Type “durian delivery Singapore” and you get shops. This page is not one. It explains what those shops are selling, how the same-day promise actually works, what they publish about fees and guarantees, and how to compare a box price with the per-kilo price on a stall board, so that whichever service you use, you know what you are paying for.
What you are actually buying
A stall sells you a fruit. A delivery service, with few exceptions, sells you flesh. The durian is opened at the packer’s end, the pods are lifted out with their seeds, and they are sealed into a box of a stated weight, usually 400g, 600g, 750g or 800g. Some services vacuum-seal the box, some heat-seal it, and at least one chills it for the ride.
That changes two things. You never see the whole fruit, so every check you would run at a stall, the stem, the shake, the smell at the base, has been done by someone else, and you are trusting their grading rather than your own. And the price is a box price, which is a different unit from the per-kilo price on a stall board. The two are only comparable once you convert one into the other, which is the next section.
A few services also sell whole fruit by the kilo for delivery, and price per kilo of whole fruit. When you see two prices for the same variety that differ by a factor of three or four, that is almost always the difference between a whole-fruit kilo and a flesh kilo, not a difference in quality.
Converting a box price into a stall price
Flesh is a minority of a durian’s weight. The published range is 15 to 30 per cent of whole-fruit weight, and one Singapore delivery service, 99 Old Trees, publishes its own seasonal figure on its product pages: 26 to 27 per cent average flesh weight to gross whole-fruit weight for the 2026 season, from Raub fruit, with the note that its box weights include the seed. That is a useful anchor because it is a working packer’s number rather than a textbook one.
At 26 per cent, an 800g box is about 3kg of whole fruit. So a box priced at S$80 is the equivalent of roughly S$27 per kilo of whole fruit, before you account for the dehusking and the delivery. Several services print exactly this conversion beside the box price as a per-kilo figure, and it is the whole-fruit equivalent they are quoting, not the price of the flesh itself.
Run the conversion the other way too. A stall quoting S$25 per kilo for whole Musang King is quoting roughly S$95 per kilo of flesh at the same yield. The dehusked box is not the rip-off it looks like once both numbers are in the same unit, and the stall is not the bargain it looks like either. The guide to how durian is graded covers why yield varies with grade, and the professional kitchens guide does the same sum from the buyer’s side.
How same-day works
The pattern is close to identical across the services that publish their process:
- Fruit crosses from Malaysia in the morning. Most services name Pahang, and several name Raub specifically. One quotes ten hours from tree drop to Singapore.
- Dehusking happens after you order, in the afternoon. The better services make a point of this, because flesh that sat open for hours before packing has been ripening in the box.
- Delivery runs in an evening window. One service publishes 7:30pm to 10:30pm, another takes orders from 10am to 10pm, and the windows are explicitly subject to when the fruit arrived.
- Express is a separate product. One to two hour delivery exists and is priced above the normal run. Several services advertise it, three of them promising 60 minutes.
The practical consequence is that “same day” means order by mid-afternoon, eat tonight. Order at 8pm and you are in tomorrow’s run whatever the banner says, and on a heavy day the slots run out, which more than one service warns about on its front page.
Fees, thresholds and guarantees, as published
The table below is what each service published on its own website on 20 September 2026, at the tail of the season. Fees and thresholds change, and prices move weekly in season, so treat it as a snapshot of the market’s shape rather than a price list. Where a site did not state a figure the cell says so.
| Service | Delivery fee, as published |
|---|---|
| duriandelivery.com.sg | Free above S$100* |
| duriandeliverysg.sg | Not stated |
| Durian SG Prime | Free above S$99, S$7.50 below, S$15 express |
| 99 Old Trees | S$9.90, free above S$180 |
| freshdurian.com.sg | Free above S$100 |
| Jiak Durian Mai | Free above S$100 |
| Durian Empire | Not stated |
*S$150 for Sentosa and Lim Chu Kang.
What each one publishes about timing, format and the guarantee, same date:
- duriandelivery.com.sg: 24/7 delivery; dehusked 800g boxes; free replacement for a bad fruit.
- duriandeliverysg.sg: order by afternoon for same day; dehusked to order, with whole fruit also priced per kilo; one-for-one replacement on a photo.
- Durian SG Prime (duriansg.com.sg): 60-minute delivery, plus a shopfront on Geylang Road; dehusked 800g “all meat” boxes; an on-time delivery warranty and a refund guarantee.
- 99 Old Trees: delivery 7:30pm to 10:30pm subject to the fruit’s arrival, self pick-up 7pm to 9pm; dehusked, heat-sealed 750g boxes that may arrive chilled; if an item cannot be replaced, you can cancel and are refunded.
- freshdurian.com.sg: orders 10am to 10pm with 60-minute delivery; free replacement.
- Jiak Durian Mai: delivery within 2 hours of the order; dehusked 600g and 800g boxes; one-for-one replacement if you contact them within 24 hours.
- Durian Empire: limited delivery slots per day; vacuum-sealed boxes; no guarantee stated.
For scale, a service that closed during 2026 published S$10.80 for normal delivery and S$15.80 for a one-hour express run, close to the same band.
Read the pattern rather than any one row. Free delivery above about S$100 is the market norm, one service sets it at S$180 with a lower flat fee, and the guarantee is almost always a one-for-one replacement claimed with a photograph or proof of order, not a refund. That last point matters if you are ordering for an event: a replacement box tomorrow does not help a party tonight, so ask before you order what happens if the box is bad on the night.
What the price is telling you
Listed prices for the same variety, read on 3 October 2026 as the season ended, ran from S$88 for a 750g box of Musang King at one service to S$133 for an 800g box at another, and S$147 for an 800g box of “Tiger” Old Tree Musang King. Whole-fruit prices per kilo on one site ran from S$14 for D101 to S$42 for Black Gold.
Two things explain most of the spread, and neither is delivery cost.
The name on the box. Old Tree, Black Gold, Tiger and the rest are sellers’ labels for sub-selections of Musang King, and no register defines them. Two boxes both labelled Old Tree Musang King can be very different fruit. Our durian register covers what the clone numbers do and do not guarantee, and the Black Thorn against Musang King comparison covers the one premium that is a genuinely different clone.
The grade behind the box. A box is filled from fruit, and the fruit was bought at a letter grade. Higher-grade fruit yields more flesh per kilo and opens better, so a S$129 box and a S$73 box may be paying for the difference between a farm’s A and its C, which the guide to how durian is graded sets out in weight and chamber count. The letter is not a taste score, so the cheaper box from a good tree can eat as well as the dear one; what you are less likely to get is the same fill and the same look.
At the tail of the season, which is when this page was written, expect the reverse of the July picture: fewer varieties in stock, “season ended” notices on some product pages, and the remaining fruit holding its price. The season page tracks where in the cycle Singapore is this month.
What to check when the box arrives
The box removes the checks you would do at a stall, so do the ones that remain, and do them when the box arrives rather than when you get round to it.
- Weight. The stated weight is flesh plus seed. Put the box on a kitchen scale before you open it. A 750g box that reads 690g is a conversation to have now, not tomorrow.
- Seal and temperature. A vacuum or heat seal should be intact. If the box is warm on a hot evening after a long run, the fruit has been ripening in transit.
- Pod by pod. Unripe flesh is starchy and flat with little aroma, and it does not ripen further once the fruit is open. Uneven ripeness within one box is a real fault, not a story. The taking-delivery guide covers how to judge ripeness without treating colour or firmness as conclusive, since both vary by variety.
- Photograph before you eat. Most guarantees are claimed with a photo, and some also need an order or receipt number. Take it at opening, with the box and the delivery slip in frame.
If you buy whole fruit for delivery rather than a box, the stall checks come back: the guide to choosing a durian covers the stem, the shake and the smell.
When delivery is worth it, and when a stall is
Delivery wins on convenience, hygiene and predictability: the fruit is opened by someone who does it all day, sealed, and at your door in an evening window, and if a pod is bad you have a documented remedy. It costs you the chance to choose the fruit, and the box price carries the dehusking labour and the run.
A stall wins when you know what you are looking at. You choose the fruit, you watch it opened, you reject it on the spot, and you pay the whole-fruit price. It costs you the trip, the mess and the risk of a fruit you chose badly, and it rewards the buyer who has read the choosing guide and can tell a fresh stem from a cut one.
For a first-time buyer, a delivery box from a service with a published guarantee is the lower risk. For someone buying ten kilos for a party, the sums in the second section decide it, and a stall or wholesale buy usually wins on price once you accept the wastage that comes with it.
Sources and how this page is maintained
The fees, thresholds, timings, formats and guarantees in the table were read directly from each service’s own website on 20 September 2026, re-checked on 3 October 2026, and are reported as published, not verified by ordering. The closed service’s fees are from an archived copy of its terms page. Prices quoted are the box and per-kilo prices displayed on those sites on 3 October and are given only to show the spread; they are not a price list and will have moved by the time you read this.
The 15 to 30 per cent flesh yield is the published range (Frontiers in Nutrition, 2026). The 26 to 27 per cent seasonal figure is 99 Old Trees’ own published number on its Musang King product page. The grading and yield mechanics link to our guides on grading and wholesale pricing, which carry their own sources.
This page names the services because a comparison without names is useless, and it favours none of them. It is not a shop and it takes no orders. It was last checked on 20 September 2026.
Related
- How durian is graded, the letters behind the box
- Taking delivery of a durian order, for kitchens buying at volume
- How to choose a durian, if you buy whole fruit instead
- Durian season 2026, where the season is this month
- Durian types and their D numbers, the register behind the names