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What other providers publish, why a tutor who comes to your home costs more than the first prices you see online, and the questions to ask before you pay for a school year of lessons.
One-to-one maths tutoring in your home in Dubai usually costs more than the first prices you see online. Many of those headline prices are for lessons taught online, or are "from" prices for the lowest level. A tutor who comes to your home can only teach between the end of school and bedtime, and spends part of that short evening driving from one family to the next, so each paid hour has to carry the unpaid time around it.
What decides the price: your child's level and curriculum, the tutor's experience of that curriculum, where you live, the time of the lesson, and how many lessons a week you book.
These are other providers' own published prices, not ours. We list only providers that show a price on their own website, copied as they appeared when we checked on 2 November 2026. Prices change; check the provider's page before you rely on one.
Other providers' published prices for maths tutoring in Dubai (not ours)
On their pricing pages, both providers that publish a price for lessons at home (Unitors and Math Wizard) work out at about 200 AED an hour or more. The lowest prices are for online lessons or a marketplace average.
| Provider | Format | Price as published | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unitors | At home | AED 1,599 for 4 sessions of 2 hours (Grades 1–10) | Per month |
| Unitors | Online | AED 799 for 8 sessions (Grades 1–10) | Per month |
| Math Wizard | Home or online | 250–300 AED per hour, one-to-one | Per hour |
| TutorChase | Online | "Rates start from £49/230AED per hour" | Per hour, from |
| Cuemath | Online | "$20 per class for long-term plans" | Per class (US dollars), from |
| EdFlik | Online | "starting from AED 45 per session" | Per session, from |
| Superprof (maths, Dubai) | Marketplace average | "the average lesson cost is 86AED/hr"; "Lessons from 60 AED an hour" | Per hour, average across listed tutors |
Checked on each provider's own page on 2 November 2026, from Dubai. "From" means the provider's lowest price. Unitors states about 200 AED an hour for its home lessons on the same page; its maths page says lessons start "from AED 150 per hour for IGCSE level", at home or online. Not listed because they show no price on their own pages: Tutor Doctor (prices explained at a free consultation), Mathnasium ("Pricing varies by program and geographic area") and Kumon.
One figure is often quoted for the whole market. TutorChase's Dubai page says the cost "typically falls within the range of 187AED to 375AED per hour". That is an online provider describing the market, not a survey, and we found no independent survey of tutoring prices in Dubai.
Search for a maths tutor in Dubai and the first results are usually adverts and listings, several with a price in the headline. Before you compare one with a quote from a tutor who would come to your home, check three things:
The providers' own pages show the gap. The lowest prices in the table above are all for lessons online, or for a marketplace average across tutors who teach both ways. Unitors publishes both on one page: 799 AED a month for 8 sessions online, and 1,599 AED a month for 4 two-hour sessions at home. Not every provider prices them apart: Math Wizard gives one price, 250–300 AED an hour, for in person or online.
From our own work placing tutors in Dubai homes, two things cause most of the surprise. Most parents who search for "private tutoring" mean a tutor who comes to the home. And a quick search of a few minutes, across three or four websites, mostly turns up online prices, so the first home quote looks high next to them. In our experience, the larger in-home providers rarely publish a price at all, because it depends on the level, the curriculum and where the family lives.
Dubai school days end in the middle of the afternoon. Children need time to get home, eat and rest, so the first lesson usually starts around 4:30. Primary children are usually finished by 8 pm, because that is close to bedtime; secondary students can go on until about 9 pm. Whether a tutor works alone or for a company, these few hours are when families want lessons, and the drive between homes comes out of the same few hours.
A tutor's evening in Dubai: two typical school days
On a full secondary evening, 3 of the 5 hours 20 minutes away from home are spent teaching.
An example built from our own placement experience: drives of 25 to 30 minutes, 40 to 50 at peak times and in between as traffic eases, and lessons of 1 to 1.5 hours. Real evenings vary.
Families are spread across the city, and a tutor's students rarely live next to each other. A first lesson in Arabian Ranches and a second in Dubai Marina is a normal evening. In our experience the drive between homes is 25 to 30 minutes, and 40 to 50 minutes in rush hour, and it happens at exactly the time families want lessons.
Paid hours in a day
A school evening fits about 3 paid hours of home tutoring, against a standard working day of 8 hours.
Working day: UAE Labour Law, Article 17 (8 hours a day), checked 2 November 2026. Tutor rows: the two evenings above.
Two or three lessons an evening, on five school evenings, is 10 to 15 lessons a week. A few families book weekend lessons, but most want weekday evenings, so the squeeze stays. Most children have two lessons a week, so one tutor can teach about five to seven children at a time. Once those evenings are full, the tutor cannot take on another child at those times. A low price that fills a tutor's evenings does not create more evenings.
A tutor who comes to your home needs a car, their own or a rented one, and pays for fuel, Salik tolls, parking and servicing. Salik charges its peak toll from 4 to 8 pm, Monday to Saturday: the same hours as most lessons. A rented car costs the same on a day with no lessons as on a full one. When a company drives its tutors instead, the driver's salary, the vehicles and the fuel are fixed costs for the company. Either way, the cost of getting to your door is part of the price.
Most families pause lessons in the summer, winter and spring school breaks, and around family travel. A tutor's rent, car and living costs carry on through all twelve months, so the fee for term-time lessons has to cover the quieter weeks too.
A tutor who lives in your building or community has little or no travel, and may charge less because of it. Online lessons and small-group classes cost less per child for the same reasons: no driving, or the cost shared between several children.
Most families we speak to are choosing between a tutor at home and lessons online. Groups and centres are worth knowing about too.
Across the curricula, most families we work with book two lessons a week, and a few book three. A lesson is usually 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on the child’s age and what the lessons are for.
What the lessons are for changes with age. In primary, most parents want the tutor to go over what was taught in school that week and keep homework up to date. In secondary, it is less about homework and more about understanding the method for each type of question, then practice questions and past papers.
You are likely to be paying for a whole school year, so a few questions at the start are worth more than a lower hourly price.
Before you pay: a checklist
Written and reviewed by the Marketing Head, GetYourTutors Team, with AI assistance, drawing on the team’s experience of in-home tutoring in Dubai and on public sources checked on 2 November 2026. The other providers' prices are copied from their own websites on that date; they are theirs, not ours, and they change. No provider paid to be included, and none of the links are affiliate links.
Frequently asked questions related to this article.
Usually 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on the child's age and what the lessons are for.
It can be, for one topic or a short goal. Keeping up with school work and practising for exams usually takes more, which is why most families book two lessons a week.
They do different jobs. A centre such as Kumon follows its own programme, at the centre. A tutor works on your child's own school curriculum, the methods the school marks, and the homework your child brings home.
Last updated: November 2026
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