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Every bill split automatically
Splitwise style, and not forced into an equal share. Each housemate holds a percentage of a bill, the percentages total 100%, and each share is worked out from the real bill amount, so it updates when the bill does.
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Compare the Market vs Taupia
Compare the Market helps you compare at one moment. Taupia helps you understand, compare and keep the bills, tasks and changes around your whole home organised.
Get Taupia free
Free. Give your address for provider quotes in about two minutes, or upload a bill you already have.
- When the deal ends
Compare the Market
Reminders you can set for renewal dates
Taupia
The contract end date flagged before it arrives
- Moving in
Compare the Market
A quote, then the setting up is yours
Taupia
A move-in list, tracked on web, iOS and Android
- Council tax, water and the TV Licence
Compare the Market
No market to compare, so no deals to show
Taupia
Organised in the same view, with nothing to switch
01How Compare the Market works, and what Taupia does
What are you actually buying from Compare the Market?
Compare the Market helps at the comparison moment. It publishes how it is paid product by product: for an energy tariff, the provider pays a flat fee when a fuel tariff starts, and it lets customers set renewal reminders. What it does not touch is everything between one comparison and the next.
Taupia sits between that and a bills package, which folds several bills into one amount. Two ways in: give Taupia your address and provider quotes for energy, broadband and mobile come back in about two minutes, or upload the bills you have and its AI agents pull the tariff, unit rate, usage, contract end date and any exit fee off them, while other agents watch the market against what you pay now.
You see the full list of what providers are offering either way. Taupia recommends one from it and shows why it picked that one, having asked a few questions first so the answer fits your household rather than the industry's wording, and it carries out the switch once you approve it.
Taupia compares energy, broadband and mobile only, and keeps bills, contracts, changes, the move-in list, each bill split across the house on percentages you set, and provider messages sent to TaupiaMail or explicitly forwarded there in one household-admin view. TaupiaMail is a Taupia email address you give your providers, where AI agents read what arrives and pull out price changes, contract end dates and anything needing a decision. Water, council tax and TV Licence stay organised there too, with no market to compare.
Cross-check See a live tariff table before giving anyone your postcode
Who pays whom
02Supplier account setup
Taupia splits every bill automatically, and never moves the money.
A comparison ends when the switch does. If you share the home, the bill it produces still has to be divided, chased and settled every month. Here is what Taupia does with that, and where it stops.
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Taupia does the chasing
So nobody in the house has to be the one who asks. Each housemate repays the person the bill is in the name of directly, outside Taupia, and the share reads as settled once it has been repaid. Taupia sends reminders while a share is outstanding, and everyone sees the same shares and who has settled.
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One housemate is the person the supplier bills
A utility account is usually opened in one person's name. That one named account holder is who the supplier bills, and the obligation to the supplier stays theirs whoever in the house has paid their share. Taupia can send a request to add further people to the account, but the supplier decides. If a share is late, Taupia flags it and sends reminders. It never moves money between housemates, and nothing it records changes what the named holder owes the supplier.
03Compare the Market ownership, funding and disclosures
What does Compare the Market publish, and what does it not?
Who pays whom
Compare the Market says it gets paid a fee each time someone buys an insurance product or switches a gas or electricity tariff found through it. Its product-by-product breakdown names the partner behind each product: the energy provider pays a flat fee for every fuel tariff started, and on broadband, TV, landline and mobile it takes a percentage of the commission its partner Stickee earns.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
Renewal reminders
Compare the Market says it keeps adding things that make comparing quicker, including saving customers' details to speed up new quotes and letting them set reminders for renewal dates.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
How the fee is set
Three shapes, published side by side: some partners pay a flat, fixed fee that is the same regardless of what the product costs; some pay a commission usually based on a percentage of the total cost; and where a partner runs a comparison on Compare the Market's behalf, it takes a share of what that partner earns. It puts a figure on none of the three.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
3 more from Compare the Market's own site, each with its source
Who owns Compare the Market Compare the Market says it is part of the BGL Group, which also includes lesfurets in France, and that the group is majority-owned by BHL (UK) Holdings Limited with minority ownership by CPP Investments. The trading company is Compare the Market Limited, at Pegasus House, Bakewell Road, Peterborough.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
Account model A comparison service, not a supplier, and it publishes where its regulation stops: Compare the Market Limited says it is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for insurance distribution, and that some services, energy switching among them, are not FCA regulated.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
Coverage Energy, broadband and mobile, alongside a broad insurance and money range including car, home, travel and pet insurance, credit cards, loans and mortgages. It publishes the size of the set of providers behind that: 1,296 products compared and 662 providers, with a trusted partners page listing them.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
04Compare the Market's own claim, checked
Does Compare the Market only make money when you save?
Claim check
Compare the Market says
“We only make money when our customers save.”
What else it publishes
Broadly borne out, and it publishes the edges. The same pages say the fee lands when someone buys or switches through it, which is a completed purchase rather than a verified saving, and that a provider may sometimes pay for an ad at the top of the page, always clearly labelled. Commercial agreements, it says, do not affect how quotes are ranked.
Source comparethemarket.com Checked 29 August 2026
05Who Compare the Market suits, and who Taupia suits
When is Compare the Market the better answer?
Choose Compare the Market if
You want car, home, travel or pet insurance priced next to the bills. Taupia has no view of insurance at all, and none of the money products either.
You want the fee behind a comparison written down before you use it: Compare the Market publishes what each product pays it, energy included.
One person is doing every household product in one sitting: Compare the Market covers insurance, energy, broadband and the money products in the same visit, where Taupia looks at energy, broadband and mobile only.
Choose Taupia if
You want to understand the bill before you act. Taupia's AI reads the tariff, usage and exit fee, shows you the full list of what providers are offering, then explains which one it recommends and why. Nothing changes until you approve it.
You want your contract and provider updates in one place after the comparison. Taupia tracks the contract, flags changes and keeps provider messages sent to TaupiaMail or explicitly forwarded there beside the household admin they relate to.
You want a monthly important-changes summary rather than another reminder to check. Use Taupia on web, iOS or Android, and provider messages sent to TaupiaMail can be forwarded to your personal email when you need them there.
06Taupia's own limitations
What do you give up by choosing Taupia?
Taupia does not bundle your payment. It helps you set up directly with each provider, then splits and manages it all with the prices in view, which is why it costs you nothing. Here is what that route does not give you.
Taupia only compares energy, broadband and mobile. It does not compare or switch water, insurance, credit, savings or mortgages.
A provider pays Taupia commission when a switch completes. On energy and gas the rate is the same whichever supplier you pick, so an energy recommendation does not pay Taupia more one way or the other. Broadband and mobile rates vary a little. The full list it recommends from is the suppliers Taupia supports, published on its supported suppliers page.
07Compare the Market questions answered
What else should you check before signing?
What does Taupia do about council tax, water and the TV Licence?
It puts them on the move-in list and earns nothing for doing it. Taupia does not compare or switch water, council tax or the TV Licence. It keeps those bills organised in the same home view instead.
What are the alternatives to Compare the Market?
It depends what you want after the comparison. For a one-off quote across more categories, Uswitch and MoneySuperMarket do the same job on the same commission model, and a supplier's own site shows its own tariffs for free. For everything between one switch and the next, Taupia compares energy, broadband and mobile, then keeps the bills, contracts, changes and wider household admin around them organised.
Who actually runs the broadband comparison on Compare the Market?
A partner does, and Compare the Market publishes that rather than leaving you to guess. Its own breakdown says it takes a percentage of the commission its partner Stickee earns on broadband, TV, landline and mobile, and that where a partner runs a comparison on its behalf it takes a share. On energy it is paid a flat fee per fuel tariff started.
A renewal reminder gives you the date. How much work is the rest?
Roughly thirty minutes on Taupia's own estimate, plus a wait: Ofgem's standard is up to five working days for an energy switch, with broadband and mobile on their own timings. The reminder is the easy half. What follows is comparing again and deciding before a fixed deal rolls onto the supplier's standard variable rate. Taupia keeps the bill, the contract and any provider messages sent to TaupiaMail together, so the household can act from the full context.
08Deciding between Compare the Market and Taupia
So what should you do next?
Compare the Market helps you compare at one moment. Taupia uses your real bill to compare, then keeps the wider household admin organised after you decide.
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Free. Give your address for provider quotes in about two minutes, or upload a bill you already have.
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- Takes minutes to begin
- Bills in one place
- You approve what happens