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Checked August 2026 · sources on every row
We make one of these, so read the list sceptically — which is exactly why our competitors are on it with their real prices. Below: who genuinely takes nothing, who moved the commission into a subscription, who quietly stopped publishing a rate, and the three questions that settle any 0% claim in about a minute.
Six options, and the catch in each one
The important split: most of these are tutor software rather than places a family can find you. That is why tutors so often end up paying a monthly tool bill on top of a marketplace commission rather than instead of one — TutorBird says outright that it does not bring you students.
| Platform | What it costs | What it takes per lesson | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koydo LinguaThat's usOur written policy · published 2026-08-07 | Free to list · optional workspace $19/mo | 0% of your lesson rate | Every publicly listed tutor buys background screening at the provider's price plus 20%. Sending a message to a tutor requires the family to hold a Koydo subscription, which is how Koydo is funded instead of a commission. |
| TutonPricing page · checked 2026-08-03 | $18–$119/mo, or $180–$1,190/yr | 0% commission, per its pricing page | When we checked it was a tutor operating system rather than a marketplace, with no side that finds you students — so assume you bring your own. AI usage is the pricing meter, which means the bill moves with how much you use it. Fourteen-day trial, no card. |
| TutorbasePricing page · checked 2026-08-03 | Free core tier | 1%, charged only when you invoice through it | Not zero once money moves, but close, and with no per-student, per-teacher or per-lesson fee. It is a tutor workspace with three weeks of free onboarding and migration, and we found no side that finds you students. |
| Teach 'n GoPricing page · checked 2026-08-03 | €69–€409/mo by live student count | No transaction fee | Priced by how many live students you have, so growth raises the bill. One-off onboarding, training and migration fees are charged separately on top. It is school and tutor management software, and we found no side that finds you students. |
| TutorBirdPricing page · checked 2026-08-03 | $16.95/mo + $4.95 per extra staff member | No commission | The classic pay-twice trap: this is scheduling and invoicing software with zero student acquisition, so tutors typically pay it on top of a marketplace commission rather than instead of one. |
| SuperprofWhere we found this · checked 2026-08-03 | $99/yr paid by the tutor for ad visibility | 10% site fee | Often described as commission-free, but what we found was a 10% site fee plus the annual visibility charge plus a required free first lesson for every new client. Read it as three costs, not zero. |
What the big marketplaces publish
| Platform | Published rate | What that means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| PreplyPolicy page · checked 2026-08-03 | 33% down to 18.2% | A declining commission from 33% down to 18.20%, gated on lifetime hours — it never resets. Every trial lesson with every new student pays the tutor nothing, not just the first one. |
| WyzantPolicy page · checked 2026-08-03 | 25% | 25% off the tutor plus a 9% service fee charged to the student — about a 31% spread between what the student pays and what the tutor keeps. Students the tutor refers themselves are paid at 100%. |
| OutschoolPolicy page · checked 2026-08-03 | 30% | A flat 30%, charged in perpetuity — including on students the teacher brought in themselves. Payouts are PayPal USD only with a 7–13 day lag, and group-chat earnings are paid on the 15th of the following month. |
| VerblingWhere we found this · checked 2026-07-01 | 15% | A flat 15% — the lowest rate among the major language marketplaces we surveyed. Verbling does not publish a fee-schedule page we could retrieve, so treat this as our figure rather than theirs and confirm it with Verbling before you rely on it. |
| CamblyPolicy page · checked 2026-08-03 | Pay ceiling, not a percentage | Not a commission — a pay ceiling. $0.17 a minute teaching adults and $0.20 a minute teaching children, which is $10.20 and $12.00 an hour, with no progression however good you get. Cambly is also currently limiting new tutor sign-ups. |
| italkiPolicy page · checked 2026-08-03 | No longer published | There is no published rate to compare against any more. The Teacher Policy effective 30 January 2026 removed the percentages and says the fee varies with the teacher's overall performance, and that disbursement may be delayed or stopped. Enter the rate from your own payout statement. |
| AmazingTalkerNo retrievable policy page as of 2026-08-03 | Terms would not load | We could not retrieve AmazingTalker's own tutor terms when we checked on 3 August 2026, so we publish no percentage for it. Enter the rate from your own payout statement. |
Two rows carry no percentage on purpose: we will not print a rate an operator has not published, and we would rather show you a gap than a guess. Where a figure comes from a secondary source rather than the operator's own fee page, the link says so. Operators change their terms — check theirs before deciding.
Three questions, one minute
A 0% claim from back-office software is not the same offer as a 0% claim from something that also sends you students. Software with no discovery is why so many tutors pay twice — a marketplace commission and a monthly tool bill. Ask which one you are buying.
This is the question that settles it. If lesson payments run through the platform, a percentage can be introduced later with a policy update. If they do not — if your student pays you directly and there is no platform checkout for lessons — then a commission would require rebuilding the product, not editing a page.
A platform can charge 0% and still sell your visibility, at which point the cut arrives as an advertising bill instead. Ask whether a promoted or featured listing exists at any price. If it does, the free tier is the slow lane.
Our own answers, for the record: we are a marketplace and software together; lesson money never passes through us, because there is no Koydo checkout for lessons at all; and there is no promoted listing to buy at any price. All three are written down on a permanent dated page.
Yes, but they fall into two different groups and it matters which one you are looking at. Tuton, Teach 'n Go and TutorBird charge a monthly subscription and take no commission — but they are tutor software, and TutorBird's own positioning is explicit that it does not acquire students for you. Koydo Lingua takes 0% and also lists you publicly and matches you with families, because lesson money never passes through it at all. Tutorbase sits between the two, with a 1% fee only when you invoice through it.
Usually because the commission has been moved rather than removed — into a subscription, into paid visibility, into a payment-processing spread, or into an annual listing fee. Superprof is the clearest case we found: frequently described as commission-free, but with a 10% site fee, $99 a year for visibility, and a required free first lesson for every new client.
Listing publicly and being matched with a family are free. Koydo takes 0% of your lesson rate, and cannot take a percentage of it, because your student pays you directly and there is no Koydo checkout for lessons. One cost is real: every publicly listed tutor buys their own background screening at the screening provider's price plus 20%. The Pro Educator workspace is a separate, optional $19 a month for teaching tools, and it does not change your commission or your position in the directory.
Families subscribe to Koydo for the learning side — graded lessons in 50+ languages, the reader, the pronunciation lab, progress tracking, the AI tutor — and an active family subscription is what unlocks messaging a tutor. That subscription is the business. It means Koydo has to be good enough for a family to pay for, rather than large enough to tax the tutors on it.
On the figures we could verify from operators' own pages, Preply's new-tutor rate of 33% is the highest headline percentage, and it also takes 100% of every trial lesson with every new student. Wyzant's 25% tutor fee sits alongside a 9% student service fee, which makes the gap between what a student pays and what a tutor keeps roughly 31%. Outschool is a flat 30%, charged in perpetuity even on students the teacher brought in.
Because neither operator publishes a figure we could verify. italki's Teacher Policy effective 30 January 2026 removed its percentages and ties the fee to the teacher's overall performance. AmazingTalker's tutor terms pages did not load when we checked on 3 August 2026. Widely-repeated numbers exist for both and we are not going to reprint them as fact — our calculator asks you for the rate on your own payout statement instead.
Probably not, and certainly not on our word. Listing on a free platform alongside a paid one costs you nothing and tells you more in a month than any comparison page will. What you should not do is move students you met somewhere else — that puts you in breach of terms you agreed to, and any platform urging you to do it is asking you to take a risk they do not share.
Related: Preply alternative for tutors · italki commission calculator · founding-tutor terms · list free on Koydo
Koydo Lingua is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any other platform named on this page. Those names are their owners' trademarks, used here only to describe their published terms. Every figure is transcribed from the operator's own page on the date shown and may have changed since — check the source before you decide anything.