We run a competing marketplace, so read this accordingly. The useful thing we can offer is not a ranking, it is the set of questions that actually decide whether moving helps you, and figures we can source rather than ones we made up.
Why tutors start looking
Almost always one of three things.
The commission tier. From Preply's own help centre: 33% for your first 20 completed hours, 28% to 50 hours, 25% to 200, 22% to 400, and 18% after that.
The unpaid trials. Preply charges 100% commission on every trial lesson with a new student. You teach it, the student pays, you receive none of it, and it applies per new student rather than once.
The ranking mechanics. Response times and activity affect how often you are shown, which means the platform sets your working hours indirectly.
Notice which of these moving actually fixes. The first two are pricing and a different platform can genuinely beat them. The third is structural to marketplaces and you will meet a version of it anywhere.
The question that matters more than commission
Does the platform have students searching for what you teach?
A 15% commission on a platform with no demand pays less than 33% on a full calendar. This is not close, and it is the single most common mistake in these decisions.
Ask any platform courting you: how many students searched my subject last month, and how many new tutors did you approve in it? A platform that answers has told you something. A platform that only wants to discuss its rate has also told you something.
What to compare, in order
1. Demand in your subject. Everything else is a multiplier on zero.
2. Your rate on your first lesson, not the best tier advertised.
3. What happens on trials. This is where the worst terms hide.
4. What the student pays on top. A service fee added to your price affects whether you get booked.
5. Payout reach. Whether the platform can pay your country at all, and in what currency. Many cannot pay large parts of the world, ours included.
6. What resets when you move. Reviews, ranking and accumulated hours are all platform-specific and all go to zero.
The honest arithmetic of a decaying rate
If you are past 400 hours on Preply you are paying 18%, and almost nothing available anywhere is meaningfully better. Moving costs you your review count and your ranking to save a point or two. Do not do it for the rate.
If you are in your first year, paying 25% to 33% and giving away trials, the picture is completely different and the case for a second platform is strong.
The decay schedule is what makes this asymmetric, and that is not accidental. Hours accumulated on one platform are worthless on another, so a tutor 300 hours in has a real reason to stay that grows the longer they stay.
The lowest-risk move, which most tutors should make
Do not switch. Add.
Keep your existing profile and hours, list somewhere else as well, and let the second platform earn its place by producing bookings you did not already have. If it does, shift availability gradually. If it does not, you have lost an afternoon setting up a profile.
Switching outright is only sensible when you are being actively harmed where you are.
What we charge, and where we lose
TutorBoost takes a flat rate on ordinary lessons that never changes with hours taught, and charges half on trials rather than all of one, so an introductory lesson is paid.
Where we lose: our rate is only marginally better than Preply's 18% floor, so established tutors there should stay. Our student side is early and smaller. And we can only pay tutors in countries Stripe reaches, which excludes the Philippines, India, Brazil and much of the world, so for a great many tutors reading this we are simply not an option yet. [The full list is here](/teach/countries) and it says so plainly.
Every Preply figure above is quoted and dated on [our comparison page](/compare/preply). We have also sourced [Wyzant](/compare/wyzant). Platforms we could not verify first-hand are not given numbers here, which is why this article names fewer competitors than most articles with this title.