Type “durian delivery Singapore” and you get shops. This page is not one.
It explains what those shops sell, how same-day delivery works, and what they publish about fees and guarantees.
It also shows how to compare a box price with the per-kilo price on a stall board, so 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 pods, the flesh lifted out of the husk.
The durian is opened at the packer’s end, and the pods are lifted out with their seeds. They are sealed into a box of a stated weight, such as 600g, 750g or 800g.
Durian Empire says its boxes are vacuum-sealed. 99 Old Trees heat-seals them and says they may arrive chilled.
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. 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.
Some services also show a per-kilo figure beside the box price. When two prices for the same variety differ by a large factor, check whether one is a whole-fruit kilo and the other a kilo of boxed pods.
Two services publish 3.2 to 3.5kg of fruit per 800g box (below). On that basis a kilo of pods is about four times the whole-fruit kilo, before any difference in quality.
Converting a box price into a stall price
Flesh is a minority of a durian’s weight. A 2026 paper in Frontiers in Nutrition puts the edible pulp at 15 to 30 per cent of the total fruit weight.
One Singapore delivery service, 99 Old Trees, publishes its own figure for the 2026 season: 26 to 27 per cent average flesh weight to gross whole-fruit weight, from Raub fruit.
It also notes that its box weights include the seed.
It does not say whether the flesh figure counts the seed, so treat it as a guide to yield rather than a box conversion.
Two services give a direct box conversion:
- duriandelivery.com.sg: an 800g box comes from roughly 3.2kg of durian with husk.
- Jiak Durian Mai: an 800g box needs approximately 3.5kg.
Neither says whether its box weight includes the seed.
On those figures, an 800g box comes from about 3.2 to 3.5kg of whole fruit.
- Box price: S$80
- Whole-fruit equivalent: roughly S$23 to S$25 per kilo
- Not yet counted: the dehusking and the delivery
Durian SG Prime prints a per-kilo figure beside its box prices (S$42/kg beside an S$147 800g box on 4 October 2026). That works out at 3.5kg of fruit per box, so it is a whole-fruit equivalent, not the price per kilo of the pods in the box.
Run the conversion the other way too. A stall quoting S$25 per kilo for whole Musang King is quoting roughly S$100 to S$110 per kilo of boxed pods on the same figures.
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. The professional kitchens guide covers yield of deseeded flesh, a different measure from boxed pods.
How same-day works
The services that publish their process describe much the same steps:
- Fruit comes up from Malaysia on the day. Pahang is the origin most services name;
99 Old Trees and Jiak Durian Mai name Raub. Time from harvest, as quoted:
- duriandelivery.com.sg: 6 to 12 hours
- Durian SG Prime: 8 hours
- freshdurian.com.sg: 10 hours
- Dehusking and packing happen after you order.
- duriandelivery.com.sg: “packed on the spot the moment you place your order”
- Jiak Durian Mai: packed once the order is confirmed
- Delivery runs in a window.
- 99 Old Trees: 7pm to 9:30pm, “subjected to traffic conditions” (product page, 18 October, when the site also read “Walk-in Purchase Only”)
- freshdurian.com.sg: orders from 10am to 10pm
- duriandelivery.com.sg: deliveries from 10:00am to 11:59pm
- Express is priced above the normal run.
- Durian SG Prime: S$7.50 for a two hour slot, S$15 for one hour
- duriandelivery.com.sg: S$9.70 same or next day, S$13.70 express
- Durian SG Prime, freshdurian.com.sg and duriandelivery.com.sg all advertise 60 minute delivery
We have not found a published order cut-off time at any of them.
duriandelivery.com.sg lists “Same/Next Day” delivery. Check the slot you are offered at checkout rather than assuming an evening order is delivered that night.
Durian Empire says it has limited delivery slots, and duriandelivery.com.sg says a slot is blocked out once it is filled.
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, and re-read on 4 October 2026.
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 | S$9.70 same or next day, S$13.70 express, free above S$100* |
| duriandeliverysg.sg | Not confirmed (see the 15 May 2026 archived page below) |
| Durian SG Prime | S$7.50 flat for a two hour slot, 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
- Timing: banner reads “24/7 Delivery”; delivery page lists 10:00am to 11:59pm
- Format: dehusked 800g boxes
- Guarantee: free replacement if you report within 24 hours
- duriandeliverysg.sg (live site access denied; archived page of 15 May 2026)
- Timing: daily delivery from 7pm to 10pm
- Format: “Dehusked and freshly packed upon order”
- Guarantee: a 1 for 1 exchange if you send a photo
- Durian SG Prime (duriansg.com.sg)
- Timing: 60-minute delivery, plus a shopfront on Geylang Road
- Format: dehusked 800g “all meat” boxes
- Guarantee: an on-time delivery warranty and a refund guarantee
- 99 Old Trees
- Timing: 7pm to 9:30pm on its product page on 18 October, when the site also read “Season Ended” and “Walk-in Purchase Only”
- Format: dehusked, heat-sealed 750g boxes that may arrive chilled
- Guarantee: for sour or unripe fruit, it replaces the durian the following day on a photo and an order or receipt number
- freshdurian.com.sg
- Timing: orders 10am to 10pm, 60-minute delivery
- Guarantee: free replacement
- Jiak Durian Mai
- Timing: delivery within 2 hours of the order
- Format: dehusked 600g and 800g boxes
- Guarantee: one-for-one replacement if you contact them within 24 hours
- Durian Empire
- Timing: limited delivery slots per day
- Format: vacuum-sealed boxes
- Guarantee: none stated
Read the pattern rather than any one row. Free delivery above S$100 is the most common threshold (three of the seven services), and one service sets it at S$180 with a S$9.90 fee.
The guarantee on most sites is a replacement, claimed with a photograph or proof of order. Only Durian SG Prime mentions 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 Musang King, read on 4 October 2026 as the season ended:
- 99 Old Trees: S$88 for a 750g box (marked “Season Ended”)
- Durian SG Prime: S$133 for an 800g box, shown as S$38/kg (out of stock)
- Durian SG Prime “Tiger Old Tree” Musang King: S$147 for an 800g box, shown as S$42/kg (out of stock)
Two things may explain part of the spread, and neither is delivery cost.
The name on the box. Old Tree and Black Gold are seller labels. “Tiger” at Durian SG Prime refers to Tiger Mountain farms.
freshdurian.com.sg, for example, calls its Old Tree MSW “a more mature variety of our top-rated Mao Shan Wang” from “one of the oldest trees in Pahang”.
We have not found an official definition of any of these labels, so two boxes with the same label may not be the same fruit.
Our durian register covers what the clone numbers do and do not guarantee. The Black Thorn against Musang King comparison covers the one premium that is a genuinely different clone.
The fruit behind the box. Sellers describe what they buy in different terms. duriandelivery.com.sg says it imports fruit rated A7 to A9 on the “DFI scale”, and Durian SG Prime says its trees are over 40 years old.
These are seller claims and we have not found independent evidence of how much of a box price they account for. The guide to how durian is graded sets out how grading works.
At the tail of the season, which is when this page was written, several product pages read “Season Ended”, “Out of stock” or “Sold out”. 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. 99 Old Trees states its 750g box is “approximately 750 +-10 gram (Durian flesh +
seed)”, so the seed is included.
- Photograph the sealed box first.
- Weigh the contents without the tray, or weigh the empty tray and subtract it.
- Contents well under the stated weight are a conversation to have now, not tomorrow.
- Seal. A vacuum or heat seal should be intact.
- Pod by pod. 99 Old Trees describes unripe durians as “dry and tough” and says it will
replace them.
- We have not found a source on whether opened flesh keeps ripening.
- The taking-delivery guide covers judging ripeness; colour and firmness are not conclusive, since both vary by variety.
- Photograph before you eat. 99 Old Trees asks for a picture and an order or receipt number, and the archived duriandeliverysg.sg page asks for a photo. 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. 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. A stall or wholesale buy may win 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 above were read from each service’s own website on 20 September 2026 and re-checked on 3 and 4 October 2026.
They are reported as published, not verified by ordering.
We could not read duriandeliverysg.sg on 4 October, so its entry rests on an archived copy dated 15 May 2026.
Prices quoted are the box and per-kilo prices displayed on those sites on 4 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 figure is from a paper in Frontiers in Nutrition, which says the edible pulp “accounts for 15-30% of the total fruit weight” (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.
Fees, prices and timings were last read on the sellers’ sites on 4 October 2026. On 18 October 2026 the conversions were re-worked, and the seed and box-weight wording and 99 Old Trees’ delivery window were re-read against the sellers’ own pages.
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