It is one of the first things a teacher searches for before signing up: how much does Faheem charge? What cut does Moalimy take per lesson? The question is the right one — a percentage repeats with every lesson and every student, and it is the number your income will be built on.
But the direct answer, having checked both platforms' official pages on 12 August 2026, is this:
Neither Faheem nor Moalimy publishes its rate on a public page.
That is not an accusation, and it does not mean something is wrong — plenty of platforms set pay in the teacher's contract rather than on the website. It does mean that any figure you read in an article or a Facebook group is not your figure, and that you will have to establish it yourself. This article explains how.
What the two platforms actually say
Faheem
In the terms and conditions, the clause governing teacher pay reads:
"Faheem will receive a specified percentage of these fees in exchange for the service provider's use of the platform."
A specified percentage — without specifying it. The become-a-tutor page talks about income rather than rate: it cites earning up to SAR 1,334 per month for two days a week at four hours a day, weekly bonuses of up to SAR 1,200 a month for teachers hitting a certain number of hours, and weekly payouts.
Moalimy
Same picture. The FAQ gives an income estimate — roughly EGP 8,400 a month for five days a week at three lessons a day — and does not state the platform's cut or how a lesson's pay is calculated.
Note the currency. It says something about the audience: many of these teachers are Egyptian, teaching students in the Gulf, and the currency gap is a real part of the arithmetic rather than a rounding detail.
Why "expected earnings" doesn't answer your question
Those two figures answer a different question from the one you asked.
How much will I earn? depends on how many hours you work — a number you choose, and one that changes every month. How much does the platform take? depends on the rate, which is fixed and which you do not control. The first is a marketing estimate assuming ideal booking density; the second is a term in your contract.
The practical difference: double your hours and you double your income — and you double what the platform takes, by exactly the same factor. The percentage is the number that grows with you.
Three ways to establish your own rate
1. Ask for it in writing, before you sign
The simplest route, and the most often skipped. Email support with a question specific enough that it cannot be answered in generalities:
"What percentage does the platform take from the lesson fee for a new teacher in [subject]? Does it change after a certain number of hours?"
Keep the reply. If the answer is vague, or never arrives, that is information too.
2. Reverse it out of your first statement
If you have already started, the number is in your hands and you need not ask anyone. Take a single lesson, and compare what the student paid with what reached you:
rate = (what the student paid − what reached you) ÷ what the student paid × 100
For example, if the student paid 75 and you received 50:
(75 − 50) ÷ 75 × 100 = 33%
Two cautions: run it across several lessons rather than one, since the cut can vary by subject or school level; and exclude bonuses, because they are paid under conditions and can stop — folding them in flatters the figure and hides the real rate.
3. Separate the other fees from the commission
The percentage is not always the whole of what you pay. Ask specifically about transfer fees to your country, the minimum withdrawal threshold, the exchange spread if the student pays in one currency and you are paid in another, and what happens to your fee if a student cancels or fails to show.
For a teacher paid in Egyptian pounds for lessons priced in Saudi riyals, the spread and transfer costs can amount to a second, unannounced commission.
In fairness: what is the cut buying?
It would be unfair to treat the commission as theft. A marketplace gives you real things, and the most valuable is students: it spends on marketing and delivers people who book, which is the hardest and most expensive part of the job. It also gives you payment collection, scheduling, and someone to arbitrate when a student complains.
If you are starting today with no audience, the cut is a reasonable price of entry. Finding your first twenty students is far harder than building a website.
When does the cut stop being a fair deal?
When you become the one bringing the students.
If you have a following on TikTok, YouTube or Instagram and you send them to a platform that takes a percentage of every lesson, you are paying an intermediary for an audience you brought yourself. The equation inverts: you are paying for a service you no longer need.
And here the second cost appears — the one that shows up on no statement: your student list is not yours. You do not hold their email or any way to reach them off-platform. So if the platform raises its rate, changes its terms, or suspends your account, you start from zero. We worked that arithmetic through in What does a teaching platform really cost you?.
The working rule
Start where the students are; move when you have an audience.
Establish your real rate using one of the three methods above, and multiply it by your expected annual income. If the result exceeds the cost of a platform you own outright, it is time.
And if you reach that point, what you need is less than you might think: somewhere to publish your courses as chapters and lessons, a way to open the free part and close the paid part, a quiz after each chapter, and a student list you can see. That is what Minbar does — installed under your name and your domain, paid once, with no percentage of what you earn.
Details about Faheem and Moalimy are taken from their official pages (terms and conditions, become-a-tutor, and FAQ) as they stood on 12 August 2026, and may change. Always check the page of the platform you are considering, and take its number, today.