Octopus Agile vs Tracker for modern energy homes
Compare Octopus Agile and Tracker for battery, EV, solar, and heat-pump homes, with a focus on how each tariff fits a real mixed-device property.
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Use this comparison to narrow the shortlist, then verify the live tariff terms.
Should your home chase half-hourly price swings, or does a calmer daily-rate tariff fit the property better?
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Use the linked tariff playbooks for the detailed fact pattern
Choose based on your device mix and operating style, not just a headline overnight rate
Where Octopus Agile wins
- Battery homes that can genuinely automate charging and discharge around half-hourly price swings.
- Homes willing to watch or automate around intraday volatility, including occasional negative-price periods.
- Properties where solar, battery and flexible demand can all move in response to price.
Where Octopus Tracker wins
- Heat-pump and all-electric homes that want calmer daily planning.
- Households that want wholesale-linked pricing without making slot-by-slot decisions all day.
- Users who value predictable 24-hour pricing over aggressive arbitrage opportunities.
What both tariffs can still get wrong
Practical verdict
- Choose Agile when the home has real flexibility and a reason to respond to half-hourly signals.
- Choose Tracker when the home needs simpler daily cost visibility and fewer timing decisions.
- Before switching, verify whether your battery and heating setup can actually act on the tariff you choose.
Read the full tariff playbooks
These supporting pages explain each tariff in more detail, but the comparison page is where the commercial decision gets clearer.
Octopus Agile automation
Octopus Agile changes import price every half hour. The real question for battery, EV and heat-pump homes is whether the house can respond to those price signals without creating new conflicts.
Octopus Tracker visibility
Octopus Tracker is simpler than Agile, but homes still need to relate daily rate changes to heating, charging and battery behaviour.
Related whole-home problems
These use-case pages connect the tariff choice to the actual household behaviour that usually causes the decision in the first place.
Solar and battery optimisation for smart tariffs
This is the core 1app.energy use case: understanding whether solar, battery reserve and tariff timing are working together or fighting each other.
Heat pump and solar coordination
Heat-pump homes need to know how solar generation offsets heating demand and when battery storage should protect the property from non-solar hours.
Whole-home conflict detection for modern energy homes
The more flexible devices a home has, the more valuable it becomes to detect conflicts between them before they show up as cost, lost solar or poor comfort.
Smart controls to compare alongside the tariffs
The tariff choice and the battery strategy usually need to be decided together, not in isolation.
Autopilot
The best starting mode for most homes. Autopilot decides when to charge, hold, or export by balancing tariff value, home coverage, refill confidence, and your protected minimum battery SoC. Choose Balanced for a calmer default or Aggressive for stronger value seeking.
Home First
A simpler home-first mode. It prioritises running the home from your own solar and battery first, minimises grid dependence, and avoids optimiser-led battery export.
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