Ohme Home Pro vs Sync Energy Wall Charger 2: the £173 question

The £173 question

Two OZEV-approved 7.4kW chargers, £173 apart. The Sync Energy Wall Charger 2 is the cheaper tethered smart unit on this site at £362. The Ohme Home Pro is £535 and talks directly to your energy supplier. Everything else follows from that difference.

• Sync Energy Wall Charger 2 — a lot of hardware for £362, with the longest cable of any charger in the catalogue.
• Ohme Home Pro — the charger that rings up the grid for you. Worth the premium on a variable tariff; overkill on a fixed one.

Is the Ohme's £173 premium worth it?

It depends almost entirely on your tariff. On Octopus Intelligent Go, the Ohme Home Pro does something the Sync Energy Wall Charger 2 can't: it hands control to Octopus, which extends the cheap window beyond the nominal 11:30pm–5:30am when the grid is quiet. 7p/kWh, hands-off, more hours than the published slot. Ohme is the charger Octopus officially recommends for this.

On Octopus Agile, with its 30-minute price movements, the same logic applies. The Ohme chases the half-hours; the Sync can only be told, via schedule, when to run.

On a fixed off-peak window — Octopus Go, British Gas Electric Drivers, EDF GoElectric — the picture inverts. You set the Sync's schedule once to match the cheap slot and you're done. The Ohme's API cleverness has nothing to chase. On those tariffs, £173 for a feature you won't use is hard to defend.

Where the Sync earns its keep

The Sync Energy Wall Charger 2 isn't just cheap. The 7.5-metre cable is the longest in the catalogue — longer than the Tesla Wall Connector's 7.3m, half again as long as the Ohme's standard 5m. If your Tesla's charge port ends up on the far side of the car from the wall, or the install has to sit awkwardly around a garage door, that extra reach matters more than any app feature.

Built-in PEN fault protection usually saves the cost of an earth rod at install, which narrows the real-world gap further. Solar diversion via CT clamp is included rather than chargeable. IP65 and IK10 — the latter meaning physical impact resistance, which the Ohme doesn't claim — make it a sensible outdoor choice. The fascia comes in nine colours, which is either a pleasant touch or a distraction, depending on how you feel about coloured plastic on the side of your house.

The trade-offs are real. The app is less polished than Ohme's, and moved platforms from Monta, which disoriented early buyers. Wi-Fi reliability has been mixed in user reports — if the charger is going somewhere the router barely reaches, specify the 4G variant. And there is no direct supplier API, which is exactly the feature you're paying the Ohme for.

Solar, and the grant

Both chargers divert surplus solar. The Ohme does it without extra hardware; the Sync ships with a CT clamp. Functionally similar. If solar is the centre of your decision rather than the edge, the Ohme vs Zappi GLO comparison is the page you want — myenergi's solar logic is still the benchmark.

On the OZEV grant: both are approved, so eligible renters and flat owners take £500 off either. Against the Sync's £362 that covers the unit outright with change going into the install; against the Ohme's £535 it leaves a £35 balance. The absolute gap between the two narrows, but the proportional case for the Ohme — paying for tariff automation — is unchanged.

The verdict

Buy the Ohme Home Pro if:

• You're on Octopus Intelligent Go, Octopus Agile, or OVO Charge Anytime
• You want the charger to handle tariff optimisation without your involvement
• You value a polished app and a larger UK installer network

Buy the Sync Energy Wall Charger 2 if:

• You're on a fixed off-peak tariff, or no EV tariff at all yet
• You need a long cable — the 7.5m reach is the best here
• You want a capable tethered smart charger for as little as possible

On a wall, for a Tesla owner on a smart tariff, the Ohme Home Pro is the answer and has been for a while. For anyone else — flat-rate tariff, tight budget, long cable run — the Sync Energy Wall Charger 2 is a quietly sensible £362 that doesn't need to apologise for itself. If the gap still troubles you, the Tesla Wall Connector vs Sync comparison splits the middle neatly.