Best giffgaff deals this week

Here's everything you need to know about what you can get from giffgaff, and how to compare plans and choose a deal.

Top Giffgaff mobile contracts this week

The network offers SIM-only deals, as well as phone contracts on a peer-to-peer lending system - which you also get a SIM with, of course. Both types of deal give you an amazing amount of flexibility and choice that you'll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.

Giffgaff mobile contracts and pay monthly deals

Giffgaff's system for pay-monthly phone contracts works a little differently from other networks. The contracts are actually peer-to-peer loans, and give you an enormous amount of flexibility over how you pay them off.

For every handset, there's a variety of contract lengths, upfront costs, and monthly payments to choose from. You can fiddle around and find the perfect pricing plan that suits you. Whether you want to spend nothing upfront and spread the cost out over two years, or spend £200 today and have your phone paid off within a year, or any other cost setup, you're covered.

The sheer number of ways you can set your plan up means that comparing all the options is vital. Use our mobile comparison tool to see all the available choices in a single grid, and find the one that works best for you. Deals can be sorted by total cost, if you want to see the cheapest ones at the top.

You can either check all the possible contracts on a particular phone, or compare plans on a bunch of them. Giffgaff has a decent spread of phones to choose from, including iPhones, and Samsung Galaxy, Huawei, HTC, Sony, and Nokia handsets. So while you'll find some major, cream-of-the-crop phones like the latest iPhone, there's also a really good variety of lower-priced ones too. Even if you're on a budget you'll have plenty of choice.

Giffgaff SIM-only plans

Like its phone contracts, giffgaff SIM-only plans work slightly differently from other networks. It's a great scheme that means you can switch your plan around at will.

You have three options when it comes to the type of plan: pay-as-you-go, monthly rolling, and 18-month contracts.

With pay-as-you-go, you get a 30-day allowance of minutes, texts and data. Monthly rolling lets you auto-renew your 30-day plan every month, though you also have the freedom to change or cancel your plan whenever you please. Lastly, an 18-month contract ties you in for a longer length of time - but you're able to change up your data allowance every month.

When you first order your giffgaff SIM, it comes loaded with an allowance ready to use as soon as you activate it - so it's best to compare all giffgaff's SIM deals with our tool before you order to see which one you want. You can adjust the filters at the side of the page to only show the ones within your budget, or with enough allowance for your mobile habits.

If you've finished your giffgaff SIM deal and want to switch networks, take a look at our best SIM-only deals.

Giffgaff mobile coverage

Giffgaff coverage is pretty good, since it piggybacks on O2. That means 99% of the population can connect to 4G, and its 5G network is ever-growing.

We recommend using giffgaff's coverage checker before you sign up, to make sure you can get signal in all the places you need to. Remember that 99% population coverage doesn't mean 99% geographical coverage, and there will be a few not-spots.

Giffgaff benefits and perks

• Public Wi-Fi - You can use O2 Wi-Fi hotspots around the UK for free, including those on the London Underground.
• Inclusive EU roaming - Unlike some major networks, you can still use your SIM in Europe (subject to a 5GB fair usage cap)
• Earn Payback points and extra credit - Build up these special rewards by helping other giffgaff users in the forums, or by referring a friend to the network.

Want to find out if giffgaff is any good? Read our full review here.

Other mobile networks

Find and compare SIM-only plans and contract deals from mobile networks in the UK.

• O2 - Customers get exclusive offers and vouchers for high street stores, restaurants and events through O2 Priority.
• Vodafone - Enjoy entertainment subscriptions to Spotify, Prime Video and Sky Sports through Vodafone's Red Entertainment packages.
• iD Mobile - Affordable and simple plans with data rollover on the Three network.
• EE - Six months of Apple Music for free and the best UK network coverage.
• Smarty - Excellent value SIM-only plans with rewards each month for unused data