Octopus Energy amended prices on two of its variable tariffs, Octopus Key and Card and Flexible Octopus, according to an update published by the price comparison service Energylinx1. The change appears in the service's running list of supplier price updates, which records the amendment alongside changes from other suppliers1.
The entry reads: "Price amendment of Octopus Key and Card | Price amendment of Flexible Octopus"1. No date effective, fuel type or revised unit rate is given for either tariff in the listing, and the size or direction of the amendment has not been reported1. The same update also records a price amendment of my london top-up plan and my london flexible plan, and price amendments of Premium Energy, Smart Energy, Fair Variable Elec and Fair Variable Dual1.
Octopus Energy also appears elsewhere in the same listing with fixed tariff changes. Both entries are recorded as applying to electricity and dual fuel1.
The listing carries a note that the date when the last update was applied is 1 October 2022, which sits oddly against entries dated July 20251. The individual rows give their own date updated and date effective, and for the Octopus amendments no such dates are shown1.
Why it matters for households
Octopus Key and Card and Flexible Octopus are variable tariffs, so the rate a household pays on them can move when the supplier amends its prices. A price amendment changes what a home pays per unit or in standing charge, which feeds directly into the annual cost of running heating, hot water and appliances. For a household weighing up how much of its energy bill it controls, the distinction between a variable tariff that can be repriced and a fixed tariff that cannot is the practical one. The listing shows Octopus running both: variable tariffs being amended and fixed tariffs being launched and withdrawn within days of each other1. Comparing energy tariffs sets out how annual costs and projections are worked out across deal types, and the Octopus Energy page covers the supplier's tariffs, unit rates and billing.
What happens next
No effective date for the Octopus Key and Card and Flexible Octopus amendments is given in the listing, and no further steps have been reported1.
Sources1 cited
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