Preply Reviews

Preply vs AmazingTalker: which one your money is better in

AmazingTalker is a tutor marketplace where teachers set their own hourly rate, and its pricing pages break those rates down by the tutor's country rather than by any tier. Preply does the same job with a subscription wrapped around it. The two look alike from a distance, and they differ on how the money is taken and what else you can book.

[verified 2026-09-17]

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Comparison table

Figures below come from each company's own published pages where one exists, checked on 2026-09-17. The highlighted cell is the side with the practical advantage on that row, and the reason sits under the row label so you can disagree with it.

Preply compared with AmazingTalker, 2026-09-17. A highlighted cell marks the side with the advantage on that row; rows with no highlight are too close to call.

Compared onPreplyAmazingTalker
How you payThe next lesson is the whole commitmentSubscription, charged every 28 days for a weekly hours commitmentAmazingTalker has the edge here: Per lesson, no contract
Published pricePreply reaches lower and higher, AmazingTalker's band is narrower$3 to $40+ an hour, set by each tutor$10 to $30 an hour for most English tutors, its own figure
How rates are presentedYou can see what a rate depends on before you start browsingPer tutor, with no published bandsAmazingTalker has the edge here: Broken out by the tutor's country, from $3.46 to $30.91 an hour on its English page
Platform fee on topTrying several tutors does not add a charge each time18% one-time fee on your first lesson with each new tutorAmazingTalker has the edge here: No equivalent learner-side fee published
What you can bookOne account covers a wider set of lessonsLanguagesAmazingTalker has the edge here: Languages plus subjects such as maths and music
Trustpilot scoreAmazingTalker scores higher on a sample twenty times smaller4.4 out of 5 from 25,330 reviews4.6 out of 5 from 1,093 reviews

Pricing compared

Rates are only half of it. Put the same weekly plan through both platforms and the gap usually opens up on the fees and the billing cycle.

AmazingTalker's own English page says most of its tutors charge $10 to $30 an hour, and then it does something unusual: it publishes the band by where the tutor lives. Tutors in Nigeria are listed at $3.46 to $5.77, the Philippines at $5.10 to $8.51, the United Kingdom at $15.28 to $25.47 and Hong Kong at $18.55 to $30.91. Preply publishes nothing comparable, so you discover the same pattern by scrolling profiles.

Against a mid-range Preply tutor at around $20 an hour, AmazingTalker is within a couple of dollars either way for a similar tutor. The saving, where there is one, comes from the missing 18% fee: five tutors tried on Preply at $20 an hour costs $18 in first-lesson fees before any of them turns out to be right.

Neither platform locks a rate. Tutors raise prices, and on both sites the profile you liked in January can cost more in June, which is worth knowing before you plan a year of lessons around one figure.

Is AmazingTalker cheaper than Preply?

For the same standard of tutor, the two are close, and AmazingTalker's advantage is structural rather than a lower rate. Its own English pricing page puts most tutors at $10 to $30 an hour, which sits inside Preply's published $3 to $40 or more. What differs is what gets added. Preply charges an 18% one-time platform fee on your first lesson with each new tutor, so a learner who tries four or five tutors before settling pays that fee four or five times. AmazingTalker publishes no equivalent learner-side fee and sells lessons one at a time with no contract, while Preply bills every 28 days in advance. If you already know who you want to learn from and you study every week, the difference is small. If you are still searching, or your weeks are uneven, AmazingTalker costs less in practice.

Verdict by use case

There is no winner here, only a better fit. Find the description that sounds like your week.

When does Preply suit you better?

You want the routine enforced, and you want the larger pool. Preply's Trustpilot profile runs to more than 25,000 reviews against AmazingTalker's 1,093, which is not a quality verdict but it is a lot more evidence to read before you spend. The subscription is the other reason: some learners need the hour already paid for.

When does AmazingTalker suit you better?

You are still shopping, or you want more than a language. Booking lesson by lesson with no per-tutor fee makes auditioning cheap, the published country bands tell you what a rate reflects before you browse, and the same account books a maths or music tutor. New students also get a discounted first lesson.

Check rates on PreplySee all four alternatives on one table

Questions people ask about this pair

  1. Why does AmazingTalker publish rates by country?

    Because that is what the rates track. Its English page lists tutors in Nigeria at $3.46 to $5.77 an hour and tutors in Hong Kong at $18.55 to $30.91, which makes visible something Preply leaves you to work out by browsing. Read it as a price map, not a quality ranking.

  2. Is its 4.6 Trustpilot score better than Preply's 4.4?

    On the number, yes, and on the evidence it is thinner: 1,093 reviews against 25,330. Trustpilot's own summary of AmazingTalker also separates two audiences, with learners praising teachers and teachers criticising commission. A tutor's complaint about pay is real feedback about a different thing than your lesson.

Keep reading before you pay

Preply charges a 18% one-time platform fee on your first lesson with each new tutor, then only the tutor's own rate, and it bills every 28 days in advance. Both of those are on Preply's own help pages and both change the arithmetic above.

Where these figures come from

Checked on 2026-09-17. Prices on these platforms move, and a figure that was right in September can be wrong by spring, so treat the date as part of the number. Anything we could not verify is marked on the page rather than filled in.