Four matchmaking firms' own price pages, read 18 October 2026: from $15,000 for six months to a $50,000-$500,000 retained search, and what none states.
Global Dating Insights reported on 3 September 2026 that Coffee Meets Bagel joins Hello Group's portfolio. The interesting document is not the deal note but the privacy policy — and there are currently two of them live.
Two American matchmaking firms, one buyer's question. Compared strictly on what each puts on its own public pages about cost, contract, screening and the pool a fee actually buys.
A nationwide crackdown has begun on agencies selling rapid introductions and near-immediate weddings. What sold the service was a verification promise the buyer had no way to test.
A matchmaking service that states its screening in unusual detail and its price not at all. Assessed on the claims it puts in public — and on the one figure it withholds.
South Korea's data regulator has fined the matchmaking company Duo over a leak affecting nearly 430,000 users. The sum is not the interesting part; the file a matchmaker keeps is.
Most personal matchmaking services will not tell you what they charge until you have had a consultation. That is a pricing strategy, and it is worth naming as one.
A substantial fee, a period of service, and an outcome nobody can promise. Assessed on what the money demonstrably buys and what it demonstrably cannot.