Stuck in a contract? We do the fee math both ways.
Texas plans drop the cancellation fee in the last 14 days. We weigh switching today against riding it out, with your real fee and end date.3
The watchdog for your electric plan.
We price the Power to Choose plans we can verify (about 98% of them) on your own meter, not a 1,000 kWh average. With Watch, the hound barks when switching saves real money after the cancellation fee.
Free savings check. Your plan + a year of Watch: $39 plus tax.
- No SSN
- No provider commissions
- We never switch you
Data from Power to ChooseSmart Meter Texas Oncor, CenterPoint, AEP Texas, TNMP, LP&L
Independent. Not an electricity provider.
Power to Choose ranks every plan at 1,000 kWh. Your house doesn’t live there.
The McKinney house never used less than 1,276 kWh in a month, and hit 3,949 kWh in August. So we price each plan we can verify on the months you actually have.2
- Each of your 12 months priced on its own
- Credits, minimum-use fees and tiers read from the facts label
The McKinney house, month by month
Metered Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
| Month | kWh |
|---|---|
| Sep 2027 | 2,781 |
| Oct 2026 | 2,115 |
| Nov 2026 | 1,499 |
| Dec 2026 | 1,389 |
| Jan 2027 | 1,276 |
| Feb 2027 | 1,288 |
| Mar 2027 | 1,824 |
| Apr 2027 | 1,920 |
| May 2027 | 2,451 |
| Jun 2027 | 3,175 |
| Jul 2027 | 3,825 |
| Aug 2027 | 3,949 |
| 12 months | 27,492 |
One of three answers. Never a sales pitch.
The savings check prices the plans we verify in your area on your meter, counts your cancellation fee and lands on one of these. With an account, it runs again every morning.
- Switch now
A plan saves well over what the cancellation fee costs.
Free: how much you’d save, with your costs and the best plan’s. The plan itself and its switch link: $39 plus tax, with a year of Watch.
- Wait
Cheaper plans exist, but the fee eats the savings before your contract ends.
Free: the fee math, and a reminder before your contract ends.
- Sit tight
No switch saves at least $60 a year after fees.
Keep your plan: that verdict is free. No email, no noise.
The founder’s home in McKinney. $1,127 a year.2
Estimated from the past 12 months of usage, compared with the current plan. Before the $175 cancellation fee and our price ($39 plus tax). A real typical home (1,100 kWh a month) got “Wait”: a plan saves $644 a year, but only $292 before its contract ends, against a $160 fee.4 Actual savings vary with your usage and what your current plan costs; sometimes the right answer is to wait or stay put.
A real audit of the founder’s own home: a big Oncor house on a 60-month plan signed in 2022. It looked fine on the bill. It wasn’t.
- Metered in a year
- 27,492 kWh
- Fee paid back in
- About 2 months
Next 12 months, all-in
Oncor · 75070 · priced Sep 27, 2026
After Jun 16 the gap narrows: we assume you’d re-shop at a typical rate once the contract ends.
| Month | Fixed 60 | Fixed 12 | Extra you pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | $475 | $310 | $165 |
| Oct 2026 | $362 | $239 | $123 |
| Nov 2026 | $258 | $171 | $87 |
| Dec 2026 | $239 | $159 | $80 |
| Jan 2027 | $220 | $146 | $74 |
| Feb 2027 | $222 | $148 | $74 |
| Mar 2027 | $313 | $207 | $106 |
| Apr 2027 | $330 | $218 | $112 |
| May 2027 | $419 | $277 | $142 |
| Jun 2027 | $403 | $358 | $45 |
| Jul 2027 | $485 | $430 | $55 |
| Aug 2027 | $502 | $437 | $65 |
| 12 months | $4,228 | $3,100 | $1,127 |
Illustrative monthly split: the audit’s monthly estimates, scaled to its yearly totals (they summed to $4,131 and $3,103). The yearly costs and savings are the audit’s own.
What the hound catches that a rate table can’t.
Plans are written to win one comparison: 1,000 kWh, one month, no fees. We run the one your house would, every morning.
Why not just use Power to Choose?
It’s a good catalog. It just can’t see your meter, your contract or next August.
| Power to Choose State catalog | Comparison sites Most say providers pay them | Auto-switch services They switch for you | KiloHound | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prices plans on your real meter data | No 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 kWh | Partly Sometimes | Partly Usually | Yes Each verified plan, every month |
| Counts your cancellation fee | No | Partly Rarely | Partly Usually | Yes |
| Re-checks the market | No When you search | Partly Mostly when you search | Partly Usually | Yes Every morning |
| Who picks the plan | You | You | Usually they do | You, with the math |
| Takes money from providers | No | Usually | Varies | Never |
| Cost to you | Free | Free | A fee, or free and paid by providers | Free savings check · $39 plus tax for the plan and a year of Watch |
| Power to Choose | KiloHound | |
|---|---|---|
| Prices plans on your real meter data | No Averages | Yes Every month |
| Counts your cancellation fee | No | Yes |
| Re-checks the market | No On search | Yes Daily |
| Who picks the plan | You | You, with the math |
| Takes money from providers | No | Never |
| Cost to you | Free | Free check · $39 plus tax for the plan + Watch |
Typical of each kind of service as far as we could tell, not a review of every one; services differ and change. Sources, as of September 2026: comparison sites’ own disclosures (for example ComparePower, EnergyBot, SaveOnEnergy). Among services that switch for you, Gatby’s Autopilot authorization says it may be paid by providers, while Energy Ogre says it takes $0. Providers list on Power to Choose for free.
Pays for itself the first time it barks.
The savings check is free, and so are contract-end reminders. $39 plus tax gets you the plan it finds and a year of Watch.
Savings check
Free
How much you’d save a year, with the numbers to prove it.
- How much you’d save a year, from your past 12 months of usage
- Your plan’s yearly cost and all-in rate, and the best plan’s, on your usage
- The switch math on your own cancellation fee and fee-free window
- Not included: the plan itself (its name, type and provider) and the switch link
Stays free
The savings check and contract-end reminders are free. When your plan is already the best, or close, the check says so, free.
Check my savings
Free, for good. Your plan + a year of Watch is $39 plus tax, only if you want it.
Your plan + a year of Watch
$39 / year plus tax
The plan to switch to, then a year of Watch: the pick kept current, and the emails.
- The recommended plan (its name, type and provider) and the link to switch on the provider’s own site
- Every plan we compared, ranked for your house, with the math
- 12 months of Watch: the plan to pick, kept current, and the emails
One price for everyone
A promotion code can lower your first payment; every renewal is at the regular price.
Get my plan
30-day refund, no questions asked. Renews yearly at the regular price, plus tax, unless you turn it off in Settings.
For a typical home in our beta, switching fee-free in May, Your plan + a year of Watch at $39 plus tax costs 11.1% of the first year’s estimated savings.
Estimated from the past 12 months of usage, compared with the current plan. No cancellation fee; before our price ($39 plus tax). Actual savings vary with your usage and what your current plan costs; sometimes the right answer is to wait or stay put.
- 30-day refund, no questions asked
- No commissions from providers
- No SSN or electricity-account password
- You enroll on the provider’s own site
Questions, answered straight.
The rest are in the full FAQ, including exactly how the math works.
Read the full FAQHow do you make money?
From members, and nothing else. The savings check and contract-end reminders are free; Your plan + a year of Watch is $39 a year plus tax, the same for everyone. Electricity providers pay us nothing, so there’s no plan we’d rather you picked.
Do you switch my plan for me?
No. We never switch you or enroll you in anything: we tell you which plan is cheapest for your usage and when to switch, and you enroll directly with the provider, on its own site (about five minutes). If you switch providers, Texas rules give you three federal business days after you get the new provider’s terms to cancel the switch.
What data do you need?
Your usage (a Smart Meter Texas export or 12 months of kWh from your bills), your utility (from your ZIP), and your current plan’s Electricity Facts Label with its end date. No SSN, no account numbers, no passwords to your electricity account.
Should I break my contract to switch?
Only if the savings over your remaining months clearly beat your cancellation fee: by default, twice over. Otherwise we tell you to wait for the last 14 days of your contract, when you can switch without the fee, and remind you before your contract ends.
Put a hound on your electric bill.
See what you’re overpaying. Bring your ZIP code and a year of usage.
Free savings check. Your plan + a year of Watch: $39 plus tax.