Exhibit A
The platform take
Reported ~60–75% kept by the platform
Varsity: families reportedly billed $60–90/hr while tutors are paid as low as ~$15/hr.
TutorPin takes 0%. You set the price, you keep the price.
The receipts
The marketplace tax, itemized.
Every tutoring platform has a quiet way of taking more than it looks like. Here's what's reported across the major ones — and the one-line answer TutorPin already gives to each. No spin: the numbers are hedged and sourced.
Varsity Tutors · Preply · Wyzant · Outschool
Exhibit B
Expiring lesson credits
Reported to expire up to ~75% of unused credits
Preply: students report a subscription where unspent credits lapse each cycle.
Nothing expires. Each lesson is its own simple order — no credit pool to lose.
Exhibit C
The ban hammer
Account suspension reported for off-platform contact
iTalki: tutors report monitoring of chat for off-platform contact.
It's your page. You can't be banned from your own storefront.
Exhibit D
A cut that never ends
Flat 25% — on every lesson, forever
Per published terms.
Flat $19.99/mo. We never scale a fee to your success.
Exhibit E
The rate cap
Reported flat ~$0.17/min (~$10.20/hr)
Cambly: a widely reported flat rate, low enough it reportedly isn't offered in some US states.
No rate caps. You name your rate.
Exhibit F
Coins & leftover balances
Credits-based billing; leftover balances reported hard to use
Outschool: parents report a credits/membership model with strand balances.
No coins, no credits, no balances to burn down — students pay you per lesson.
Exhibit G
The student paywall
Students reportedly pay ~$39–49/mo just to message you
Superprof: a student-side pass is reported as required to make contact.
Students contact you free. No paywall between you and a lead.
Run your own numbers
How much is the marketplace quietly taking from you?
Move the sliders, pick who you'd compare against. This is what marketplaces take out of your pocket every year — and what you keep when students come straight to your Lessa page.
20
Average across your active students.
$22
What students actually pay per hour.
Your gross teaching revenue
$440/ month
$5,280 / year
On Varsity Tutors
70% reported take
$1,584
kept · −$3,696 lost to fees
On Preply
33% reported take
$3,538
kept · −$1,742 lost to fees
On Lessa
0% commission · $19.99/mo founder price
$5,040
kept · −$240 subscription
Percentages reflect reported starting commissions. Varsity's ~70% reflects reported tutor pay versus family billing. Lessa price shown for the founder plan.
The guarantee
What TutorPin will never do.
Not a promise we hope to keep — things the product structurally can't do to you.
- Never take a commission on your lessons.
- Never expire your students' credits — there are none to expire.
- Never charge your students to contact you.
- Never cap or set your rate.
- Never ban you for talking to your students off-platform.
- Never hide your reviews behind our brand.
Figures reflect publicly reported tutor and parent accounts (platform forums, Reddit) and each platform's published terms as of June 2026. Rates change and vary by tutor and region. TutorPin pricing reflects the founder plan.