Duellix vs Osome: A Comparison for Companies That Have Outgrown the Platform

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Most people searching for an Osome alternative are not shopping on price. Something changed. You crossed the turnover threshold and had to register for Goods and Services Tax (GST). You hired your sixth employee. An XBRL request landed. You started sponsoring your own Employment Pass and the accounting quote stopped making sense.

That is a different problem from "who is cheaper", and it deserves a different answer.

Two things decide whether moving is worth it, and neither is the headline price.

The first is whether you have outgrown the platform - whether the plan you signed up to was scoped for the company you now run.

The second is what your provider counts. Some set your fee by how much money moves through the company. We set ours by how many entries have to land in the ledger and be reconciled - and where your sales come out of a system as a report, a whole month of them is one entry. That sounds like a technicality. It is the single biggest determinant of what you should be paying, and for a business with a lot of customers it is the difference between the bottom of a scale and the top of one.

Both are covered below. The short version: what should drive your bookkeeping bill is the number of entries that have to be reconciled, not your revenue and not your customer count. Those are very different numbers for most businesses, and the gap is where quotes go wrong.

Have you outgrown your provider?

The awkward thing about outgrowing an accounting platform is that nobody tells you it has happened. There is no notification. What you get instead is a series of small frictions that each seem like a one-off.

Here are the ones we see most often. If two or more are true, the platform is probably no longer the right shape for you.

• You have registered for GST, or you are about to. [SOURCE - IRAS: the registration threshold and the point at which it becomes compulsory. Do not state a figure without it.] Quarterly filing is a different rhythm from annual bookkeeping, and it is the single most common trigger we see.
• You have crossed into monthly or quarterly management accounts. You are making decisions that need numbers before the year end, and annual books do not give you that.
• Your headcount has moved into double figures. Payroll stops being one salary a month and starts being a process, with leave, claims and departures in it.
• You have received an XBRL request and discovered it is an add-on. [SOURCE - ACRA: which companies must file financial statements in XBRL.]
• You have subsidiaries, or one is coming. Consolidation is a different service, not a bigger version of the same one.
• You are sponsoring an Employment Pass and paying yourself a real salary. This one has its own section below, because the way it interacts with cost-base pricing catches people badly.
• Your revenue has grown much faster than your transaction count. You are billing far more than last year across roughly the same number of invoices. If your fee is set by cost base, it has gone up in step with your revenue while the work has barely moved.
• Your financial year end is changing, or you need it to.
• The person handling your account has changed more than once this year, and you are re-explaining your business each time. Or you cannot name anyone at your provider at all.

None of these are failings on the platform's part. They are the things that happen when a company stops being new. A product built to take a company from zero to compliant is not the same product as one built to keep a trading business with staff, subsidiaries and quarterly obligations in order, and it would be odd if it were.

What actually drives the cost of your bookkeeping

This is the part that matters most and that almost nobody explains, so it is worth a few minutes.

There are two ways to price bookkeeping.

On cost base. Your tier is set by how much money moves through the company in a year - annual expenditure, or turnover, or both. [SHOP - confirm which of these Osome uses, and the actual boundaries, in writing.]

On transaction volume. Your tier is set by how many entries have to be recorded and reconciled. Ours works this way: 50 entries a year at the entry tier, 240 at the next, 600 above that, 1,200 above that.

The thing to understand before comparing any two quotes is what actually creates work. It is not your revenue, and it is not your number of customers. It is the number of entries that have to land in the ledger and be reconciled. Reconciling a $200,000 invoice takes no longer than reconciling a $200 one, and a month of sales that arrives as a single report takes no longer than a month with three sales in it.

That second point is the one that surprises people.

A month of sales is usually one entry, not a thousand

If your sales run through a system that produces a report - a payment processor, an e-commerce platform, a booking or practice management system, a point of sale - then the whole month's sales can be posted as a single summarised journal entry, reconciled against the payout. That is standard practice and it is how we do it wherever the reports can be extracted.

We automate rather than inflate. Where a sales report can be pulled, we pull it. We do not count a month of individual customer transactions as a month of individual bookkeeping entries, because they do not create that work.

Which means the businesses people assume are expensive to keep books for often are not.

Take a gym. Eight hundred members, a few thousand sessions and class bookings a month, a busy front desk. On the customer side that is a lot of activity. On the ledger it is not:

[NEEDS INPUT - Patrick, can we check this against a real gym or clinic client's actual entry count? An observed number beats an illustration, and this table is the centre of the argument.]

That is our Basic tier at $2,400 a year, published. Under a model priced on turnover, the same gym doing $1.5m in memberships sits near the top of the scale - for a set of books driven almost entirely by rent, salaries and a handful of suppliers.

The same logic applies to personal training studios, clinics, salons, physiotherapy and allied health practices, e-commerce, and subscription businesses. High customer volume, modest ledger volume, because the sales side collapses into a report.

The general rule. Your bookkeeping cost should be driven by your cost side - suppliers, payroll, rent, the things that arrive one at a time and have to be matched. For most businesses that side is far smaller than the revenue side, and it does not grow much when you sell more.

A question worth asking any provider, including us: how do you count a month of sales - one entry from the report, or one per transaction? The answer can move you several tiers, and almost nobody asks it.

The other case: a few large invoices

The mirror image is a business that bills a small number of large amounts. A consultancy invoices $800,000 across six invoices in a year. Add a director's salary, subscriptions and overheads and the books carry perhaps fifty to eighty entries.

That is our Starter or Basic tier, $1,400 or $2,400. Under cost-base pricing, $800,000 of turnover puts the same company near the top of the scale. Same company, same work, same fifty entries.

Consultancy, advisory, licensing, agency work, holding companies and investment vehicles all sit here.

We are not claiming cost-base pricing is illegitimate. It is simple to quote and it scales with a client's ability to pay. But it charges you for revenue rather than for work, and if your revenue grows faster than your ledger does - which is what a business working well looks like - the mismatch compounds every year.

This is the same mechanic behind the Employment Pass problem below. A founder's salary is twelve large entries a year, which is the purest example there is of value without volume.

What actually changes when you compare us

Duellix prices are standard rates from our September 2026 service catalogue. Osome figures are pending - see the method below.

How we compared

Most pages of this type assert their numbers. We would rather show the working, because you have no reason to take a competitor's word for what a competitor charges.

1. We checked what Osome publishes. On 9 September 2026, osome.com/sg/pricing carried one price: $5 a month for a DIY self-service tool. Every service a founder would actually buy was quote-on-request. [SHOP - re-check on publication day and update the date.]
2. Because of that, we requested quotes directly, using a real name and a real email address, as an ordinary prospective buyer would. We did not pose as anyone who does not exist, and we did not negotiate.
3. We ran three scenarios, chosen to sit either side of the outgrowing line: a new local company; a foreign founder needing a nominee director; and an established GST-registered company with roughly 600 transactions a year and six staff.
4. We recorded every timestamp to the minute, in Singapore time.
5. We ran the identical enquiries through our own inbound channel and measured them the same way. Comparing their measured response time against our claimed one would not be a comparison.
6. We asked, in writing, the questions that decide what happens as you grow: what moves your tier, whether director's salary counts towards it, how much notice you get, and who owns your Xero file.
7. We kept the screenshots and the emails.

Sample size. [SHOP - state it plainly. n=1 said honestly beats an unqualified "we found that".]

What we could not establish. [SHOP - fill this in properly. It does more for the page's credibility than any other paragraph.]

Prices and inclusions are accurate as of the review date at the foot of this page. Ours are on the site; theirs you will have to ask for.

Where we are more expensive, and where we are not

It would be easy to write this page as though we undercut the platforms across the board. We do not, and pretending otherwise would fall apart the first time you asked for a quote.

Where we cost more:

• Setting up. Local incorporation puts us around the middle of the market, and Osome is cheaper. [SOURCE - competitor figures need a dated source before publication.]
• Foreign founder with a nominee director. We are above the market and the gap is not small. Part of that is that our foreign founder price includes a full accounting package where most competing bundles exclude accounting or include a lighter one, so the headline numbers are not comparing the same thing. Part of it is simply that we cost more. [SOURCE]
• Businesses with a genuinely heavy cost side. Many suppliers, high expense-claim volume, multiple sites each buying separately. If a real count of your ledger entries runs into the thousands, transaction pricing is working against you and you should say so when you ask us for a quote. [NEEDS INPUT - Patrick, what business shape actually lands in our top tier once sales aggregation is applied? The page needs an honest answer here and I do not want to invent one.]

Where we cost less, often substantially:

• Businesses with high customer volume but a light cost side. Gyms, studios, clinics, salons, allied health, e-commerce, subscription businesses. Your sales come out of a system as a report, so they are one entry a month to us. What you sell does not set your fee.
• Businesses billing a few large invoices. Consultancy, advisory, licensing, agency work. Your bill follows the work rather than the revenue.
• Founders sponsoring their own Employment Pass. A salary of $10,000 to $20,000 a month is twelve entries a year to us and a tier change to a cost-base provider.
• Holding companies. Close to the purest case of low volume and high value there is - a company that may do nothing in a year beyond receiving a dividend and paying its fees. Our HoldCo package for a holding company with one subsidiary is $2,810 a year, and our holding company guide sets out what running one actually involves.
• Anyone whose revenue has grown faster than their transaction count. Which is most businesses that are working.

So the honest answer to "are you cheaper than Osome" is that it depends on the shape of your business, and we would rather tell you how to work it out than give you a number that flatters us.

What to compare. Not the year-one price for the company you are registering, but the year-two price for the company you will actually be running. Those are different figures, and the gap between them is where most of the unhappiness in this market lives. The next section is the clearest example of it.

The Employment Pass salary problem

This is the sharpest instance of the two-shapes problem above, and it catches people hard enough to be worth its own section.

An Employment Pass requires the company to employ you and pay you a real salary. Founders in this position commonly pay themselves $10,000 a month, and not unusually $20,000. That salary is the purest low-volume, high-value item there is: twelve payments a year, each large.

Under a transaction model, twelve entries. Under a cost-base model with an entry tier pitched at something like $0 to $30,000 of annual spend [SHOP - confirm the actual boundary in writing; do not publish one we have not seen], here is what happens.

Twelve entries a year. Under a transaction model your tier does not move. Under a cost-base model you have left the entry tier several times over before a single supplier invoice, before rent, before anything you actually spend money on.

What we see in practice. Founders come to us having been quoted an entry-level package at the $0 to $30,000 band while sponsoring a pass that depends on a salary of $10,000 to $20,000 a month. The quote was never going to hold. It is usually not a bait and switch - it is a quote given before anyone asked what the founder intended to pay themselves, and the founder had no reason to know the question mattered. [NEEDS INPUT - roughly how often do we see this, and what does the repricing typically cost when it lands? A real number here is worth more than the rest of the section.]

The repricing does not arrive at signup. It arrives at the first annual review, by which point the pass is issued, the salary is committed, and moving provider is the last thing you want to be doing.

Three questions worth putting to any provider before you sign, including us.

1. Is my fee tier driven by transaction count, or by cost base?
2. If it is cost base, does director's salary count towards it? Get it in writing.
3. At what point does my tier change, who decides, and how much notice do I get?

We price on transaction volume, so an Employment Pass salary does not move your tier. That is not generosity - a director's salary is twelve entries, and charging more for twelve entries because they are large ones would be hard to justify.

One thing we will not pretend: our own foreign founder plus Employment Pass bundle at $5,350 does not include payroll. If you are drawing a monthly salary you will want it, and our basic payroll is $100 a month for up to three staff - another $1,200 a year. We would rather you saw that here than found it later. Our Employment Pass service page covers eligibility and what you need to provide.

The other triggers, and what each one costs

Every item below is a moment when a platform plan tends to stop covering what you need. We have put our prices against each so you can see the size of the step rather than discovering it. All of these sit inside or alongside our accounting services.

GST registration

[SOURCE - IRAS: the registration threshold, when registration becomes compulsory, and the filing frequency. Nothing in this subsection publishes without it.]

Registration changes your rhythm. Quarterly returns mean the books have to be right four times a year rather than once, which is usually the point at which annual bookkeeping stops working.

Ours: GST registration $450 one-off, GST filing $1,350 a year. Both published. [SHOP - the Osome equivalent.]

Your sixth employee, and beyond

Payroll stops being a single monthly salary. Ours is $100 a month for up to three staff, $25 per additional employee per month, with leave management at $150 a month. Central Provident Fund (CPF) calculation and filing is included; CPF payment is an optional add-on.

An XBRL request

[SOURCE - ACRA: which companies must file their financial statements in XBRL format.] Ours is $380 a year. It is an add-on for almost everyone, so the question is not whether you pay for it but whether you knew you would.

Subsidiaries

Consolidation is a separate service. Ours is $1,530 a year for the first subsidiary and $600 for each one after that. Our HoldCo package, for a holding company with one subsidiary, is $2,810 a year.

Approaching the audit thresholds

[SOURCE - ACRA: the small company audit exemption criteria and the group test.] Worth watching before you get there, because the year you cross is not the year you want to find out. This one matters more than it looks for companies with a foreign parent - our holding company guide covers the group test.

What we charge

Published in full, so you can work out your own year-two number.

Every tier includes the unaudited financial statements and the tax filing (Estimated Chargeable Income and the corporate tax return). What sits inside each tier is set out on our accounting services page.

Company secretary, by shareholder count - the whole scale, not a "from" price:

We publish the whole scale because founders who take on investors go from one shareholder to six in a single round, and a "from $335" quote tells them nothing about what that round costs them in fees.

Add-ons: XBRL conversion $380 · GST registration $450 · GST filing $1,350/yr · consolidation, first subsidiary $1,530/yr · additional subsidiaries $600/yr · Xero from $982/yr.

Who you actually deal with

This is the difference clients raise with us most often, and it is a difference of structure rather than of effort.

How Osome's support is organised, from its own website, checked 9 September 2026:

• Existing customers are directed to in-app chat. The contact page carries a phone number and an email address, both labelled for sales enquiries. [SHOP - confirm there is no support line for existing clients.]
• Its accounting page says "Your accounting experts are on-call through live chat and responds within one working day." The commitment is to a team, reachable by chat.
• It publishes a response-time commitment: one working day generally, six business hours on its higher plans. [SHOP - confirm current wording and plan names.]
• The terms "dedicated account manager", "client success manager" and "relationship manager" do not appear on the pages we checked.

Work is allocated to whoever picks it up. That is a legitimate way to run support, it is how most software companies operate, and it is the reason they can commit to a response time at all.

Read the reviews by stage, not by star rating

This is the most useful thing we can tell you about assessing any provider in this market, including us.

Osome's reviews are unusually polarised: 3.3 out of 5 across 666 reviews on Trustpilot, of which 80% are five-star and 16% are one-star, with very little in between. [SOURCE - Trustpilot, checked 9 September 2026. Patrick to approve Trustpilot as a source before publication.]

A single average across that spread tells you nothing. What is informative is which stage of the relationship each review describes.

Sort them that way and a pattern appears. Reviews about getting set up - incorporation, onboarding, the first filing - are overwhelmingly positive. Reviews about the ongoing relationship - monthly reports, year-end accounts, renewals, closing a company down - are where the one-star reviews concentrate, and they describe the same handful of failures: deadlines missed, reports late, no one owning the account.

To be fair about it, that is not universal. There are five-star reviews from clients two and three years in who say the service has been consistently good. Some people land well and stay well.

Which is the point. Setup is the easy part, and every provider in this market is decent at it. What varies is what happens in year two, when the sale is closed, the novelty is gone, and someone has to produce your year-end accounts on time without being chased.

So when you are reading reviews of any provider - ours included - filter for the ones describing the stage you are about to be in. If you are switching, the reviews about onboarding are the least relevant ones on the page.

How we do it

Every Duellix client has a named account manager, and it is deliberately not your accountant.

Your accountant does the accounting. Your account manager is your go-to person: someone you know by name, who knows you and knows your business.

• A named person, not a queue. The same person each time, so context accumulates instead of resetting.
• In a WhatsApp group or Slack channel with you, not behind a ticket form. You message the group; they are in it.
• They know your business, which is the half that matters. Knowing your name is easy. Knowing why last year's numbers look the way they do is what saves you time.
• No standing start. You do not re-explain the company every time something comes up.

Our response target is six hours, across every channel, during business hours. Not chat only, and not only on the top plan.

That is worth comparing directly, because Osome does publish a commitment and it is a reasonable one:

[NEEDS INPUT - what happens when an account manager is on leave, or leaves the firm? Every reader who has been burned by this will ask it, and one of the reviews we found makes exactly that point: "if that person is unavailable, everything comes to a halt." A concrete answer - a named second, a shared channel the whole team can see - is worth more than the rest of this section.]

[NEEDS INPUT - is six hours a target or a commitment, and do we measure it? If we measure it we should publish the actual median next to the target, which no competitor does. If we do not measure it yet, the page says "target" and we start measuring.]

When Osome or Sleek is the better choice

We mean this, and it covers more companies than it might appear to.

You are newly incorporated and genuinely simple. No GST, no payroll, no subsidiaries, a handful of entries a month. You do not need what we do, and going to us at that stage means paying for capacity you are not using. This covers a lot of companies in their first year or two.

Your cost side is genuinely heavy. Hundreds of supplier invoices and expense claims a month, arriving one at a time and needing individual matching. Sales aggregation does nothing for you, because the work is on the buying side. [NEEDS INPUT - confirm this is real, and what it looks like in practice.]

You want a self-service app and intend to do most of the bookkeeping yourself. That is a real product preference and we are not built around it.

You need one provider across several countries. We are Singapore only. A group with entities in three jurisdictions has a coordination problem we do not solve.

[NEEDS INPUT - B17. Patrick to confirm, correct or add. This section is what makes every other claim on the page believable, so it should be his words rather than my guess.]

When we are the better choice

Written to be falsifiable. If any of these stops being true, it comes off the page.

You have high customer volume and a light cost side. A gym, studio, clinic, salon, allied health practice, e-commerce or subscription business. Your sales come out of a system as a report, so they post as one entry a month rather than a thousand, and your fee is set by rent, payroll and suppliers instead. If you have been quoted on turnover, ask us for a second number.

You bill a few large invoices. Consultancy, advisory, licensing, agency work, a holding company, an investment vehicle. Your bill should follow the work, not the revenue, and with us it does.

You have crossed into GST, payroll, subsidiaries or quarterly reporting. Our clients are, in the main, companies that started on a platform and reached this point.

You are sponsoring your own Employment Pass. For the arithmetic above: our tiers move on transaction count, so your salary does not reprice your accounting.

You want the price before the call. Everything is on the site - tiers, the full shareholder scale, add-ons, the nominee deposit.

You are raising, and shareholder count is about to move. You can see what the round costs you in fees before you run it.

You want the same person to know your business. [NEEDS INPUT - only publish this if it is true and we can describe how it works.]

Switching, and when to do it

[NEEDS INPUT - B16. What has actually gone wrong for clients who came to us from Osome? Own experience only.]

The mechanics, which apply whoever you are leaving:

• The change of company secretary is lodged through ACRA's Bizfile, and there is no fee for it.
• Corppass authorisations have to be reassigned before your new provider can file anything for you.
• The Xero file has to move, and who owns it decides how painful that is. Xero has no clean way to move a subscription between practices, and whoever registered the file controls it. If your provider set it up under their own login, it is not really yours. Ask before you need the answer. Ours is always registered to your company.
• Statutory registers and original documents have to come across in full.

Timing. The clean windows are just after a GST quarter closes, or at your financial year end. If a deadline is close, switch anyway rather than waiting - a provider you have decided to leave is not one you want handling a deadline.

[NEEDS INPUT - B18. Are the five switching promises going on this page or held for /switch/? Promise 4 needs sizing first.]

How Duellix helps

We handle incorporation, corporate secretarial, bookkeeping and accounts, tax filing, payroll and Employment Pass applications for companies in Singapore. The bulk of our work is with companies past the first stage: trading, with staff, often with a foreign founder on a pass, and usually GST registered.

In practice: your books are in Xero registered to your company, filings with ACRA and the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) are handled on our side, and the price you were quoted is the price on our website.

The useful next step is a full-year number for where your company actually is now - not the entry tier. Tell us the transaction volume, the headcount, the shareholder count, whether you are GST registered and what you pay yourself, and we will give you year one and year two together.

Get a full-year price for where your company is now

If it turns out you have not outgrown your current provider, we will say so. Take the three questions from the Employment Pass section with you either way.

Frequently asked questions

Is Duellix cheaper than Osome?

It depends on your books rather than your business, and we would rather explain that than give you a number that flatters us. We price on how many entries have to be recorded and reconciled. If that count is genuinely high - hundreds of supplier invoices and expense claims a month - a provider pricing on cost base will be cheaper. For most businesses the count is far lower than people expect, and we are often substantially cheaper. On setting up, we are mid-market and Osome is cheaper.

I run a gym with 800 members. Does that make my accounting expensive?

Not with us. Where your sales run through a booking system or payment processor that produces a report, the whole month posts as a single summarised entry reconciled against the payout. So a few thousand sessions a month is twelve entries a year, not tens of thousands. What sets your fee is the cost side - rent, payroll, utilities, suppliers - which for a gym is usually a couple of hundred entries a year. If you have been quoted on turnover, that is a different basis and worth a second opinion. The same applies to studios, clinics, salons, allied health practices, e-commerce and subscription businesses.

How do you count a month of sales?

As one entry, wherever the sales report can be extracted. We automate rather than inflate - a month of customer transactions does not create a month of bookkeeping entries, so we do not charge as though it does. This is worth asking any provider before you compare quotes, because the answer can move you several tiers.

Why does the same company get very different quotes from different providers?

Because providers price on different things. Some set your tier by cost base - annual turnover or expenditure. Others, including us, set it by how many entries have to be recorded and reconciled. For an average business these land in a similar place. For a gym doing $1.5m across a booking system, or a consultancy billing $800,000 across six invoices, they are worlds apart. Ask which basis a quote is built on before you compare it to anyone else's.

I bill a small number of large invoices. Which model suits me?

Entry-based, on the arithmetic. Reconciling a $200,000 invoice takes no longer than a $200 one. Under cost-base pricing your fee tracks your revenue while your workload stays flat, and the gap widens every year you grow.

How do I know if I have outgrown my accounting platform?

The common signals are GST registration, moving to quarterly or monthly management accounts, headcount into double figures, an XBRL request, a subsidiary, sponsoring an Employment Pass, or revenue growing much faster than transaction count. If two or more are true, the plan you signed up to was probably scoped for a different company than the one you now run.

Why does my accounting quote change after I get an Employment Pass?

Because many providers set your fee tier by annual cost base, and an Employment Pass requires the company to pay you a real salary. A founder on $10,000 a month adds $120,000 a year to the cost base - four times an entry tier pitched at $0 to $30,000 - while creating twelve accounting entries. Under a transaction-based model the tier does not move. Ask whether director's salary counts towards your tier, and get it in writing.

Does Osome publish its pricing?

Not for the services most companies buy. On 9 September 2026, incorporation, nominee director, accounting, bookkeeping, corporate secretary, tax, GST, payroll and registered address were all quote-on-request on its Singapore site. The one published price was $5 a month for a DIY tool. We date this claim because it can change - check it yourself.

Will I have the same person each time, or a chat queue?

With us, a named account manager who stays with your account - and deliberately not the same person as your accountant. Your accountant does the accounting; your account manager is your go-to person, in a WhatsApp group or Slack channel with you, who knows your business without you re-explaining it. Our response target is six hours across every channel during business hours. Osome directs existing customers to in-app chat, where work is allocated to whoever picks it up; the terms "dedicated account manager" and "client success manager" do not appear on its site. It publishes a response commitment of six business hours on its higher plans and one working day otherwise, checked 9 September 2026.

How should I read online reviews of accounting providers?

By stage, not by star rating. Setup and onboarding are the easy part and most providers in this market are decent at them, so reviews describing incorporation tell you little about what year two looks like. Filter for reviews describing the stage you are about to be in - monthly reporting, year-end accounts, renewals - because that is where the differences between providers actually show up. This applies to our reviews as much as anyone's.

When is the best time to switch provider?

Just after a GST quarter closes, or at your financial year end. If a statutory deadline is close, switch anyway rather than waiting.

Who owns my Xero file?

With us, your company. It matters because Xero has no clean way to move a subscription between practices and whoever registered the file controls it. Ask whoever you are considering, and ask whoever you are leaving.

Do I need an accounting package to get a nominee director?

With us, yes - Starter or above, for the engagement period. A nominee director carries personal legal responsibility for the company's filings, so we need visibility of the books before accepting it. Other providers set their own conditions, and it is worth asking, because it can add materially to a foreign founder's cost without appearing in the headline.

Sources and review

• Duellix pricing: Duellix service catalogue, September 2026 edition. Published at /pricing/.
• Osome published pricing: osome.com/sg/pricing, checked 9 September 2026. [SHOP - re-check on publication day.]
• Osome quoted pricing: obtained by direct enquiry. [SHOP - dates sent and dates answered.]
• GST registration threshold and filing frequency: Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS). [SOURCE - page URL and date checked required.]
• XBRL filing requirements, audit exemption criteria, company secretary appointment, incorporation fee: Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA). [SOURCE - page URLs and dates checked required.]
• Competitor price points referenced in the market-context section. [SOURCE - dated source required before publication.]

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