FPLXI vs Fantasy Football Hub
Fantasy Football Hub sells you a season inside a whole FPL ecosystem: tools, team reveals, articles, communities. FPLXI sells one thing, which is the number behind your next decision.
No card required · Free team rating from your FPL ID · Prices and features checked August 2026
Fantasy Football Hub is the most complete paid FPL product going. Its My Team area rates your squad, predicts your points, recommends transfers and tracks your live rank. Around that sit hundreds of members' articles a year, expert and AI team reveals, an Opta stats package, a Discord and a set of WhatsApp groups. Memberships come in three tiers, Starter, Pro and Ultra, billed annually, and when we checked they were advertised at half price with a money-back mini-league promise. If FPL is a hobby you read about as well as play, that breadth is the product.
FPLXI is much narrower on purpose. No content, no community, no live scoring. What you get is a model that predicts every player's points five gameweeks out, an optimiser that turns those predictions into your best XI, captain, bench and ranked transfers, and AI that explains the decision after the maths has already made it. You pay once for the season. We publish how accurate the predictions were, gameweek by gameweek, and you can read that before you pay us anything.
Both products will rate your team and suggest transfers. The question is whether you want an FPL membership or a decision tool.
FPLXI and Fantasy Football Hub, side by side
| Feature | FPLXI Predictions, optimiser and a published accuracy record | Fantasy Football Hub Subscription FPL platform with AI tools, expert content and communities |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes. A full team rating plus one recommendation refresh every gameweek, from your FPL ID or a screenshot of your squad. | Yes. A free AI team rating from a screenshot upload when we checked. The tools around it need a membership. |
| Cost for a full season | £19.99 once for the 2026/27 season. That was the early bird price when we checked, and it goes up after the GW3 deadline. | Tiered annual memberships (Starter, Pro, Ultra), advertised at 50% off when we checked. Their pricing page has the current figure. |
| Subscription that renews itself | No. One payment for the season. No auto-renew, no card kept on file, nothing to cancel. | Yes. A recurring membership you keep or cancel, with tiers you can move between. |
| Advice built from your actual squad | Yes. Every recommendation starts from the 15 players you own, not from a generic best team. | Yes. My Team works from your imported squad and recommends transfers for it. |
| Points predicted several gameweeks ahead | Yes. Our own machine-learning model gives every player a points prediction per gameweek, five gameweeks ahead, rebuilt daily. | Yes. Predicted points for your team and for the wider player pool. |
| Transfers ranked by points gained | Yes. Ranked by the predicted points they gain, with alternatives and the reasoning written out in plain English. | Yes. AI transfer recommendations tailored to your team. |
| Captain, vice and bench solved for you | Yes. Best legal XI, captain, vice and the full bench order, solved by a deterministic optimiser. | Partly. Predicted points per player let you work it out, with team and chip planning tools alongside. |
| Prediction accuracy published every gameweek | Yes. Every prediction is locked at the deadline and scored against real results on a public page, whether you have paid or not. | No. Accuracy is claimed in marketing rather than published as a per-gameweek record you can audit. |
| Live rank and in-play tracking | No. No live rank, no bonus tracking, no effective ownership. FPLXI is for the hours before the deadline. | Yes. Live rank, live mini-leagues and price change tracking. |
| Expert content, podcasts and community | No. No articles, no podcast, no Discord. Just the model and your squad. | Yes. Hundreds of members' articles a year, expert team reveals, Discord and WhatsApp groups. |
| Chip and multi-week planning | Partly. You can plan transfers in a sandbox and mark moves as made, but there is no chip-strategy planner. | Yes. Team and chip planning is a first-class part of the membership. |
| Time to a decision | Minutes. Import your squad, read the rating, take the top-ranked move. | Minutes for the AI tools. Hours if you read the content too. |
| Data freshness | Prices and injury news every half hour, fixtures hourly, predictions rebuilt daily. | Live during matches, with tools refreshed through the gameweek. |
Fantasy Football Hub is not our product and its plans change. Checked August 2026, so verify anything that decides your purchase.
Stay with Fantasy Football Hub if
- You want the whole hobby in one place, including someone to argue with.
- Live rank and live mini-league tracking during matches matter to you.
- You value chip strategy and expert opinion as much as raw projections.
- A recurring membership is fine and you will use enough of it to justify the tier.
Pick FPLXI if
- You want one answer per gameweek instead of a reading list.
- You want to see how accurate the predictions have been, before you trust them and after.
- One £19.99 payment for the season suits you better than another renewal.
- You would rather the maths decided and the AI only explained it.
Moving across
Nothing to migrate. Put your FPL ID into FPLXI, or upload a squad screenshot, and you have a rating and a ranked move in about a minute. Your squad comes from the official FPL data, not from the Hub. If you are mid-membership, run both for a few weeks: FPLXI before the deadline, the Hub for live tracking during matches, and keep whichever you actually open. What we cannot replace is the community and the editorial. If the Discord and the team reveals are why you subscribe, that is a real gap on our side, not a reason to cancel.
Questions people actually ask
Is FPLXI cheaper than Fantasy Football Hub?
FPLXI is £19.99 once for the whole 2026/27 season at the early bird price, with nothing to renew. Hub memberships are tiered annual subscriptions and were advertised at half price when we checked in August 2026, so read their pricing page before you compare numbers. The bigger difference is what you are buying: a membership or a decision tool.
Do both tools rate my FPL team?
Yes. Hub's My Team rates your squad and recommends AI transfers. FPLXI rates your squad, ranks every transfer by the predicted points it gains, and solves your XI, captain and bench. Our rating is free, and so is one recommendation refresh every gameweek.
Does FPLXI have live rank?
No, and we are not building it. FPLXI is meant to be used before the deadline. If live rank and effective ownership during matches matter to you, the Hub does that, and LiveFPL does it for free.
Which has better predictions?
No marketing page can honestly answer that, which is why we publish ours. Every FPLXI prediction is locked at the deadline and scored against real results on a public model page. Judge the model before you pay, then hold us to it.
Other comparisons
The long-running FPL institution: stats, Rate My Team and members' content
Algorithm-led FPL platform with cheap monthly tiers and an AI assistant
Projections and a solver for managers who like driving the optimiser themselves
Free, no-signup live rank, effective ownership and price predictions
A general-purpose chat assistant, not a football model
See what the model says about your squad
Free rating from your FPL ID or a screenshot. No card required, and the model's accuracy is public before you pay.