Home tuition fees in Delhi NCR: what 1,286 self-set hourly rates show

How do I compare two monthly tuition quotes?

Ask each tutor to write down the session length, the number of sessions included and the subjects covered. The basic comparison is hourly rate × session hours × planned sessions. A monthly package needs the same breakdown: a lower total is not cheaper if it buys fewer teaching hours. Count the actual sessions in the agreed billing period rather than assuming every month has the same number of teaching days.

Ask separately about travel, materials, extra exam sessions and make-up classes. Agree what happens when the tutor cancels and when the student misses a class. If a tutor quotes for several subjects, check how time will be split and whether each subject is included in the same fee. Put the final scope and total in writing before the first paid session.

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Does this study tell me the right fee for my child's class?

No. The published overall band is not a Class 7, Class 10 or all-subjects package price. A tutor's asking rate does not tell you how many hours your child needs, which subjects the tutor can teach well, or what the two of you will eventually agree to pay.

Bring the class, board, subject, current topics and your locality to the conversation. Ask for a teaching plan before deciding on the number of weekly sessions. Use the dataset as context for questions, not as a rule that every tutor must charge the same amount. Pune is outside the reported city sample, so these figures cannot establish Pune tuition fees.

The population, stated before any number

Everything here comes from one measurement taken read-only against production on 22 September 2026. The platform carries 7,500+ registered tutor profiles; 600+ of those are verified (identity and qualifications checked); 2,600+ were created in the preceding 30 days. The rate study itself covers the 1,286 profiles carrying a self-set hourly rate between ₹50 and ₹5,000. Thirty-eight rows fell outside that window and were dropped as junk, 2.9% of the rate-bearing rows.

What the number is: a rate the tutor typed into their own profile at signup — what they ask. Every figure below names the n it was computed over, inside the sentence that carries it, because a percentage without its denominator is not a finding.

The ₹500 wall

Across the 1,286 rate-bearing profiles, 483 — 37.6% — sit at exactly ₹500. The next five most common rates are ₹300 (126 profiles, 9.8%), ₹400 (95 profiles, 7.4%), ₹600 (83 profiles, 6.5%), ₹200 (81 profiles, 6.3%) and ₹1,000 (74 profiles, 5.8%). Six numbers account for 73.4% of the entire set.

The coarseness goes well beyond the top six. 1,118 of 1,286 rates — 86.9% — are a multiple of ₹100, and 1,257 of 1,286 — 97.7% — are a multiple of ₹50. Twenty-nine profiles out of 1,286, 2.3%, priced at anything else at all.

Round-number clustering may reflect pricing habits, reference points or other influences. These data do not establish why any tutor chose a rate. For a parent, an asking rate alone does not establish teaching quality, experience or fit.

Why the median is the wrong number here

When 37.6% of 1,286 profiles type one number, that number becomes the median of almost any slice you cut. The median is ₹500 in New Delhi, ₹500 in Noida, ₹500 in Gurgaon, ₹500 in Ghaziabad and ₹500 in Mumbai — and ₹500 for every subject with enough rows to report. That is a property of the clustering, not a finding about the cities or the subjects. A study reporting “the median is ₹500 everywhere we looked” has measured its own denominator.

So the reportable quantity is the interquartile range: p25 to p75, the middle half of the asking-rate sample. That does move, and it moves by city.

Reading the city table: three separate stories

The ceiling is a Gurgaon story. Gurgaon’s p75 is ₹700 (n = 75), the highest of the five and ₹100 above New Delhi, ₹200 above Noida. A quarter of Gurgaon profiles ask ₹700 or more, and it is the only city here whose top quartile clears ₹500 decisively.

The floor is a Mumbai story. Mumbai has the lowest p25 in the set at ₹300 (n = 54), which is the opposite of what cost of living would predict. With n = 54 this is the least reliable row on the page and should be read as a flag for re-measurement rather than as a conclusion. Differences in the people or teaching modes represented could contribute, but this city slice does not establish a cause.

Noida is compressed. p25 ₹350 and p75 ₹500 on n = 141, so its 75th percentile is the mode itself: three quarters of Noida profiles ask ₹500 or less. Noida is the city where ₹500 is the ceiling rather than the centre, and it is the clearest single-city illustration of the whole pattern.

Mode and experience: two cuts that move, one that does not

Online against at-home splits at the floor and not in the middle. Online profiles (n = 531) show p25 ₹300, median ₹500, p75 ₹500. Profiles offering tuition at the student’s home (n = 263) show p25 ₹400, median ₹500, p75 ₹600. The medians are identical; the gap is ₹100 at the 25th percentile. Travel could contribute to the difference, but these slices do not isolate its effect or measure pricing power.

Experience moves one bucket, and it is not the one most people assume. 0–2 years (n = 183) reads p25 ₹400, median ₹500, p75 ₹500. 3–5 years (n = 225) reads p25 ₹400, median ₹500, p75 ₹600. 6–10 years (n = 100) is the only slice in the entire study whose median is not ₹500: p25 ₹500, median ₹600, p75 ₹800. The 10+ years bucket (n = 47) falls back to a median of ₹500 with p75 ₹700, on an n thin enough that the drop should not be over-read. The asking-rate pattern differs by reported experience; it does not establish a return to experience or a cause.

Verified profiles carrying a rate (n = 316) read p25 ₹400, median ₹500, p75 ₹500 — a lower p75 than the ₹600 of the wider group (n = 1,286). This comparison does not isolate the effect of verification on asking rates.

The obvious objection, tested: is ₹500 just a form default?

The reviewed backend field declares @Prop({ type: Number, default: 0 }), so its schema default is ₹0, not ₹500. The recorded exclusions include 298 zero-rate profiles.

That rules out this backend schema default as the direct source of the ₹500 cluster, but it does not prove that each of the 483 profiles independently chose that rate. Five user-action write paths and a repository search were examined. Admin creation, historical seeds and migrations were not examined, so the review does not exclude every possible default or prior write source.

What this dataset is not

These limitations travel with the data. They are not a disclaimer at the bottom; they are the reason the numbers above are quotable at all.

It is not a transacted price. We do not take a commission and money does not flow through us; the family pays the tutor directly. So we see the asking rate and never the settled one. The dataset cannot establish whether agreed rates are above or below the asking rates.

It is not a national sample. 903 of the 1,286 rows yield a recognisable city, and the five cities with enough rows to report are all Delhi-NCR plus Mumbai. This is a Delhi-NCR dataset with a Mumbai comparison, not an all-India one. Anyone writing “India’s tutors charge…” from this page is overstating it, and so are we if we do it.

It is self-selected. These are people who chose to list on a platform. Those who work entirely by word of mouth are absent, and they are not a random subset.

It is self-reported. The number is what someone typed into their own profile at signup. We publish it anyway because the alternative sources are worse: the fee ranges circulating in Indian tuition content are almost all unsourced, including — until recently — one of our own blog posts, which claimed a band for Delhi NCR against no data at all and has since been retired. A disclosed, bounded, self-reported dataset of 1,286 rows beats an undisclosed guess.

Re-measure before quoting this after 22 December 2026. The base is growing; a three-month-old percentile is a different dataset.

How to use these numbers

For a parent: the middle half of the bounded mixed-mode asking-rate sample of 1,286 profiles is ₹350–₹600 per hour. It is not a Delhi-only home-tuition tariff or a paid-price range. Use the relevant city and mode slice to prepare questions, then compare the session hours, subjects and total in each quote.

For a tutor: 483 of the 1,286 profiles list ₹500. That concentration is context, not a reason to match or avoid the rate. The 6–10 year experience slice (n = 100) has p75 ₹800, but this does not show what families paid or establish that someone asking less is under-charging. Set a fee for your actual teaching, preparation and travel commitments.

If you are budgeting rather than benchmarking: tell us the class, the subject and your locality, and you will see real profiles with each tutor’s own asking rate on it. You pay the tutor directly — EZ Tuitions takes no commission on the teaching fee.

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