Six academies side by side on the things that decide it: what they charge, what the trial covers, whether a refund is written down, and who is in the room with your child. Every figure comes from their own website.
We run one of the six academies on this page, so read it with that in mind. What we can offer instead of neutrality is checkability: every figure below was read off the academy's own website or its public Trustpilot profile on 13 September 2026, each source page is linked at the foot, and where an academy publishes nothing this page says so rather than filling the gap. Where a competitor is stronger than us, the table says that too.
Ratings come last on purpose. Every academy here sits between 3.8 and 4.7 on a few dozen reviews, which is too narrow a spread and too small a sample to separate them.
Figures as published on 13 September 2026. Prices change — check the source page before you decide.
| Live Quran LessonsThis is us | Almuhammadi Academy | Rahman School | QuranHost | Online Quran Academy | Mishkah Academy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $39 – $65 a month2 to 5 days a week, 30-minute lessons. Hifz $90 (45 min) or $118 (60 min). | $20 – $100 a month30-minute lessons, 1 to 5 days a week. Also $10 an hour pay as you go. | £7 – £12 an hourThree tiers. The monthly total appears once a plan is selected. | Not publishedShown only after an enquiry form | $37 – $80 a month2 to 5 classes a week, 30 minutes. Hifz $160 a month for 20 hour-long classes. | $20 – $100 a month30-minute lessons, 1 to 6 days a week. Group classes from $20 a month. |
| Price shown openly | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Up to 3 classes, no card | Free trial offered; number of classes not published | 2 classes, no card | Free trial, no card; number of classes not published | 3 days of free sessions | Free trial class; terms not published |
| Teaching since | 2019 | 2006 | 2015 | 2012 | Not published | 2020 |
| Class format | One to one | One to one | One to one | One to one | One to one | One to one and group |
| Lesson length | 30 min; Hifz 45 or 60 min | 30, 45 or 60 min | 30 min and 1 hour | Not published | 30 min; Hifz 60 min | 30, 45 or 60 min |
| Teachers named on site | None named | 4 with biographies | None named | None named | None named | 12 with biographies |
| Supervisor in the lesson | Yes | Not publishedNo such claim on their site | Not publishedNo such claim on their site | Not publishedNo such claim on their site | Not publishedNo such claim on their site | Not publishedNo such claim on their site |
| Refund policy | Full refund before regular classes start; afterwards, classes attended are deducted and the rest returned | Not published | 7-day money-back guarantee after the first paid class, and pro-rata refunds on unused sessions | Full refund only if cancelled before the billing month begins and no classes have been taken | Not published | 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Trustpilot | 4.7 out of 5, 51 reviews | 4.7 out of 5, 38 reviews | 4.6 out of 5, 26 reviews | Not availableTheir Trustpilot profile would not load for us on the day we checked. | 4.5 out of 5, 33 reviews | 3.8 out of 5, 4 reviewsFour reviews is too small a sample to read anything into, in either direction. |
What the table cannot say in a cell.
Suits a parent who wants the price and the refund terms in front of them before they speak to anyone, and who wants another adult in the room during their child's lesson. We do not name our teachers on the site, and two academies here have been running longer.
The longest-running academy on this list and the only one besides Mishkah that names its teachers with biographies. It publishes no refund policy, and the trial terms are vague.
The clearest refund terms here, and priced by the hour rather than by the month, which suits a family that wants to vary how often their child attends. Hourly pricing makes it harder to compare against monthly plans at a glance.
Running since 2012 and the most established name of the group. Its pricing page carries a currency selector and a monthly toggle but no figures, so a parent cannot compare it against anything on this page without filling in a form first.
Prices published in both dollars and pounds, and the cheapest entry plan here. It publishes no founding year and no refund policy, which are the two things a parent paying a foreign business usually wants to see.
Names more teachers than anyone else here, offers the longest money-back window, and is the only one on this list with a group option, which is the cheapest way in for a family on a tight budget. It has the thinnest review record of the six.
Two academies can both charge $39 and one of them can be twice as expensive.
Every academy on this page prices by the month, and every one of them puts a different number of lessons inside that month. A $39 plan buying eight lessons and a $39 plan buying four are not the same offer, and the monthly figure hides which one you are looking at. So convert before you compare:
monthly fee ÷ lessons in the month = what one lesson costs
Then check the lesson length. A cheaper lesson that runs 30 minutes against one that runs 45 is not cheaper — divide again by the minutes if you want them truly side by side.
Worked on our own plans, so you can see the sum rather than take our word for it. Our $39 plan is 8 lessons a month, which is $4.88 a lesson. Our $65 plan is 20 lessons, which is $3.25 — the bigger plan is not a bigger price, it is a lower one per lesson, which is true at most academies and is worth knowing before you pick the smallest tier to be safe.
Do the same sum on any academy you are weighing up. Four of the six here publish enough to let you. Two do not, and that is its own answer.
The question most parents think about and few ask out loud.
Online classes mean your child sits alone in front of a screen with an adult you have never met, in a country you have probably never been to, for half an hour, several times a week. That is the part worth asking about, and it is the part almost nobody advertises.
We checked all six websites for a statement that a third person attends the lesson. Only ours makes one. QuranHost says a quality team reviews lessons afterwards, and Online Quran Academy calls its sessions monitored without saying by whom. Neither states that anyone is actually present while the class is running. The other three say nothing on the subject at all.
What we do, so you can hold any academy to the same standard: a supervisor joins every class, about two minutes before the teacher and the child. All of our supervisors are female. Every class runs on one Google Meet link that does not change, so a parent can open it and sit in whenever they want, without asking first.
If you are looking at an academy that does not publish anything about this, ask them directly before you pay. A good answer is a specific one. “All our teachers are vetted” is not an answer.
Send these to any academy, ours included. How they answer tells you more than their website does.
Two warning signs worth naming. An academy that will not give you a price until you hand over your phone number has decided the price is a negotiation, and you are the one without the information. And an academy whose reply reads like it was pasted from a template is telling you what support will feel like in month three.
There is no single best one, and any academy telling you it is the best is selling rather than answering. The six on this page differ in ways that matter to different families: price, whether a teacher is named, whether a refund is written down, whether an adult besides the teacher is in the lesson. Decide which of those you care about most, then use the table to see who publishes it.
Among the academies compared here that publish their prices, 30-minute one-to-one lessons run from about $20 a month for one lesson a week to about $100 a month for five or six. Memorisation (Hifz) programmes cost more because the lessons are longer, from $90 to $160 a month. One academy on this list publishes no prices at all.
At the academies here that state their terms, yes, and two of them say plainly that no card is taken. Where an academy advertises a free trial but does not say how many classes it covers or whether a card is required, ask before you book. That is not a trap so much as an unfinished website, but it is worth a question.
That depends entirely on what the academy does about it, which is why it is worth asking before you pay rather than after. Ask whether anyone besides the teacher is present in the lesson, whether you can join and watch whenever you like without arranging it first, and who you contact if something feels wrong. Of the six academies compared on this page, only one publishes a statement that a third person attends the class — ours: a supervisor joins every lesson, all our supervisors are female, and every class runs on one unchanging Google Meet link that a parent can open at any time. Hold any academy you are considering to the same standard, and treat a vague answer as an answer.
Four things, in this order. Is the price published, or do you have to give your details to find out. Is there a written refund policy. Is anyone besides the teacher present in the lesson, or will your child be alone with an adult you have never met. And can you actually reach a person when something goes wrong. Ratings matter less than any of these.
Every figure was read off each academy's own website or its public Trustpilot profile on 13 September 2026, and the pages used are listed at the foot of this one. Nothing was estimated and nothing was taken from advertising banners. Where an academy does not publish something, this page says so rather than guessing. We run one of the six, which is why our own entry lists what we do not offer as well as what we do.
Read on 13 September 2026. Where an academy advertises a promotional rate on its homepage that differs from its own fee page, the fee page figure is the one quoted here.
Up to 3 free classes with a qualified teacher, a supervisor on every one, and no card taken at signup. If it is not right for your child, there is nothing to cancel.
