The short version
Octopus Energy runs a refer-a-friend scheme. When you join through our link, Octopus credits you £50 and credits us £50. It costs you nothing — the credit you receive is not reduced because we also receive one, and your energy rates are identical either way.
What we earn from
One thing only: the Octopus Energy refer-a-friend scheme, via the link share.octopus.energy/nimble-wombat-490. It's the same public scheme every Octopus customer has access to. We have no contract with Octopus, no commercial partnership, and no arrangement of any kind that isn't open to any of their 7.3 million customers.
What we don't earn from
- No display advertising. There are no ad slots on this site.
- No sponsored content. Nobody pays us to write about them or to rank a tariff higher.
- No commission from other suppliers. Our comparison pages cover British Gas, EDF, E.ON Next, OVO and others, and we earn nothing whichever way you go.
- No data sales. We don't collect personal data to sell. See our privacy policy.
- No email list. We don't ask for your address or market to you.
What this does influence
Honestly: the subject matter. This site covers Octopus Energy in far more depth than it covers any other supplier, and that's because Octopus is the one with a referral scheme we can participate in. If you're looking for an exhaustive guide to E.ON Next's tariff range, this isn't it, and we'd rather say so than imply a neutrality of coverage we don't have.
What it doesn't influence
Which tariff we recommend. The referral credit is £50 whether you end up on Flexible, a fix, Tracker, Agile or a smart EV tariff. We have no financial reason to push you toward any particular one, which is why our tariff comparisons can afford to be blunt about which suits whom.
Whether we say Octopus has flaws. Our review covers the criticisms. Our guides tell people to stay put where switching would be a mistake — if you're mid-fix on a cheap rate, or you'd lose a benefit by moving.
The figures. Price cap levels, unit rates and forecasts come from Ofgem and named analysts. A site whose credibility is its only asset has a strong commercial incentive to get numbers right — the interests genuinely align there.
Why we put this on its own page
Most referral sites bury the disclosure in a footer, or leave you to infer it. The arrangement is entirely legitimate and it's how Octopus intends the scheme to work — there's nothing to hide, so hiding it would be the strange choice. You can weigh what we write knowing exactly what we get out of it.