Tuton vs tutoring marketplaces

No — and that's the most important difference. A marketplace matches students with tutors in exchange for a commission on every 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 every lesson — and on some platforms, the entire fee for your first (trial) lesson with each new student goes to the platform. Tuton takes 0% commission on every lesson — you pay a flat subscription (from $29/month) and your students pay you directly.

Yes. Many tutors keep teaching their marketplace students where they are, while building an independent practice on Tuton with students they find themselves. One note: students you met through a marketplace are usually subject to that platform's terms of service, which restrict taking those students off-platform — Tuton is for the students you find independently.

Take a tutor charging $25/hour teaching 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 $29–$119/month depending on the plan, and the rest is yours. The more you teach, the bigger the difference gets — a commission scales with your income; a subscription doesn't.

You get better ones. The Tuton Classroom runs in the browser with HD video, real-time collaborative notes, one-click vocabulary capture, automatic recording with transcription, and an AI assistant that knows the student you're teaching. No downloads for you or your student.