When you're evaluating online classroom software for your tutoring centre or language school, pricing models can feel deliberately opaque. Some platforms charge per participant, others by meeting minutes, and many hide their best features behind expensive enterprise tiers. Simpleclass takes a different approach: transparent, per-teacher pricing where €49 per month gives you everything the platform can do.
In this post, we'll walk through exactly how per-teacher pricing works, what's included in that €49, and why this model makes sense for educational organisations of every size.
The core model: one price per teacher, everything included
Simpleclass charges €49 per teacher, per month. That teacher licence includes:
- 50 student accounts at no extra cost
- Every feature on every plan — breakout room monitoring, session recording, integrated whiteboard, chat messaging, attendance tracking, custom subdomain, and more
- EU-hosted video and data on infrastructure in Paris
- No meeting links — access by account and course enrolment only
- Unlimited sessions and no per-minute charges
Student accounts are completely free. You're not paying per seat in the classroom; you're paying for the teacher who runs it. This keeps pricing predictable as class sizes fluctuate and removes the perverse incentive to cap enrolment.
Volume discounts for larger teams
If you're running a tutoring centre or language school with multiple teachers, the per-teacher price decreases as your team grows. Simpleclass offers volume discounts for larger teams — typically starting at four teachers or more. The exact pricing tiers are visible when you configure your subscription in the admin dashboard, so you can see the savings before you commit.
This structure rewards growth without penalising small organisations. A solo tutor and a twenty-teacher institute both get the same feature set; the larger team simply pays a lower rate per licence.
What "every feature on every plan" really means
Many SaaS platforms use tiered pricing to gate advanced features. You might get video calls on the basic plan, but breakout rooms, recording, or white-labelling only appear at the premium or enterprise level. Simpleclass doesn't do that.
At €49 per teacher per month, you get:
- Breakout room monitoring — including the ability to monitor all rooms at once, invisibly or silently, and broadcast to every group
- Session recording with EU-hosted playback
- Integrated whiteboard that syncs in real time and appears in recordings
- Custom subdomain so your students log in at yourschool.simpleclass.eu
- Keep student cameras on — teachers can require cameras (and microphones) to stay on during a session
- Attendance tracked automatically, plus session reports you can email to parents
- Session chat and 1:1 direct messages
- Multi-language UI in English, Dutch, German, and French
There are no add-on modules, no feature-unlock fees, and no surprise charges when you want to brand your portal or record a session. If it exists in Simpleclass, it's included.
How the 7-day free trial works
Before you pay anything, Simpleclass offers a 7-day free trial with one teacher account and 50 student accounts. No credit card is required to start; you register, invite a few students or colleagues, and explore the full platform. Every feature is unlocked during the trial — you're testing the real thing, not a limited demo.
The trial is available once per institution. If it works for you, you configure your subscription in the admin dashboard and billing begins. If not, the trial simply expires with no further obligation.
Billing, VAT, and cancellation
Simpleclass bills monthly via Mollie, a European payment provider. Invoices are generated automatically as PDFs with correct EU VAT:
- 21% VAT for customers in the Netherlands
- 0% reverse charge for business customers outside the Netherlands with a valid VAT number (verified monthly via the EU VIES system)
- 21% VAT for individual consumers outside the Netherlands
You can cancel your subscription at any time from the admin dashboard. When you cancel, access continues until the end of your current billing period — you get what you've paid for, and then the subscription ends cleanly.
Why per-teacher pricing fits education
Most video-call platforms were built for corporate meetings, where participant counts are small and predictable. Education is different: a single teacher might run a dozen one-to-one sessions in a morning, then teach a class of thirty in the afternoon. Per-participant or per-meeting pricing punishes that variability.
Per-teacher pricing aligns cost with the resource you're actually managing: teaching capacity. You know how many teachers you employ; you can budget for that number times €49. Student enrolment, class sizes, and session frequency can all flex without changing your bill.
It also removes the anxiety of "are we using too many seats?" that comes with per-participant SaaS. Your students aren't costing you money by showing up — they're the whole point.
Comparing the model to per-participant and per-minute pricing
To ground this in context, consider how other models play out:
- Per-participant pricing: You pay for every active user, teacher and student alike. A tutoring centre with 5 teachers and 200 students might pay for 205 licences, even though only a fraction are online at once. Costs scale with enrolment, not teaching staff.
- Per-minute or per-host pricing: Common in webinar and corporate tools. You buy host licences (often expensive) and may face caps on meeting length or participant counts. Recording, breakout rooms, and branding are frequently upsells.
- Freemium with paywalled features: The base tier is cheap or free, but the features that matter for teaching — monitoring breakout rooms, requiring cameras on, white-labelling — are locked behind a premium tier that costs significantly more.
Simpleclass's per-teacher model sits in between: predictable like per-host, but priced for the education market, and with no feature gates. You pay for the people doing the teaching, and everything else — students, sessions, features — is included.
What happens when you need more than 50 students per teacher?
Each teacher licence includes 50 student accounts. For most tutoring centres and language schools, that's more than enough: a teacher rarely works 1:1 with fifty different individuals in a single month, and group classes share the same pool of students across multiple sessions.
If you do need more student accounts — for example, if you're running a large-scale training programme — you simply add more teacher licences to your subscription. The volume discounts help offset the cost, and you gain the added benefit of enabling more colleagues to teach simultaneously.
Partner and reseller accounts, which are available for larger organisations, can also be configured with higher limits. If you're in that category, the best route is to start a trial and discuss your needs during onboarding.
How to get started
Understanding the pricing model is one thing; seeing it work in your context is another. The easiest way to evaluate whether Simpleclass fits your tutoring centre, language school, or training organisation is to try it:
- Register for a 7-day free trial — one teacher account and 50 student accounts, no credit card required.
- Invite a few students or colleagues and schedule a test session. Explore breakout room monitoring, the integrated whiteboard, session recording, and attendance tracking.
- Review the full feature set on the pricing page, and configure your subscription if you're ready to go live.
If you have questions about volume discounts, VAT, or how the model applies to your specific setup, the FAQ and support team are both available to help.
Pricing built for teaching, not meetings
Simpleclass's per-teacher pricing reflects a straightforward belief: the software should cost what makes sense for the work. Teachers are the constant; students, class sizes, and session counts will always vary. Charging €49 per teacher per month, with 50 free student accounts and every feature included, keeps your costs predictable and your focus on teaching rather than license management.
Whether you're an independent tutor, a growing language school, or a tutoring centre with dozens of teachers, the model scales with you — and the price you see is the price you pay.