Priced in US dollars, shown and charged in Singapore dollars
Lensdrop sets its prices in US dollars outside India and the euro area, tax included. Each gallery is a one time purchase: 5GB (about 480 photos) for $6.99, 10GB (about 970 photos) for $9.99, 25GB (about 2,400 photos) for $14.99. Shoots bigger than 25GB go on the Studio Pass, $249 a year or $24.99 a month, paid once and never renewed. In Singapore the site and the checkout show those prices in Singapore dollars at the day's rate (a 5GB gallery is about S$9.30), and that is the amount your card is charged, so your bank does not convert anything. The figure moves a little with the exchange rate, and some banks still add a small fee for an overseas merchant.
In exchange there is no subscription and no minimum. Your first gallery is free, up to 2GB, online for 30 days. Lensdrop's payment provider is the merchant of record, so the receipt and any tax handling sit with them.
Why per gallery fits the work here
A Singapore wedding is often delivered as several galleries rather than one: the gate games, the tea ceremony, the solemnisation, the banquet, sometimes on different days and for different sides of the family. On a monthly plan that is one bill regardless. On per gallery pricing you buy exactly the ones you deliver, and a small ceremony gallery costs $6.99 rather than a share of a $20 plan.
Corporate and conference work has the opposite shape: a burst of galleries in event season and quiet stretches between. A subscription bills through the quiet ones. Per gallery does not.
Multi-day and multi-family deliveries are also where the PIN matters. Each gallery carries its own link and PIN, so the groom's side does not get the bride's side's files by default, and nobody has to make an account to see their own.
What clients see
- One link and a PIN, opened on a phone, with no app and no signup.
- Full resolution downloads, one photo at a time or the whole gallery as a zip.
- A viewer built mobile first, which matters when most of your clients open the link on the MRT.
- Watermarked previews if you want them, as a switch independent of whether downloads are on.
Lensdrop never sells to your clients and takes 0% of anything you sell elsewhere. It has no store, so there is nothing for it to take a cut of.
Questions Singapore photographers ask
Can I pay with PayNow or a local method?
Not currently. Payment is by card, plus Apple Pay and Google Pay where the browser offers them. UPI exists only for India, and there is no PayNow or GrabPay option today.
Will the gallery be fast for clients here?
Photos are served from a global edge network, so they are delivered from a nearby location rather than from a single origin. Uploads go straight from your browser to storage and resume if your connection drops.
How long do galleries stay up?
Six months, extendable, with email warnings before anything is archived. Archived galleries are recoverable rather than immediately deleted.
Worth comparing honestly
If you deliver more than roughly three galleries a week all year round, paying per gallery stops being the cheap option. At that volume, look at Lensdrop's Studio Pass: $249 a year for unlimited galleries and 1TB of uploads, paid once and never renewed. Per gallery pricing wins for seasonal and mid-volume work, which is most wedding, portrait and corporate photographers. The pricing page has the full ladder, and the free gallery is enough to run a real delivery before deciding.
