We find the cheapest electricity and gas plans for your actual usage — and we never ask for your personal details.
We compare every plan retailers publish openly; restricted offers they don't publish — such as some EV plans — can't be shown.
Some "visit retailer" links earn us a commission — never at your cost, and we never change a plan's prices. Sign-up credits count toward estimates by default, which can lift those plans up the list; untick "Include referral discounts" to rank without them. Full disclosure
Prices and plan details come from the Consumer Data Right (CDR) feeds that every Australian energy retailer is required to publish — the same data behind the government's Energy Made Easy service. We refresh it regularly and show it as published, unmodified.
Retailers only have to publish their generally available plans. Offers with special eligibility — for example some EV plans that require proof of vehicle ownership, hardship arrangements, or individually negotiated deals — may not be in the published data and therefore can't appear here. If a specific offer matters to you (for example an EV tariff), check the retailer's own website as well.
Gas plans can be compared too — flip the Gas switch. Note that the published data has no single plan covering both fuels: every plan is either electricity or gas. So the Elec + Gas view pairs one electricity plan with one gas plan from the same retailer, and you can swap either side for any of that retailer's other plans. Where a retailer sells the two together as a package we mark the pairing Bundle deal; otherwise it's marked Separate plans, meaning two independent plans that simply come from the same retailer.
We make every effort to combine and flag these plans accurately, but mistakes are possible — bundle conditions in particular are written in free text and can change. Always confirm the plan terms with your chosen retailer before committing, especially whether a bundle requires you to take both fuels.
Costs are estimates calculated from the usage details you enter, including GST. Your actual bills will vary with your real usage, meter type, network charges and fees. Always confirm the current rates and terms with the retailer before switching.
Where a plan's published data is ambiguous, we deliberately estimate on the high side rather than guess in the plan's favour. Some plans publish several demand charges covering the same hours, for example, with the season each one belongs to written only in the plan's terms; we charge all of them rather than pick one, which makes that plan look dearer than it probably is. We would rather overstate a cost than recommend a plan on a price you might not get. Any plan affected says so on its own cost breakdown, and you should check its rates with the retailer.
Links marked referral are referral links. If you sign up through one, you receive the advertised sign-up credit and we may also receive a payment or credit from the retailer. You are never obligated to use a referral link — every plan can be taken up directly with the retailer, and a referral arrangement never changes a plan's published prices or the underlying plan data.
How this affects the order you see plans in. The sign-up credit is counted in cost estimates by default, so a plan carrying one is estimated — and therefore ranked — as costing that much less. That credit is a one-off sign-up bonus and subject to the retailer's own terms, so if you don't intend to use the referral link, or wouldn't qualify for the bonus, untick "Include referral discounts" to price and rank every plan without it. The referral row stays visible in the cost breakdown either way, so you can always see what it's worth and whether it moved a plan. Referral terms are linked next to each referral button. Retailer homepage links that aren't marked referral earn us nothing.
Searching and comparing requires no personal details. Your usage profile, meter data and preferences stay in your browser — they are not sent to or stored on our servers.
This site provides general information only and doesn't consider your personal circumstances.
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No — NEM12 is what we read best, but it isn't the only thing we accept. When you upload a file we try NEM12 first, and if it isn't one we try to recognise and convert it: we support a limited range of other interval formats, and we're adding more. So it's worth uploading whatever your portal (or your solar inverter) gives you — if we can read it, it just works, and nothing is sent anywhere while we try.
Almost always because it isn't interval data. We need readings taken through the day — every 5, 15 or 30 minutes — so we can tell when you use power. A bill, a PDF, or a file of monthly or daily totals doesn't carry that, and no amount of processing can recover it. In your portal, look for a detailed report (sometimes "detailed data" or "interval data") rather than a usage summary.
If you're sure your file is interval data and it still won't load, it's likely a format we haven't taught the app yet — send it to [email protected] and we'll look at adding it.
Because that plan's own published data is ambiguous and we chose not to guess in its favour. The usual cause is demand charges: some plans list several demand rates covering the same hours, with the season each one applies to written only in the plan's terms rather than in the data. A meter records one peak, so really only one of those rates can apply — but we can't tell which, so we charge all of them. That makes the plan look dearer than it probably is, and pushes it down the list. We'd rather overstate a cost than recommend a plan on a price you might not get. If you like the look of a plan carrying that warning, check its demand rates with the retailer.
No. Upload the ZIP as it came and we'll open it in your browser and read the usage file inside. If it holds several files we use the largest, and tell you which one we used, so you can unzip and pick a different one if that wasn't the right one. Spreadsheets (.xlsx) and PDFs can't be read — for a spreadsheet, open it and use Save As → CSV.
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The NEM12 format is the Australian energy industry standard for interval smart-meter data. Defined by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), this CSV-based file structure records electricity usage or solar generation, typically in 30-minute blocks. It is commonly used by retailers, distributors and consumers for billing and energy analysis. Portals rarely call it "NEM12" — it's usually offered as a detailed report.
We read your meter's half-hourly readings and use the most recent 12 months. For each hour of the day we average your usage across those months, keeping each day of the week separate — so weekday and weekend patterns are preserved and the profile reflects how you actually use power, not a generic shape. If your file includes solar, we build an export shape the same way. We also keep up to 18 months of your real readings so each plan can be priced against what you actually used, day by day (the "what you'd have actually paid" backtest), instead of just an average. Files with 5, 15 or 30-minute readings are all supported, and your data stays in your browser. Non-NEM12 files we recognise are converted first, then read exactly the same way.
You tell us how much power you use and roughly when — by shaping a typical day, picking a usage preset, or importing your smart-meter file. Every plan is then priced against that usage using its real rates and time windows: peak, off-peak and free periods, tiered blocks, seasonal rates, daily supply charges, controlled load, demand charges, solar feed-in, discounts and card surcharges. The whole calculation happens in your browser, so your usage never leaves your device.
Because a plan you can't take today is still worth seeing. Around two thirds of listed plans carry some eligibility condition, and we show them all rather than quietly hiding them — always read a plan's eligibility terms before signing up, they're in the plan's Terms & Comments.
Seeing them is useful for two reasons. First, some conditions are ones you could simply choose to meet: plans tied to a rewards or membership scheme (Qantas, RACT, My NRMA, Virgin Australia, a Seniors Card) may be worth joining if the saving outweighs the cost of membership. Second, it shows you what your retailer is capable of charging. If a restricted plan from your current retailer is much cheaper than the one you're on, that's a concrete number to quote when you call and ask them to match it — retailers will often move to keep a customer. Conditions you genuinely can't meet (a plan needing solar, a battery, or a smart meter you don't have) are worth recognising too, so you don't waste time on them.
Flip the Gas switch and enter roughly how many megajoules (MJ) you use a year — your gas bill shows it. Gas plans are priced from that single figure against each plan's rate blocks and daily supply charge, including GST. Gas bills report how much you used, not when, so there's no hourly shaping to do — the estimate spreads your yearly total evenly across the year. That's exact on the usual flat, all-year gas plan, but if a plan's rates change by season a heating-heavy household would pay more than the estimate shows, so we flag it as an assumption on that plan. A handful of gas plans charge different rates by time of day; since your yearly total can't say which window your usage falls in, those are priced at the average of their rates and flagged too. Because no retailer publishes a single plan covering both fuels, the Elec + Gas view pairs one electricity plan with one gas plan from the same retailer so you can see a combined yearly cost — swap either side to any of that retailer's other plans. Pairings the retailer sells together are marked Bundle deal, the rest Separate plans. Check the terms with the retailer before signing up.
The government's reference price (the Default Market Offer, or the Victorian Default Offer) compares plans against a model household's usage, not yours. Two plans that look identical against that benchmark can differ by hundreds of dollars a year once your actual usage pattern is priced — especially if you have solar, an EV, or a plan with free or very cheap windows. We deliberately price your real usage instead of quoting a percentage that may not apply to you.
No. There's no sign-up, account, name, email, address or phone number needed to search or compare. Your usage profile, meter data and preferences are stored in your own browser and are never sent to our servers.
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