AmazingTalker alternatives for teachers: the sliding fee, the fixed 8%, and the price caps
This page is written by a platform that would like you to teach on it, so read it with that in mind. Every AmazingTalker figure below comes from AmazingTalker’s own help centre and Tutor Guideline, and the section on what we are worse at is the one to read most closely.
The short version: on AmazingTalker, what you keep depends on how many hours you teach that month. A teacher with a full calendar can pay no service fee at all; a teacher starting out pays up to 30%, and everyone pays a fixed 8% on top.
The two deductions
AmazingTalker’s article How Is Your Actual Teaching Income Calculated? (last updated 28 October 2026) says every teacher registered after 12 May 2026 is on its Completed Lessons Fee Model. Two things come off each lesson:
A fixed fee of 8%, for taxes in the student’s region, payment processing, currency exchange and running costs. Transfer and exchange fees when you withdraw are not included and depend on the method you choose.
A platform service fee that starts at 30% and falls by 1% for every 6 hours of completed lessons in the month, reaching 0% at 180 hours. Every 50 minutes counts as an hour, and a group class counts once, however many students attend. Trial lessons do not count, nor do heavily discounted lessons.
Its own worked example: 90 lessons of 50 minutes at $12 in one month is $1,080. The service fee is 15% ($162), the fixed fee 8% ($86.40), and the teacher receives $831.60.
Our reading: in a month with 30 hours taught, the same arithmetic gives a 25% service fee plus the 8%. The rate resets each month, so a quiet month costs more per lesson than a busy one.
Price caps for new teachers
AmazingTalker’s teacher level and pricing article (last updated 19 July 2026) sets a suggested price range for each teacher, and new teachers must price inside it. Language teachers approved on or after 20 May 2026 start as Trainee Teachers, capped at about 60% of their level’s cap until they complete 50 qualifying formal lessons; trial lessons do not count. Teachers approved earlier had to bring their price to $15 or below to keep receiving matches until they had sold 100 formal lessons.
The reason it gives is its own data: about 57% of its students have a budget under $15, and 24% between $16 and $20. Those are AmazingTalker’s figures, not ours.
Four things to compare
1. Whether your rate depends on volume. A sliding fee rewards a full calendar and charges most when you are building one.
2. Who sets your price. A suggested range with caps is one model; setting your own price from the first lesson is another.
3. What a trial lesson earns you. Check whether trials are paid, at what price, and whether they count towards anything.
4. Whether the platform has students. Ask any platform, including us, what it can honestly say about students in your language.
The full table for Preply, Wyzant and KoloLingo is on the fee comparison. On other platforms too? See Preply alternatives, italki alternatives, Cambly alternatives, Superprof alternatives, Wyzant alternatives and Cafetalk alternatives.
What KoloLingo offers, and what we are worse at
One rate that does not depend on how much you teach: 15% commission after payment processing fees, and 5% after those fees on students you bring yourself, fixed at booking. Your tier never changes your rate, and the first lesson pays like any other. You set your own prices from the start, with lesson lengths from 15 to 240 minutes and packages of 2 to 50 lessons with a validity you choose. You are paid to your own Stripe account or in USDT or USDC on Polygon.
We have just launched. We cannot promise you students yet, and a busy AmazingTalker teacher above 180 hours a month pays no service fee there at all.
Payouts are done by hand while the platform is new, one request at a time, so ours are not automatic.
Questions teachers ask
- How much does AmazingTalker take from teachers?
- Its help centre (article last updated 28 October 2026, read 10 November 2026) describes two deductions for teachers registered after 12 May 2026: a fixed 8% on each lesson, and a platform service fee that starts at 30% and falls by 1% for every 6 hours of completed lessons in the month, reaching 0% at 180 hours. Trial lessons do not count towards those hours.
- What does a teacher keep on AmazingTalker?
- AmazingTalker's own example: 90 completed 50-minute lessons at $12 in a month is $1,080; the service fee is 15% ($162) and the fixed fee 8% ($86.40), so the teacher receives $831.60. Withdrawal transfer and currency fees are extra and depend on the method.
- Can new AmazingTalker teachers set their own price?
- Within limits. Language teachers approved on or after 20 May 2026 start as Trainee Teachers, capped at about 60% of their level's suggested price cap until they complete 50 qualifying formal lessons; trial lessons do not count.
- What does KoloLingo charge?
- 15% commission after payment processing fees, and 5% after those fees on students you bring yourself. It does not change with hours taught, your tier never changes it, and you set your own price from your first lesson. We have just launched, so we cannot promise you students yet.
Every AmazingTalker figure on this page was read on AmazingTalker’s own pages on 10 November 2026. Found something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it where you can see the correction.