About Petrolmate

Our Mission

Petrolmate was built to solve a simple problem: fuel prices vary significantly between stations, but finding the cheapest option nearby shouldn't require checking multiple apps and websites. On any given day, the price difference between the cheapest and most expensive station in a capital city can exceed 50 cents per litre, representing over $25 on a single tank of fuel.

We aggregate data from official government sources across all Australian states and territories, plus community-verified prices, to give you the most comprehensive view of fuel prices in your area. Our goal is to help every Australian motorist save money on their weekly fill-up by making pricing information transparent and accessible.

How We Source Data

Petrolmate connects to official government fuel pricing APIs in every Australian state and territory. In New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, and Tasmania, retailers are legally required to report price changes to government authorities, and we access this data through their public APIs. For Victoria, we use a combination of official data and community-verified pricing to ensure comprehensive coverage.

Every price goes through validation checks including freshness verification (stale prices are deprioritised), anomaly detection (catching obviously incorrect entries), and cross-source reconciliation (comparing community reports against official data). Prices are refreshed multiple times throughout the day, with most data less than 12 hours old.

What We Offer

Coverage by State

We track fuel prices in every Australian state and territory:

Plus 1,539 stations in New Zealand.

Trusted Data

Petrolmate sources fuel prices from official government channels and verified community reports across all Australian states and New Zealand. Our automated systems ensure accuracy through multiple validation layers.

Our Editorial Team

Petrolmate's analysis is written by named human contributors with stated expertise in Australian and NZ fuel markets. Author bios appear on every blog post.

Why You Can Trust This Data

• Government APIs first: NSW FuelCheck, QLD Fuel API, SA Informed Sources, VIC Fair Fuel, WA FuelWatch, NT MyFuel, TAS FuelCheck — every Australian state, every territory.
• Twice-daily syncs: 6am and 12pm AEST, plus boost-window syncs every 30 minutes between 06:00 and 10:00 AEDT during the morning price-flip in NSW and VIC.
• NT regulator transparency: Petrolmate publishes the Northern Territory's 24-hour locked next-window prices — the only public source that surfaces this data.
• NZ at scale: ~1,029 New Zealand stations, six times the coverage of any other public NZ fuel comparison service.
• Stale data is removed: a daily cleanup job deactivates any price older than 7 days regardless of source, and any community price diverging more than 20c/L from official data.
• Named editorial: blog analysis is written under named bylines with stated jobTitle and worksFor metadata in schema.org/Person markup.
• No advertising: Petrolmate is ad-free; we have no commercial incentive to misrepresent prices.

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