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Compare the Market Limited

Registered as COMPARE THE MARKET LIMITED. Company number 10636682. 15 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 December 2025, filed 29 January 2026.

22days on average to pay

  • Within 30 days
  • 31 to 60 days
  • Over 60 days

In the reporting period from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025, Compare the Market Limited reported that it took an average of 22 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 93% of invoices within 30 days, 6% in 31 to 60 days and 1% after more than 60 days. It said 18% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 75% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. It is unchanged on the same period a year earlier (to 31 December 2024).

Average days to pay, report by report

30 26 Jun 2020 17 Dec 2020 21 Jun 2021 22 Dec 2021 33 Jun 2022 33 Dec 2022 36 Jun 2023 32 Dec 2023 28 Jan 2024 22 Dec 2024 21 Jun 2025 22 Dec 2025

Bars are labelled with the month the period ended. The dashed line marks 30 days.

Every report filed

PeriodFiledAverage daysWithin 30 days31 to 60Over 60Not within termsSource
Jul to Dec 2025 29 Jan 2026 22 93%6%1%18% Report
Jan to Jun 2025 24 Jul 2025 21 95%4%1%19% Report
Jul to Dec 2024 27 Jan 2025 22 90%8%2%25% Report
Jan to Jan 2024 25 Jul 2024 28 82%14%4%18% Report
Jul to Dec 2023 30 Jan 2024 32 81%11%8%19% Report
Jan to Jun 2023 26 Jul 2023 36 72%17%11%28% Report
Jul to Dec 2022 27 Jan 2023 33 69%19%12%31% Report
Jul 2021 to Jun 2022 28 Jul 2022 33 64%27%9%36% Report
Jul to Dec 2021 27 Jan 2022 22 83%12%4%17% Report
Jan to Jun 2021 27 Jul 2021 21 97%3%0%4% Report
Jul to Dec 2020 26 Jan 2021 17 97%3%0%4% Report
Jan to Jun 2020 28 Jul 2020 26 86%10%4%16% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 28 Jan 2020 26 85%10%5%15% Report
Jan to Jun 2019 29 Jul 2019 27 85%13%2%15% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 29 Jan 2019 36 74%14%13%26% Report

Source: the company's filings on Check payment practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as filed. We do not change them.