# Gigpie vs Wise: Complete Comparison An honest Gigpie vs Wise (wise.live) comparison for tutoring and coaching businesses: verified 2026 pricing, a 17-row feature table, break-even math, and verdicts by session price. Canonical URL: https://gigpie.com/compare/gigpie-vs-wise --- Two unrelated companies share the name Wise. If you're after the international money-transfer company, that's wise.com; this page is about [Wise at wise.live](https://wise.live), a live-classes platform for tutoring and coaching businesses, backed by founders from Product Hunt, Plaid, Teachable, and Rippling. Wise builds around the class session itself: recording, AI-generated summaries, in-session leaderboards, a branded student app. Gigpie builds around what happens before and after that session, the family relationship, the shared balance, and who gets paid. ## Quick Comparison | Feature | Gigpie | [Wise](https://wise.live) | | --- | --- | --- | | Pricing model | Flat 2% of collections | $0.69/session or $0.69/seat | | Cost before you collect revenue | Free until you collect revenue | $0/month at ~2 sessions or seats | | Shared balance across siblings | Yes | Not documented | | Package-based billing and installments | Yes | Yes | | Google Calendar sync | Push + conflict check | Two-way sync | | Outlook / Microsoft calendar | Push + conflict check | Not documented | | Session recording + AI summaries | No | Yes | | In-session gamification (leaderboards, quizzes) | No | Yes | | Branded native mobile app | No | Yes | | Parent/student portal | Yes | Yes | | Automated payroll | Pay runs + processor export | Calculates, deducts tax, pays via gateway | | CRM with pipeline, campaigns, and journeys | Yes | Not documented | | AI phone agent for inbound calls | Yes | Not documented | | One account for many educators | Yes | Unlimited tutors and admins per account | | API access | No | Yes | | No-show handling with financial consequences | Yes | Not documented | | Support channels | Email + contact form | Email + contact form | The Wise column reflects wise.live's own pricing, integration, portal, and API documentation as of August 2026 (again, not wise.com, the money-transfer company). "Not documented" means Wise's public materials don't confirm the detail either way, so those cells count for neither side. ## Pricing: Per-Session Fee vs. Flat Percentage ### Wise Wise runs two usage-based plans instead of named tiers: Pay per Session at $0.69 a session for one-on-one tutoring, and Pay per Seat at $0.69 a seat for group tutoring, both with unlimited tutors, admins, and learners, and Zoom costs included (wise.live/pricing, August 2026). Wise's own pricing page gives an example where two sessions or seats a month bills out to $0, which functions as a free tier without being a separate named plan. Custom or enterprise needs route to a sales conversation rather than a published price. ### Gigpie A flat 2% of what you collect through the platform, nothing before you collect it, and no per-session or per-seat charge on top. Stripe's processing fees are separate, the same as they'd be running through Wise's own Stripe integration. > **Where the two prices cross.** Wise charges a flat fee per session; Gigpie charges a percentage of the session price. Set them equal and solve: 2% of price equals $0.69 at a price of about $34.50. Below that price, Gigpie's percentage costs less. Above it, Wise's flat fee costs less, and the gap widens as price climbs. > > Three examples make it concrete. A drop-in enrichment class at $20 a session running 500 sessions a month collects $10,000 total. Wise costs $345 (500 sessions times $0.69) and Gigpie costs $200 (2% of $10,000), so Gigpie is cheaper by $145 a month. A standard hour of 1:1 tutoring at $65 a session running 250 sessions a month collects $16,250. Wise costs $172.50 and Gigpie costs $325, so Wise wins by $152.50 a month. A premium test-prep session at $175 running 120 sessions a month collects $21,000. Wise costs $82.80 and Gigpie costs $420, so Wise wins by nearly $340 a month. We publish that math because most tutoring and coaching sessions price above $34.50, so on the session fee alone, Wise usually costs less. Gigpie's 2% is priced against a wider job than the session fee: the CRM, the payroll run, the shared family balance, the inbound calls answered automatically. If your sessions run low-priced and high-volume, group classes or drop-in enrichment, run your own numbers; that's the one place the crossover tips back toward Gigpie. ## What Wise Does Well Wise's strength sits inside the session itself. Its Google Calendar sync is genuinely two-way: a change made directly on a tutor's personal calendar flows back into Wise, something Gigpie's push-plus-conflict-check model doesn't catch after the fact. Every class runs through Zoom with recording available by default, and the recording plus an AI-generated summary reach the whole roster automatically, including students who missed it. On top of that sits an in-session leaderboard and AI-generated quizzes running without leaving the Zoom window, tracking talk time and attentiveness as the class happens. Branded, white-labeled iOS and Android apps give students round-the-clock access to schedules, chats, and lesson materials under the school's own name. Payroll goes a step further than Gigpie's too: Wise calculates pay from verified attendance, deducts taxes, and can send the payment directly into a tutor's bank account through its connected gateway, Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal, or others. Gigpie concedes these rows outright. It has no session recording, no in-session gamification, no branded app, and payroll ends in a CSV handoff, Summary, Session Data, and a Justworks timecard, for an external processor rather than a direct deposit. ## Where Gigpie Goes Further ### One family, one balance A parent with two kids in different subjects is one household with one budget. In Gigpie, a package belongs to the family: any student in it draws from the same balance of hours, so a 20-hour package covers both kids and the parent sees one number for what's left. Wise's parent portal gives a clear per-child view of active courses, fees, and payment history, real and well built, but its own documentation doesn't say whether one prepaid package can be split across siblings the way Gigpie's can, so we're not claiming it can't. ![The Wu family's package balance detail page, showing 2 active purchases and 24 hours available across the household](/images/marketing/family-profile-shared-package-balance.png) *The Wu family's 24 shared hours across 2 packages, one balance the household draws from automatically.* ### A front office that runs on its own Gigpie carries acquisition and retention tools that don't appear in Wise's public materials: a lead pipeline fed by web forms and ad webhooks, a unified inbox for email, SMS, and calls, broadcast and multi-step journey campaigns, and an AI phone agent that can answer inbound calls and leave a recording and transcript behind. After every completed session, a feedback request goes out automatically and routes five-star (widenable to four in settings) responses toward your Google, Trustpilot, or Thumbtack review page. Wise's public materials don't mention any of it, which tracks: lead generation and review funnels aren't what wise.live is selling. ### No-shows that carry real consequences When a student no-shows or cancels late in Gigpie, the family's package hour is still charged and the coach is still paid. When a coach no-shows, both reverse: the family isn't charged, the coach forfeits pay, and any commission already accrued voids with it. Wise's public materials don't describe an equivalent rule, so we can't compare the two directly. What we can say is that Gigpie's version moves real money in both directions, not just a status flag on a calendar entry. ## Verdict by Use Case ### A live-class studio charging $150 or more per session Wise. The crossover math favors Wise's flat per-session fee at that price, and the product is built for exactly this format: recorded classes, AI summaries for the students who missed one, in-session engagement tools running live. Gigpie's family billing and payroll runs don't offset a fee that costs more per session at this price band. ### A multi-educator tutoring or coaching business billing families with more than one kid Gigpie. The moment two students in a household share a package, family-first billing turns from a nicety into the thing that keeps the books straight. Add a CRM built for lead flow and a payroll run your processor actually accepts, and the 2% starts buying back admin time that Wise's per-session fee doesn't touch. ### A group-format program running high-volume, lower-priced sessions A genuine split, and the crossover math tells you which way. Below roughly $34.50 a session, Gigpie's percentage costs less outright. Above it, Wise's flat fee wins on price, and the decision comes down to whether Wise's session tools are worth paying more for. ## Migrating From Wise Wise doesn't publish a self-serve export tool on its own marketing site. What exists is a developer API: Basic Authentication, a 500-requests-per-minute limit, and endpoints for users, courses, and lesson data. That's real data portability, but it's built for a developer writing a script, not an admin clicking "export." If you need your records out, ask Wise support what a non-technical export actually covers. On Gigpie's side, there's no Wise importer yet. Gigpie's admin can add a new family, assign its package, and pick a coach without leaving one screen, which keeps manual re-entry from turning into a maze of separate forms, but a Wise migration still means retyping every family's package balance and schedule by hand today. The clock on that work runs longer the bigger your roster gets, and session recordings, AI summaries, and lesson history don't carry over at all. ## Frequently Asked Questions ## FAQ **Q:** Is Wise (the tutoring platform) related to Wise the money-transfer company? **A:** No. Wise at wise.live is a live-classes platform for tutoring and coaching businesses, unrelated to Wise (formerly TransferWise) at wise.com. The name overlaps by coincidence, and this comparison is entirely about the wise.live product. **Q:** Is Gigpie cheaper than Wise? **A:** It depends on your session price. Wise charges $0.69 per session or $0.69 per seat as of August 2026, and Gigpie charges a flat 2% of collections. The two cost the same at about $34.50 per session. Below that, Gigpie's percentage costs less; above it, Wise's flat fee does. A $20 drop-in class running 500 sessions a month costs $345 on Wise and $200 on Gigpie. A $175 test-prep session running 120 times a month costs $82.80 on Wise and $420 on Gigpie. **Q:** Does Gigpie offer session recording and AI summaries like Wise? **A:** No. Gigpie generates a meeting link for online sessions but doesn't record calls or generate AI summaries. If recorded sessions and automatic recaps for absent students matter to you, that's a real Wise advantage. **Q:** Does Gigpie have gamification like Wise's in-session leaderboards? **A:** No. Wise runs leaderboards and AI-generated quizzes inside the Zoom session itself. Gigpie has no equivalent; its closest tool is the coach's post-session progress note, which the family can read in full. **Q:** Can siblings share one balance of hours in Gigpie? **A:** Yes. Every package in Gigpie belongs to the family, so any student in the household draws from the same hour balance with nothing to configure. Wise's parent portal shows a clear per-child view of courses and fees, but its documentation doesn't confirm whether one prepaid package can be split across siblings the same way. **Q:** How does calendar sync compare? **A:** Wise runs a genuine two-way Google Calendar sync: a change made directly on a tutor's personal calendar flows back into Wise. Gigpie pushes sessions to Google and Outlook calendars and checks for conflicts at booking time, but it doesn't catch an edit made directly in the external calendar afterward. If two-way sync matters most to you, Wise is stronger on this specific point. **Q:** Does Gigpie support Outlook or only Google Calendar? **A:** Both, with the same push-plus-conflict-check integration. Wise's own marketing pages describe Google Calendar sync specifically; we found no mention of Outlook or Microsoft 365 support on Wise's site, so we're not claiming it exists or that it doesn't. **Q:** Does Wise have branded mobile apps? **A:** Yes, real ones: white-labeled iOS and Android apps live in the App Store and Google Play under Wise's own reference listing, giving students and parents access to schedules, chats, and materials under a school's own branding. Gigpie has no native app; it's a responsive web app that works in any mobile browser. **Q:** How does payroll differ between the two? **A:** Wise calculates pay from verified attendance, deducts taxes, and can send the payment directly into a tutor's bank account through its connected gateway. Gigpie runs pay groups, schedules, and approval-gated payroll runs, then exports Summary, Session Data, and Justworks Timecard CSVs for your payroll processor; it doesn't move money into a coach's account directly. **Q:** What happens financially when a student or coach no-shows in Gigpie? **A:** A student no-show or late cancel still charges the family's package hour and still pays the coach. A coach no-show reverses both: the family isn't charged, the coach forfeits pay, and any commission already accrued is voided. We found no equivalent rule described in Wise's public materials. **Q:** Can I migrate my data from Wise to Gigpie? **A:** Not automatically. Wise doesn't publish a self-serve export tool; it offers a developer API for programmatic access to users, courses, and lesson data, useful for a developer, not a one-click admin export. Gigpie has no automated importer for Wise data today, so a migration means re-creating families, package balances, and schedules by hand, and recordings plus lesson history don't come across. **Q:** Does Wise offer a free trial? **A:** Wise doesn't publish a fixed trial length or a refund policy on its own pricing page; its go-to-market is usage-based, where the bill rounds to $0 at roughly two sessions or seats a month. Gigpie has no timed trial either: it's free until you collect revenue, and after that the only charge is the flat 2%. **Q:** Does either platform offer live chat or phone support? **A:** Neither, as far as we can confirm. Wise lists email, a contact form, and a claimed dedicated account manager, but no live-chat widget or public phone number appears on its own site. Gigpie's channels are the same shape: email and a contact form, no live chat or phone line. **Q:** Is Gigpie a good fit if live group classes are my main format? **A:** Maybe not. Wise's whole product is built around the live class: recording, AI summaries, in-session engagement tools, and a pay-per-seat plan sized for group formats specifically. Gigpie's strengths, family billing and payroll runs, don't offset a per-session fee that Wise usually undercuts at typical class prices. **Free until you collect revenue One family balance, payroll runs, and a CRM, all inside the flat 2%. If your session price already makes Wise cheaper on the fee alone, we said so above.** [Get started free](/register) ## Related Resources - [Family Management](/features/family-management) - The shared-balance architecture this whole comparison turns on, shown on real screens. - [Educator Payroll](/features/educator-payroll) - Pay groups, runs, and processor exports, and why Wise's direct-deposit payroll is the one place it goes further. - [Wise Alternatives](/alternatives/wise-alternatives) - More options to weigh against Wise's flat per-session fee.