Verbling alternatives for teachers: the 15% commission, weekly cash-out, and your own students
This page is written by a platform that would like you to teach on it, so read it with that in mind. Every Verbling figure below comes from Verbling’s own help centre, and its standard rate is the same as ours.
The short version: Verbling keeps 15% of your rate on every lesson, adds 8% to what the student pays, and pays out once a week with a small transfer fee.
What comes off your rate
Verbling’s guide for new teachers says it applies a 15% commission on teacher rates: set $20 an hour and you receive $17. Its rates article says the same, and adds that package prices follow a fixed ladder from your single-lesson rate: 3% off for 5 lessons, 6% for 10 and 9% for 20.
The student pays on top. Verbling’s Trust & Support fee article says an 8% fee is added at checkout, on the amount paid by card or PayPal.
The articles we read describe one rate. They give no lower rate for students you bring to Verbling yourself.
How and when you are paid
Verbling’s cash-out article says earnings collect on your Earnings page and become available once a week, on Sunday or Monday depending on your time zone. You cash out the whole balance; a partial cash-out is not possible.
The methods are PayPal, Payoneer and Wise, with a minimum balance of $10 for PayPal and Wise and $20 for Payoneer. For teachers who joined after 9 August 2017, Verbling charges its own transfer fee of $1 for a PayPal payout in the US, $2 for an international one and $3 for Payoneer and Wise. PayPal, Payoneer or Wise may charge more on top.
How lessons work
The new-teacher guide says Verbling does not assign students, and you cannot reach out to students who have not visited your profile; new teachers get a ranking boost. Students book any open hour in your calendar without your confirmation, with at least 12 hours’ notice by default (you can raise it to 24 or 48).
You teach in Verbling’s own classroom, in Chrome or Firefox on a PC or Mac only, and moving students to Skype or Zoom is against its policies.
Four things to compare
1. The rate on students you bring. On Verbling it is the same 15% as on students it finds for you.
2. What reaches your account. A weekly whole-balance cash-out with a $1 to $3 transfer fee is one model; payouts to your own Stripe account or in stablecoins are another, with their own fees.
3. Lesson lengths and packages. A fixed package ladder is simple; setting your own lengths and packages gives you more control.
4. Whether the platform has students. Ask any platform, including us, what it can honestly say about students in your language.
The full table is on the fee comparison. On other platforms too? See italki alternatives, Preply alternatives, Cambly alternatives, Superprof alternatives, AmazingTalker alternatives, Wyzant alternatives, Outschool alternatives and Classgap alternatives.
What KoloLingo offers, and what we are worse at
Our standard rate is the same as Verbling’s, 15% commission, though ours is calculated after payment processing fees. On students you bring yourself it is 5% after those fees, fixed at booking, and your tier never changes either rate. You set lesson lengths from 15 to 240 minutes and packages of 2 to 50 lessons. 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 payouts are done by hand while the platform is new, one request at a time.
Questions teachers ask
- How much does Verbling take from teachers?
- Verbling's help centre (read 11 November 2026) says it applies a 15% commission on teacher rates: on a $20 hourly rate the teacher receives $17. Students also pay an 8% Trust & Support fee on the amount they pay by card or PayPal.
- How do Verbling teachers get paid?
- Earnings can be cashed out once a week, the whole balance at a time, to PayPal, Payoneer or Wise. The minimum is $10 for PayPal and Wise and $20 for Payoneer. For teachers who joined after 9 August 2017, Verbling charges $1 per PayPal transfer in the US, $2 internationally and $3 for Payoneer and Wise, before any fees from those services.
- Can I teach on Verbling from my phone?
- No. Verbling's new-teacher article says teachers start classes in Chrome or Firefox on a PC or Mac only; students can join from the Verbling app.
- What does KoloLingo charge?
- 15% commission after payment processing fees, and 5% after those fees on students you bring yourself, fixed at booking. We have just launched, so we cannot promise you students yet.
Every Verbling figure on this page was read in Verbling’s own help centre on 11 November 2026. Found something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it where you can see the correction.