Legacy Academy compared to MyTutor, Tutorful, GoStudent and Keystone Tuition.

What Legacy Academy is, in one paragraph

The shape of what we do — before we get to the comparison.

Legacy Academy is a UK GCSE 1-to-1 tutoring service for Years 9–11. We work in Maths, English Language, English Literature, Biology, Chemistry and Physics across AQA, Edexcel and OCR (English also Eduqas). Every weekly tutoring relationship runs to the same shape: a free 30-minute trial with a matched specialist, an optional £97 written diagnostic if you want a deeper read before committing, then weekly 1-to-1 lessons from £100/month with the same tutor every week. There is no lock-in. You pause or cancel with one week's notice. Every six weeks the tutor sends a written progress report, and our founder personally oversees every account — if progress stalls in the first month, the conversation is with him directly, not a customer-service queue.

That's the model. Now to the comparison.

The comparison at a glance

Legacy Academy, MyTutor, Tutorful, GoStudent and Keystone Tuition — side by side.

Last verified: 2026-04-25. Competitor figures sourced from each company's public pricing page on this date. Prices and contract terms move; if anything below looks off, message us and we'll re-verify.

Sources, by company: mytutor.co.uk/pricing · tutorful.co.uk pricing guide · gostudent.org/en-gb/prices · keystonetutors.com/news/cost-of-a-tutor. Our pricing in full →

Legacy Academy vs MyTutor

MyTutor — the university-student marketplace.

Model. MyTutor is a two-sided marketplace founded in 2013 (acquired by IXL Learning in May 2025). Tutors are predominantly current UK university students; the platform vets and trains them. Parents browse profiles, watch short intro videos and book a free 15-minute meeting before committing to paid lessons.

Pricing. Tutors set their own rates. GCSE lessons start from around £25–£26/hr; the most common range is £26–£40/hr; top tutors charge up to ~£40+/hr and beyond. Pay-as-you-go. Source: mytutor.co.uk/pricing.

Tutor matching and oversight. Self-serve matching from a public catalogue. Tutor quality is moderated by reviews and MyTutor's own training; oversight of an individual ongoing tutoring relationship is light by design — the platform's role is matchmaker rather than account manager.

Subjects and exam boards. Broad coverage of every GCSE subject and all major UK boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas).

Contract terms. Pay-as-you-go. No lock-in, no minimum spend.

Where MyTutor is genuinely strongest. One of the UK's largest catalogues of vetted university-student tutors, transparent published rates, and a structured B2B schools programme that gives the tutor pool real teaching reps. If you want to browse a deep tutor list and pick yourself, MyTutor is a strong choice.

Where Legacy Academy is different. We do the matching for you, work to a six-weekly written progress cadence neither MyTutor nor any other competitor in this comparison currently publishes, and put a single named specialist on each subject — so the conversation about your child's grade is with one person who knows them, not a series of pay-as-you-go bookings.

Legacy Academy vs Tutorful

Tutorful — the broad UK marketplace.

Model. Tutorful is one of the UK's largest tutor marketplaces by tutor count — founded 2015, with ~150,000 users and 11,000+ tutors at the time of writing. Tutors are a mix of qualified teachers and university students, set their own rates, and offer both online and in-person lessons.

Pricing. Average GCSE rate ~£35.86/hr across subjects, with subject-level variation: maths ~£36/hr online and ~£42/hr in-person; sciences ~£37/hr online and ~£47/hr in-person. Pay-as-you-go. Source: tutorful.co.uk/blog/how-much-does-a-tutor-cost.

Tutor matching and oversight. Self-serve. Search profiles by subject, location and format, message a shortlist of tutors, then book. Like MyTutor, there's no managed-account layer — Tutorful is a marketplace, not an agency.

Subjects and exam boards. Extremely broad. Every academic GCSE subject, every major board, plus music, languages and hobbies on the same platform.

Contract terms. Pay-as-you-go. No lock-in.

Where Tutorful is genuinely strongest. Tutor catalogue depth and format flexibility. If you specifically want in-person tutoring in your area, or you want to compare a long shortlist of tutors before committing, Tutorful is hard to beat.

Where Legacy Academy is different. We're narrower by design (GCSE only, six core subjects), and we replace self-serve marketplace matching with a single point of accountability — our founder — for everything from the trial lesson to a stalled grade six months in. Smaller surface area, deeper service.

Legacy Academy vs GoStudent

GoStudent — the membership-based subscription.

Model. GoStudent is an Austria-founded subscription tutoring company with a UK presence. Parents sign up to a 6-month or 12-month membership; lessons are 50 minutes, 1-to-1 with an assigned tutor.

Pricing. Base advertised price £24.99 per 50-minute lesson. Headline plans range from ~£21.99 to ~£30.49 per lesson depending on package length and lesson volume — for example a 12-month plan with 4 lessons/month works out to ~£32.09/lesson; the same length with 12 lessons/month falls to ~£27.81/lesson. Up to 20% off the longer commitments. Source: gostudent.org/en-gb/prices.

Tutor matching and oversight. Tutor matching is platform-managed. The customer-management layer is structured, with parent-facing app and reporting.

Subjects and exam boards. Broad UK GCSE subject coverage; tutor pool is international with UK-syllabus specialists available.

Contract terms. This is the most material difference in the comparison set. The headline product is a 6-month or 12-month membership — the per-lesson price drops as you commit to more sessions, and the full membership term is the unit of purchase. Because the per-lesson rate is contingent on the full term, we'd encourage any parent considering GoStudent to read the cancellation and refund terms in the membership agreement in detail before signing.

Where GoStudent is genuinely strongest. The lowest absolute per-lesson price in the comparison set if (and only if) you're confident you want 6 or 12 months of tutoring up front. The booking and parent-app UX is also clean and well-built.

Where Legacy Academy is different. No lock-in. Weekly tutoring runs month-to-month from £100/month and you pause or cancel with one week's notice. We're more expensive per lesson than GoStudent on a long membership; we're cheaper to walk away from, and we don't depend on a long contract for the model to work.

Legacy Academy vs Keystone Tutors

Keystone Tutors — the London-based bespoke agency.

Model. Keystone is a London-based bespoke tutoring agency founded in 2007. The matching layer is consultant-led — a parent briefs a Keystone consultant, who hand-matches one of their in-house tutor pool. Reputation is at the premium / independent-school end of the market.

Pricing. £86/hr starting (incl. VAT); £111/hr average; senior and specialist tutors up to ~£150/hr. There is also a one-off registration fee per family. Source: keystonetutors.com/news/cost-of-a-tutor.

Tutor matching and oversight. Concierge — the consultant briefs and matches, with structured back-channel quality control on the relationship. This is the most managed model in the comparison set.

Subjects and exam boards. All major UK boards plus international coverage (IB, US SAT, ISEB pre-test, 11+/13+ entrance, scholarship work).

Contract terms. Hourly billing through the agency, with the registration fee one-off.

Where Keystone is genuinely strongest. Independent-school families, scholarship / 13+ / Oxbridge prep, and any family who specifically wants a consultant-managed concierge experience with a top-end qualified-teacher pool. They are a serious, well-run agency at the premium end.

Where Legacy Academy is different. We are built for state and grammar GCSE candidates closing grade gaps, not for independent-school 13+/scholarship concierge work. Our pricing reflects that — from £100/month is roughly a third of what an average Keystone hour costs over a typical month — and our oversight model is founder-led rather than consultant-led. If your priority is structured weekly GCSE progress without the bespoke-agency price point, we're built for exactly that.

The marketplace alternatives

A short note on Superprof, Preply and the broader online tutoring market.

There is a longer tail of UK-accessible tutoring marketplaces — Superprof, Preply, Spires, Tutor Hunt and others. The economic shape is essentially the same as MyTutor and Tutorful: tutors set their own rates, parents browse profiles, lessons are pay-as-you-go. Superprof in particular has one of the broadest UK tutor lists across all categories — academic, music, languages, sports and hobbies. Preply is best-known for languages but covers UK GCSE subjects too, with subscription discounts on long packages.

We don't compete with these platforms on catalogue size — they will always have more tutors. We compete on doing the matching, planning and progress-tracking work for you, on a per-subject specialist model, with founder accountability. If catalogue size and lowest hourly rate are your top two filters, a marketplace will out-perform us on both. If the work you actually want done is grade movement with structured oversight, we're built for that.

When Legacy Academy is not the right fit

Three honest cases where one of the names above is a better choice.

If you want the cheapest absolute per-lesson rate and you're confident you want 6–12 months of tutoring up front, GoStudent on a long membership will out-price us. Read their cancellation terms first; the per-lesson price comes with a contract length attached.

If you want maximum tutor choice and prefer to do the matching, vetting and progress-tracking yourself, Tutorful or MyTutor have larger catalogues than we ever will. Both are well-built marketplaces.

If you're prepping for a competitive 13+ entrance, scholarship paper or Oxbridge admissions and want a consultant-managed concierge experience with the top end of the qualified-teacher pool, Keystone is probably the right fit. We are not built for that market.

If your priority is structured weekly GCSE progress, founder oversight, six-weekly written progress reviews and no lock-in — we are built for exactly that, and the rest of this site (especially the subject pages and the £97 Diagnostic) is the long-form version of how that works.

Comparison questions, answered.

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• Pricing — every step in plain numbers →
• How Legacy Academy actually works →
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