COE results of every bidding exercise
Premium, quota and bids for each category, from the latest exercise back to January 2010. Read from LTA open data on 24 October 2026.
Cat A (smaller cars), 2nd exercise of October 2026
$132,004
+$2,003 on the exercise before
| Quota (COEs available) | 1,191 |
| Bids received | 1,574 |
| Successful bids | 1,187 |
| Bids per COE | 1.32 |
| Category | Premium | Change | Quota | Bids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cat A (smaller cars) | $132,004 | +$2,003 | 1,191 | 1,574 |
| Cat B (larger cars) | $131,901 | +$1,801 | 923 | 1,149 |
| Cat C (goods vehicles and buses) | $92,200 | +$311 | 308 | 481 |
| Cat D (motorcycles) | $10,778 | −$234 | 539 | 611 |
| Cat E (open) | $135,790 | −$1,210 | 270 | 411 |
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · COE results read on 24 October 2026 (latest: 2nd exercise of October 2026)
The 2nd exercise of October 2026 closed with a premium of $132,004 in Category A, $131,901 in Category B, $92,200 in Category C, $10,778 in Category D and $135,790 in the open Category E. Category A, Category B, Category C rose against the 1st exercise of October 2026, while Category D, Category E fell. Category A moved by +$2,003 and Category B by +$1,801. Over the last six months of bidding, Category A stayed between $123,847 and $133,009. The premium is the lowest successful bid: every successful bidder in the category pays it, whatever they bid. Competition was strongest in Category C, with 1.56 bids for each certificate on offer. Pick any of the last 48 exercises in the calculator to see its five results side by side. The next exercise runs from 2 November 2026 to 4 November 2026.
Results of the last six exercises
| Exercise | Cat A | Cat B | Cat C | Cat D | Cat E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 (2) | $132,004 | $131,901 | $92,200 | $10,778 | $135,790 |
| October 2026 (1) | $130,001 | $130,100 | $91,889 | $11,012 | $137,000 |
| September 2026 (2) | $131,890 | $133,000 | $92,144 | $12,201 | $137,000 |
| September 2026 (1) | $133,009 | $135,001 | $93,101 | $12,556 | $137,890 |
| August 2026 (2) | $128,501 | $131,001 | $90,002 | $11,301 | $135,000 |
| August 2026 (1) | $123,890 | $129,910 | $91,545 | $10,503 | $131,000 |
Each line is one exercise; each column a category. Category A is for smaller cars, B for larger and more powerful ones, C for goods vehicles and buses, D for motorcycles and E is the open category whose certificate can register any vehicle except a motorcycle. Category A and Category B have pages of their own with longer series.
How to read one exercise
For every category LTA publishes four numbers. The quota is how many certificates were offered. The bids received count every valid bid placed during the three days of the exercise. Successful bids are those that won a certificate, usually equal to the quota or a few below it. The quota premium is the price everybody who won pays. A ratio of bids to quota above one means that some bidders went home without a certificate; the higher that ratio, the more the premium had to rise to separate them.
In the 2nd exercise of October 2026 Category A had 1,191 certificates for 1,574 bids, Category B 923 for 1,149, and Category E 270 for 411. The calculator at the top shows the same figures for any of the last 48 exercises, with the change on the exercise before.
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| Lowest premium, last 24 exercises | $102,009 |
| Median | $123,847 |
| Highest | $133,009 |
| Bid deposit taken by the bank | $10,000 |
Why results move from one exercise to the next
The quota is fixed in advance for a quarter, based on how many vehicles were deregistered in the months before. When many ten year old cars are scrapped, more certificates come back into the pool some time later and the quota rises. Demand moves faster: a new model launch, a change in loan rules or in the tax schedule, a rush before a rebate ends, all bring more bidders into one exercise. Dealers bid on behalf of most buyers, so their order books matter more than individual decisions.
The open Category E tends to follow Category B closely, because dealers can use an E certificate for a large car and switch between the two when one is cheaper. Category C moves with business demand for vans and lorries, and Category D, for motorcycles, has its own small market of a few hundred certificates per exercise.
What a result does not tell you
A result is the price of one certificate in one exercise. It says nothing certain about the next exercise, and this site does not forecast one. It is not the price of a car either: the COE comes on top of the open market value, excise duty, GST, the additional registration fee and the registration fee. The car cost calculator adds them all. And for owners renewing an old certificate, the relevant figure is the prevailing quota premium, a three month average described on the PQP page.
Results also do not show who won. Bids are anonymous, and a large share are placed by dealers for cars they have already sold. The bids received figure counts bids, not people: an individual may place only one bid per exercise, while a company or motor trader may place several.
The data behind this page
All figures come from LTA’s COE bidding results data set on data.gov.sg, which covers every exercise since January 2010. The site reads it after each exercise and checks it against the prevailing quota premium series, which LTA computes from the same results. When a number here differs from what you see on OneMotoring, OneMotoring is right; please tell us through the contact page. The bidding calendar for the rest of the year is on LTA’s schedule of exercises.