getting LTA’s latest results from data.gov.sg, newer than the saved ones…

Oct 2026, 2nd exercise

Cat ACars up to 1,600 cc and 97 kW (110 kW if fully electric)$132,004▲ +1.5% Cat BCars above 1,600 cc or 97 kW (110 kW if fully electric)$131,901▲ +1.4% Cat CGoods vehicles and buses$92,200▲ +0.3% Cat DMotorcycles$10,778▼ −2.1% Cat EOpen: any vehicle but a motorcycle$135,790▼ −0.9%

Category A

Cat A · Oct 2026, 2nd exercise$132,004Up $2,003 (1.5%) on the Oct 2026, 1st exercise.
Quota (COEs up for bidding)1,191
Bids received1,574 (1.32 a COE)
Successful bids1,187
PQP for November 2026 (to renew for 10 years)$129,883
to renew for 5 years$64,942

The PQP is the average premium of the bidding from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026, rounded up, as LTA works it out. Check OneMotoring before you renew.

Premiums over

The last 12 exercises

ExercisePremiumChangeQuotaBids
Oct 2026 · 2nd$132,004▲ +1.5%1,1911,574
Oct 2026 · 1st$130,001▼ −1.4%1,2321,560
Sep 2026 · 2nd$131,890▼ −0.8%1,1931,507
Sep 2026 · 1st$133,009▲ +3.5%1,1951,708
Aug 2026 · 2nd$128,501▲ +3.7%1,1971,600
Aug 2026 · 1st$123,890▼ −1.7%1,2261,522
Jul 2026 · 2nd$126,000▼ −2.3%1,2451,590
Jul 2026 · 1st$129,000▲ +4.2%1,2441,879
Jun 2026 · 2nd$123,847▼ −1.7%1,2511,768
Jun 2026 · 1st$126,009▲ +1.4%1,2462,076
May 2026 · 2nd$124,229▼ −0.4%1,2392,283
May 2026 · 1st$124,790▲ +1.4%1,3012,071

How COE bidding works

To own a vehicle in Singapore you need a Certificate of Entitlement (COE), good for 10 years. LTA sells a fixed quota of them in each category by open bidding, twice a month.

Questions

What is a COE?

A Certificate of Entitlement: the right to own and use a vehicle in Singapore for 10 years. LTA keeps the number of vehicles in check with a quota of COEs, set every three months from how many vehicles came off the road, and sells them by open bidding. The price is in the car’s showroom price, so when COE goes up, so does the car.

Which category is my car in?

Category A is for cars with an engine up to 1,600cc and up to 97kW (130bhp); a fully electric car can go up to 110kW (147bhp). Bigger or more powerful cars are Category B. Goods vehicles and buses are C, motorcycles D, and Category E is open: any vehicle except a motorcycle. Category A went by engine size alone until February 2014, when the 97kW limit came in; the 110kW limit for electric cars came in from May 2022. A car keeps its category when its COE is renewed; LTA’s page has the details.

Why does Category E cost about the same as Category B?

An Open COE can go on any vehicle but a motorbike, so dealers bid for it to sell big cars when Category B is tight. That keeps the two close. Unlike A, B and D, a Category C or E COE bid for by a person can also be transferred once.

What is the PQP?

The Prevailing Quota Premium is what you pay to renew a COE when its 10 years are up. LTA works out each month’s PQP as the average of the category’s premiums over the last three months that had bidding (usually six exercises), rounded up to the dollar. Pay the full PQP for another 10 years, or half of it for 5 years (which can’t be renewed again). The PQP here is this month’s, worked out the same way from LTA’s results; check OneMotoring for the PQP of the month you renew. Category E has none of its own: a vehicle on an Open COE renews at its own category’s PQP.

When is the next COE bidding, and when are the results out?

Twice a month: from 12 noon on the first and third Monday to 4pm on the Wednesday, later when a public holiday gets in the way. The results come out soon after it closes, and on this page once data.gov.sg has them, usually the same evening. The dates here are from LTA’s published schedule for the year (LTA puts out the next year’s near the end of the year); OneMotoring has any change.

Where do the numbers come from?

LTA’s COE Bidding Results / Prices on data.gov.sg, fetched when you open the page: the quota, bids received, successful bids and premium for each bidding since 2010. The line at the top says which bidding they go up to. Premiums from 1990 to 2009 are from LTA’s tables of past tenders and SingStat. Before April 1999 cars bid by engine size, so the chart’s Cat A and B lines there are the old 1,001 to 1,600cc and 1,601 to 2,000cc categories.

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