Is Pylon Legit?

Yes. Pylon is a free service that automatically switches you to the cheapest available electricity supplier in your area and keeps doing it for as long as you're a customer. It never touches your utility, your meter, or your delivery service. Your power stays on, your bill stays with your utility, and you never pay Pylon anything. You sign up once and Pylon handles everything after that.

Here's exactly why Pylon is legitimate, how it works, and why it's free.

Why Pylon Is Legitimate

Pylon operates through PowerKiosk. Every enrollment Pylon submits goes through PowerKiosk's regulated enrollment process, the same process licensed energy brokers use across deregulated US markets. This isn't a workaround or a gray-area tactic. It's the standard infrastructure the energy industry runs on.

Your utility never changes. This is the clearest sign Pylon is doing exactly what it says. Pylon has no ability to touch your delivery service, your meter, or who responds to an outage. Your utility relationship stays completely untouched. Pylon only ever acts on the competitive supply portion of your bill, which is the one part of your bill the law gives you the right to shop.

You can pause anytime. Auto-switching can be turned off from your dashboard whenever you want, with no cancellation process and nobody to call. Pylon is built around the idea that you stay because it's working, not because you're locked in.

Pylon is free, full stop. No subscription, no hidden fee, no charge that shows up later. Pylon gets paid by the electricity supplier when it enrolls you, not by you. If Pylon ever stopped finding you savings, you'd have zero reason to stay, and Pylon has zero reason to want that.

The Problem Pylon Solves

If you live in one of 11 deregulated states (DC, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Texas), you have always had the legal right to choose your own electricity supplier. Almost nobody uses that right consistently. People sign up for a competitive rate once, the contract expires two years later, and they get auto-rolled onto a worse rate they never agreed to. Or they never switch at all and stay on their utility's default rate indefinitely, paying more every single month than they need to.

This isn't because people don't care about saving money. It's because staying on the best rate requires ongoing attention nobody has time for. You'd need to track your contract end date, monitor competitive rates across multiple suppliers, compare offers, and re-enroll, over and over, for as long as you have an electric bill.

Pylon does all of that for you, automatically, permanently.

How Pylon Actually Works

You sign up once. Enter your ZIP code at yourpylon.com, confirm your utility, upload a photo of your current bill (or enter the details manually), and authorize Pylon as your energy agent. That's the entire process. It takes a few minutes.

Pylon checks the market daily. Every single day, Pylon evaluates competitive electricity rates available in your specific area against what you're currently paying. This isn't a one-time comparison. It runs every day you're a Pylon customer.

Pylon switches you when it matters. If your current contract is expiring soon and a better rate is available, Pylon enrolls you in it automatically. In states where mid-contract switching carries no penalty, Pylon can move you to a better rate immediately the moment one becomes available, instead of waiting for your contract to end. You don't have to do anything. You don't even have to be paying attention.

Your bill doesn't change format. Your utility still delivers your electricity and still sends your bill. The only thing that changes is the supply rate listed on it, and the name of the company providing it. Same bill, same utility, same power, lower supply cost.

You're notified only when something happens. Pylon doesn't send "still watching, nothing changed" emails to pad an inbox. When Pylon switches you, you'll know. Otherwise, it's running quietly in the background, doing its job.

How Pylon Makes Money

Pylon is free to you because Pylon gets paid by the electricity supplier, not by you. When Pylon enrolls you with a supplier, that supplier pays Pylon a commission, the same way a traditional energy broker gets paid. You never see a bill from Pylon. You never pay Pylon anything. Pylon's incentive is to find you genuinely better rates and keep you on them, because that's what generates ongoing value for everyone, you and Pylon both.

This is a well-established model in the energy industry. Energy brokers and marketplaces have operated on supplier commissions for years. Pylon's innovation isn't the business model, it's automating what used to require a person to do it manually, every time, forever.

Real Savings, Real Numbers

Pylon doesn't deal in vague promises. Pylon users who switched from their utility's default rate to a Pylon-found supply rate save between $200 and $520 per year, based on observed savings across actual Pylon enrollments. That range reflects how much default rates vary state to state, but the pattern holds everywhere Pylon operates: most people are paying more than they need to, and most people don't know it until they switch.

Default utility rates have been climbing across nearly every deregulated state. When the gap between the default rate and the best available competitive rate widens, the savings opportunity gets bigger, and Pylon catches it the day it happens instead of months later.

Why Set It and Forget It Actually Works Here

The single biggest reason people overpay for electricity isn't that good rates don't exist. It's that staying on a good rate requires repeating the same shopping process every time a contract ends, forever, for as long as you have an electric bill. Almost nobody does that consistently. Pylon is built on the simple idea that this kind of recurring task is exactly what automation should handle.

You make the decision once, when you authorize Pylon. After that, Pylon's daily rate-checking and automatic switching means you stay on a competitive rate without lifting a finger again. That's the entire value proposition: permanent savings, zero ongoing effort, completely free.

Get Started

If you're in DC, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Texas, you're eligible right now. Enter your ZIP code at yourpylon.com to see what Pylon can find for your address. It takes a few minutes to sign up, and from that point forward, Pylon handles everything.

For a closer look at the mechanics of how a supplier switch actually happens, see How Does Switching Electricity Suppliers Work.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Pylon a real company? Yes. Pylon operates as an energy agent under the PowerKiosk supplier-marketplace platform, the same regulated infrastructure used by licensed energy brokers across deregulated US states.

Is Pylon actually free? Yes. Pylon earns a commission from the electricity supplier when it enrolls you, the same way traditional energy brokers get paid. You never pay Pylon anything.

How is Pylon different from a comparison website? Comparison sites show you rates and leave the decision and the legwork to you. Pylon enrolls you automatically and keeps checking the market every day after that, switching you again whenever a better rate appears.

Does switching suppliers affect my power or my utility? No. Your utility still delivers your electricity, reads your meter, and responds to outages exactly as before. Only the supply rate and supplier name on your bill change.

How much can I actually save with Pylon? Pylon users switching from a utility default rate to a Pylon-found supply rate save $200 to $520 per year on average, based on observed Pylon enrollments. Savings vary by state and by how much your current rate differs from the best available rate.

Can I stop using Pylon's auto-switching? Yes. Auto-switching can be paused from your dashboard at any time, with no cancellation process required.

Which states is Pylon available in? DC, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Do I need to do anything after I sign up? No. Once you've signed up and authorized Pylon, the daily rate monitoring and automatic switching run entirely in the background.