For homes heated with natural gas

Read the gas offer before you sign.

A gas supplier's offer comes in cents per Ccf, a monthly fee, a gift card and a fee to leave. Therm & Term turns all of it, and your own bill, into one plain answer: what the next 12 months cost against staying on your utility's default price.

Check an offer Find my default price

Free to use. No account, no email, no gas account number. It sells no gas and takes no commission.

Example offer, made-up numbers

69.9¢ per Ccf, fixed for 24 months

$4.95 monthly service fee
$50 gift card for signing up
$10 for each month left if you leave early
Then a variable price

Against a 62¢ per Ccf default, for a home using 829 Ccf a year

+$75first 12 months

All in, per therm: 68.5¢
Default, per therm: 59.8¢
Break-even default: $0.71/Ccf
Most it costs to leave: $240.00

Open the example

Therm

Every price, turned into therms first.

Your meter counts cubic feet. Offers arrive per Ccf, per Mcf, per therm or per Dth, and a Ccf is not a therm: your bill's heat factor (about 1.037 at the U.S. average) sits between them. Comparing 62¢ per Ccf with 59¢ per therm without it is comparing two different sizes of box.

Unit converter Source: EIA unit FAQ

Term

Then the fine print, month by month.

A low price for six months, then something else. A fee every month. A fee to leave that shrinks as the term runs out. A term that ends on a variable price. The month ruler shows the whole contract at once, and the Offer Check can drop its end date into your calendar.

How gas offers work

The example's 24 months: the fee to leave falls by $10 a month; at the end it rolls onto a variable price.

The break-even price

How high would the default have to go?

Nobody knows next winter's gas price, so Therm & Term never guesses it. It shows the one number that matters instead: the average default price at which the offer stops costing you more.

The example: the offer only pays if the default supply price averages more than $0.71 per Ccf over the next 12 months, against $0.62 today.

Four tools

Start with the one that fits what is in your hand.

Offer CheckAn offer and your bill in; the 12-month answer, the break-even price, every fee and the cost to leave out.Free Bill ReaderFour lines from one bill; the supply price per therm, per Ccf and per Mcf, and how much of the bill a supplier can change.Free Unit converterAmounts and prices between cubic feet, Ccf, Mcf, therms and Dth, at your bill's heat factor.Free Offer FileOne home, its use and up to 12 offers side by side at a private link; a printable Offer Sheet; a look-back on last year's prices.File Pass

Supply and delivery

An offer can only change the supply part of your bill.

Delivery (the customer charge, distribution and riders) stays with your utility whoever sells you the gas. A supplier's offer replaces the supply line only, so that is the line to compare it with. Ohio's utility commission puts it plainly: ask the supplier for its supply price, then compare it to your current average cost of supply.

Read your bill Source: PUCO supplier worksheet

Prices

The tools are free. The file is $1.95.

Therm & Term prices
Plan	What it does	Price
Free	Offer Check, Bill Reader, unit converter. An Offer File with up to 3 offers.	$0
File Pass	Up to 12 offers in a file, the look-back on last year's prices, the printable Offer Sheet, CSV.	$1.95 a month or $19.50 a year
One Offer Sheet	The printable comparison of one file, once, without a pass.	$1.00

PreviewFile Pass $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year, or one Offer Sheet for $1.00: free during preview. Payments are not switched on yet, so nothing is charged and no card is asked for. What File Pass adds