Tuton vs tutoring marketplaces

No, and that's the most important difference. A marketplace matches students with tutors in exchange for a commission on each lesson. Tuton is your own platform: it gives you a public profile and booking page that you share yourself (on social media, in ads, with referrals), plus everything you need to teach the students you bring. If you have zero students and no way to reach any, a marketplace is the faster start.

It varies by platform, but typically between 15% and 33% of each lesson, and on some platforms the fee for your first (trial) lesson with each new student goes entirely to the platform. Tuton takes no commission on payments your students send you directly. You pay a flat subscription (from $9/month) and your students pay you.

Yes. You can keep teaching your marketplace students where they are while you build an independent practice on Tuton with students you find yourself. One note: students you met through a marketplace are usually covered by that platform's terms of service, which restrict taking them off the platform. Tuton is for the students you find independently.

Take a tutor charging $25/hour for 40 lessons a month, $1,000 of teaching. At a 30% commission, $300 goes to the platform every month. On Tuton, the subscription is a flat $9–$79/month depending on the plan, and students pay you directly with no commission taken. The more you teach, the bigger the difference: a commission grows with your income, a subscription doesn't.

You swap them for a classroom built around language lessons: live video in the browser, lesson pages you both write in, vocabulary you add as you teach, 850+ ready lessons and an assistant that knows the student you're teaching. AI lesson reports run on your plan's report hours. What you don't get is the marketplace's own search traffic, or the practice tools it gives its students.

At least one of the big ones does: it writes AI summaries of English lessons for learners and tutors, and sets practice between lessons. Tuton's AI lesson report does that job for your own students: each error with a correction, what went well, new words and talk time. On Plus and Pro, your students read their reports too. The difference is where it lives: on Tuton, the report stays in your own student records.