Provider head-to-heads

These comparisons put two or three providers side by side in a specific city, using the same encoded plan data as the rest of the site — real intro prices, what happens after the promo, upload speeds, and data caps. Nobody pays for placement, and where a provider does not publish a figure, we say so instead of guessing. Every article ends with the honest caveat that coverage is address-specific: the right answer for your street can differ from the citywide picture, so check your address before ordering. Every figure in the tables below is pulled directly from those provider pages at build time, so a price you see here matches what you would see everywhere else on the site — nothing here is written or priced separately just for this comparison. If your city is not covered yet, its city page still lists every provider we track there, and we are steadily adding more head-to-head comparisons over time.

National cable vs local fiber overbuilder

Spectrum vs ALLO Fiber

Lincoln, NE

Incumbent cable vs two fiber entrants

Cox vs Google Fiber vs Quantum Fiber

Omaha, NE

Municipal fiber vs national cable

EPB Fiber Optics vs Xfinity

Chattanooga, TN

Two fibers and a cable incumbent

Google Fiber vs AT&T Fiber vs Spectrum

Nashville, TN

Cable vs flat-price fiber

Cox vs Quantum Fiber

Tucson, AZ