Comparisons · verified 4 September 2026

Every rival. Receipts included.

Seven head-to-heads, every figure read from that vendor's own live pricing page and dated. LessonLoop is £15 or £39 a month, flat, in pounds, with unlimited teachers and pupils. Everything else on this page meters something — here is what, and what it costs.

Already know the shape of your studio? Read music school software for a whole team of teachers — £39 a month with unlimited teacher accounts — or music teacher software for teaching on your own, £15 a month with unlimited pupils. Every price below is a list price, read on 4 September 2026.

ProductList priceWhat the meter countsCurrency
LessonLoop £15 · £39/mo Nothing GBP
MusicNotes PMI £0 until Jan 2027, then £12/mo Nothing stated GBP
My Music Lessons £9.95/mo + £2.95 per teacher Teachers, plus hired facilities GBP
MyMusicStaff $16.95/mo + $4.95 per teacher Teachers and staff USD
MakeMusic Studio $19.95/mo + $4.95 per staff + 2.9% + 30¢ per card charge Staff, and every payment USD
Teachworks From $16.49/mo + $0.320 per student lesson Student lessons taught USD
Jackrabbit Music From $49/mo Total student count at month end USD
Opus1 From $98/mo Active students USD

Read from each vendor’s own live pricing page on 4 September 2026. US list prices converted at approximately $1 = £0.78 for comparison only — the rate moves, and what a UK card is charged depends on the vendor’s own checkout. GBP prices are as published. The full roundup publishes its criteria before naming a product.

LessonLoopvsMyMusicStaff

Meters teachers and staff, prices in US dollars, and its own support documentation says the mobile app was retired.

$16.95/mo + $4.95 per additional teacher or staff member
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LessonLoopvsTeachworks

Meters student lessons taught, so every pupil in a group lesson counts separately. Prices in US dollars.

From $16.49/mo + $0.320 per student lesson taught
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LessonLoopvsOpus1

Publishes one price and routes the rest to a demo. Meters active students. Prices in US dollars.

From $98/mo; Starter capped at 200 active students
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LessonLoopvsMy Music Lessons

UK-priced in GBP, and meters teachers and facilities rather than charging one flat fee.

£9.95/mo + £2.95 per teacher, plus each hired facility
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LessonLoopvsMakeMusic Studio (Fons)

Takes a cut of every payment on top of the subscription: 2.9% + 30¢ per card charge, 1.8% ACH, 0.4% of subscription volume.

$19.95/mo + $4.95 per staff member + 2.9% + 30¢ per card charge
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LessonLoopvsJackrabbit Music

Prices on the whole roll rather than on teaching, and publishes only its starting figures. Prices in US dollars.

From $49/mo, tiered on total student count at month end
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LessonLoopvsMusicNotes PMI

UK, GBP, built for independent teachers: invoicing and scheduling, free until January 2027.

£0 until January 2027, then £12/mo
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All nine, in one table Music school software, compared on the facts Nine products priced from their own pricing pages, the criteria published before any product is named, and what per-teacher pricing costs at 1, 5, 8, 15 and 30 teachers. Read the roundup →

All figures from each vendor’s own public pricing and product pages · re-verified quarterly · last pass 4 September 2026. Spot something stale? Tell us — we fix it fast.

The constant

Whoever we’re compared to,
three things hold.

Pricing
Flat & published

£15 · £39/mo. Unlimited teachers, pupils and lessons. No per-anything meters, no demo wall, no quiet increases.

AI
Does the admin

LoopAssist drafts, chases and answers in every plan — and the MCP connector plugs your studio into ChatGPT, Claude and any MCP client. No rival ships either.

Home turf
UK-native, properly

GBP, term dates, VAT-aware invoicing, UK GDPR, UK support inside one working day — built in, not adapted from a US product.

Questions

Comparing, answered.

What does music school software cost in the UK?
Between £0 and about £190 a month, and the spread comes from what each product meters rather than from how much it does. Flat: LessonLoop £15 Solo or £39 School, MusicNotes PMI £0 until January 2027 then £12. Metered: My Music Lessons £9.95 + £2.95 per teacher, MyMusicStaff $16.95 + $4.95 per teacher, MakeMusic Studio $19.95 + $4.95 per staff member plus 2.9% + 30¢ per card charge, Teachworks from $16.49 + $0.320 per student lesson, Jackrabbit from $49 on total roll, Opus1 from $98. All read from the vendors' own pricing pages on 4 September 2026.
Which of these are priced in pounds?
LessonLoop, My Music Lessons, MusicNotes PMI and Pembee publish GBP prices. MyMusicStaff, MakeMusic Studio, Teachworks, Jackrabbit and Opus1 publish in US dollars, so a UK school carries the card rate and the currency risk every month. LessonLoop is priced and billed in GBP, with VAT-aware invoicing and UK GDPR.
At what size does a per-teacher plan cost more than a flat one?
Around eight teachers. At eight, MyMusicStaff lists $51.60 a month (about £40) and MakeMusic Studio $54.60 (about £43) against £39 for LessonLoop School with unlimited teacher accounts. At thirty it is about £125 and £128 against the same £39. Run it on your own numbers.
How often are these pages re-verified, and what if one is wrong?
Quarterly, and every page carries the date it was last checked. This pass was 4 September 2026, and every figure was read from the vendor's own live pricing page — nothing from a directory or a third-party summary. If something here is stale or wrong, tell us and we will correct it and re-date the page.
Do you get paid to rank these?
No. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored placements and no vendor has paid to appear or to be left out. Every claim about a competitor is sourced to their own materials with the date it was read, which is what makes the pages defensible and what lets you check them yourself.

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