What Acadomia actually does
Acadomia is a full-service private-tutoring agency operating across France, covering every school level from primary through higher education and professional exam preparation. Rather than a marketplace where families browse and contact tutors directly, Acadomia recruits, vets and assigns its own tutors to each family, manages scheduling, and will replace a tutor at no extra charge if the match isn't working — the family deals with Acadomia as the single point of contact rather than negotiating directly with an independent tutor. The scale of that vetting operation is substantial: Acadomia reports a network of around 22,000 teachers and says it accepts roughly one in ten applicants, with a typical placement time of around 72 hours once a family requests a tutor.
The core product
Lessons can be delivered at the student's home, in one of Acadomia's dedicated learning centers, or online via video call, with pricing varying by format and by school level. A distinctive feature of the at-home format is that Acadomia automatically handles the paperwork for France's "service à la personne" tax credit, which reduces the effective net cost of at-home tutoring by roughly half for eligible households — something families would otherwise need to file for themselves with an independent tutor found on an open marketplace. Beyond one-to-one tutoring, Acadomia also operates around 110 physical learning centers across France, in cities including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Nantes, Toulouse, Nice and Strasbourg, offering group courses and vacation revision stages alongside the core at-home and online formats, plus a network of roughly 400 pedagogical advisors who support families in choosing the right format and tutor.
What's new or notable
Since Cinven's October 2024 acquisition of the Domia Group (Acadomia's parent) from IK Partners -- which had itself acquired Domia in 2018 -- the company has continued operating its long-standing agency model — vetted tutor rosters, learning centers, and tax-credit handling — as its core value proposition, competing less on novel technology and more on the reliability and reach of an established, decades-old service. The company publishes its own satisfaction tracking too, reporting a 97% satisfaction rate and an average self-reported progress gain of around 4 points across thousands of collected reviews — self-reported figures rather than independently audited ones, but a level of outcome transparency not every tutoring provider offers.
Who should use Acadomia
Great fit if…
- You want someone else to select and manage the tutor relationship rather than searching and vetting candidates yourself.
- You want the French at-home tutoring tax credit handled automatically, without filing the paperwork yourself.
- You value an established brand with decades of operating history in the French tutoring market over a newer platform.
Skip it if…
- You're price-sensitive — Acadomia's gross hourly rates sit at the higher end of the French market before any tax credit is applied.
- You'd rather choose your own tutor directly from a large pool with visible reviews, which is closer to how an open marketplace works.
Pricing in detail
Acadomia bills purely by the hour actually delivered — there's no prepaid hour-package requirement — with gross rates rising by school level, and a net rate (after the 50% "service à la personne" tax credit, where eligible) shown alongside for at-home lessons specifically.
| Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| At-home — Primary school | €45.40-74.80/hour gross (~€22.70-37.40/hour net after 50% tax credit) | Assigned, vetted tutor, flexible scheduling, free tutor replacement |
| At-home — Middle school | €48.80/hour gross (~€24.40/hour net after tax credit) | Same as above, subject-matched tutor |
| At-home — High school | €49.80/hour gross (~€24.90/hour net after tax credit) | Same as above, subject-specialist tutor |
Where it falls short
- No public online-format pricing was available for this check — figures above are for at-home tutoring specifically; online and learning-center rates are quoted separately by Acadomia's advisors.
- Gross hourly rates are high relative to open marketplaces before the tax credit is applied, and the credit's benefit depends on individual tax eligibility.
Privacy & data
Acadomia is a French-operating company (ultimately owned via Cinven's London-headquartered private equity structure) and, for its French customers, subject to GDPR; it handles the personal and fiscal information needed to process the "service à la personne" tax-credit paperwork on a family's behalf, which is a meaningful amount of personal data beyond typical tutoring-platform data collection.
How we checked this
Checked 2026-09-05 against Acadomia's own blog article detailing at-home hourly rates (acadomia.fr/blog/formats-de-cours/combien-coutent-cours-particuliers), since the primary tarif-cours-particuliers.html page returned an access error at the time of this check; ownership confirmed via IK Partners' own investment page (which discloses its October 2024 exit to Cinven), Cinven's own portfolio page, and independent deal-tracker coverage (Mergr, MergerLinks) of the October 2024 transaction.
What you get, what you give up
What you get
- Decades of operating history and brand recognition in the French private-tutoring market, with an established tutor-vetting and replacement process
- No prepaid package requirement — billing is strictly for hours actually delivered each month, unlike platforms that push upfront multi-month commitments
What you give up
- Now owned by a London-headquartered private equity firm (Cinven, since an October 2024 acquisition from IK Partners) rather than being independently or family-run, unlike some competitors on this list
- Hourly rates before the tax credit are among the higher end of the French tutoring market, and the credit itself depends on eligibility rules that not every family or format qualifies for equally