Sky broadband deals: current prices, how Sky's price changes work, and what else your line can get

What does Sky broadband cost right now?

Direct answer: Sky's online full fibre deals cost between £23 and £32 a month (checked 15 September 2026) with £0 set-up on 24-month minimum terms, and Sky reserves the right to change the price during the term rather than fixing the rise in advance.

Sky sells full fibre over Openreach's FTTP network and, at some addresses, over CityFibre, plus part-fibre Superfast plans where full fibre has not arrived. The online deals page shows a shortlist with prices; the rest of the range is priced after a postcode check. Full Fibre 300 cost only £1 a month less than Gigafast 900 when we checked, which makes the 900 plan the obvious pick between them for any home that can take it.

On 15 September 2026 sky.com marked the Full Fibre 150 price as an online exclusive available until 23 September 2026 and the Full Fibre 300 price as available until 16 September 2026; the Gigafast 900 and Gigafast+ prices carried no end date. Sky also promoted up to £200 of switching credit towards leaving fees with your current provider, which has to be claimed and is an offer rather than a price.

Three things in the small print change how you should read that table. First, Sky's deal prices are promotional: the same small print lists Sky's standard price for Full Fibre 900 as £52 a month, so the £29 deal is a discount against that figure which Sky can withdraw from new customers at any time, and that is why the "price shown until" dates matter. Second, when your 24 months end Sky adds £5 to whatever you are paying at that point, so month 25 is always dearer than month 24 unless you renegotiate or switch. Third, the £0 set-up applies to the online deals; Sky's general terms say a £9.95 router delivery plus £10 activation fee may be required, so read the order summary before you confirm. Our price and contract checker runs the arithmetic for any provider, and our price rise tracker lists what every major provider has confirmed for next April.

Sky's own website showed Full Fibre 75, Full Fibre 500 and its Superfast part-fibre plans only after a postcode check on 15 September 2026, so no direct price is quoted for them here. Our hand-checked deals table of 1 September 2026 recorded Sky Full Fibre 150 at £24 a month with a £95 gift card on Openreach lines and at £22 a month with a £130 gift card on CityFibre lines through the comparison channel, which is why the live list below is worth a look even if you have already priced Sky direct.

How do Sky's price changes work?

Direct answer: Sky's contracts say the price may change during the minimum term rather than stating a fixed rise; Sky's last change added £3 a month to broadband on 1 April 2026, an in-term broadband customer has 31 days from the notice to leave without early termination charges, and when the 24 months end the price steps up by £5.

Since 17 January 2025 Ofcom has banned in-contract price rises linked to inflation and required any rise written into a contract to be stated in pounds and pence at the point of sale. BT, Plusnet and EE answered by writing a fixed £4 into every contract. Sky answered differently: its contracts carry no pre-set rise at all. Instead Sky reserves the right to change the price during the minimum term and, because a change is then a variation of your contract rather than a term you agreed to, Sky lets broadband and Talk customers who are still in their minimum term cancel without early termination charges within 31 days of being told. Sky's April 2026 change, announced on 4 February 2026, added £3 a month to broadband and £1 to £3 to TV packages; Sky Broadband Basics customers were not affected.

Which model is better for you depends on what you value. BT's fixed £4 is worse in a year when Sky raises by less, and better in a year when Sky raises by more, but BT's figure is known on day one and Sky's is not. What Sky offers in exchange is the door: a fixed rise you agreed to gives you no right to leave, a variable one does. The practical rule is to treat a Sky contract as a series of decisions, one at each price notice, rather than a 24-month commitment, and to have your postcode comparison ready each time one arrives. Our guide to in-contract price rises sets out the Ofcom rules, and price rises by provider lists who fixes the amount, who varies it and who promises none at all.

Is Sky the cheapest way to get the line?

Direct answer: Not always. On 15 September 2026 Sky's Full Fibre 150 deal at £23 was £6.99 below BT's entry full fibre price of £29.99, against Plusnet's £22.99, while NOW, Sky's own brand, listed Full Fibre 100 at £23 on 1 September 2026; which is cheapest at your address depends on the offers running that month, so check the postcode comparison rather than any one price list.

Sky does not own the line into your home. At most addresses it is an Openreach line that BT, Plusnet, EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone, Zen and dozens of smaller providers also sell, and at some addresses Sky sells over CityFibre's network instead, which is a different physical line with its own prices. Sky also runs NOW, a second brand on the same wholesale products with a simpler package and no Sky TV bundles. That is why a comparison of Sky deals has to include the providers that are not Sky, and the one that is Sky under another name.

The wider market is cheaper still. When we last hand-checked every deal, on 1 September 2026, the 373 broadband-only deals from the 28 providers we can switch you to started at £13.50 a month (4th Utility, 150 Mbps on CityFibre), and good full fibre on a 24-month contract clustered between £23 and £34 a month with a median of £28. Compare Sky's entry deal with that median before you weigh the extras, and remember that the question over the term is what Sky's price changes do to that position. The full list, with first-year cost, is on our verified deals page.

Two things decide which of these you can actually order. The first is whether full fibre has reached your address at all: Ofcom's Spring 2026 data puts full fibre availability at 82% of UK premises and gigabit-capable availability at 89%, and Openreach's own footprint stood at 23.4 million premises on 30 June 2026. Sky's own deals pages quote 79% of UK homes for its full fibre and 12% of UK homes for Gigafast+, which is Sky's reach rather than UK coverage. The second is whether a second network reaches you too. Where CityFibre, Virgin Media, YouFibre, Hyperoptic, Community Fibre or another builder has laid its own fibre, you have a different product to weigh against Sky, not just a different logo on the same line. Our guide to Openreach against CityFibre explains the difference.

What does Sky give you that a cheaper provider may not?

Direct answer: The line is the same, so what Sky's price buys is the retail layer: a hub range up to Wi-Fi 7, the optional WiFi Max whole-home promise, a Speed Guarantee you can leave under, a phone line included, switching credit of up to £200 towards leaving fees, and the Sky TV bundles.

Each item below was checked against Sky's own pages on 15 September 2026. Where Sky only shows a price after a postcode check, we say so rather than guess.

Three claims that circulate about Sky do not hold on Sky's current pages, so they are not on this one: Sky's standard hub is not a Wi-Fi 6 hub unless you add WiFi Max, Sky does not fix its annual rise in pounds and pence, and Sky Broadband Basics is not open to new customers. If any of those matters to you, check the order summary before you commit.

Who should choose Sky, and who should not?

Direct answer: Choose Sky if you want Sky TV on the same bill, want the Speed Guarantee's exit right, are leaving another provider early and can use the switching credit, or want Gigafast+ speeds nobody else sells at your address; choose a provider with a fixed or no in-contract rise if you want to know your 24-month cost on day one, and look at NOW if you want Sky's line without Sky's extras.

The head-to-head pages cover the pairings people search for most: BT against Sky, Sky against Virgin Media, TalkTalk against Sky, Sky against Vodafone and Sky against EE. If you are already with Sky and out of contract, our insight on haggling with Sky covers what to say. For the whole market at once, use your postcode.

Does Sky do a social tariff?

Direct answer: Yes, for existing Sky Broadband customers only. Sky Broadband Basics costs £20 a month, or £24 for Full Fibre 75 or Superfast 80 from 17 September 2026, with a minimum term of 24 months and no early termination charges on the broadband, and it was not affected by Sky's April 2026 price rise.

The account holder must receive Universal Credit, Pension Credit, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance or Income Support, and Sky checks the claim with the Department for Work and Pensions before the tariff is applied. The package includes Sky Pay As You Talk. After the 24 months Sky's standard price applies unless you reapply. Because the tariff is for existing customers, you cannot join Sky on it: you would have to take a standard Sky plan first and then apply, and Sky does not promise that the tariff will be available when you do.

If you are not with Sky, that closed door is the important fact. Our deals check of 1 September 2026 listed social tariffs from £12.50 a month across the providers we compare, most of them open to new customers, and BT Home Essentials at £16.50 accepts new joiners. Our social tariffs guide lists every provider's tariff and who qualifies, and our insight on how social tariff broadband works covers the application steps.

How does Sky score on complaints and reviews?

Direct answer: Sky drew 5 broadband complaints per 100,000 customers in Ofcom's January to March 2026 data, one below the industry average of 6, behind only Plusnet (4) and ahead of EE and Virgin Media (6), BT (7), Vodafone (8) and TalkTalk (10).

Ofcom described the Q1 2026 industry figure of 6 per 100,000 as an all-time low, down from 40 per 100,000 at the 2011 peak. Sky's landline figure for the same quarter was 2 per 100,000 against an average of 3, which puts Sky among the least complained-about of the large providers on both measures. The Complaints Floor, our Report No. 30, sets out the full series and Ofcom's comparability rules.

If you do need to complain, the rules changed on 8 April 2026: a complaint that Sky has not resolved after six weeks, down from eight, can go free of charge to the independent ombudsman scheme Sky belongs to. Our complaints and your rights guide walks through the steps and the compensation you may be owed. For customer reviews, Sky's Trustpilot profile is independent of us and moves daily; we last captured it at 2.7 out of 5 from 29,087 reviews on 26 July 2026, a score that covers Sky's TV, mobile and broadband customers together, so it measures something different from Ofcom's broadband-only count.

What should you check before you order Sky?

Direct answer: Six checks, five minutes: address-level availability on Openreach or CityFibre, the two price rules in your diary, the same line priced from NOW and others, the deal's end date, the switching credit terms, and the kit, speed guarantee and cancellation rules.

Related reading: exit fees and set-up fees by provider, how One Touch Switch works, keeping your phone number when you switch, and logging in to a Sky hub once you are connected.

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