Ruth Calloway

Editor

Reads the terms so you do not have to: what each dating platform charges, how it bills, what it renews automatically and what it will tell you before you hand over a card.

Most of this category will not show you a price until you have registered. Writing down what is actually knowable in advance is most of the work here.

How I score

Five weighted criteria applied identically to every platform, built from what each one publishes on its own site and in its own terms. Where a platform does not publish something, the entry says "not published" rather than an estimate. We do not claim to have dated our way through these services.