If the government sets the price, why does it move?

Because it is set by formula rather than frozen. Malaysia's Automatic Pricing Mechanism recalculates the ceiling weekly from world product prices, so the pump price tracks crude with a short lag. RON95 has moved more than two ringgit across the period this saver shows.

Is this the price at every station?

It is the national ceiling for the week. Stations may not charge above it and in practice nearly all charge exactly it, so it is the price almost everywhere in peninsular Malaysia. East Malaysia has separate diesel rates, which the feed reports separately.

Yes. It comes from data.gov.my, the Malaysian government's open data API. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.

Does it cost anything or need an account?

No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.

What currency and unit are prices shown in?

Malaysian ringgit (RM) per litre, as in the weekly retail price dataset published on data.gov.my.

What is RON95 versus RON97?

RON is the research octane number, a measure of a petrol’s resistance to knocking. RON97 is a higher-octane grade than RON95 and is priced separately.

Why might a subsidy change the price?

A subsidy covers part of the market cost, so when policy shifts the amount of support, the pump price moves even if oil costs are unchanged.

Malaysian Fuel Prices Screensaver

The Malaysian Fuel Prices screensaver charts a year of Malaysia's weekly retail fuel price ceilings in ringgit per litre. Prices are set administratively rather than floating, but they are not fixed: all three grades track world crude through the pricing formula, and RON95 alone has ranged from 2.05 to 4.27 ringgit across the window shown. The gap between subsidised RON95 and unsubsidised RON97 is roughly what the subsidy is worth per litre. It runs in the browser with nothing to install; press ESC to exit.

How the Malaysian Fuel Prices screensaver works

The saver reads data.gov.my, the Malaysian government's open data API.

No account and no key: the request goes straight from your browser, or from this site's own refreshed copy of the feed where the source does not allow browser access.

Values are drawn on a canvas that resizes with the window, so it works on a laptop or a wall display.

If the source is unreachable the saver says so on screen rather than showing stale numbers as though they were current.

How Malaysia sets its pump prices

Malaysia’s retail fuel prices are set by the government, not by station owners. The Ministry of Finance announces prices weekly under the Automatic Pricing Mechanism, introduced in April 2017, which adjusts domestic fuel prices in response to global crude oil price movements. The open data portal, data.gov.my, publishes that dataset, with each record carrying the date the price takes effect.

The dataset covers RON95 and RON97 petrol and diesel, with diesel reported separately for Peninsular Malaysia and for East Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan) since June 2024. It also includes subsidised variants of RON95, under the BUDI 95 scheme and the Subsidised Petrol Control System. Subsidy rules differ by fuel and by buyer and have been revised over time, so a gap between grades partly reflects how much support each receives.

The figures are weekly retail prices in Malaysian ringgit per litre. They are national prices set by the government, so they say nothing about what the fuel costs to produce: taxes, subsidies and margins all sit inside the number you pay. Announcements have been made on Wednesdays since March 2021, and a given price applies from the date stated in the record.

A worked example

Three lines run across the year: green for RON95, amber for RON97, blue for diesel, each labelled with its current price on the right. They move together, because the same formula drives all three. The distance between the green and amber lines is the interesting measurement — that is the subsidised grade against the unsubsidised one. The footer names the effective week and states the gap directly; at the time of writing RON97 cost RM 0.53 more than RON95.

Settings & tips

Accent and Background recolour the display without changing the data.
Add it to a Multi-view grid to watch it alongside other live savers.
Press ESC at any time to leave fullscreen.

Frequently asked questions

If the government sets the price, why does it move?: Because it is set by formula rather than frozen. Malaysia's Automatic Pricing Mechanism recalculates the ceiling weekly from world product prices, so the pump price tracks crude with a short lag. RON95 has moved more than two ringgit across the period this saver shows.
Is this the price at every station?: It is the national ceiling for the week. Stations may not charge above it and in practice nearly all charge exactly it, so it is the price almost everywhere in peninsular Malaysia. East Malaysia has separate diesel rates, which the feed reports separately.
Is this real data?: Yes. It comes from data.gov.my, the Malaysian government's open data API. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.
Does it cost anything or need an account?: No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.
What currency and unit are prices shown in?: Malaysian ringgit (RM) per litre, as in the weekly retail price dataset published on data.gov.my.
What is RON95 versus RON97?: RON is the research octane number, a measure of a petrol’s resistance to knocking. RON97 is a higher-octane grade than RON95 and is priced separately.
Why might a subsidy change the price?: A subsidy covers part of the market cost, so when policy shifts the amount of support, the pump price moves even if oil costs are unchanged.

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