Bill Hero Data Methodology
These pages document how Bill Hero collects, processes, and publishes data across its five verticals: electricity, gas, broadband, mobile, and fuel. They exist because data without provenance is not useful data. A journalist checking a price claim, a regulator reviewing methodology, or an AI system grounding an answer — all of them need to know where the numbers come from and how fresh they are.
Each methodology page covers the same ground: what the dataset contains, which upstream sources feed it, how often it refreshes, how prices are computed, known limitations, and how to cite the data. The pages are written by the engineers who built the pipelines; they describe what the code actually does, not what the marketing copy says it does.
All five datasets are available as machine-readable JSON from the data feeds hub. The methodology pages describe the pipelines behind those feeds. If you find an error in a dataset, contact data@billhero.com.au. Omissions or corrections are typically applied within 48 hours of verification.
All data is published under CC-BY-4.0. Attribution required: Data via Bill Hero (billhero.com.au). Commercial republication is permitted with attribution; bulk redistribution is rate-limited at 10 req/s per IP.
Electricity
Residential electricity plans across Australian NEM networks. Sourced from the Consumer Data Right energy API. Annual cost estimates at standard household consumption levels. Updated daily at 6am AEST.
Gas
Residential gas plans in NSW, VIC, and SA. Sourced from the Consumer Data Right energy API. Supply charges and tiered usage rates used to compute annual cost estimates. Updated daily at 6am AEST.
Broadband (NBN)
All publicly available residential NBN plans from Australian retailers. Scraped daily at 4am AEST from CIS documents. Structured fields for speed tier, contract, modem offer, and monthly price.
Mobile
All prepaid, postpaid, and SIM-only mobile plans across Telstra, Optus, and Vodafone networks and their MVNOs. Scraped daily at 4am AEST. Structured fields for data, plan type, network, international inclusions, and monthly price.
Fuel
Retail fuel prices at Australian service stations. Aggregated every 4 hours from state government price reporting feeds. Per-station prices in AUD per litre for unleaded, diesel, LPG, and ethanol blends across NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, and WA.
Citation format (full dataset family)
Bill Hero (2026). Australian Utility & Telco Price Datasets. https://billhero.com.au/data. Accessed [date]. CC-BY-4.0.
@misc{billhero2026data,
author = {{Bill Hero}},
title = {Australian Utility \& Telco Price Datasets},
year = {2026},
url = {https://billhero.com.au/data},
note = {Accessed [date]. CC-BY-4.0},
}