How Much Does It Cost To Join A Dating Agency?

There are major differences between using a dating agency as opposed to online dating or a dating app. Online dating apps are much more of a ‘do it yourself’ type of service, whereby you use their software to create a dating profile for yourself and then use it to try to find others. Whilst a dating agency or personal matchmaking agency would usually provide an expert to do that job for you – your personal matchmaker.

So whatever task that needs to be done, in the search for hopefully a wonderful new partner, the major differential is that you would do it with an online dating service or dating app, whereas your own matchmaker would do that for you. Here are some examples of how things work, what is included in each service and who does what:

You can probably begin to understand that there are vastly different levels of service between using an online dating app versus using a dating agency service. It is easy to see why the personal service provided by a dating agency would cost more – as there is so much more included and involved with the help from your very own personal matchmaker to aid you in creating your dating profile, searching for matches, arranging dates and much more.

In other words "is it affordable?" and yes it is, with an online dating site typically costing between £15 and £95 monthly, so an annual cost of between £180 and £1140 to join an online dating site where you are responsible for all the work required to find matches and arrange dates, whereas using a dating agency service it would be around £1,000 per annum as a minimum and at the top end to join a very high brow service in London, it might be anything up to £100,000 per annum for their most exclusive service, but more typically maybe £2,000 up to £20,000.

The difference in cost is simple a dating agency will typically cost anywhere from £1000 to £20,000 per year depending on the needs from the service. A dating site will cost anywhere from £180 to £1000+ per year, but remember you are required to do all the work yourself which could take hundreds of hours to find your perfect match.

As most people know, you often get what you pay for in life, so joining a dating agency at a higher and more exclusive level will likely deliver far higher quality potential matches to you. There is some extraordinary value in using a dating agency like Avenues if you look for it and I am very proud to say that Avenues is one of the best examples if you are looking for value. 

The Avenues Dating agency service is exclusive to people aged over 50 and memberships start from just £1,195 for a 9 month Silver membership (just £133 per month for a full dating agency service), with a full year on our Gold package becoming available, with an extra 3 months of ‘on hold’, for only £1,895 and our top package, which is Diamond being offered for £2,995, for a year with a very generous 6 months of ‘on hold’, to enable you to pause and properly evaluate each date. Diamond also includes an introduction to dating coaching if needs be and also the services of our head-hunter, who would search for you outside of our database if there was a need.

Now that is extraordinary value on all 3 options for what is involved and to provide even better value, we will include a complimentary photo shoot if you choose to have your interview at our head office.

If you’d like to know more, there is never any compulsion or obligation to join, offering a free and very friendly chat on dating generically, with one of our membership advisers with the aim of putting you in an informed position to see if you feel it is for you. 

So please ring us on 0800 644 4170 to begin evaluating Personal Matchmaking for yourself or 0800 644 4130 if you are under 50 – which is the number for our sister company Matchmakers Dating, who offer the same service for clients aged 25-49. Or simply complete the contact form below.