This article exists because most of the advice under this heading is written to make you switch, and for a large share of Wyzant tutors switching is the wrong decision. We run a competing marketplace and would still rather tell you that than have you move and regret it.
Answer one question first
Where do your Wyzant students come from?
Wyzant's support pages state: "When a new student creates a Wyzant account and attends lessons with the referring tutor, that tutor receives 100% of their rate, with no fee percentage deducted."
If you bring your own students, Wyzant charges you nothing. Nothing is lower than every commission rate in this industry, ours included. A tutor who markets themselves, and uses Wyzant for scheduling, payment and the paperwork, is already on the best terms available anywhere.
If Wyzant finds your students, you are paying their platform fee: "All tutors will retain 75% of their posted hourly rate for lessons with students and Wyzant will retain a 25% Platform Fee."
Those are two completely different situations wearing the same platform.
Work out your real blended rate
Take last month. Split your lessons into students you brought and students Wyzant introduced. The second group costs you 25%; the first costs you nothing.
A tutor with 70% self-referred students is paying an effective 7.5% and should not be reading articles about leaving. A tutor with none is paying 25% and has a genuine decision to make.
If you are paying the full fee
The comparison is unusually simple, because Wyzant's rate is flat. There is no tier to climb and no hours accumulating toward a better number, which also means there is nothing to lose by leaving. Compare on:
- Demand in your subject. Wyzant is large and largely US-focused with real search traffic. A lower rate somewhere quiet is worth less.
- What the student pays. Wyzant adds a 9% service fee to your rate. A platform that charges the student less leaves room for you to charge more at the same total price.
- Payout reach. Check the platform can pay your country before anything else. [Ours cannot pay most of the world yet](/teach/countries), and we say so rather than finding out after you have taught.
- What resets. Reviews and ranking do not move with you.
The move that is almost always right
Add, do not switch. Keep Wyzant, list elsewhere, and let the second platform prove it can produce bookings. Your self-referred students stay on Wyzant where they cost you nothing; new demand comes from wherever it comes from.
Switching outright makes sense only when you are being actively harmed where you are, and a flat 25% with a zero-fee referral route is not that.
What we charge
A flat rate on ordinary lessons, lower than 25%, that does not change with hours taught. Half rather than all on a trial lesson.
We do not match the referral term and have no plans to. On a student you brought yourself, Wyzant is cheaper than us and it is not close.
[The sourced comparison is here](/compare/wyzant). Wyzant's support site blocks automated readers, so those figures come from the Internet Archive's capture of their own pages dated 20 June 2026, and you should check the live page before deciding anything on them.