Find the right Octopus Energy tariff for your home.
Octopus offers one of the UK’s widest ranges of smart energy tariffs, with options for EV drivers, solar homes, heat pumps and standard households. You’ll also find tariffs linked to wholesale prices, customer rewards and highly rated customer service.
Whatever your needs, Octopus has a tariff that fits.
Octopus offers one of the UK's most flexible tariff ranges, with smart options for EVs, solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and households that can shift usage into cheaper periods.
Most people are trying to answer one question.
“Which Octopus tariff should I look at first?” This page answers that in three steps — then offers deeper tariff guides, live price tools and switching advice underneath.
For homes with an electric vehicle
If you charge an EV at home, Octopus EV tariffs give you cheaper overnight electricity for lower-cost charging.
Intelligent Octopus Go
Six-hour cheap window from 8p, with Octopus controlling the charging schedule via your car or smart charger.
Smart charging → Simple EV tariffOctopus Go
A fixed four-hour overnight cheap rate. No smart charger or compatible EV required.
For homes that generate, store or export electricity
Octopus offers some of the UK's best export rates, with tariffs for solar-only homes, solar and battery setups, and half-hourly export pricing.
Outgoing Fixed
Lock your export rate for 12 months at a flat per-kWh rate. The simplest option for solar-only homes.
Predictability → Half-hourly exportAgile Outgoing
Half-hourly export prices that spike on sunny afternoons when wholesale demand is high.
Octopus Flux
Three daily price bands for import and export. The sweet spot for solar plus battery setups.
Intelligent Octopus Flux
Flux, fully automated. Octopus controls your battery's charge and discharge schedule for you.
For homes with a heat pump
Heat pumps need steady, low-cost electricity throughout the day, which is why Octopus Cosy is designed around heat pump usage patterns.
Octopus Cosy
Three off-peak windows a day at 12p, designed around how heat pumps actually run through the day.
Cosy windows → Compare optionsBest heat pump tariffs 2026
Compare Cosy against the other UK heat-pump-friendly tariffs to check whether it's still the strongest option for your home.
For homes without EV, solar or a heat pump
No low-carbon tech? Tracker and Agile can still help you pay less than a standard price cap tariff by taking advantage of cheaper wholesale rates and half-hourly pricing.
Thinking about switching to an Octopus smart tariff?
These live dashboards show the latest Agile, Tracker and Agile Outgoing prices pulled directly from the Octopus API, so you can see how wholesale-linked tariffs change before you switch.
Agile prices dashboard
Today and tomorrow's half-hourly import prices, with the cheapest slots highlighted by region.
Tracker prices
Today's regional electricity and gas unit rates for Octopus Tracker, plus historic context.
Agile Outgoing
Half-hourly export prices for solar households that want to time exports for peak value.
How switching to an Octopus Energy smart tariff actually works.
Most new customers start on Flexible Octopus first. Octopus then checks your smart meter is communicating properly before you can request a smart tariff like Agile, Go, Cosy or Flux.
Switch to Octopus
Most new customers start on Flexible Octopus when the supply first moves across. Takes 2–5 working days under the Energy Switch Guarantee.
Smart meter check
Octopus checks whether your smart meter is communicating and sending half-hourly data. No smart meter? They'll arrange a free install.
Request a smart tariff
Once the meter is working correctly, you can apply for Agile, Go, Cosy, Flux or any other smart tariff that fits your home.
Optimise your usage
Use cheap windows, export rates, batteries, EV scheduling or Saving Sessions to pull your unit rate down further.
Get paid to help balance the grid.
Octopus Energy is one of the few UK suppliers that actively pays customers for shifting their usage, and a typical engaged household could earn £50 to £150 across winter.
Octoplus
Loyalty programme. Earn Octopoints, redeem for bill credit, vouchers and partner perks.
Saving Sessions
Get paid for reducing electricity use during peak demand events. Typical winter household earns £50 to £100.
Free Electricity
One- to two-hour windows where eligible electricity used is credited back. Open to every Octopus customer.
Switch to Octopus and get £50 referral credit.
No engineer visits, no power cut, switch complete in 2 to 5 working days under the Energy Switch Guarantee.