Student bills packages compared
Splitting bills yourselves usually costs less than any of these five packages. Only Epic Student Bills publishes anything like a package price, and it starts at £18 per person per week. Fused and The Bunch publish only their own fee, which is not your bill. The other two publish nothing at all.
Five providers sell UK households a student bill package. This page sets out what each one actually publishes, read from its own site and dated, rather than what it says in an advert. Where a provider does not publish something, this page says so instead of estimating it. Two of the five are the same company under different brands, which is noted where it applies.
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At a glance
| Provider | Published price | Published usage limits |
|---|---|---|
| Epic Student Bills | From £18 pp/week (whole package) | None, if you sign up now |
| Fused Bills | Fee only: £1.03 pp/week | None claimed |
| One Utility Bill | Nothing published | Nothing published |
| Split The Bills | Nothing published | Says uncapped. We could not check |
| The Bunch | Fee only: £10 a month | Yes, then currently 30p/kWh power, 10p/kWh gas |
Only Epic publishes a price for the whole package. Fused and The Bunch publish their own fee only, so their number is not your bill. Every price here is a starting figure, not a quote for your house.
Epic Student Bills
From £18 pp/week (whole package)
- Price
- The only provider here publishing tiers. £18 per person per week for energy and water, £20 with 400Mbps broadband, £22 with 1000Mbps. Epic calls these illustrative and says they are based on five housemates on average, and that the price depends on postcode, tenancy dates and group size.
- Unlimited energy
- Its terms back the claim for anyone signing up now. A fair usage table with kWh limits and excess charges exists, but that section states it applies only to households that signed up before 10 March 2025.
- What can still change the price
- You have to tell Epic up front if you run anything power-hungry. Its terms name crypto mining, gaming rigs, home servers, air conditioning and EV charging. If you do not declare it, clause 4.12 allows an adjustment to your fixed charge, additional fees, or termination.
- If a housemate does not pay
- Everyone named on the Order Form is jointly and severally liable, which Epic defines as equally and separately responsible for the whole contract including payment (clause 2.9).
Best for: Heavy users who want a price before giving out a postcode.
Source: epicstudentbills.co.uk (read 27 August 2026)Full Epic Student Bills comparison
Fused Bills
Fee only: £1.03 pp/week
Same company as One Utility Bill. Two brands, different packages.
- Price
- No package price. Fused publishes only its own management fee, about £1.03 per person per week for an average four-student house. Energy, broadband, TV and water sit on top and are quoted per address.
- Unlimited energy
- Its marketing says you can use all the energy you need with no charge for using too much and no hidden limits, and it volunteers that there is no money back if you use less. Fused publishes no general household terms and conditions, so the contract behind that claim could not be read.
- Contract length
- 9, 10, 11 or 12-month fixed tariff packages, or a variable tariff, matched to a tenancy. One of the few here offering terms shorter than a year.
- If a housemate leaves
- Fused says everyone named on the tenancy stays liable to the end of the agreement. It also publishes two routes out: send written evidence the housemate was removed from the tenancy and Fused re-spreads the cost, or supply a replacement.
Best for: Tenancies that are not a neat twelve months.
Source: fusedbills.co.uk (read 27 August 2026)Full Fused Bills comparison
One Utility Bill
Nothing published
Same company as Fused Bills. Two brands, different packages.
- Price
- No public list price. A figure is produced only after you enter a postcode and go through the quote flow. It says the price is calculated from the size of your home and the number of people living there.
- Who you are contracted with
- It is not an energy company. It signs a form letting it run the bills in your name, so the energy account stays with a real supplier. Broadband is the exception: that account cannot be put in your name.
- Leaving early
- Rolling packages can be cancelled with 30 days' notice and no fee. Ending a fixed term early, outside a change of tenancy, may cost a £100 termination fee plus a supplier exit fee per fuel: up to £100 for British Gas and Octopus Energy, up to £150 for Tru Energy.
- If a housemate does not pay
- Not stated publicly. It does not say who is liable if a housemate stops paying.
Best for: Anyone moving home who wants a fixed monthly amount.
Source: oneutilitybill.co (read 24 August 2026)Full One Utility Bill comparison
Split The Bills
Nothing published
- Price
- No public list price. A figure comes only after you submit an address, headcount and chosen services. Services are picked one by one rather than taken as a fixed bundle.
- Uncapped energy
- It markets uncapped gas and electricity. Its household terms from 1 October 2025 do not use that word: uncapped, unlimited and fair usage appear nowhere in them. They define a Responsible Use Policy covering disproportionate or excessive use, and clause 10.1.4 allows termination where usage is in its reasonable opinion exceptionally high.
- Contract end
- Its household terms say the contract expires on the end date in your Order and does not auto-renew. There is a 14-day cooling-off period; ending early after that takes 30 days plus an early termination fee, and changing your end date needs 35 days.
- If a housemate does not pay
- Each housemate is responsible only for their own proportion, paid by their own Direct Debit. If one does not pay, Split The Bills chases them and may tell the other named tenants. A missed Direct Debit can carry a £12 charge.
Best for: Houses that want each person billed separately.
Source: splitthebills.co.uk (read 24 August 2026)Full Split The Bills comparison
The Bunch
Fee only: £10 a month
- Price
- No package price, but clause 5.15 publishes a management fee of £10 a month based on the number of bill payers where it manages more than one service. Its own terms also say you are likely to find cheaper individual deals for the services it provides.
- Usage limits
- The only provider here publishing them. The fixed monthly price covers typical domestic consumption within stated limits. Going beyond triggers a three-stage notice process and can add a surcharge, currently £0.30 per kWh of electricity and £0.10 per kWh of gas, or move you to a different tariff.
- Leaving early
- £150 per fuel, so £300 for gas and electricity together. Then £25 on water, whatever broadband charges, the rest of the fee, and the TV Licence to the end of the quarter.
- Renewal
- It commits in writing to contact you at least 30 to 49 days before a fixed term ends, which most of this market does not do.
Best for: One company for everything, if your usage is average.
Source: the-bunch.co.uk (read 27 August 2026)Full The Bunch comparison
So which one is cheapest?
Nobody can answer that from published information, including us, and any page that gives you a ranked list of prices has invented it. Only Epic publishes a package price. Two publish their own fee and nothing else, and two publish nothing at all. What you can compare before you quote is what each one commits to in writing, and that is what the cards above set out.
- Splitting bills yourselves usually costs less than any package here. On Reading Students' Union fieldwork, a four-bed house paid about £408 a month for a package against about £223 paying suppliers direct at the medium usage band. The gap narrows the more energy you use, and a heavy-usage house of three can pay more splitting than on the cheapest package.
- If you want a price before you hand over a postcode, Epic Student Bills is the only one that publishes tiers, and its figures assume five housemates.
- If you want to know what happens when you use a lot, The Bunch is the only one that publishes the limits and the surcharge above them. That is a point in its favour on transparency, and a cost to check against your own usage.
- If you might leave mid-tenancy, compare exit fees before price. The Bunch reaches £300 on energy alone for a dual-fuel house, and One Utility Bill can reach £100 plus up to £150 per fuel.
- Fused Bills and One Utility Bill are two brands of one company, One Utility Bill Ltd. Treat them as two products, not two independent quotes.
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Why nobody can show you these prices, and what should change
Only one of the five publishes a package price, and that is not an oversight by them or a gap in our research. A licensed energy supplier sells under Ofgem's rules, and Ofgem publishes the maximum unit rate and standing charge for a default tariff every quarter, so a household buying direct has a public reference point before it buys. A bills package provider is not a licensed supplier. Every company on this page says so in its own words. They arrange contracts on your behalf, which under Ofgem's definition makes them third-party intermediaries, and intermediaries have no energy-specific regulator yet, though general consumer and marketing law still applies to them.
- Ofgem describes an intermediary as a business, such as an energy broker or price comparison website, that acts on behalf of customers to find and arrange energy contracts between customers and suppliers. That is market-review wording rather than a statutory definition, which is rather the point. On 20 July 2026 it named concerns in some parts of that market including a lack of transparency, misselling, hidden commissions and poor access to help when things go wrong.
- The government intends to appoint Ofgem as the regulator of intermediaries, with powers to make rules, monitor the market and require intermediaries to register before operating. Ofgem says it wants to complete its review of the sector this year and to set out its starting ideas the year after; it names no dates. Until those powers exist its good practice guidance is voluntary, though intermediaries are already bound by general law on misrepresentation, fraud, marketing and data protection.
- Taupia is a third-party intermediary by exactly that description. We arrange energy contracts on behalf of households, we would fall inside the same regime, and we would welcome it.
- Here are our own numbers, checked 27 August 2026. A household pays Taupia nothing. A supplier pays us commission when a switch completes through an integrated partner: around £20 per fuel on energy, so about £40 on a dual-fuel switch and around £34 averaged across our energy switches, about £61 on broadband and £19 on mobile. These are estimates and the exact amount depends on the provider deal. Where a supplier is not integrated we show you the deal, you switch yourself, and we earn nothing. Your tariff is the supplier's own price, the same as going direct, because we do not buy energy and resell it to you.
- That model has a bias worth naming: our revenue depends on switches happening, so that is the incentive to watch for in anything we recommend.
- The change we would most like to see is small and specific: every provider selling a household bills package should publish a price, or failing that publish the basis it quotes on, in the way a supplier's capped rates are published. Not a promise of savings. A number, or the arithmetic behind one.
- Until that happens, a household comparing these packages has to collect five private quotes and compare them alone, which is precisely the work the price cap exists to spare people buying energy any other way.
How Taupia is fundedHow the energy price cap works
Sources: Ofgem, third-party intermediaries: supporting better outcomes for consumers (read 27 August 2026); Ofgem, energy price cap (read 27 August 2026)
How this page was put together
Every figure here was read from the provider's own website or published terms, on the date shown on each card, and linked so you can check it. Nothing is estimated. The one set of figures not read from a provider is the Reading Students' Union fieldwork used in the verdict, which is named and linked wherever it appears. Where a provider does not publish something, this page says it is not published rather than filling the gap with a market average. Where a provider makes a claim we could not check against its contract, the page says that too. Taupia is not a bills package and does not sell one, which is why this page can say when a package is the right answer.
Common questions about student bills packages
Why do student bills packages not publish their prices?
Because they are not licensed energy suppliers and are not yet regulated as intermediaries. Ofgem publishes the capped unit rates a supplier can charge, so buying direct gives you a public reference point. A package provider arranges contracts on your behalf instead, which puts it outside those rules, so its price exists only in a quote.
Which student bills package is cheapest?
No page can honestly rank these on price, because only Epic publishes one. Its tiers start at £18, £20 and £22 per person per week, based on five housemates on average. Fused and The Bunch publish only their own fee, and two publish nothing. Everything else is quoted per address, so the only real comparison is the quotes your own house gets.
Which student bill package publishes the most about its terms?
The Bunch, on the evidence here. It publishes its usage limits and the surcharge above them, its exit fees in full, and a written commitment to contact you before the term ends. Epic publishes prices and its full terms. One Utility Bill and Fused serve a contract but no price, and Split The Bills publishes terms as PDFs.
Which student bills packages have a fair usage cap?
Of the five here, only The Bunch publishes usage limits, with a surcharge above them of currently £0.30 per kWh of electricity and £0.10 per kWh of gas. Epic's terms carry limits that apply only to households which signed up before 10 March 2025. Fused publishes no household terms, and Split The Bills' terms were not verified.
Can we split bills ourselves instead of using a package?
Yes, and it usually costs less. Each housemate is named on accounts with real suppliers, you pay the actual bill, and you divide it on whatever rule the house agrees. It takes about thirty minutes to set up, and it keeps your right to switch supplier during the tenancy, which a fixed package takes away for the term.