Octopus Tracker Pricing Dashboard
Live electricity and gas prices for the current Octopus Tracker tariff — the version new customers sign up to today. Pick your region below to see local pricing.
SILVER-26-04-01). All prices and stats below are for this version.
Octopus Tracker electricity prices
The historical line is stitched across previous Tracker versions to give a continuous 12-month view, since each individual Tracker version typically lasts 6–12 months.
Octopus Tracker gas prices
The historical line is stitched across previous Tracker versions to give a continuous 12-month view, since each individual Tracker version typically lasts 6–12 months.
How Octopus Tracker pricing works
Tracker prices are set once a day, every day, and published by Octopus before midnight for the following day. The rate you see here is what Octopus customers on Tracker are actually paying right now in each of the 14 UK distribution regions.
Three things drive the daily price. Wholesale gas and electricity costs are the biggest factor. When wholesale markets fall, Tracker tends to fall with them within a day or two. Network charges and policy costs make up most of the rest, and these are largely fixed. VAT at 5% is added on top.
There’s a daily cap built in. Electricity is capped at 100p per kWh and gas at 30p per kWh, so even on the worst day of a wholesale spike you won’t pay more than that. In practice the cap has only been hit a handful of times since Tracker launched.
Is Octopus Tracker cheaper than the price cap?
Most of the time, yes, but not always, and not by a fixed amount.
Over the last 12 months Tracker has typically sat 15-25% below the Ofgem price cap on electricity and a similar margin on gas. The savings are biggest in spring and summer when wholesale demand is low. In a cold January or during a wholesale spike, Tracker can cost more than Flexible, which is why the price history chart above is worth checking before you switch.
It’s a worse fit if you’re on a tight fixed budget, hate checking prices, or you’ve recently switched onto a competitive fixed deal that’s already beating the cap.