vs TutorBird
TutorBird charges per seat. A 10-teacher school is paying for nine extras.
TutorBird is well-loved in music-tutor circles — 4.8-star reviews, a hosted website builder, USD-priced. Where it stings: every extra teacher is another $4.95 USD a month, and the live classroom is a Zoom or FaceTime hand-off, not built in.
The numbers
Suburban music school, 6 teachers, mixed online and in-studio.
TutorBird
A$49.70 / mo
A$19.95 first tutor + 5 × A$5.95 = A$49.70, billed in AUD. On raw software price TutorBird wins this one outright — we'd rather say so than hide it.
lessonu
A$99 / mo
School plan, flat, up to 10 teachers — with the live classroom, GST invoicing and reporting in the box. TutorBird has no built-in video, so each online tutor needs a Zoom-class subscription on top; that's where the gap narrows.
↑ same school, same workload, two different bills.
How TutorBird prices
A$19.95 / mo + A$5.95 per additional tutor. A single plan with every feature included — unlimited students, billed in AUD, 30-day trial, 90-day money-back guarantee. The only thing that moves the bill is tutor count. tutorbird.com/aus — verified June 2026.
What changes when you switch
Three things move.
The classroom is in the subscription
TutorBird stores your Zoom / Meet / FaceTime link and sends students to it — the lesson happens in someone else's product, and every online tutor needs their own video subscription on top of the seat fee. lessonu's classroom is in-app: HD video, whiteboard, code editor (great for STEM), recording on School+. One disclosure: lessonu meters classroom video — Solo includes 5 classroom-hours a month, School includes 50.
GST invoicing is built in, not left to you
TutorBird's Australian pricing page localises the currency, but GST on your own invoices is left to you at invoice time. lessonu issues GST-itemised AUD tax invoices out of the box — the GST line, the TAX INVOICE heading and your ABN where the ATO expects them — and NZ tutors get NZD with 15% GST the same way.
One flat bill for the whole stack
TutorBird's landed cost is the seat fees plus a video tool per online tutor — cheap, but assembled from parts. lessonu's School plan is A$99 flat for up to 10 teachers with video, whiteboard, invoicing and reporting inside: one predictable line on the statement, nothing to reconcile per tutor.
Honest section
Where TutorBird still wins.
A comparison that doesn’t admit anything is a sales sheet, not an analysis. Two places TutorBird is genuinely the better choice.
On raw price, TutorBird simply wins
A$49.70 / mo for a 6-teacher school against our A$99 — and the single all-features plan, 30-day trial and 90-day money-back guarantee are genuinely generous. If your teaching is in person and you don't need a built-in classroom or GST-itemised invoicing, TutorBird is the better-value choice, full stop. Its music-studio extras (website builder, practice log) sweeten it further.
4.8 / 5 across 265 Capterra reviews
TutorBird has the strongest social proof of any rival — a decade of public reviews and a 4.8-star average across 265 Capterra reviews. lessonu has zero reviews because we just launched. That's the honest gap, and it won't close overnight.
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