Energy was last better‑than‑free: 7 days ago Show future prices

On the Agile Octopus tariff, customers get paid to use electricity when there’s too much in the grid.

That’s cheaper than Octopus Energy paying to store it.

The price changes every half-hour.

Period

Region

30‑day average, Agile vs other tariffs

14%

dearer than Flexible Octopus

29.1p vs 25.5p

dearer than Octopus Tracker

29.1p vs 27.7p

13%

dearer than Octopus Go

29.1p vs 25.8p

28%

dearer than Cosy Octopus

29.1p vs 22.8p

−7.5p

Cheapest in the last 30 days was on 25 Oct

25 hours

Negative prices avg 8.5h per neg. day

10% of days

3 of 30 days had negative prices

15.5 hours

Longest negative period was on 25 Oct

29.1p

Average price over last 30 days

Show as a table

Date	Min	Average	Max
3 Oct 2026	23.1p	31.6p	49.9p
4 Oct 2026	6.4p	27.3p	50.6p
5 Oct 2026	11.0p	26.8p	51.5p
6 Oct 2026	24.6p	34.5p	69.7p
7 Oct 2026	17.4p	31.4p	50.2p
8 Oct 2026	11.5p	25.7p	51.3p
9 Oct 2026	1.9p	10.8p	28.9p
10 Oct 2026	−3.6p	8.4p	45.3p
11 Oct 2026	16.3p	30.6p	53.6p
12 Oct 2026	14.4p	31.6p	50.7p
13 Oct 2026	12.2p	24.0p	47.0p
14 Oct 2026	13.7p	29.2p	48.6p
15 Oct 2026	20.2p	31.5p	58.4p
16 Oct 2026	26.1p	36.0p	56.1p
17 Oct 2026	22.9p	31.6p	52.1p
18 Oct 2026	22.3p	32.2p	54.4p
19 Oct 2026	28.7p	37.3p	57.3p
20 Oct 2026	25.8p	34.8p	52.7p
21 Oct 2026	16.9p	32.8p	51.9p
22 Oct 2026	15.6p	29.7p	58.2p
23 Oct 2026	5.6p	30.5p	49.8p
24 Oct 2026	−0.3p	6.7p	28.9p
25 Oct 2026	−7.5p	3.3p	32.4p
26 Oct 2026	2.5p	26.2p	54.4p
27 Oct 2026	1.6p	21.8p	58.1p
28 Oct 2026	27.3p	38.0p	58.1p
29 Oct 2026	35.5p	42.9p	64.5p
30 Oct 2026	33.1p	41.0p	63.5p
31 Oct 2026	36.5p	43.0p	62.4p
1 Nov 2026	36.0p	42.5p	62.2p