A shared desk in Singapore’s Central Business District starts at S$25 for a day and S$280 for a month. A private room starts at S$675 per person a month (TEC’s day office at Capital Square) or S$700 per workstation at The Work Boulevard. Those are the three numbers most people arrive looking for, and underneath them sits a much larger one: the deposit.

Coworking or a CBD lease?

Our take: for an SME that wants a downtown address, coworking is usually the better place to start than a conventional CBD lease, for two reasons.

The first is flexibility. There is no long-term tenure to sit out, so if the business changes direction you can change location with it, rather than staying tied to a unit that no longer fits.

The second is cost. A coworking desk or serviced room usually costs less than a traditional CBD lease.

Our take on choosing: what matters most depends on your industry. A business that handles heavy goods should weigh parking and the distance to a loading bay above everything else. An advertising or events business should weigh distance to the CBD and to MRT and bus stations. Budget is a main criterion for every SME, which is why the prices come first below.

What counts as the CBD here

This guide draws the CBD as the financial district proper: Raffles Place, Shenton Way, Robinson Road, Cecil Street, Church Street, Chulia Street, Cross Street, South Bridge Road, Collyer Quay, Anson Road, Tanjong Pagar, and Marina Bay and Straits View. Marina Centre across the water, Orchard Road, Bras Basah and Bugis fall outside it, and the centres there are covered in the area guides linked further down. Eight operators sit inside that boundary, publishing at least 21 downtown addresses between them. Every rate below comes from the operator’s own website, checked on 18 September 2026 and re-checked on 25 September 2026. Where an operator publishes no rate, this guide says so rather than estimating one.

Two operators run more downtown buildings than the one priced here. The Executive Centre and WeWork each publish a full rate card for a single CBD building — Capital Square and 60 Anson Road — so those are the buildings quoted, and 21 is a floor rather than a census.

Two more notes on scope. Industrious lists further Singapore floors beyond the three named below; a floor is counted here only if its own operator page could be opened and placed inside the boundary. And the boring office, JustCo’s budget brand, lists only MacDonald House on Orchard Road in Singapore, so it sits outside this guide.

What downtown shared office space costs in 2026

Every price below comes from the operator’s own site. An em-dash means the operator does not publish a rate for that product. Rates exclude Singapore’s 9% GST unless the operator states otherwise.

Operator Day rate Monthly shared desk Private / serviced office from
Penguins Coworking — 10 Anson Road S$25 — Quote on enquiry
The Work Boulevard — 3 CBD floors S$39 or S$30 (see entry) S$300 S$700 per workstation/mo
JustCo — 9 CBD centres — S$280 (before tax) Quote on enquiry
The Executive Centre — Capital Square S$50 S$540 Day office S$675 per person/mo; suites quoted
WeWork — 60 Anson Road S$70 S$439 (S$374 on a 12-month plan) Quote on enquiry
O2Work — 2 CBD centres — — Quote on enquiry
Arcc Spaces — One Marina Boulevard — — Quote on enquiry
Industrious — 3 CBD centres — — Quote on enquiry

The spread on a monthly shared desk is roughly 2x — JustCo’s S$280 against The Executive Centre’s S$540 — and the spread on a single drop-in day is 2.8x, from S$25 at Penguins to S$70 at WeWork.

Then look at the empty cells. Six of the eight operators publish no private-office rate; The Work Boulevard and The Executive Centre are the two that do. Three — O2Work, Arcc Spaces and Industrious — publish no rate for any product at all, so for those you will not see a price until you enquire.

What a downtown office costs you on day one

The monthly rate is not the number that catches people out. The deposit is.

JustCo states two months’ deposit to start. Assume two months across the market unless an operator tells you otherwise, and ask before you tour rather than after. Here is an illustrative sum, not a quote from any single operator: take The Work Boulevard’s published S$700 per workstation for a six-desk private office, which is S$4,200 a month, and apply JustCo’s two-month deposit policy to it. That is S$8,400 held on top of the rent, or S$12,600 leaving the business in the same week, before fit-out, signage, IT or GST. The two inputs come from two different operators, so treat it as the shape of the problem rather than a price either of them quoted.

That is a timing problem, not a growth problem. The deposit comes back at the end of the term; it simply is not in your account during the month you move, which is also the month your team is least productive. If the deposit and the first months of a downtown office are what stands between you and the address you want, Micro Loans are built for that shape of gap — short tenor, small ticket — rather than the six-figure facilities that suit an expansion.

If you would rather hold a facility open and draw only what the move actually costs, the Elevate Credit Line lets you draw in any increment, by bank transfer or on the business cashback card, which earns up to 1% cashback. There is also a cash-flow health check quiz if you want a read on your position before you commit to anything.

Shared office, serviced office, coworking: what you are actually buying

These three terms get used interchangeably in search and mean different things the moment you sign.

A shared office is a seat in a room you share — a hot desk you take on arrival, or a dedicated desk kept for you with a locker. A serviced office is a private, lockable room inside someone else’s managed floor, with reception, cleaning, internet and meeting-room access bundled into one monthly figure. Coworking is the umbrella term for both.

The practical difference is what you are billed on. Shared desks are billed per person and you can drop one next month. Serviced offices are billed per workstation or per suite, with a minimum term and the deposit described above.

The eight CBD operators

Penguins Coworking — International Plaza

Best for: the cheapest published day in the CBD.

Penguins Coworking at International Plaza, 10 Anson Road, Singapore CBD

Address: 10 Anson Road, International Plaza #33-15, Singapore 079903 · International Plaza on Google Maps

A hot-desk day pass here is S$25 through Penguins’ own shop, the lowest published drop-in rate on this list. The same listing sells a Mon–Fri week pass at S$125. The 6-pax meeting room is S$180 for a half day of four hours and S$360 for a full day, 9am to 6pm; Penguins says hourly bookings are arranged on request rather than priced online. Private offices are the gap: the serviced-office page describes fully furnished lockable rooms for teams of 2 to 8 with 24/7 access, free printing and two hours of daily meeting-room use, and then asks you to enquire. No monthly figure is published, so this guide does not print one.

The Work Boulevard — 20 Collyer Quay, Prudential Tower and SGX Centre 2

Best for: a full-time private room at a published per-desk rate.

The Work Boulevard coworking space at 20 Collyer Quay, Raffles Place

Addresses: 20 Collyer Quay, Levels 12, 13 & 22, Singapore 049319 · Prudential Tower, 30 Cecil Street, Level 29, Singapore 049712 · SGX Centre 2, 4 Shenton Way, Level 20, Singapore 068807 · 20 Collyer Quay on Google Maps

Three downtown buildings on one membership, and one of only two operators here that publish a private-office rate alongside a desk rate: S$300 a month unlimited for hot-desking, private offices from S$700 per workstation, and a virtual office address at S$58 a month. Read the day rate carefully, because The Work Boulevard publishes two. Its coworking page states a day pass of S$39, and the FAQ block on that same page states S$30. Ask which applies before you turn up. The site names the fit-out — Steelcase furniture, Common Man coffee, which tells you which end of the market they are aiming at given that price. A fourth Work Boulevard floor at Guoco Midtown on Beach Road sits outside the boundary set at the top of this guide.

JustCo — nine CBD centres

Best for: teams who move between addresses rather than commit to one.

JustCo coworking space at OCBC Centre East, 63 Chulia Street

Addresses: 18 Cross Street · Hong Leong Building, 16 Raffles Quay · International Plaza, 10 Anson Road #05-01 · Marina One East Tower, 7 Straits View · Marina One West Tower, 9 Straits View · OCBC Centre East, 63 Chulia Street #15-01 · 108 Robinson Road · 120 Robinson Road · UIC Building, 5 Shenton Way

One price, nine downtown buildings, so they sit together: JustCo sells a monthly hot desk through its own store from S$280 before tax, with 24/7 access at whichever centre you name as your home centre. Terms start from one month and the deposit is two months. Pick on the walk. OCBC Centre East carries the rooftop terrace and the large event space; UIC Building is two minutes from Shenton Way MRT on the Thomson-East Coast Line; Marina One East Tower is two minutes from Downtown MRT. Two address notes worth carrying: JustCo’s own list puts its Raffles Quay centre at 16 Raffles Quay, the Hong Leong Building; older listings still carry it as “6 Raffles Quay”; and JustCo International Plaza is on Level 5 of the same tower where Penguins occupies Level 33, so check the unit number and not just the building. JustCo’s other Singapore centres — Tampines, Changi, Orchard, Bras Basah, Marina Centre, Tiong Bahru, Buona Vista, one-north and Jurong — are outside this guide’s boundary.

The Executive Centre — Capital Square

Best for: client-facing work where the lobby does some of the talking.

The Executive Centre at Capital Square, 23 Church Street

Address: Level 7, Capital Square, 23 Church Street, Singapore 049481 · Capital Square on Google Maps

The most expensive shared desk on this list, and the most transparent about it. TEC publishes S$540 a month for a hot or dedicated desk, S$50 for a day pass, S$675 per person per month for a day office (TEC’s flexible-term private office product) and S$90 a month for a virtual office — private suites are quoted, not listed. The same page lists four meeting rooms, a serviced barista bar, adjustable standing desks and nursing rooms, five minutes from Telok Ayer and Raffles Place MRT. At S$540 against JustCo’s S$280, you are paying roughly double for the room you bring clients into.

WeWork — 60 Anson Road

Best for: a desk in 450+ buildings on one subscription.

WeWork coworking space at 60 Anson Road, Singapore

Address: 60 Anson Road #17-01, Singapore 079914 · 60 Anson Road on Google Maps

The building’s own page shows a day pass from S$70, All Access Plus from S$439 a month — S$374 on a twelve-month plan — and meeting rooms from S$12 per seat per hour, and that membership opens 450+ buildings worldwide. Private offices at 60 Anson are quoted rather than listed, though nearby WeWork buildings publish theirs — 9 Battery Road starts at S$770 a month for a one-person office — which is a useful sanity check before you accept a quote here.

O2Work — Collyer Quay Centre and 77 Robinson Road

Best for: a floor built around daylight and plants rather than a members’ bar.

O2Work coworking space at Collyer Quay Centre, 16 Collyer Quay

Addresses: Levels 12 & 13, Collyer Quay Centre, 16 Collyer Quay, Singapore 049318 · 77 Robinson Road · Collyer Quay Centre on Google Maps

Search for the right building name or you will not find it. O2Work’s own site gives the address as Collyer Quay Centre, 16 Collyer Quay. Listings calling it “Income@Raffles” are out of date. The pitch here is wellness: the operator describes an eco-friendly space built around natural elements and mindfulness, which in practice means daylight and planting where a WeWork would put a bar. A second downtown address at 77 Robinson Road comes with the membership; their Odeon 331 centre on North Bridge Road sits outside this guide’s boundary. Rates are quoted on enquiry.

Arcc Spaces — One Marina Boulevard

Best for: anyone whose compliance officer asks where the data sits.

Arcc Spaces coworking and serviced office at One Marina Boulevard

Address: 1 Marina Boulevard, Level 20, Singapore 018989 · One Marina Boulevard on Google Maps

Arcc is the only centre on this list whose own page leads with infrastructure: they state their network security satisfies PCI Data Security Standards and that you can deploy on-site servers. If you handle card data or your clients audit your vendors, that is a much shorter conversation than it would be elsewhere here. The same page lists concierge service, a stocked pantry with barista coffee and daily breakfast, with Raffles Place, Telok Ayer and Downtown MRT all within a walk, and asks you to enquire rather than publishing a rate.

Industrious — South Bridge, One George Street and Afro-Asia

Best for: a members’ club feel without the Orchard commute.

Industrious (formerly The Great Room) at 269 South Bridge Road

Addresses: 269 South Bridge Road · One George Street, 1 George Street, Level 10 · Afro-Asia, 63 Robinson Road, Level 8

You may still know these as The Great Room. The brand was folded into Industrious, the CBRE-backed operator, and the Singapore sites moved across on 1 July 2026 — same floors, same teams, new sign on the door. If you toured one under the old name and liked it, nothing physical has changed. Three of the Singapore floors sit inside this guide’s boundary: South Bridge on the Chinatown edge, One George Street in the middle of Raffles Place, and Afro-Asia on Robinson Road. Industrious publishes no Singapore rates online; offices and coworking memberships are both quoted. Its Centennial Tower, Raffles Arcade and Ngee Ann City floors are outside the boundary.

Centres no longer on this list

Seven centres that older versions of this guide listed no longer belong on it, and an eighth entry — JustCo’s Raffles Quay centre — carried the wrong address. Here is what changed and why:

  • JustCo — Asia Square Tower (12 Marina View #23-01). No longer appears on JustCo’s Singapore location list, and the legacy centre URL no longer resolves to a centre.
  • JustCo — 6 Raffles Quay #16-01. No centre at this address appears on JustCo’s current Singapore list; their Raffles Quay centre is at 16 Raffles Quay, Hong Leong Building, which is in the entry above.
  • The Work Boulevard — Tanjong Pagar (79 Anson Road #21-01). Absent from The Work Boulevard’s own location list, which now shows Collyer Quay, Prudential Tower, Guoco Midtown and SGX Centre 2.
  • Bridge+ by TWP — Ascent (2 Science Park Drive). Open and worth a look, but the address is in Singapore Science Park 1 in Queenstown, well outside the CBD by any definition.
  • The Great Room — Ngee Ann City (391B Orchard Road). Also open, also now Industrious — but it is an Orchard address, not a CBD one.
  • The Great Room — Centennial Tower (3 Temasek Avenue). Open and now Industrious, but Centennial Tower is in Marina Centre on the far side of the bay, outside the boundary set at the top of this guide. Crossing on foot takes around fifteen minutes in Singapore weather. If your meetings cluster around Suntec and the Esplanade it is a good address; it is just not a CBD one.
  • osDORO (160 Robinson Road #14-08). Not an operator. osDORO is a brokerage that lists WeWork, JustCo and Regus among its partners.
  • A Space Between (10 Anson Road #28-14). Open, but a vetted co-practice space for therapists that explicitly says it is not a generic coworking space. Wrong category for this list.

Spotted a change? Leave a comment below and we will check it against the operator’s own site.

Coworking spaces in Singapore by area

Looking outside the CBD? Each area guide lists the centres in that district:

Read The Ultimate Guide to Coworking Spaces in Singapore

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Coworking Spaces

How much does downtown shared office space cost in Singapore?

Published rates in this guide run from S$25 a day at Penguins Coworking to S$70 a day at WeWork 60 Anson Road. Monthly shared desks run from S$280 at JustCo to S$540 at The Executive Centre. The lowest published private-room rates are TEC’s day office from S$675 per person a month and The Work Boulevard’s private offices from S$700 per workstation, with WeWork’s 9 Battery Road at S$770 a month for a one-person office as a nearby comparison. Six of the eight operators here publish no private-office rate at all and quote per suite instead, Penguins among them.

What is the difference between a shared office and a serviced office?

A shared office is a seat in a room you share, billed per person — a hot desk taken on arrival or a dedicated desk kept for you. A serviced office is a private lockable room on a managed floor, billed per workstation or per suite, with reception, cleaning, internet and meeting-room access bundled in. Most CBD operators sell both from the same reception, and the gap is wide: S$300 a month for a shared desk against S$700 per workstation for a private room at The Work Boulevard.

How much deposit will I need for a serviced office in the CBD?

Two months is the common ask — JustCo states two months’ deposit to start. Budget deposit plus first month upfront, and check whether GST, after-hours air-conditioning, printing and meeting-room credits sit inside or outside the headline rate before you compare two quotes.

Is there a minimum commitment period?

Shorter than a conventional lease, but not zero. JustCo advertises terms starting from one month with two months’ deposit, and The Work Boulevard sells hot-desking by the month at S$300, with a day pass quoted at S$39 on its coworking page and S$30 in the FAQ on that same page. Minimum terms usually differ between a shared desk and a private room at the same centre, so ask for both numbers when you tour.

Can I rent a private office inside a coworking space?

Yes — that is the serviced office product, and every operator here sells it. Two publish an entry rate: TEC’s day office from S$675 per person a month and The Work Boulevard from S$700 per workstation a month. The other six quote per suite: Penguins Coworking, WeWork at 60 Anson Road, Arcc Spaces, O2Work, JustCo and Industrious.

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