Published prices for one-to-one tutoring, checked on 11 October 2026, start at £20 to £40 an hour for a new tutor on Tutor House and reach an average of £111 an hour at Keystone Tutors, which puts London rates at “from £40 to over £200 per hour”. Cognivia Tutoring charges £40 to £55 an hour.
By Archie Dyer, founder of Cognivia Tutoring · Last checked 11 October 2026
No single official priceEach provider publishes its own. This page quotes them and does not average them.
Platforms: £20 to £90Tutor House’s three tiers. MyTutor: £26 to £73.
Companies: from £32 to £86Starting prices at Titanium Tutors, The Profs and Keystone Tutors.
Registration fees: £70 and £96Published by The Profs and Keystone Tutors, on top of the hourly price.
Cognivia: £40 to £55One tutor, one hour, no registration fee.
How much does a private tutor cost per hour in London in 2026?
It depends on who you hire: the published prices below run from £20 an hour to an average of £111 an hour, before any registration fee. Each figure is quoted as the provider states it on its own website, and all were checked on 11 October 2026. The providers sell different things, so the rows are not like for like, and I have not averaged them.
Published hourly prices for one-to-one tutoring from named providers, as stated on each provider’s own website on 11 October 2026
A platform where tutors “set their own hourly rate”. The three bands are for new tutors, intermediate tutors (3+ years’ experience) and expert tutors (5+ years). Not specific to London.
Online lessons with self-employed tutors, who choose their fee from five options. The hour is 55 minutes of teaching and 5 minutes for feedback. Not specific to London. Article dated 19 August 2025.
£37.45 average online; £40.54 average face to face
The platform’s own UK averages, not London figures. It adds that tutors “tend to charge more in large cities, especially London”. Article published 11 June 2024.
A tutoring company with a London office. Four bands: undergraduate, graduate, experienced and “Super Tutor”. It says these are the only costs in the vast majority of cases, and that travel costs may be added at the tutor’s discretion.
From £60 for school tutoring, plus a £70 registration fee
“School tutoring (GCSE, IB, and A Level)” from £60. The same page says A Level rates “start at £70 per hour” and admissions support is from £120. Not specific to London.
A tutoring company with a London office. It adds “a one-off registration fee of £96 (inclusive of VAT)” and says London rates in general “can range anywhere from £40 to over £200 per hour”. Last updated 22 October 2025.
The “typical cost of private tutoring”, excluding commission, in a press release of 16 July 2018. Included as the only dated survey-style figure I could verify; it is eight years old.
One tutor, who is a second-year university student. No registration or agency fee. Details below.
Read each row for what it is. A “from” price is a starting point, not a typical bill. A platform average covers every tutor on that platform. Prices change, so confirm on the provider’s own page before deciding. Inclusion here is not a recommendation or a criticism of any provider.
The only provider above that publishes averages by level and subject is Tutorful, and its figures are for the whole UK: £35.86 an hour at GCSE, £41.88 at A-Level and £36.12 for maths. They come from an article published on 11 June 2024, so treat them as a guide to the pattern more than to today’s London prices.
Tutorful’s published UK average prices per hour by level and subject, from an article published 11 June 2024
Level or subject
Tutorful UK average per hour
GCSE
£35.86
A-Level
£41.88
Maths
£36.12
Further Maths
£45.76
Chemistry
£39.49
Physics
£43.04
Economics
£49.95
For the IB, I found no provider publishing a separate average. The Profs prices the IB with GCSE and A-Level, from £60 an hour plus its registration fee. Cognivia prices the IB the same as A-Level: £45 online or £55 in person.
Prices vary mainly with the tutor’s experience, the level taught, whether a company stands behind the tutor, and where the lesson happens. Each of these shows up in the published prices above.
Experience and qualifications. Titanium Tutors’ bands rise from £32 for undergraduates to £90 for tutors with, for example, a teaching qualification or examiner experience. Tutor House’s bands rise with years of experience in the same way.
Level. Tutorful’s UK average is £35.86 at GCSE and £41.88 at A-Level. In its words, “the higher the level of study, the higher you can expect your private tutoring rates to be”.
Company or independent tutor. A company finds, vets and replaces tutors, and its price reflects that. Keystone Tutors says its registration fee “contributes to the ongoing support you can access from our office team”, such as finding a replacement if a tutor is ill. An independent tutor has no office behind them, which is both the saving and the trade-off.
In person or online. Tutorful’s averages are £40.54 face to face against £37.45 online. Titanium Tutors says some of its tutors offer a discount for online lessons.
Admissions work. Some providers price university admissions support separately: The Profs lists it from £120 an hour. Others, Cognivia included, charge the same as for A-Level.
Cognivia Tutoring charges £40 an hour online for IGCSE and GCSE, and £45 an hour online for A-Level, IB, TMUA and ESAT. In-person lessons around Marylebone, London cost £10 more. There is no registration or agency fee.
Cognivia Tutoring prices for one-hour one-to-one lessons
What
Online
In person
IGCSE or GCSE, one 1-hour lesson
£40
£50
A-Level, IB, TMUA or ESAT, one 1-hour lesson
£45
£55
IGCSE or GCSE 5-pack, saving £15
£185
£235
A-Level, IB, TMUA or ESAT 5-pack, saving £15
£210
£260
30-minute trial
Free, no card needed
Online only
It is worth being exact about what that buys. Cognivia is not an agency: it is one person. I am Archie Dyer, the founder and the only tutor, a second-year Theoretical Physics student at UCL with a First in my first year. I scored 43 out of 45 in the IB, with 7s in HL Maths, Physics and Economics, and 10 A*s at IGCSE. I have been tutoring for over two years and am Enhanced DBS checked.
I teach Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Economics at IGCSE and GCSE, A-Level (including Further Maths) and IB SL and HL, plus the TMUA and the ESAT. Lessons are one hour and one to one, online on Google Meet or in person around Marylebone. If you want a company that can supply a replacement tutor or a large panel to choose from, one of the providers above may suit you better.
Sometimes, and nobody can promise it in advance. The best independent summary I know is the Education Endowment Foundation’s review of one to one tuition in schools, which says: “Evidence indicates that one to one tuition can be effective, providing approximately five additional months’ progress on average.”
The caveats matter as much as the headline, and they are the EEF’s own:
It rates the evidence as moderate, from 123 studies, in a review last updated in July 2021, and notes “a large amount of unexplained variation” between results.
“Effects in mathematics appear to be substantially lower (+2 months) than in literacy (+6 months)”, and secondary school studies show less impact (+4 months) than primary (+6 months).
“Tuition is more likely to make an impact if it is additional to and explicitly linked with normal lessons.”
Programmes using teaching assistants or volunteers “may be less effective than those using experienced and specifically trained teachers”.
That research is about tuition arranged by schools, not private tutoring bought by families, so it does not transfer directly, and the last caveat applies to a student tutor like me. Private tuition is nonetheless common in London: the Sutton Trust reported on 9 March 2023 that 46% of pupils in London had ever had private tutoring, against 30% of 11 to 16 year olds in state schools across England and Wales.
My own view, as someone who sells tutoring: it is most likely to be worth paying for when there is a specific gap, the student does the work between lessons, and the tutor knows what school is covering. A free trial costs nothing and tells you more than any price table.
There is no single figure. On 11 October 2026, published prices ranged from £20 to £40 an hour for a new tutor on Tutor House to an average of £111 an hour at Keystone Tutors, which says London rates can range from £40 to over £200 per hour. Cognivia Tutoring charges £40 to £55 an hour.
Tutorful, a tutoring platform, published a UK average of £36.12 an hour for a maths tutor and £45.76 for Further Maths in an article dated 11 June 2024. Those are UK figures, not London ones. At Cognivia Tutoring, maths costs £40 an hour online at GCSE and £45 at A-Level or IB.
Published figures vary by provider. Tutorful gives a UK average of £41.88 an hour at A-Level (June 2024). The Profs says its A Level rates start at £70 an hour plus a £70 registration fee. Cognivia Tutoring charges £45 an hour online or £55 in person around Marylebone, London.
I found no provider publishing a separate IB average. The Profs prices school tutoring, which it defines as GCSE, IB and A Level, from £60 an hour plus a £70 registration fee. Cognivia Tutoring charges £45 an hour online or £55 in person for IB SL and HL.
Some do. On 11 October 2026, The Profs published a £70 registration fee and Keystone Tutors a one-off registration fee of £96 including VAT, each on top of the hourly price. Cognivia Tutoring charges no registration or agency fee.
Often, but not always. Tutorful’s published UK averages are £37.45 an hour online and £40.54 face to face. Titanium Tutors says some of its tutors offer a discount for online lessons. Cognivia Tutoring charges £10 less online than in person.
It can be, but no one can promise a result. The Education Endowment Foundation says one to one tuition in schools provides approximately five additional months’ progress on average, with a lower effect in mathematics and moderate evidence. That research is about school-arranged tuition, not private tutoring.
IGCSE and GCSE lessons cost £40 an hour online or £50 in person. A-Level, IB, TMUA and ESAT lessons cost £45 online or £55 in person around Marylebone, London. A 5-pack of five 1-hour lessons saves £15. There is no registration fee, and a 30-minute online trial is free with no card needed.
Where to go next
The pages below give Cognivia’s full prices and what each kind of lesson covers.
