Every tarot reader with an audience knows the pattern. You post a collective reading, it does numbers, and the comments fill with "what about Geminis?" and "can you pull one card for me, please?" Your DMs are worse — dozens of personal questions from people who genuinely connect with your readings but have no way to pay you, so they ask for free. Meanwhile the readers on marketplace apps hand over enormous commissions, and the DIY route means juggling a booking page, Zoom links, and payment requests that half your clients "forget" to send.
The demand is real. Your audience found you, likes how you read, and wants your cards on their specific situation. What they need is a price and a button.
What tarot readers sell on Cheddify
Per-minute live readings
Toggle yourself available after you post, while your reading is still in people's feeds. A follower taps the link in your bio, pays as a guest in the browser, and you're live on video — shuffling on camera, pulling for their question, with the meter running per minute. Short, honest, pay-for-what-you-use readings: a five-minute clarifier or a fifteen-minute deep dive both work.
Booked full spreads
Celtic Cross and relationship spreads deserve time. Offer booked sessions — say 30 minutes at your per-minute rate — scheduled ahead and paid up front, which ends the no-show problem for good.
Paid DM pulls
This is the natural product for tarot: a one-card or three-card pull delivered as a message. Set a DM price, and "can you pull a card for me?" becomes something you answer on your own time, for a fee, instead of an obligation or a guilt trip. More on this in how paid DMs work.
What should tarot readers charge?
Rates depend on your following and how in-demand your readings are, but sellers in this niche commonly charge $2 to $6 per minute for live readings, with $3 a common middle. For DM pulls, single-card readings often run $10 to $20 and three-card pulls $20 to $40. Start where you're comfortable — you can change your rates anytime, and a rate that feels slightly bold is usually closer to right than one that feels safe.
One more pricing note: your minimum duration setting matters. A three-minute call rarely does a question justice, so most readers set a five- or ten-minute minimum on live calls. That protects the quality of the reading as much as the income — the querent gets a real answer instead of a rushed flip, and you never resent a thirty-second connection that cost more in focus than it paid.
A worked example
You charge $3 per minute and a follower books a 20-minute three-card deep dive: they pay $60, plus about 3% processing billed to them on top. Cheddify's fee is 20% + $2 per call, so you keep 80% of $60 ($48) minus $2 — a payout of $46. Add a $15 paid DM pull that evening: after the 20% fee and roughly 3% card cost on DMs, you keep about 77%, roughly $11.55. Full math on the pricing page.
The honest part: Cheddify brings you zero clients
There's no marketplace here — no browsing, no discovery, no strangers finding your profile. Cheddify converts the audience you already built on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube into paying clients. If your readings get engagement and your DMs get questions, you have everything this tool needs. If you're still building an audience, a marketplace that supplies clients is a more honest fit today — compare Purple Garden alternatives and Kasamba alternatives, or read about building a professional reading practice. Plenty of readers run both at once: marketplace for new faces, Cheddify link for their own community. The link is free to claim — see how it works.