Tariffs
The smart tariffs, and who each one is wrong for
Every smart tariff trades a cheap window against an expensive one. If you cannot move your usage into the cheap window, you are volunteering to pay more.
Agile Octopus
Agile Octopus sets a different electricity price for every half-hour, published the afternoon before. It rewards people who can genuinely move their usage; it punishes people who cannot.
Intelligent Octopus Go
Intelligent Octopus Go gives a low overnight electricity rate for the whole house, and lets Octopus schedule your EV charging inside a wider window in exchange.
Cosy Octopus
Cosy Octopus gives several cheap electricity windows spread through the day, designed around heat pumps running in bursts rather than one overnight block.
Outgoing Octopus
Outgoing Octopus pays you for electricity you export to the grid, either at a flat rate or at a half-hourly rate that follows wholesale prices.
Flexible Octopus
Flexible Octopus is the standard variable tariff you land on if you pick nothing else. It tracks the Ofgem price cap, has no exit fees, and is the sensible starting point until you know which smart tariff fits your usage.
Octopus Tracker
Octopus Tracker sets a single price for the whole day, published in advance and tied to wholesale energy costs. In calm markets it has often undercut the price cap; in a spike it can rise above it, and moving off the tariff takes a couple of weeks.