CashAnts

What does a full tank actually cost you in hours worked? CashAnts answers that kind of question. We track fuel prices, grocery prices, wages and purchasing power across all 27 EU countries, using official open data plus receipts that people upload themselves. National inflation figures are averages. They flatten out everything specific about where you live and what you buy. CashAnts works from the other direction: real prices, in real places, shown next to what people there actually earn. FUEL PRICES Petrol and diesel prices for every EU country, updated as new data comes in. Sort the comparison table by price or by affordability. Open a country dashboard to see how the price at the pump has moved over recent weeks and months. Each dashboard also measures fuel against the average net wage in that country. A tank that costs 70 euros means something different in Bulgaria than it does in Luxembourg, and the numbers show you how different. THE MAP Prices, wages and purchasing power on an interactive map of Europe. Zoom in, tap a country, read the data. No index scores, no rankings, just the underlying figures. Most cost of living tools give you one number for a whole country. The map lets you see how much that number hides. GROCERIES AND EVERYDAY COSTS Supermarket prices, household basics, the recurring costs that make up most of a monthly budget. Follow a real basket over time instead of guessing whether things have got more expensive. Grocery prices are where inflation gets personal, and they vary far more between European cities than the national numbers suggest. WAGES AND PURCHASING POWER Compare salaries and the cost of living between European countries and cities. Useful if you are deciding where to work, or if you want to know why a pay rise did not feel like one. RECEIPTS Upload or scan a receipt and it goes into the community price index. Takes a few seconds. Contributions are anonymous. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Two sources, both visible to you. Public and official European datasets, and receipts submitted by people using the app. The methodology is published, so you can check how any figure was produced. We do not run forecasts or opinion pieces. There is no house view on inflation here. If a number looks wrong to you, the workings are there to inspect. WHO THIS IS FOR Anyone who follows the economy and wants the underlying data rather than someone else's read on it. Drivers and commuters watching fuel costs. Households trying to work out where the money went this month. People moving between EU countries who need to compare salaries and cost of living properly before they commit. Researchers, students and reporters who need European price data they can actually cite. COUNTRIES COVERED Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. WHY WE BUILT IT The cost of living decides a lot: where people work, where they live, what they buy, when they buy it. Most of us judge it by feel, or by a national inflation figure that averages away the part we care about. There is no single place to check what things actually cost across Europe. Statistical offices publish indices. Comparison sites cover one country or one product. Nobody puts prices and wages side by side on a map and lets you look. So we are building it. CashAnts is community powered, which means it gets better as more people contribute. A receipt here, a fuel price there. Thousands of small additions add up to something no single institution publishes. cashants.com