Compare what you’d pay
Every Octopus import tariff in your region, ranked on the same month of real rates. The cheapest average isn’t automatically the cheapest for you — the notes below say why.
Import tariffs, cheapest first
North West England · 1–31 August 2026
- Price rank 01 of 10Intelligent Octopus Flux ImportUnit rate 22.30p per kilowatt hourStanding charge 44.93p/day
- Price rank 09 of 10Cosy Octopus 12M FixedUnit rate 29.21p per kilowatt hourStanding charge 46.63p/day
- Price rank 10 of 10Octopus Go 12M FixedUnit rate 31.32p per kilowatt hourStanding charge 46.63p/day
Economy 7 tariffs are absent from this ranking, and a standing charge shown as unknown is one we can’t stand behind rather than one that’s free.
Cheapest to dearest spread: 9.02p/kWh
The catch with a ranking
A cheap average doesn’t mean cheap for you. Agile only wins if you can move your usage; Go only wins if you charge overnight. This list ranks the rate, not the fit.
Rank them against my own usage insteadTwo tariffs are missing
Economy 7 tariffs aren’t ranked here. Costing one means assigning every half hour to the day or the night rate, and that switching time is set per meter and per region — it isn’t published anywhere we can read.
See Economy 7 rates on their own pagesHead to head
The comparisons people actually ask about, with the trade-offs written out.
- Octopus Agile vs Tracker: costs and suitabilityWhat you payChoose between active half-hourly shifting and a rate that changes once a day.
- Agile vs GoWhat you payChoose between changing daily opportunities and a predictable overnight window.
- Go vs Intelligent Octopus GoWhat you payDecide whether exact smart-charging compatibility is worth the automated schedule.
- Agile vs Flexible OctopusWhat you payChoose between active price shifting and a simpler rate structure.
- Cosy Octopus vs AgileWhat you payChoose a heating-oriented schedule or respond to daily half-hourly prices.
- Flux vs Agile and OutgoingStructure onlyUnderstand one solar-and-battery product structure versus a separately paired import and export setup.
- Outgoing Agile vs Outgoing FixedWhat you’re paidChoose between market-linked export timing and a predictable flat export payment.
- Agile vs Intelligent Octopus GoWhat you payChoose active market-linked scheduling or a compatible supplier-managed EV structure.
- Octopus Tracker vs FlexibleWhat you payChoose daily wholesale exposure or a simpler price-cap-protected variable structure.
- Octopus Fixed vs FlexibleWhat you payChoose price certainty for a term or retain exposure to future variable-rate changes.
- Octopus Flux vs Intelligent FluxWhat you payChoose manual battery scheduling or managed optimisation for a compatible home battery.
- Outgoing Octopus vs Octopus SEGWhat you’re paidChoose between two flat export-payment structures after checking eligibility and import pairing.
- Octopus Go vs FlexibleWhat you payDecide whether home EV and overnight use justify a time-banded tariff over simpler all-day pricing.
- Cosy Octopus vs TrackerWhat you payChoose repeatable heating windows or a simpler daily wholesale-linked price.
How the ranking is worked outRead more
Rates are profile-weighted across half-hour slots over the last complete calendar month, on the typical single-rate household pattern. The standing charge is carried separately and never folded into the unit rate, because the two are billed differently.
Historic profile-weighted evidence, not a bill, forecast or switching quote. Standing charges remain separate.
Why some standing charges say “unknown”Read more
A standing charge published as exactly zero could be genuine or a gap in the supplier’s feed, and the data carries no flag to tell them apart. The difference is worth roughly £163 a year, so we say unknown rather than free.