How much an online English lesson costs

For a reference point outside this site, published surveys of the Polish tutoring market put general private English tutoring at roughly 55 to 90 zł per 60 minutes. Lessons with a native speaker are typically reported at around 100 to 170 zł per 60 minutes. At the top of the market, intensive and highly specialised exam coaching reaches around 400 zł an hour. Those are market figures for Poland as a whole and not a Vocabest price list.

They are useful as a sanity check in both directions. A rate far below the bottom of that range usually means one of three things: a very new teacher, a group format dressed up as tutoring, or lessons much shorter than sixty minutes. None of those is automatically bad, but you should know which one you are buying. A rate far above the top of it needs to come with an obvious reason, a named exam, a specific industry, a track record you can read in the reviews.

It is also worth reading a rate against your goal rather than against the market average. Six months of weekly lessons at 70 zł and three months of intensive twice-weekly work at 130 zł cost roughly the same in total but are completely different projects, and only one of them fits an exam date in May. Work out the total you are willing to spend over the period you actually have, then divide, instead of comparing hourly rates in isolation.

Each teacher sets their own hourly rate and publishes it on their profile. That is the number you compare in the directory, and the price of a specific lesson is that rate prorated to the length you book, so 45 minutes costs three quarters of the hourly rate. You see the amount before you confirm anything, in the currency the teacher prices in.

You pay for one lesson before it takes place, and that is the whole transaction. There is no package to buy up front, no subscription, no credit pack that expires and no minimum number of lessons. If you want to take a month off, you take a month off, there is nothing to pause or cancel. The payment happens inside Vocabest, so you are never redirected to a separate checkout site.

The first video consultation with a teacher is free, one per student account. It lasts 15 to 30 minutes, usually about 20, and no card is asked for to book it, which means you can meet a teacher and hear how they work before any money is involved at all. What is charged for a lesson afterwards is the rate on the teacher's card; there is no booking fee or membership charge added on top for students. Cancellations and anything refundable are governed by the refund policy, which is linked in the footer of every page.

Shorten the lesson and increase the frequency. Two 45-minute lessons a week cost the same as one 90-minute lesson and will move you faster, because you forget less between sessions and because almost nobody concentrates properly for ninety minutes. If your budget only stretches to one lesson a week, spend the difference on consistency instead: the same slot every week beats a burst of four lessons followed by a month of nothing.

Do the cheap work outside the lesson. Vocabulary lists, reading, listening and grammar drills cost nothing and you can do them on a train. Paid lesson time is the only place you can get a qualified person to listen to you speak and correct you in real time, so spending it watching a teacher explain something you could have read is the most expensive mistake on this page. Turn up with your questions already written down.

Use the free consultation properly and the filters honestly. Set a price ceiling you can sustain for six months rather than one you can afford this month, shortlist two or three teachers inside it, and spend your one free consultation on the one whose profile is closest to your goal. Then tell that teacher your budget and your deadline in the first five minutes. A good teacher will plan differently for ten lessons than for fifty, and they can only do that if they know which one they are working with.