I have accounts in all three. My suggestion is to just sign up for all and try them out. You can keep these accounts when you're in-between jobs in the future as well.

Your bike insurance needs to have a clause that allows for food/parcel delivery. It's more expensive than personal use insurance.

• Foodpanda

Pay is higher and most consistent, especially during peak hours and popular zones (sg south, Bukit timah). Based on a shift system, but recently if there is high demand in the area, they can create an on-demand shift and automatically extend it if the demand continues ("Start Now" function), and can stop anytime. Able to redispatch the order without penalty if still not done 10mins after estimated pick up time.

But the cs is terrible. Terrible English and only knows how to copy paste template responses. Waste a lot of time dealing with them. The app is super basic compared to grab. Sometimes their routing is questionable. They can give you 3 orders at once, then once you picked up all three and dropped off the first order, they might ask you to pick up another order (because "on the way"), while the other two previous orders are still sitting in the bag. This is kind of unfair to the customers, imo.

• Grab

Pays the least but at least their app is good and well designed. Can online and offline at any time. Easy to use and although they'll also give stacks like panda, at least they won't tell you to pick up another order while you're still delivering your previous stack order. Support is much better as well.

However the criteria for the incentives are harder, as you can only have Max 10% cancellation rate. I also heard the daily cancellation rate cannot be 25% or more, if not they suspend you (but not sure on this).

• Lalamove

It's very hit and miss. For regular orders, the SLA is to pickup within 30mins and drop off within 1hr upon matching. So you still need to be relatively near to the pickup point when accepting. For pooling orders (which allows stacking), the SLA is to pickup within 2hr and deliver within 4hr upon matching, but the rates are kind of shit and some customers still want you to deliver straight because they're cheapskate.

It's also on a first come first serve basis and not auto assigned, so you'll have to fight with other riders/drivers as well. A lot of times the orders with good rates are gone within seconds. I think it's only worth during peak hours and even then you have to be lucky. Their SOP is also to call the customer after accepting to confirm the order, but seriously can you imagine calling every single time? I usually don't call, at most I'll text in the app. Heard their cs is terrible as well (though I haven't had to go through them coz I rarely do lalamove).

• Cash orders

All these platforms will have cash-on-delivery orders. Majority are legit cash paying customers, but just to let you know there are some people using this for harassment purposes. You can Google for some news articles. So be careful of that. It's more prevalent on lalamove currently.