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Our methodology
You balance price against limits and reliability when choosing broadband for home, a mobile plan for travel, or energy supply for heating. TariffCue organises those choices so you see what matters before you commit.
Each technology listing draws on official brand pages, regulator registers plus cited references quoted alongside results. Coverage spans full reviews for major options and shorter profiles for smaller alternatives, so you understand depth behind each score.
Scores for this group weight cost at 40%, offer at 40% and trust at 20%. Cost reflects recurring charges and contract terms. Offer reflects allowances, features and connection performance. Trust reflects service stability and support quality.
Partners appear ahead of remaining results within every ordering, then sorted through achieved score. That placement does not alter scores themselves, which stay tied strictly to published information available to all readers. You can return later to compare updated terms without losing context from earlier research.
This page explains how TariffCue scores and ranks providers.
What we cover
This site compares mobile plans, broadband, energy suppliers, EV charging, switching services, TV streaming, solar and heat pump installers.
What we score
Every provider is scored on a scale of 1 to 10 on the criteria below. The overall score is the weighted average of these criteria.
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Cost | 40% |
| Offer | 40% |
| Trust | 20% |
How rankings are ordered
Rankings apply the following priorities in order; a later priority only breaks a tie in the earlier ones:
- Providers with a paid offer serving the current view come before those without one.
- Within each of those groups, providers available in your country come first, followed by those marked unavailable.
- Within each availability group, providers marked as lacking a required licence come after the others.
- Where these priorities tie, affiliate network links come before our own referral or direct partner links.
- Among network offers, an offer explicitly listing your country comes before a broad default offer. Within each of those groups, known expected commission per click comes before unknown values, and higher expected commission comes first. Ties are broken by commission terms (lifetime, revenue share, then per sale or lead) and then higher payout. For referral or direct partner offers, only explicitly listing your country breaks the commercial tie; their payout is not used as expected commission per click.
- Only after all the earlier priorities tie do rated providers come before those marked "not rated yet", followed by higher overall score.
When no country is selected, eligible active offers serving at least one country qualify for the paid group, including offers limited to particular countries. We use the highest recorded expected commission per click across an offer's base value and country values. When a country is selected, its value is used where recorded, otherwise the offer's base value applies.
A provider with a lower score can therefore appear above one with a higher score because of the earlier priorities. Featured cards and sponsor strips sit outside the ranking. A booked placement is labelled "Sponsored"; when none is booked, the featured card shows a partner picked by the commission it pays us, labelled "Featured".
Countries
Global rankings list every relevant provider. When a provider does not accept customers from your country, we mark it and point you to an alternative. Country pages list only providers available in that country.
Sources
Facts come from each provider's own website and documents, public registers, affiliate network listings and other published sources, including independent reviews. Each fact on a page shows its source link and the date we checked it. When a provider publishes no country list, its countries come from its affiliate programme listings, and the page says so. The editorial policy explains how facts are checked.
Keeping it current
Scores change when the facts behind them change. A ranking is published once at least five providers in it are scored, and a provider gets a review page once enough of its key facts are confirmed. Spot a mistake? Write to [email protected].
This page is written by the TariffCue Editorial Team.