Affordable Online GCSE Tutoring UK (2026): What One-to-One Actually Costs
Cheap online GCSE tutoring in the UK starts at around £7 per hour, but that buys a small-group class rather than a one-to-one lesson. Among the UK platforms compared here that sell one-to-one tuition, Tutorful starts at £20/hr, StudyGuru (mine) is from £24/hr with no A-Level premium, MyTutor is from £26/hr, and Superprof charges a £39 monthly pass on top of the tutor's own rate. By Ciaran Collins, founder of StudyGuru. Prices checked 29 July 2026.
Quick Comparison
| Platform | Advertised price | What that price buys | One-to-one price for a parent | DBS position | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StudyGuru | From £24/hr, with no A-Level premium | One-to-one, 60 minutes, with a named tutor you choose | From £24/hr, rising by tutor experience band. Starter Pack is 4 sessions at £15 each | Enhanced DBS required for every tutor. 7-step verification, around 1 in 14 applicants accepted | 2026-07-29 |
| Tutorful | From £20/hr | One-to-one tuition. No subscription or membership fee stated | From £20/hr, rising with tutor experience | Enhanced DBS checks stated for tutors. Around 1 in 8 applicants accepted | 2026-07-29 |
| MyTutor | From £26/hr | One-to-one tuition, pay as you go. Their pricing page states no sign-up fees and no subscription | From £26/hr, with tutor tiers advertised at £25+, £45+ and £65+ | Enhanced DBS required of every tutor and renewed every three years. Around 1 in 8 applicants accepted | 2026-07-29 |
| Superprof | £39/month Student Pass, plus the tutor's own lesson fee | The pass is required to contact tutors. Lesson fees are separate and paid directly to the tutor at rates the tutor sets | Tutor-set rates on top of the £39/month pass | Their Student Pass page states no DBS position | 2026-07-29 |
Full disclosure first
I'm Ciaran Collins, the founder of StudyGuru, which is one of the platforms compared below. I'm not neutral, so this page does two things instead of pretending otherwise: every price is taken from the platform's own published page and checked on 29 July 2026, and where a platform genuinely beats us I say so. If any price below has changed, tell me and I'll correct it.
The short answer
The cheapest advertised price in this comparison is around £7 per hour, but that buys a small-group class, not a one-to-one lesson. Among the UK platforms that sell one-to-one GCSE tutoring, Tutorful starts at £20 per hour, StudyGuru is from £24 per hour with no A-Level premium, MyTutor is from £26 per hour, and Superprof charges a £39 monthly pass on top of whatever the tutor charges. StudyGuru is not the cheapest per hour. Its £15 Starter Pack, four one-to-one sessions for £60, is a low-cost way to properly test whether tutoring is working before you commit to a term of it.
Why the cheap headline prices are not comparable
Two things get advertised as a tutoring price and neither is an hour of one-to-one teaching. The first is a group rate. TeduNet advertises £7 per hour and describes its product on its own homepage as small-group live classes, without publishing the group size, and makes no DBS or safeguarding claim on either its pricing page or its homepage. The second is a subscription. Superprof advertises tutor-set rates that can look very low, but contacting a tutor at all requires a £39 monthly pass, and the lesson fee is paid separately on top, so the real cost depends on how many hours you actually book that month. Neither is wrong to advertise. They are simply not the same product as a one-to-one hour from a DBS-checked tutor.
What the “from” price does not tell you
Every price in the table above is a starting rate, not what most parents end up paying. MyTutor publishes tutor tiers at £25 and up, £45 and up, and £65 and up. Tutorful's rate rises with tutor experience. Superprof's lesson fees are set by each tutor individually. StudyGuru's rate also rises by experience band, though in practice almost every StudyGuru tutor is at the £24 entry band and the highest band any current StudyGuru tutor holds is £38. Comparing entry prices is fair, but it tells you about the cheapest tutor on each platform rather than the one you will actually book. Two things are worth comparing because they do not move with tutor experience. The first is whether the rate changes by level: on StudyGuru an hour of A-Level chemistry costs the same as an hour of GCSE maths. The second is what it costs to find out whether tutoring is working before you commit to a term, which on StudyGuru is four one-to-one sessions for £60.
How to check a price is really one-to-one
Four questions settle it, and every platform worth using will answer them in writing. Is the lesson one-to-one, and if it is a group, what is the maximum group size? Is the advertised rate the price a parent pays directly, or a discounted rate a school pays per pupil? Is an Enhanced DBS check required of every tutor, or merely optional and left to the individual tutor? And is the rate per hour or per lesson, since a 45-minute lesson at £30 is not cheaper than an hour at £35. If a platform will not put the group size or the DBS position in writing, treat the advertised price as a starting point rather than a quote.
A cheaper way to properly try one-to-one tutoring
A single free trial lesson rarely proves anything, because the first session is mostly getting to know each other. What tells you whether it is working is three or four sessions with the same tutor. On StudyGuru that is the Starter Pack: four one-hour one-to-one sessions at £15 each, £60 in total, after a free 15-minute intro call with the tutor first. There is no subscription and no signup fee, and you can see the full pricing before you book anything.
When something cheaper is genuinely the right choice
If your child is broadly on track and needs regular practice rather than diagnosis, a small-group class at TeduNet's rate of around £7 per hour is real value and one-to-one is probably overkill. If you already know exactly which tutor you want and are comfortable arranging contact and payment yourself, a platform like Superprof lets you go straight to that tutor's own rate, though reaching them costs the £39 monthly pass on top. If the problem is one stubborn topic rather than a subject, free resources and past papers may fix it for nothing. One-to-one is worth paying for when you do not yet know what is going wrong, because that is the part a group class cannot do.
Sources
Every figure on this page was taken from the platform's own published pages and checked on 29 July 2026. StudyGuru: pricing and safeguarding. Tutorful: homepage. MyTutor: pricing and safeguarding policy. Superprof: Student Pass pricing. TeduNet: pricing and homepage. If any of these has changed, tell me and I'll correct it.
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