Student bills guide

Student bills packages compared

Of the eight providers here, only Epic Student Bills publishes a whole-package price, from £18 per person per week. Fused and The Bunch publish their own fee, which is not your bill. The other five quote per address, so no page can rank them on price.

Every figure below was read from the provider's own site or contract and dated, not taken from an advert. Where one publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating it. Two of the eight brands are one company, and two more name each other as affiliates.

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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. Contract never says it
UniHomes	Nothing published	Says uncapped. Contract never says it
The Bunch	Fee only: £10 a month	Yes, then currently 30p/kWh power, 10p/kWh gas
Simple Student Bills	Nothing published	Says no fair usage policy. Terms bar excessive use
The Student Energy Group	Nothing published	No cap, because the price is not fixed

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. The other five publish nothing, and one of those five does not sell a fixed price at all. 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. The contract backs it: Fused serves One Utility Bill's household terms, byte for byte the same file, and no clause in them charges a household for using more.
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 acts as an agent to set up and manage supplier accounts under the letter of authority in its household terms. The services themselves are provided by its partner suppliers.
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: Its household terms say that where more than one person lives at the property, each is jointly and severally responsible for the obligations and payments. If a liable person leaves or does not pay, it may increase the amount payable by the remaining occupiers so the total matches the package breakdown.

Best for: Anyone moving home who wants a fixed monthly amount.

Source: app.oneutilitybill.co (read 29 August 2026)Full One Utility Bill comparison

Split The Bills

Nothing published

Names UniHomes as an affiliate in clause 2.1 of its own terms. Two companies at one Sheffield address, not one company with two brands.

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, and ending early after that takes 30 days plus an early termination fee.
If a housemate does not pay: Split The Bills says each housemate pays their own share by monthly Direct Debit. Its terms say a missed Direct Debit of £30 or more may incur a £12 charge for each unpaid tenant. After an unanswered reminder, it may contact the other people named on the Order.

Best for: Houses that want each person billed separately.

Source: splitthebills.co.uk (read 24 August 2026)Full Split The Bills comparison

UniHomes

Nothing published

Names Split The Bills as an affiliate in clause 2.1 of its own terms. Two companies at one Sheffield address, not one company with two brands.

Price: No published price, and no pound figure anywhere on its bills page. A number exists only after you give an address. Clause 12.8 says the charges include a service fee, and that UniHomes keeps both the difference between what you pay and what it pays the suppliers, and any commission those suppliers pay it. It prices neither.
Uncapped energy: Its bills page markets uncapped gas and electricity with no over-usage bill. The words uncapped, unlimited, fair usage and kWh appear nowhere in the 18-page contract it serves. Clause 1.4.5 sets a Responsible Use Policy instead, and clause 10.1.4 lets UniHomes end the contract where usage is, in its reasonable opinion, exceptionally high.
If a housemate does not pay: Clause 12.6 says you are together and each individually responsible for all the charges, and that UniHomes can require them from any one of you. Its affiliate Split The Bills uses the same clause number to say the opposite. Clause 12.7 also lets UniHomes increase what the rest of you pay to cover an unpaid share.
Leaving early: Published as a table, and charged per person rather than per house. A month or more before the start date it is £25 per utility per tenant, which its own worked example puts at £125 each across five utilities. On or after that date it is £30 per utility per tenant, £150 each on the same example, plus the rest of the broadband term.
Where the contract lives: Not anywhere a reader would look. All 8,427 URLs in its sitemap carry two legal pages, and neither is this contract. The household terms are reachable through a help centre article, which links a page serving them as two PDFs split by the date you ordered.

Best for: Houses that found the tenancy through UniHomes and want one company for both.

Source: unihomes.co.uk (read 31 August 2026)

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

Simple Student Bills

Nothing published

Price: No published price. A figure comes only after you build a package and quote it. Clause 8.1.4 says the monthly cost carries supplier charges alongside its own management fee, and does not say what that fee is. It does publish the arithmetic, which nobody else here does: clause 8.1.2 sets the fixed monthly price as the weekly price divided by seven, times the days in the package, less discounts, divided by the months.
Unlimited energy: Asked in its own FAQ whether unlimited energy has a fair usage policy, it answers that there is none. Its terms back the absence: no kWh limit and no excess charge appear in them. They do carry clause 5.8.1, obliging tenants not to unnecessarily waste or excessively consume utilities, and clause 9.3.1 lets it cancel part or all of a package for breach.
If a housemate does not pay: Clause 7.1.1 makes all tenants jointly and severally liable for every obligation in the terms, even though each pays their own share by Direct Debit. Clause 8.6.1 allows up to £12 per failed payment, and clause 8.5.3 says it may use debt agencies, courts and credit reference agencies, which may affect credit scores.
Monthly meter readings, and a charge for missing them: The only provider here that charges the household for admin it did not do. Clause 6.1 requires photographic opening, monthly and closing readings, and clause 6.3.1 allows £5 per tenant for each missed one. Clause 6.3.2 credits it back if a valid reading arrives within seven working days, and clause 6.2 waives readings for absences you tell it about.
Leaving early: Clause 9.4 sets a 14-day cooling-off period, then 30 days of written notice to leave, and a £25 per tenant cancellation charge. Clause 9.4.4 adds nothing for ending energy, water or the TV Licence early, but clause 9.4.5 keeps the whole remaining broadband term payable.

Best for: Anyone who wants to read the contract before handing over an address.

Source: simplestudentbills.co.uk (read 31 August 2026)

The Student Energy Group

Nothing published

Not a fixed price, which changes everything else: The one provider here not selling a fixed amount. Its tariffs page says the monthly figure is an estimation of what it expects you to use, and its terms say your energy is reconciled at the end of the contract against your meter reads to charge you according to your consumption. Unlimited, uncapped and fair usage appear nowhere in those terms, because there is no allowance to describe.
Price: No published price. Its tariffs page explains what a unit rate and a standing charge are, then asks for a postcode before showing either, and its historic tariffs page does the same. It says you also pay a management fee on water and on the TV Licence, and prices neither. It reserves the right to charge a non-refundable sign-up fee, confirmed only during sign-up.
One housemate can change it for everyone: Where more than one tenant lives at the property, its terms let any one of them agree changes to the contract on behalf of the rest. The end-of-contract energy pricing works the same way: it is confirmed once agreed with at least one tenant, then emailed to all of them with a 14-day cooling-off period.
If a housemate leaves: Its terms reserve the right to increase what the remaining tenants pay each month to cover the cost until a replacement joins the contract. Cancelling needs 30 days of notice even when your tenancy is ending, and that applies whether or not the others are staying.
How you pay: Not by Direct Debit. Its terms take payment by continuous payment authority on a registered debit or credit card, and require you to keep that card up to date. It names cancellation, unreturned equipment, missed appointment, late payment and debt collection charges, and prices none of them in the contract.

Best for: Houses that would rather be billed for what they use than buy an allowance.

Source: thestudentenergygroup.com (read 31 August 2026)

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 five 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.

A package quote is not automatically expensive, and a direct route is not automatically cheaper. Match the same services, headcount, expected usage and exit terms before deciding.
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, and check whether they are charged per house or per person. UniHomes publishes the largest exposure here and charges per person: £30 per utility per tenant on or after the start date, which its own five-utility example puts at £150 each. 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.
Check you are comparing the same kind of product. Seven of the eight sell a fixed monthly amount. The Student Energy Group does not: its own tariffs page calls the monthly figure an estimation, and its terms reconcile your energy against your meter reads at the end of the contract, so the quote you compare is not the amount you end up paying.
If liability is what decides it, read clause 12.6 twice. UniHomes and Split The Bills serve the same contract template, and on that clause Split The Bills makes you responsible for your proportion of the charges while UniHomes makes each of you responsible for all of them.
Two pairs here are related, and both disclose it in their own terms. Fused Bills and One Utility Bill are two brands of one company, One Utility Bill Ltd. UniHomes and Split The Bills are separate companies at one Sheffield address, each naming the other as an affiliate in clause 2.1. Four quotes from those four brands are not four independent quotes.

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Why nobody can show you these prices, and what should change

Only one of the eight 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: 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. We show you every deal we find, and recommend only one we can complete end to end, so you approve the switch and we handle the rest. 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 eight 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 funded How 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. A contract counts as published wherever it is served, including behind a help centre or as a PDF, and the card says where we found it. 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 claim could not be located on any of a provider's own sources, it was removed rather than restated. 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, which is not your bill, and the other five publish nothing at all. 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 publishes the most that changes a bill: usage limits, the surcharge above them, exit fees in full, and a written commitment to contact you before the term ends. Simple Student Bills publishes the most accessible contract, and The Student Energy Group is the only one explaining how its unit rates and standing charges work. Epic publishes prices and terms. UniHomes serves its contract only through a help centre article.

Which student bills packages have a fair usage cap?

Of the eight 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 applying only to households that signed up before 10 March 2025. No kWh figure appears in the other six. Split The Bills and UniHomes can instead end a contract for exceptionally high use, and The Student Energy Group needs no cap because it bills actual consumption.

Is UniHomes the same company as Fused Bills?

No. Fused Bills is a brand of One Utility Bill Ltd, and UniHomes is UniHomes and Bills Limited. There is a different pairing on this page: UniHomes and Split The Bills are separate companies that each name the other as an affiliate in clause 2.1 of their own terms, share a Sheffield registered office, and publish the same contract template under different names.

Can we split bills ourselves instead of using a package?

Yes. One person is named on each direct supplier account by default, and the household can use the split rule it agrees. Taupia helps you compare and set up energy, broadband and mobile, then keeps every home bill, task and change organised. The named holder remains responsible under the supplier's terms, and the household still decides whether to switch.