Singapore GLP-1 buyer's guide 2026: every legal route, scored honestly
Chi Longevity, The Longevity GP, Siena Health, Noah, Ordinary Folk, Clifford Clinic. SGD pricing, MOH 87/2024 in-person-first rule, what the 11-signal rubric scores them on, and how expats actually pick.
Singapore is the cleanest GLP-1 market in expat Southeast Asia. HSA registration is real, prescriber licensing is enforced, English fluency is the default, and there is no meaningful grey market. The catch is that on January 1 2024, the Ministry of Health published Circular 87/2024 capping pure-online GLP-1 prescribing — the first visit, by rule, must be in person. Pure telehealth flows like the UK's Voy or Numan are not directly portable here.
This guide is the version we wish we had when we audited the Singapore expat layer for our cohort-5 routing. SGD pricing on the public pages, what our 11-signal rubric scored each provider on, and where each one fits.
What is actually being sold
Three medications are in mainstream Singapore private prescription circulation: tirzepatide (brand Mounjaro, Eli Lilly), semaglutide (brand Wegovy for weight loss, Ozempic for diabetes, Novo Nordisk), and liraglutide (brand Saxenda) at the long tail. Tirzepatide became the dominant cash-pay choice in 2025. Semaglutide is more common where the prescriber leads with diabetes routing.
What you are paying for, on a Singapore private Rx, is some combination of:
1. The pen itself (Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk authorised distribution into Singapore) 2. A prescription decision by an MOH-licensed doctor at the first visit, in person, per Circular 87/2024 3. Cold-chain handling (the pen must stay between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius) 4. A wraparound layer: longevity programme, women-led app, men-led men's-health framing, or just a clinic visit
The variance in those four components is where the SGD 190 to SGD 3,000 monthly range comes from.
Per-dose pricing across the market, April 2026
Singapore GLP-1 is priced by month rather than by dose-step in most cases. We pulled the public pricing pages and normalised to a typical maintenance month at common doses.
| Provider | Route | Monthly SGD | Notes |
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Numbers are accurate as of April 2026. A few caveats. Most providers do not publish a starter-dose discount the way the UK market does. Some include the first in-person visit in the monthly fee, others charge SGD 80 to 220 separately. Cold-chain delivery is included by default. The match email Panya sends names the exact effective number for the route we recommend.
What our 11-signal rubric scores them on
Our rubric is public. Eleven signals, each scored 0 to 100. Below is how we scored the Singapore leaders.
Chi Longevity — 74/100. Strongest Singapore score in our audit. Co-founders include Professor Andrea Maier, formerly of the NUS Centre for Healthy Longevity. Premium positioning at the Four Seasons. Peptide stack alongside GLP-1, framed as longevity rather than weight loss. Lost points on price transparency — programme tier ranges are wide and the website intentionally directs you to a consultation rather than naming the number. Routable for cash-pay expats who want the longevity wraparound and are not price-sensitive.
The Longevity GP — 71/100. Longevity-aesthetic clinic, NUS-tied co-founders, less premium framing than Chi but the same clinical depth. Cleaner pricing transparency. Routable when the user signals "longevity programme" but does not need the Four Seasons positioning.
Siena Health — 70/100. Women-led hybrid telehealth. MOH 87/2024-compliant: first visit in their physical clinic, follow-ups online. Stripe-pay, English UI, transparent monthly ladder. The strongest fit for the woman-led-programme expat segment that Juniper UK serves in Britain. Routable.
We did not score Noah or Ordinary Folk in this round because their menus span GLP-1 plus erectile dysfunction plus hair loss plus testosterone, and the clinical positioning is more men's-health-first than weight-loss-first. We will revisit by Q3 2026.
We also did not score Clifford or Bay Aesthetics in this round because the public pricing pages were thin on dose-by-dose detail. They are routable as private-clinic options when the user wants face-to-face, but we have not finished the rubric pass.
Regulatory posture you should know about
Singapore GLP-1 is overseen by the Health Sciences Authority for medication registration and the Ministry of Health for prescriber and clinical conduct. Mounjaro and Ozempic are HSA-registered. Wegovy was registered in 2024. Saxenda has been available longer.
The defining rule for Singapore is MOH Circular 87/2024, published January 1 2024. It requires that the first visit for a GLP-1 prescription be in person, even at telehealth providers. Follow-up visits can be online. The intent is to constrain volume-driven pure-online flows where the clinical encounter is reduced to a form. Practical effect for expats: every legal Singapore route forces at least one clinic visit at the start. If a provider claims pure-online first prescription, that is a meaningful red flag.
Singapore has effectively no compounded GLP-1 market. HSA enforcement is strong enough, and the price gap between authorised and grey-market is small enough, that there is no pressure to compound. A few research-chemical sellers ship into Singapore from Hong Kong or mainland China, but importation is enforced and the consumer-protection asymmetry is enormous. Stay on the legal side.
If a Singapore provider you are considering is not licensed by the MOH (you can check via the HCSA register), do not enrol. The list is short and it is the floor.
How to pick
The decision tree we use when matching:
You want the lowest entry price into legal Singapore GLP-1. Siena Health (women-led) or Noah (men-led). SGD 190 to 420 per month, MOH-compliant first-in-person visit, then online. The price floor for the legal market.
You want a doctor-led GP visit, not a programme. Clifford Clinic or IMC Healthcare. SGD 320 to 650 per month. Face-to-face every visit, English-fluent staff, no app or coach layer.
You want longevity wraparound (peptide stack, biomarkers, dietitian). The Longevity GP (mid-premium) or Chi Longevity (top-premium). SGD 700 to 3,000 per month. The justification is the wraparound, not the medication itself — the same Mounjaro pen costs the same to ship, the rest is the programme.
You want women-specific clinical content. Siena Health. SGD 190 to 380 per month, women-led prescribers, content tailored to the cohort.
You want the cheapest path. There is no equivalent of Asda Online Doctor in Singapore. The legal price floor is roughly SGD 190 to 220 per month. If you are seeing a route below that number, ask harder questions about source.
What we will not tell you is which one is "best." There is no single best. The rubric is a tool to make tradeoffs explicit, not to anoint a winner. If you take the 2-minute quiz, Panya routes you to a specific provider for your dose, urgency, and budget, with the SGD per month and the in-person-visit ground-truth spelled out.
What we are not covering here
NHS-equivalent public routes. Singapore's public healthcare system (Singhealth, Polyclinics) does not currently subsidise GLP-1 for weight management. The MediShield Life and Integrated Shield plans rarely cover it either. Cash-pay is the default for the cohort that lands here.
Hong Kong day-trip routing. A small number of expats source from Hong Kong on visit days because the over-the-counter availability differs and the pricing can be lower. We do not route here because the cold-chain risk on a 4-hour transit is real and the legal posture for re-importing into Singapore is fuzzy.
Telehealth-only flows from outside Singapore. A few cross-border providers offer prescription and shipping into Singapore from the UK, Australia, or the US. We do not route here because they are operating outside MOH licensing and the consumer-protection asymmetry is severe.
Sources we audited against
- HSA registration database, April 2026
- MOH Circular 87/2024 — full text and clinical guidance
- HCSA licensed-provider register
- Each provider's published pricing page (April 2026)
- NUS Centre for Healthy Longevity faculty disclosures
- Cohort-5 outreach research, internal
Updated April 2026. We refresh quarterly. Last updated 2026-04-26.
If you spot a number that has shifted or a provider we have miscategorised, email partner@panya.health and we will check the source and update the page with a public changelog.
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