FuelFoxWhere the prices come from.
FuelFox is a window onto the CMA-mandated UK forecourt feed. We don't scrape signage, we don't guess, and we never modify a published price. This page lists every upstream source and exactly how we age each number.
How we surface freshness
Published time
Every price on FuelFox is tagged with a plain-English “Updated X ago” caption. That is the time the retailer last republished the price to the national feed, not the time we polled it.
Retailer changes
Retailers are required to publish a price change within 30 minutes, but they only publish when something actually moves. A price that has not moved for days may still be correct.
Ranking cutoff
Anything we last saw more than two weeks ago is excluded from cheapest-near-you rankings. Beyond that we keep the price visible with a clear timestamp, not a guess.
Upstream feeds
Every retailer below publishes its own forecourt prices to a machine-readable feed under the rules introduced by the Competition & Markets Authority in 2023. We poll every feed every thirty minutes and surface the result without modification.
- UK Government Fuel Finder
Official UK retail fuel price feed. Traders are required to submit price updates within 30 minutes of a change, but real-world lag may occur.
- OpenStreetMap (via OSRM)
Road network data used for route geometry and distance computation.
We don't mark prices, edit them, or hide them.
If a forecourt publishes 138.9p, we show 138.9p. If a forecourt stops publishing, we keep showing the last number we saw with an honest "Updated X ago" caption — never a guess. If we believe a number is wrong (rare, but it happens), we leave it visible and let you see when the retailer last republished so you can decide whether to trust it.
We use only minimal product analytics, never share your location history, and never sell anything we know about you.
Snapshot generated 13/06/2026, 02:09:05