Cheapest KTV in Singapore — real nightlife prices per head

The cheapest nightlife KTV night in Singapore starts around $26 a head: Iconic KTV in Selegie lets three people into its small room on a single $78 tower, and Pub 28 in Geylang rents flat-rate karaoke rooms at $200 during happy hour — $20 each for a full group of ten, before drinks. The cheapest drinks sit elsewhere: Ume KTV in Novena and B12 Delux KTV near Clarke Quay both list $40 beer towers, roughly half the going rate in the Orchard basements.

One scope note, because most search results get this wrong: pages ranking for “cheap KTV Singapore” list hourly family karaoke studios — a different product, where you pay for the room by the hour and drinks are optional. This page covers nightlife KTVs, where the room is free but carries a drink minimum. If you’re not sure which you want, start with the types of drinking spots in Singapore. All figures below are reference numbers from our venue pages, dated and unverified until a venue confirms them.

The cheapest ways in, by the numbers

Each row is the best-value route into that venue — the room whose minimum splits cheapest at full occupancy, at the venue’s listed tower price:

Venue	District	Best-value room	Floor	Per head, room full
Pub 28	Geylang	Room, up to 10 pax	$200 happy hour / $300 night, flat	$20–30
B12 Delux	Clarke Quay	Medium, 3–5 pax, 3 towers	$120–150 ($40–50 towers)	$24–30
Iconic KTV	Bugis	Small, 1–3 pax, 1 tower	$78	$26
Ume KTV	Novena	Medium, 3–4 pax, 3 towers	$120 ($40 towers)	$30
Gala KTV	Jalan Besar	Small, 1–2 pax, 1 tower	$78	$39
New Lisbo	Jalan Besar	Small, 1–2 pax, 1 tower	$78	$39

Two floors skip the minimum entirely. New Lisbo KTV’s open hall seats ten with no minimum — walk in, order one $78 tower, sing. Pub 28’s fifty-seat hall works the same way, with Carlsberg buckets at $60. Either is the cheapest way to try the format before committing a group to a room.

Cheapest drinks vs cheapest entry — not the same venue

The two levers pull in different directions. Ume and B12 have the cheapest drinks we track ($40 towers; Ume’s Martell VSOP at $180 is the lowest bottle price on our list), but their small rooms carry two-tower-plus-bottle minimums — Ume’s two-person room floor works out to $260, or $130 a head for a pair. Gala, New Lisbo and Iconic charge nearly double per tower ($78) but let a pair or trio in on one tower flat.

So the cheap route depends on your group size. Two or three people: go where the entry minimum is one tower — Iconic, Gala or New Lisbo. Four or five: go where the tower is $40, because a three-tower medium room at Ume or B12 undercuts everything at that size. Eight to ten: Pub 28’s flat-rate room is hard to beat, and the dollar pricing makes the split obvious before you sit down. The full mechanics of how minimums scale are in KTV minimum spend, explained.

Timing moves every number

Every venue above runs a happy hour, and it’s the single biggest discount available. Ume, Gala and New Lisbo open at 3:30pm with happy hour to 7pm; B12 and Iconic run 4–7pm; Pub 28 runs 5–9pm and cuts its room rate from $300 to $200 in the window. Where hostess tips apply, they appear as a separate bill line and drop in the same window — $50 per session at happy hour against $100 on weeknights at the rooms we track. An early start at a value venue can halve the bill against the same night started at 10pm.

What a “cheap” night actually costs

Be realistic about the gap between the floor and the tab. The venues themselves list typical spends far above the minimums: B12 lists roughly $195 a head for a group of four, Gala about $209 for three, Ume about $214 — figures that assume bottles and hosting, not one shared tower. Treat those as the reference ceiling and the table above as the floor; where your night lands depends on what your table orders. The way to keep it cheap isn’t to drink more of something cheaper — it’s to book the room whose minimum matches what your group would order anyway, and to start early.

Prices here move often and none are venue-confirmed yet — every venue page carries the date we last checked. Start with the district pages for the value clusters: Jalan Besar for one-tower entry rooms, Novena for the cheapest drinks, Geylang for flat-rate rooms. If a number here doesn’t match what a venue quotes you, tell us and we’ll fix it.