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Agile Outgoing Octopus review (November 2026)

Half-hourly export payments that follow uncapped day-ahead wholesale prices.

Live tariff data

Agile Outgoing Octopus export rates for your area

Current export payments for Merseyside and North Wales. Payments vary by electricity region.

Showing payments for Merseyside and North Wales

Payment now

18.14p/kWh

Until 05:30 GMT

Lower payment

Next half-hour payment

18.38p/kWh

From 4 Nov, 05:30 GMT

Lower payment

Published-period average payment

21.24p/kWh

Time-weighted across 46 of 48 half-hours; missing periods are excluded

Half-hourly payments

Incomplete schedule: only the available intervals are shown. Gaps are not filled and no full-day average is calculated.

Today, 4 November 2026. Times use the UK clock; BST or GMT is shown in the table.

Lowest available payment
17.77p/kWh
From 00:00 GMT
Highest available payment
31.12p/kWh
From 16:30 GMT
Known negative-payment time
0 hours
Available 4pm–7pm average payment
30.62p/kWh
Time-weighted across published peak periods

Payment labels are relative to the export payments available for this day: lower is in the bottom quarter, typical covers the middle half, higher the next 15%, and very high the top 10%. Negative payments are labelled separately.

View all 46 payments
Today’s Agile Outgoing Octopus payments including VAT, UK time
FromUntilp/kWh
00:00 GMT00:30 GMT17.77
00:30 GMT01:00 GMT18.23
01:00 GMT01:30 GMT18.46
01:30 GMT02:00 GMT18.20
02:00 GMT02:30 GMT18.32
02:30 GMT03:00 GMT18.06
03:00 GMT03:30 GMT18.15
03:30 GMT04:00 GMT17.93
04:00 GMT04:30 GMT18.40
04:30 GMT05:00 GMT17.91
05:00 GMTNow05:30 GMT18.14
05:30 GMT06:00 GMT18.38
06:00 GMT06:30 GMT21.14
06:30 GMT07:00 GMT22.12
07:00 GMT07:30 GMT22.01
07:30 GMT08:00 GMT22.12
08:00 GMT08:30 GMT22.12
08:30 GMT09:00 GMT22.12
09:00 GMT09:30 GMT19.69
09:30 GMT10:00 GMT19.50
10:00 GMT10:30 GMT19.30
10:30 GMT11:00 GMT18.88
11:00 GMT11:30 GMT18.55
11:30 GMT12:00 GMT18.41
12:00 GMT12:30 GMT18.75
12:30 GMT13:00 GMT18.99
13:00 GMT13:30 GMT19.49
13:30 GMT14:00 GMT19.89
14:00 GMT14:30 GMT20.95
14:30 GMT15:00 GMT20.86
15:00 GMT15:30 GMT22.47
15:30 GMT16:00 GMT23.68
16:00 GMT16:30 GMT30.40
16:30 GMT17:00 GMT31.12
17:00 GMT17:30 GMT30.50
17:30 GMT18:00 GMT30.39
18:00 GMT18:30 GMT30.87
18:30 GMT19:00 GMT30.42
19:00 GMT19:30 GMT23.32
19:30 GMT20:00 GMT22.51
20:00 GMT20:30 GMT20.07
20:30 GMT21:00 GMT20.51
21:00 GMT21:30 GMT20.61
21:30 GMT22:00 GMT19.64
22:00 GMT22:30 GMT19.29
22:30 GMT23:00 GMT18.33

Best-paid export window from now

4 Nov, 16:30 GMT – 4 Nov, 18:30 GMT

30.72p/kWh average

Compares starts on half-hour boundaries from now across the available payments shown here. Assumes constant electricity export during the window. Past periods are excluded.

Where these payments come from

Octopus Energy — Octopus Energy public API tariff rates. Source last checked 3 Nov, 23:15 GMT.

Product: AGILE-OUTGOING-19-05-13. Regional tariff: E-1R-AGILE-OUTGOING-19-05-13-D.

A current payment is shown only when a supplied interval covers the current time. Data refreshes every 15 minutes while this page is visible.

Contents

The short answer

Who Agile Outgoing Octopus is most likely to work for

Outgoing pays the wholesale rate for what you export, half hour by half hour. On a still winter evening that is several times what a flat export tariff pays, which is why it rewards anyone who can hold generation back and release it into the peak.

In its favour

  • Export rates that follow the market, and peak well above flat rates
  • Works with the compatible Octopus import tariffs listed by the supplier
  • No exit fees
  • Rewards a battery directly

Against it

  • Export earnings vary and cannot be budgeted for
  • Little benefit without storage
  • Needs an export MPAN and a half-hourly capable meter
  • Midday export, when solar peaks, pays least
Read the fuller verdict and trade-offs

Without a battery you export when the sun shines, which is exactly when everyone else does and prices are lowest. Solar on its own is usually better off on a flat export rate, where the price is lower but certain.

  • Using your own generation is usually worth more than exporting it, because you avoid paying an import rate that is higher than the export rate.
  • Without a battery, the half-hourly variant pays whatever the rate happens to be at midday, which is often not the peak.
  • Export payments are usually smaller than people expect compared with their bill. Treat this as a top-up rather than a replacement for it.

Tariff facts at a glance

Current version
Agile Outgoing Octopus
View product codeAGILE-OUTGOING-19-05-13
Price changes
Every half hour
Normally 48 rates; 46 or 50 when the clocks change
Export rate today
Today’s rate unavailable
Average of the published export rates for today
Annual illustration from history
£417
Based on 2,500 kWh exported in the selected region; no standing charge is assumed

Key tariff facts

  • Variable-rate tariff
  • No exit fee on the selected offer
  • Monthly Direct Debit · Single-register meter
  • Compatible smart meter required
  • Electricity tariff
  • Pays for electricity exported to the grid

Price history

How Agile Outgoing Octopus prices have moved

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The stored history shows the same displayed rate throughout this range: 12.00p per kWh.

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Combined across 2 versions of this tariff, each shown for the period it was on sale. We hold prices from Jan 2018. A gap means no version of this tariff was on sale then.

What this selected history can show

29 of 30 days are represented in the stored history. The figures below use complete daily or monthly periods only, so a partial period cannot create a false low or high.

This summary remains at daily or monthly level. Any separate statistics panel uses the complete daily distribution fields supplied by the rollup rather than inferring them from this chart.

Complete-period rate
12.00p/kWh
No displayed variation across complete periods

Regional comparison

How payments differ across Great Britain

Agile Outgoing Octopus export payment by region

The average export payment on 3 November 2026, including VAT.

Selected region

Merseyside and North Wales

Export payment
22.08p/kWh

Hover a region for its figure, or select one to load its prices.

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Eastern England21.63pEast Midlands21.02pLondon21.70pMerseyside and North Wales22.08pWest Midlands21.04pNorth East England21.14pNorth West England21.70pSouthern England21.26pSouth East England21.47pSouth Wales21.11pSouth West England20.97pYorkshire21.31pSouthern Scotland21.45pNorthern Scotland21.56p
Agile Outgoing Octopus export payment by region. South West England has the lowest payment at 20.97p; Merseyside and North Wales has the highest payment at 22.08p. Full figures are available below.Eastern England: 21.63pEast Midlands: 21.02pLondon: 21.70pWest Midlands: 21.04pNorth East England: 21.14pNorth West England: 21.70pSouthern England: 21.26pSouth East England: 21.47pSouth Wales: 21.11pSouth West England: 20.97pYorkshire: 21.31pSouthern Scotland: 21.45pNorthern Scotland: 21.56pMerseyside and North Wales: 22.08p
Lowest payment: 20.97pHighest payment: 22.08p
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Agile Outgoing Octopus export payment by region, by region
RegionPer kWh
South West England20.97p
East Midlands21.02p
West Midlands21.04p
South Wales21.11p
North East England21.14p
Southern England21.26p
Yorkshire21.31p
Southern Scotland21.45p
South East England21.47p
Northern Scotland21.56p
Eastern England21.63p
London21.70p
North West England21.70p
Merseyside and North Wales22.08p

Northern Ireland has a separate electricity market and is not covered by these regions.

Household fit

Who Agile Outgoing Octopus might be good for

The right answer depends on your equipment, routine and tolerance for changing prices—not just how much electricity you use.

Likely to suit

  • Homes generating more than they use, especially in summer
  • Exporters who can time output and want day-ahead half-hourly payments
  • Households with a battery that can hold generation until export pays best

Less likely to suit

  • Homes that consume nearly all of what they generate
  • Anyone without an export meter arrangement in place
  • Solar-only homes expecting Agile Outgoing to beat a flat rate

Before switching

Check the requirements and what will affect the result

What you need

  • Generation — usually solar — with an export meter arrangement (MPAN) in place
  • A smart meter capable of recording export on a half-hourly basis
  • An Octopus Energy account and a compatible Octopus import tariff
  • Ideally a battery so export can be timed

What drives what you earn

  • How much you generate beyond what you use yourself, since self-consumption avoids import rather than earning export
  • Whether you can time export into the better-paid periods
  • The season — summer generation is far higher, but so is everyone else’s, which affects prices
  • The half-hourly rate in force when each unit is exported

How it works

How Agile Outgoing Octopus sets its prices

Every unit you export is metered and paid at the rate in force for that period. The rate changes every 30 minutes and is published a day ahead like Agile import.

Read the full pricing explanation

Agile Outgoing rewards exporting at the right time, which in practice means having a battery. Solar alone generates at midday, which is rarely when export pays best.

You must be an Octopus Energy customer, and Octopus permits Outgoing only alongside certain import tariffs. Check the current compatibility list before changing either side.

Match the tariff to your home

Solar, a battery and your import tariff change the answer

Export income is only one side of the decision. Electricity used at home avoids an import purchase, while storing and exporting later loses some energy in the battery.

Solar without a battery

Compare the rate paid when your panels naturally export, usually through the middle of the day. A high evening rate is less useful if you cannot move generation into it.

Solar with a battery

A battery can move export into a valuable band, but the headline spread is not profit. Allow for round-trip losses, degradation and the import cost or self-consumption value of the electricity stored.

Choose import and export together

Check whether the export tariff restricts the import tariff you can hold. Even where it does not, the best export rate can be outweighed by a poor import fit for the same home.

Alternatives

Other smart tariffs from Octopus and EDF to compare

These are other smart-tariff comparisons from the two suppliers, not a claim that every option suits the same household.

The Smart Export Guarantee

SEG is the statutory minimum every large supplier must offer.

More detail

Outgoing is Octopus’s commercial offer and has generally paid better than a basic SEG rate, but SEG tariffs vary and are worth comparing directly.

Octopus Flux export

Flux export is banded and pairs with a matching Flux import tariff.

More detail

Agile Outgoing is a separate export product, but Octopus still restricts which import tariffs can sit alongside it.

Review Octopus Flux export

Outgoing Octopus

The flat rate pays the same whenever you export, which suits solar without storage.

More detail

The half-hourly variant shown here pays more if you can time export, and can pay less if you cannot.

Review Outgoing Octopus

EDF FreePhase Dynamic

EDF’s wholesale-linked alternative publishes three green, amber and red prices each day rather than 48 independent half-hour rates. Compare its bands, daily charge and free-electricity sessions.

Review EDF FreePhase Dynamic

How to switch

Moving to Agile Outgoing Octopus

  1. 1

    You need generation — usually solar — with an export meter arrangement (an export MPAN) registered, and a smart meter able to record export half-hourly.

  2. 2

    You must take import from Octopus and be on one of the import tariffs currently compatible with Outgoing.

  3. 3

    Request the switch from the online account. Agile Outgoing has no exit fee, but changing the export product does not override its import-tariff compatibility rules.

Frequently asked questions

Are these figures payments or charges?

Payments. This is an export tariff, so the prices shown are what Octopus pays you per kWh exported, not what you are charged.

Do I need a battery for Outgoing Octopus?

Not as a general export requirement, but a battery makes a substantial difference because it lets you export when rates are high rather than whenever the sun happens to be out.

Can I take Agile Outgoing with any import tariff?

No. Octopus requires you to be its customer and says Outgoing can only be paired with certain import tariffs. Check its current compatibility list before switching either side.

Is exporting better than using my own electricity?

Usually not. Import rates are typically higher than export rates, so using your own generation avoids more than exporting it earns. Exporting is what you do with whatever is left over.

Data source

Octopus Energy · Public API tariff rates

Some figures on this page could not be loaded. What is shown is still accurate; it is simply incomplete.

Rob Gibbs

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Rob Gibbs

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