No catch

How RateWatchdog makes money

Short version: right now, we don't.

RateWatchdog takes no commissions from electricity suppliers. We don't enroll you in anything, we don't switch you, and we don't sell your information. There are no affiliate links on this site today, and we make exactly the same amount — nothing — whether you switch suppliers or stay on your utility's default rate.

That's on purpose. If we got paid every time someone switched, we'd have a quiet reason to nudge you toward switching. We don't, so we can tell you the part the door-knockers won't: most people should stay on the default rate. Advice is only worth trusting when the person giving it earns the same no matter what you decide.

What might change, and what won't

We'd like this to pay for itself eventually. If that happens, it'll most likely be through ads, or affiliate links to genuinely useful things — and when it does, we'll label it plainly, right where you see it, not bury it in a footer.

Here's the line we won't cross, ever:

• We will never take money tied to switching your electricity supplier — no supplier commissions, no "preferred partner" deals, no affiliate kickbacks for sending you to a supplier.
• We will never sell the numbers you enter into our bill audit. They run on your device and never reach us in the first place.
• If we ever run an ad or a paid link, it'll be clearly marked as one.

If you ever spot something on this site that looks like it's being sold to you without being labeled, call us out: [email protected]. Holding us to this is the whole point.