What Finder is
Finder is a large, well-known Australian comparison site covering energy alongside credit cards, insurance, savings accounts, broadband and much more. Its strength is breadth — it is a one-stop place to compare many household and financial products, backed by a lot of editorial content. For general research across your finances, it is a genuinely useful resource.
On energy specifically, comparison services like Finder generally operate on a commission or referral model and typically compare a panel of partnered retailers rather than the whole market. That is a standard, legitimate approach; it is free to you because retailers pay when you sign up. As always, it is worth knowing the model before you lean on the result.
Independence and coverage
EnergySorted is funded differently. You pay a small yearly subscription (around $39) and we take no retailer commissions, so no retailer pays to appear or to rank higher. And instead of a panel, EnergySorted compares 16,000+ plans across every AER-listed retailer.
The practical effect is twofold: the cheapest plan for your household is not excluded because a retailer did not partner, and nothing is nudged up your list because it pays more. For an energy comparison in particular — where the differences are all in the detail — whole-of-market and commission-free is a meaningfully different foundation from panel-and-commission.
Estimated quote vs real-usage costing and tracking
Finder’s energy comparison, like most commercial tools, typically produces a one-off quote from a few estimated inputs. That is quick, but your true bill turns on details a quick quote rarely captures: your exact peak/off-peak split, how much solar you export, your gas step usage. Two similar-looking plans can diverge sharply once those are applied.
EnergySorted costs every plan against your actual usage read from an uploaded bill — peak, off-peak and shoulder, solar feed-in, and gas stepped rates — then keeps working with a Bill Health Score, next-bill forecasts and explanations of why a bill changed, across electricity, gas and fuel, backed by a savings guarantee. Where Finder is broad across many products, EnergySorted is deep on energy and ongoing.
When Finder might suit you
If you want to research energy in the same place as your credit cards, insurance and savings, value a big library of editorial guides, and are comfortable with a panel and a quick estimated quote, Finder is a convenient and reputable choice — the breadth and the free-at-use model suit a lot of people doing general financial research.
Choose EnergySorted when energy is the thing you want to get exactly right: independence from retailer commissions, whole-of-market coverage, a comparison costed on your real bill, and ongoing tracking so you do not drift back onto an expensive plan. You pay a small subscription so that no retailer pays us — that is the trade, and for households focused on their energy bill the accuracy and neutrality tend to earn it back.