Know what the student’s price includes
Your listed price is not your take-home pay. Preply currently keeps the full fee for a trial with a new student. Its commission on later lessons ranges from 33% to 18%, depending on completed teaching hours. Use the rate shown for your account, not a midpoint between those figures.
Source checked 20 September 2026: Preply’s commission model. This does not include any payment-provider costs, tax or unpaid preparation.
Describe the offer before pricing it
“English for office meetings, with practice giving an update and answering questions” tells a learner more than a promise of fluency.
Look at tutors with a comparable subject, learner group and experience. Their visible prices are asking prices: they do not establish how many lessons those tutors sell. Use them as context, then decide whether the proposed price works for your own costs and time.
Make a small planning calculation
For an illustration, suppose a regular lesson is priced at USD 20 and your commission is 33%. The amount after that commission is USD 13.40. If that lesson and its preparation take 75 minutes in total, the amount is USD 10.72 per hour of that work, before other costs and tax. These are chosen assumptions, not measured earnings or a recommended price.
Keep unpaid trials, empty slots and cancellations separate; a free hour in your calendar is not a booked lesson. A price that relies on every available slot filling may leave too little room for quieter weeks.
Review one change at a time
If several things change together, you cannot tell which affected bookings. A small sample may tell you very little, so avoid treating a quiet week as a verdict on your teaching.
Preply’s pricing guidance says changing a price does not automatically improve search ranking. It also advises discussing changes with existing students. Check its current process before changing a learner’s agreed price, and explain the amount, start date and available options clearly.
Source checked 20 September 2026: Preply’s pricing guidance.
Choose a workable next step
If the price does not cover the work, consider a clearer lesson scope, less repeated preparation, a different schedule or a price change. State what you can provide consistently, then review it against your own booking and working-time records.