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Cafetalk review: prices and top tutors

Cafetalk is a marketplace where each tutor sets their own price. For English, its biggest language, the median tutor charges $13 per hour and half of them charge between $8.50 and $16. Cafetalk: Discounted trial (25 min). In one line: A Japan-based marketplace in 34 languages, with many short lesson formats and 25-minute trials.

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Cafetalk prices by language

What Cafetalk tutors charge per hour, next to the median across all platforms we track for the same language.

Cafetalk prices by language
LanguageTutorsMedian / hMiddle 50%All platformsDifference
English367$13$8.50–$16$2140% cheaper
Japanese261$11$7.65–$14$2150% cheaper
Chinese125$12$7.65–$15$2245% cheaper
Korean118$11$7.65–$14$2249% cheaper
French103$15$10–$19$2230% cheaper
Spanish98$13$8.53–$19$1932% cheaper
Italian55$14$8.93–$18$2033% cheaper
German46$17$12–$23$2328% cheaper
Russian36$16$13–$20$2021% cheaper
Portuguese24$18$13–$22$175% more
Arabic23$11$8.45–$13$1735% cheaper
Thai19$11$8.84–$14$1626% cheaper
Indonesian18$12$8.54–$15$1732% cheaper
Filipino17$12$7.65–$15$12About the same
Cantonese13$14$13–$17$2133% cheaper
Vietnamese12$12$8.11–$17$1519% cheaper
Hindi10$8.99$4.62–$12$2766% cheaper
Turkish6$12$5.16–$15$2040% cheaper
Polish6$18$9.99–$19$2426% cheaper
Ukrainian5$14$10–$16$1825% cheaper
Greek3$11$8.61–$19$2350% cheaper
Hungarian3$6.37$6.37–$7.78$2069% cheaper
Swedish3$19$16–$20$2316% cheaper
Persian3$14$11–$15$155% cheaper
Norwegian3$11$8.54–$13$2250% cheaper
Urdu3$5.74$5.06–$11$7.9228% cheaper
Finnish3$26$20–$26$2025% more
Dutch2$15$14–$15$2131% cheaper
Serbian1$38$38–$38$2368% more

Cafetalk at a glance

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Discounted trial (25 min)
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Languages
Many languages
Professional and community tutors
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A Japan-based marketplace in 34 languages, with many short lesson formats and 25-minute trials.
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Cafetalk: common questions

Tutors on Cafetalk set their own prices, so the cost depends on the language and the tutor. Median prices per hour in its biggest languages: English: median $13 per hour (367 tutors). Japanese: median $11 per hour (261 tutors). Chinese: median $12 per hour (125 tutors). Korean: median $11 per hour (118 tutors).

Cafetalk: Discounted trial (25 min).

In one line: A Japan-based marketplace in 34 languages, with many short lesson formats and 25-minute trials. For English, its median price ($13) is 40% below the median across all platforms we track ($21). For Japanese, its median price ($11) is 50% below the median across all platforms we track ($21).

For English, the platforms with the most tutors besides Cafetalk are Tusclases / FindTutors, Engoo, and Cambly. italki has the lowest median price for English ($16 per hour).

No. SpeakDuo is independent: we read the public profiles Cafetalk tutors publish, every day, and nobody pays to be listed or ranked. When you book, you book and pay on Cafetalk.

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How we collect this data

We collect public profile facts (name, photo, languages, price, rating) from tutoring marketplaces and refresh them daily. Prices are normalised to a 60-minute lesson in US dollars. Ratings and reviews belong to each marketplace. Subscription platforms have no per-tutor price.

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