What each platform keeps from an A$70 lesson, and what you get for it, from their own pages.
By George Lahoud · Reviewed 1 Nov 2026
The short answer
Tutoring marketplaces keep between 10% and 33% of each lesson, and Preply keeps all of a new student's first trial lesson. The Bookings Suite keeps 5% plus A$25 a month, and taking card payments yourself through Stripe costs 1.65% plus 30 cents. A marketplace's fee pays for finding you students; software's fee pays for running the students you already have.
A$66.50
of an A$70 lesson reaches you on the Bookings Suite
A$63.00
through Superprof's payments
A$46.90
for a new tutor on Preply
Every platform that touches your lessons takes something for it: a share of each lesson, a monthly
price, or both. This guide puts them side by side on one A$70 lesson, so you can see what reaches you
and what you get in return. Every figure comes from the platform's own page, read on 1 November 2026.
Fees change, so check the page before you sign up.
01
What each one keeps
The share most platforms take depends on how long you have been with them. New tutors pay the most.
Superprof: 10% of lessons paid through Superprof. Listing is free, and Superprof says you avoid
the 10% by collecting payment yourself, or with a Premium account it doesn't price on that page.
Families pay Superprof separately: a Student Pass of A$69 every 30 days, charged once a tutor
accepts their request.
Preply: 100% of the first trial lesson with each new student. After that, 33% while you are
new, 28% after 20 hours of teaching, falling to 18% from 400 hours.
Learnmate: 30% for new tutors, then 27.5%, 25% and 23% as you move up its tiers. Listing is
free. Stripe's fees on each lesson payment come out of your share as well.
Airtasker: 20% of each task while you earn under A$880 in 30 days, falling to 18.5%, 14.9% and
12.5% as your earnings rise. The fee is quoted before GST, which is added on top.
The Bookings Suite: 5% of each lesson paid through it, and A$25 a month. Families pay your
price and nothing on top. Appearing in Find a tutor is the Directory Listing, A$15 a month more.
Taking payment yourself: a bank transfer costs nothing. A card payment through Stripe costs
1.65% plus 30 cents for an Australian card.
02
What reaches you from an A$70 lesson
Here is the same A$70 lesson through each one, at the rate a new tutor pays.
A bank transfer from the family: A$70.00, if they pay.
A card payment through your own Stripe account: about A$68.54.
The Bookings Suite: A$66.50, before its A$25 a month.
Superprof's payments: A$63.00.
Airtasker at its starting tier: A$54.60, with GST on its fee.
Learnmate at its starting tier: A$49.00, before Stripe's fees.
Preply as a new tutor: A$46.90, and nothing for the first trial lesson.
Bookings Suite
A$66.50
of an A$70 lesson
Superprof
A$63.00
paid through Superprof
Preply
A$46.90
as a new tutor
Over a month the gap grows. Twelve A$70 lessons a week is 52 lessons a month: A$3,640 from families.
On the Bookings Suite A$3,433 of that reaches you once its A$25 is paid; through Superprof's payments,
A$3,276; at Learnmate's starting tier, A$2,548. The rate calculator
works it out on your own numbers.
03
What the fee pays for
The numbers alone don't settle it, because the platforms sell different things. A marketplace like
Preply, Superprof or Learnmate brings you families who are already looking, and its share is the price
of that introduction, paid on every lesson that follows it. Software like the Bookings Suite doesn't
find you students: it runs bookings, payments, reminders and lessons for the students you have, for a
flat price whatever you charge.
That makes the question how you will find your students. If a platform finds them, its share can be
worth paying while you start. Once families come to you by word of mouth, you are paying that share on
students you found yourself.
Beginning as a tutor because I had a few interested students early I was able to make $60 an hour consistently. This guided my decision to not work through a tutoring agency, allowing me to keep that extra money each lesson.
George Lahoud · from experience
04
Costs that sit outside the percentage
Families' fees. Superprof's Student Pass is paid by the family, not you, but it is part of what
a lesson costs them, and families compare.
Trial lessons. On Preply the first lesson with each new student pays you nothing. If you take on
many new students, that matters more than the percentage.
Card fees. Learnmate takes Stripe's fees from your share on top of its commission. On the
Bookings Suite the 5% is the whole deduction: an A$80 lesson pays you A$76.
GST. Airtasker quotes its fee before GST, so at its starting tier 22% of a task goes, not 20%.
Monthly prices. A subscription costs the same in a quiet month as a busy one, so count it
against the lessons you really teach.
Keep 95% of every lesson
Bookings, payments, calendar and classroom for A$25 a month. Free for 30 days.
If you are starting out, the decision to work through a tutoring agency versus going independent comes down to whether you are willing to make the effort to find students of your own accord. If you decide you are happy with a lower hourly pay and find comfort in the reliable stream of students then an agency may be the better choice for you. What I found personally was that earning $35-40 an hour was not what I was looking for, and so being willing to make the effort to seek out students and take on some admin myself, through independent tutoring I was able to make and keep more money for my teaching efforts.
George Lahoud · from experience
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How to compare for yourself
Find the platform's own page on fees, not a review of it.
Note the share a new tutor pays, and what it takes to pay less.
Check for a trial lesson, a monthly price, card fees and GST on top.
Work out what reaches you from one lesson at your price.
Multiply by the lessons you really teach in a month.
Ask what the fee buys you: new students, or the tools to run the ones you have.
Run your tutoring business in one place
Keep 95% of every lesson. Bookings, payments, calendar, messaging and classroom — and families pay no booking fee.
