Short answer
Preply takes between 18% and 33% of each lesson, depending on how many hours the tutor has taught on the platform. New tutors start at 33%, which falls to 28% after 20 hours taught and reaches the lowest tier of 18% after 400 hours. Trial lessons with a new student are charged separately at 100% commission, so the tutor is paid nothing for them. TutorBoost charges 10% on Pro, or 20% on the free plan, and 50% on a trial.
Preply's tutor commission is not a single number. It is a schedule that depends on how many lesson hours you have taught on the platform in total.
The published schedule
Preply's help centre states that commission "depends on the total number of lesson hours a tutor has taught on the platform" and that it ranges from 18% to 33%. In their words: "The rate starts at 33% for new tutors, but after 20 hours of teaching that goes down to 28%, and so on."
Here is the full schedule, read from the table Preply publishes in that article.
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| Completed hours | Commission | You keep |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 20 | 33% | 67% |
| 21 to 50 | 28% | 72% |
| 51 to 200 | 25% | 75% |
| 201 to 400 | 22% | 78% |
| 400+ | 18% | 82% |
| Any trial lesson with a new student | 100% | nothing |
A note on where this table comes from, because it is unusually hard to find and most write-ups get it wrong. Preply publishes the schedule as an image inside the help article rather than as text, so it does not appear in search results, cannot be copied, and is invisible to anything reading the page programmatically. Third-party blogs reporting these tiers disagree with each other and several publish a 20% tier that does not exist. The figures above were read from the image itself on 11 August 2026.
The trial lesson rule is the one most tutors miss
Every trial lesson with a new student is charged at 100% commission. You teach the lesson, the student pays for it, and you receive none of it.
This is not a discount or a reduced rate. It is the entire lesson fee. If five prospective students book a trial with you this month and two go on to become regulars, you were unpaid for all five of those first lessons.
What 400 hours actually means
400 taught hours is the gate to the 18% floor. At 20 taught hours a month - a realistic part-time load once you have a roster - that is about twenty months.
And 18% is where the schedule stops. There is no tier below it. However many thousands of hours you go on to teach, close to a fifth of every lesson continues to go to the platform.
How this compares to a flat rate
TutorBoost charges 20% of a completed lesson on its free plan, and 10% on Pro, which is a paid monthly subscription. Neither rate accumulates or decays: the rate on your first regular lesson is the rate on your ten-thousandth. What moves it is the plan, and only the plan.
Trials are the exception, and it is worth being precise because the direction is not the one you would guess: a trial is charged at 50%, which is more than a normal lesson here, not less. The tutor keeps 50% of it. The claim is not that trials are cheap on TutorBoost. It is that they are paid at all.
The comparison depends on the plan and one half of it does not favour TutorBoost. Pro at 10% is below their 18% floor by a clear margin. The free plan at 20% is ABOVE that floor, so a tutor who has already taught past Preply's decay threshold pays less there than on TutorBoost's free plan. The difference that holds either way is the first lesson, where it is 50% of something against none of it.
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