The one number Enterprise Singapore has attached to EDGE is up to S$100,000 per year for eligible activities, with assessment case by case above that. It is the figure every summary leads with, and the obvious next question is what it buys.
Here is the uncomfortable answer: nobody can tell you yet, including us.
Why the question cannot be answered
S$100,000 is a ceiling on support. It is not a ceiling on project cost, and it is not a project budget.
To turn a support ceiling into a project size you need the co-funding rate — the proportion of a qualifying cost the grant actually covers. That percentage has not been published. Neither has the eligibility rule that decides which of your costs qualify in the first place.
So the arithmetic everyone wants to do has two unknowns in it. If you have seen a figure for what EDGE will buy, it was produced by someone filling in at least one of them.
There is a second unknown underneath it: whether the S$100,000 is counted per company, per activity, or across all activities in a year. That has not been published either, and it changes the answer for any business with more than one project.
We keep the full record of what has and has not been announced up to date, including this figure and what is still missing around it.
What can be answered
The grant side is unknowable today. The cost side is not — that is a question about software, and we publish our answer to it.
These are our actual ranges, with the scope that sits at each end:
| Engagement | Range | Lower end | Upper end |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning & Scoping | S$950–S$2,500 | A single product or workflow | A multi-system brief with several integration boundaries |
| Business App / MVP | S$2,700–S$24,000 | One workflow, one user role, standard integrations | Several user roles, payments or bespoke integrations |
| AI & Workflow Automation | S$6,500–S$40,000 | A single-workflow pilot across one or two systems | A multi-system programme with formal evaluation and audit requirements |
| Ongoing Support & Maintenance | S$600–S$5,000 per month | Monitoring, patching and a small release allowance | Larger capacity, faster response and several systems |
Read the table for the shape rather than the endpoints. A first release of an internal tool is a different order of commitment from a multi-system automation programme, and both are smaller than the headline grant figure — which is exactly why the co-funding rate matters more than the ceiling does. For most SME software projects, the constraint is unlikely to be the S$100,000 cap. It is far more likely to be what proportion of the cost qualifies, and that is the part nobody has published.
The full pricing page carries every range with the example scope at each end.
What moves a project inside its range
The spread on each range is not vagueness. It is four specific things, and they are the same four whether or not a grant is involved:
The number of user roles. One user type doing one job is a fraction of the work of three user types with different permissions, views and edge cases. Each role multiplies the states that have to be designed, built and tested.
Integrations, and who controls them. Connecting to a system with a documented API and an owner who answers email is routine. Connecting to one where nobody knows who holds the credentials is where timelines go.
How production-ready it has to be on day one. An internal tool used by five colleagues who can tolerate a bug is a different engagement from a customer-facing system that takes payments.
How much is still undefined. Undefined scope gets priced as risk. A brief precise enough to write acceptance criteria against is the single largest lever a buyer controls.
The SME software buyer's guide works through all four in detail.
What to do instead of waiting for the number
The support percentage will be published eventually. Until then, the useful work does not depend on it.
Price the project on its own merits. Work out what the build costs and what the problem costs you now. If the project only makes sense with support, the grant is subsidising a decision you would otherwise have rejected, and an unpublished percentage will not change that.
Get the scope written. Both the current schemes and, on any reading, EDGE assess a defined project rather than an intention. The document that makes an application assessable is the same one that makes a build quotable, so it is not wasted either way.
Record your baseline before anything starts. "This approval workflow takes 11 staff-hours a week across four people, measured over the last quarter" is a number you can claim improvement against later. You cannot reconstruct it after the fact.
Frequently asked questions
Is S$100,000 the most a company can receive under EDGE? Up to S$100,000 per year for eligible activities is the announced figure, with assessment case by case above it. Whether it is counted per company, per activity or across all activities in a year has not been published.
What percentage of my software project would EDGE cover? No support percentages have been published. Any figure quoted for this is not drawn from an announcement.
Does a S$100,000 ceiling mean I can build a S$100,000 system for free? No. It is a ceiling on support, not a project budget, and grants co-fund rather than fully fund. The proportion has not been published.
How much should I actually budget for a first release? Our published range for a bounded first release is S$2,700–S$24,000, depending on user roles, integrations and how production-ready it has to be on day one. Final scope and price are confirmed in writing before work begins.
This article reflects publicly available information as of August 2026 and is not official government advice. PSOI Tech is a software studio, not a grant consultant, and makes no representation that any engagement is eligible for any scheme. Verify current requirements at Enterprise Singapore and the GoBusiness portal.
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