56 plans from nine providers, scored against what actually matters to you: who's online, what you do, and what you can spend. We rank by true first-year cost, not teaser rates.
Ranked on true first-year cost, intro rates, credits and fees included.
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Five quick questions determine which plans suit you. Every plan gets scored against whether its typical speed handles your household, whether the data cap survives your usage, how latency affects gaming or video calls, and what it costs over a full year once intro rates and credits are factored in. The top plan earns the Best match badge, and each card explains why it ranked where it did. The default ranking suits a two-to-three person streaming household.
A plan advertised at $91/month might not cost $91 after twelve months. Every card on this site shows today's rate, the rate after any intro period ends, and the estimated first-year total including bill credits like 2degrees' $150 joining offer. Sorting by True cheapest uses that first-year average, so a plan with a short-lived discount can no longer pass itself off as the budget pick.
Each plan carries one of three labels. Price locked means the standard rate is the rate, no expiring promo to worry about. Intro rate then rises means exactly that, with the later price printed next to it. Variable covers plans that are harder to pin down, such as Starlink's third-party-reported pricing or wireless tiers whose speed varies by address. The More filters menu lets you show only locked pricing.
The figures on each card come from providers' stated typical speeds, informed by the Commerce Commission's Measuring Broadband NZ reporting. Download speed is only part of the picture. Upload matters for video calls and large files, and latency determines how responsive games feel. Cards carry a latency tag for this reason: fibre sits around 10 to 15 ms, copper and fixed wireless higher, satellite higher still. Fixed wireless numbers are busy-time network averages, so treat them as estimates until your address confirms otherwise.
Capped plans often look cheap per megabit until you hit the wall. Caps are shown alongside their consequences: Spark's Lite fibre slows past 300 GB, 2degrees' capped wireless stops at the cap unless you buy extra in blocks, Mercury's urban wireless crawls to around 5 Mbps. The ranking engine treats a small cap as disqualifying for busy households, and advice banners will warn you before you sign up for one.
The New Zealand retail market has thinned out. MyRepublic stopped selling broadband here in July 2023 and handed customers to 2degrees. Orcon closed to new signups in November 2024 and is folding into the same brand, while Flip has been retired entirely. What remains is four national retailers (Spark, One NZ, 2degrees and Slingshot), Spark's budget brand Skinny, power company Mercury, and a smaller group of regional, rural and satellite operators.