Outside shops, not part of Budi — they sell tokens for most municipalities and Eskom. Budi earns nothing from these links. Your bank app usually sells power too.
Day 1 🌱
0 units
Day 25 🥵
0 units
📚 Where Budi learned this — tap for sources
City of Cape Town — Understanding residential electricity tariffs: the block calculation starts over at the beginning of each calendar month, with worked examples showing 1, 2, 3 or 10 purchases a month all cost the same — and buying a whole year upfront costs about R442 a month more.
🎟️ One thing that can go stale: a voucher you never punch into the meter. Units loaded on the meter are safe — paper tokens aren't forever. Load them.
🏠 What lives in your home?
Slide your things. Budi adds up the power they eat.
2 people
036
3 hours
0 🌙612 🥵
3 loads
0714
Normal
NoneA littleNormalLots
1
03
0 hours
048
0 hours
048
Your home eats about 19units a day(lights, TV and Wi-Fi are already counted)
🔧 Budi's guesses — tap to fine-tune
These are the units Budi thinks each thing eats. If your geyser is greedy or your heater is small, change the numbers — Budi recalculates everything.
🔋 What does your meter say?
Slide to the units your meter shows right now.
100 units
0 😨200400 😎
🧭 Budi's plan for you
🧾 Write down your top-ups
After you buy, put in the rands and the units the slip gave you. Budi keeps the book.
No top-ups written down yet this month.
Prices checked against official 2026/27 tariff lists (municipal from 1 July 2026, Eskom from 1 April 2026). VAT included.
South Africa has no live price feed — Budi's numbers are looked up and updated by hand. Last checked: .
Always compare with your own slip. Blocks start over on day 1 of every month.