How Much to Charge for a Synastry or Compatibility Reading

Charge roughly $10–$30 for a quick two-chart compatibility question and $25–$60 for a full written synastry overlay, above your single-chart rate. In a documented Brillay scan of Google Shopping listings on 2 September 2026, the median asking price was $23.59 across 74 listed synastry, compatibility, and composite-chart readings against $17.60 across 77 listed single-chart natal readings.

Paid Questions let a follower pay upfront to ask one private question, and you send one written reply on your own time — no live call or scheduling.

If you have not priced astrology work at all yet, start with how much to charge for an astrology reading for single-chart anchors, then use this page for the two-chart case. Your one Brillay link can hold fixed-price readings, Tips, Goals, Personalized Videos, Custom Work, Paid Questions, and Brand Collaboration Inquiries together, so followers do not need to hunt across multiple pages.

Methodology: Brillay set the four price bands on this page editorially on 25 August 2026 by grouping compatibility formats along four workload variables — number of charts, research depth, delivery format, and coordination required before work can begin. To sanity-check those bands, Brillay ran a documented price scan on 2 September 2026: Google Shopping results for six queries (three synastry/compatibility, three single-chart natal), deduplicated by listing title and filtered to drop books, physical goods, and non-reading products, leaving 74 two-chart listings and 77 single-chart listings. That scan is a convenience sample of publicly listed asking prices — not transactions, not a market average, and not a creator survey. No Brillay earnings data underlies any figure on this page.

What counts as a synastry or compatibility reading?

A synastry or compatibility reading compares two people's birth charts to see how their placements interact: planet-to-planet contacts, one person's planets landing in the other's houses, and aspect patterns across both charts. It differs from a single-chart reading in one commercial way that matters for pricing — the work cannot begin until a second person's birth data arrives.

Followers ask for one of three formats: a single compatibility question (does his Venus placement clash with my Mars?), a full synastry overlay across major planets and houses, or a relationship-timing question about whether current transits favor a specific decision. Each format carries a different amount of chart-research time, so each deserves its own price rather than one flat compatibility reading rate. Each compatibility reading is a one-time purchase, not a membership, so the follower sees one fixed price for one clearly scoped reading.

Compatibility work sits inside a large paid market: IBISWorld valued the Psychic Services industry in the US at $2.3 billion in revenue in 2025, up 2.2% over 2024 (IBISWorld, Psychic Services in the US — Market Size, 2025). A Pew Research Center survey of 9,593 U.S. adults, fielded 21–27 October 2024, found that 30% of U.S. adults consult astrology (or a horoscope), tarot cards, or a fortune teller at least once a year, and that 27% of U.S. adults say they believe in astrology (Pew Research Center, Astrology, Tarot Cards or Fortune Tellers Used by 30% of Americans, May 2025).

Why does a two-chart reading cost more than a single-chart reading?

A synastry reading costs more because it requires six intake fields instead of three, two complete charts to calculate instead of one, and an interaction analysis rather than a single-chart description. Listed prices already carry that premium: Brillay's Google Shopping scan on 2 September 2026 found a $23.59 median asking price across 74 listed two-chart readings against $17.60 across 77 listed single-chart readings, a gap of roughly 34% (Brillay price scan of Google Shopping listings, 2 September 2026).

Three cost drivers separate the two jobs. Two charts instead of one must be calculated and held in mind at once. Interaction analysis, not description — reading how chart A's placements land in chart B's houses and back again — is a distinct interpretive step with no single-chart equivalent. Coordination before work can start means a creator often waits on a second person's exact birth time and location, the same before-work-can-start scheduling drag that shows up when pricing chess lessons.

The intake load is countable: a synastry reading needs birth date, birth time, and birth location for each of two people — six fields, where a single-chart reading needs three. Those fields exist in a documented public record — the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth carries a TIME OF BIRTH (24 hr) field alongside date, sex, and city or town of birth (CDC/NCHS, U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth) — but obtaining them from a second person, who is often not the buyer, is the wait that a single-chart job never has. Brillay recommends, as an internal editorial planning estimate rather than a measured average, budgeting roughly twice the chart-preparation time of a comparable single-chart question before any writing begins.

The spread in listed prices is wide enough that an unpriced compatibility reading tells a buyer nothing. In Brillay's Google Shopping scan on 2 September 2026, the middle half of the 74 listed two-chart readings ran $13.72 to $44.22, against $10.05 to $42.22 for the 77 listed single-chart readings, with the full two-chart spread running from under $1 to $299 (Brillay price scan of Google Shopping listings, 2 September 2026).

How much should you charge for a synastry reading?

Charge $10–$30 for a quick compatibility question, $15–$35 for a relationship-timing check, $20–$40 for a recorded voice walkthrough, and $25–$60 for a full written synastry overlay. Those four bands are Brillay editorial starting recommendations set on 25 August 2026, and they bracket the $23.59 median asking price Brillay measured across 74 listed synastry, compatibility, and composite-chart readings on 2 September 2026.

Those bands also match where most listings actually sit. In Brillay's Google Shopping scan on 2 September 2026, 68% of the 74 listed synastry, compatibility, and composite-chart readings were priced between $10 and $60 (Brillay price scan of Google Shopping listings, 2 September 2026). Set the lower end of your range for a narrow, single-point question about how two charts interact and the higher end for a full overlay across both charts — the same complexity-based tiering that governs visual commission work, such as pricing a caricature by how many subjects it covers.

Every range in the table above assumes both people's birth data (date, time, and location) is supplied upfront. If a follower supplies an approximate or missing birth time for either person, either narrow the scope in writing before starting or ask for the missing detail first.

If you are worried that platform fees will eat into a modestly priced reading, compare the amount you receive: Fiverr says sellers receive $800 from a completed $1,000 Gig, so a $40 synastry Gig returns $32 before any card-processing deduction (Fiverr Help Center, Fiverr Pro freelancer Badge and benefits). The spread outside those bands is the reason to publish a named two-chart price rather than an unscoped reading: the roughly one listing in three that fell outside $10–$60 ran from under $1 to $299 among the 74 listed synastry, compatibility, and composite-chart readings (Brillay price scan of Google Shopping listings, 2 September 2026), so a follower comparing listings has no default price to expect. Brillay publishes the Google Shopping figures on this page as a dated sample of asking prices, not a measured market average; no government agency or trade body publishes an average synastry price. On Brillay the two-chart reading sits on your own page at the price you named, with both people's birth data collected in the brief and the reading paid for before you start.

Should a compatibility reading be a Paid Question or a custom request?

Use a Paid Question for one narrow compatibility point answered in writing privately, and Custom Work for a longer written overlay, an audio or video walkthrough, or an intake that needs both birth profiles attached as files. Paid Questions are for one written answer; Custom Work is for a larger reading delivered once as a note, file, or link.

A synastry overlay delivered as an audio file, a PDF, or a chart image therefore belongs in Custom Work instead.

Followers pay upfront; you can decline a request. A Paid Question includes one text question, one written reply, and a creator-set reply window from 1 hour to 5 days; a missed window closes the request and the follower keeps their money. A custom request lets the creator pick any delivery time between 1 hour and 5 days, which is where both the same day to 48 hours quick question and the 48–96 hour overlay belong.

Custom Work accepts follower-supplied files at order time (a track, a resume, a screenshot), and you deliver a written note plus up to 5 files (video, audio, images, PDF, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint), and/or a private link. That is what makes a custom request the right home for a two-profile synastry intake — both birth records, and a screenshot of an existing chart, arrive as files rather than free text, the same reason a custom request suits project intake in other categories, such as collecting branding assets before quoting a small business website. You can answer Paid Questions in writing or deliver Custom Work on your own time; if the birth data is unusable, you can decline the request and the follower gets their money back (how Brillay works).

What information do you need before you start?

A compatibility reading needs six pieces of information before work begins: birth date, birth time, and birth city for each of the two people. Missing or approximate data for either person limits what can be answered responsibly, so a listing should state the minimum intake — and what happens when it is incomplete — before the follower pays rather than after.

When an exact birth time for the second person is unavailable, say in the listing which parts of the reading survive that gap, and point the follower at the record that holds it: time of birth is one of the items US hospitals report on the facility worksheet behind the birth certificate, alongside date of birth and the certifier's name and title. Sun, Venus, and Mars placements can usually still be read from a birth date alone, with an ephemeris check when the date sits near a sign boundary or during a retrograde. Moon placements should be flagged as approximate, and house-dependent work — an exact 7th-house overlay, for instance — needs a real birth time outright. Pricing that boundary as a scope limit rather than discovering it mid-order is what keeps a two-chart job from turning into unpaid rework.

Audience framing matters at intake too, because most buyers are not asking for a verdict. In a Pew Research Center survey of 9,593 U.S. adults fielded 21–27 October 2024, 20% of U.S. adults said they consult astrology, tarot cards, or fortune tellers just for fun, while 10% said they do so because they believe the practices give helpful insights (Pew Research Center). The buyer skew is measurable in the same survey: 46% of women ages 18 to 49 consult astrology, tarot cards, or a fortune teller at least once a year, against 37% of women overall, and 43% of women ages 18 to 49 say they believe in astrology, against 20% of men ages 18 to 49 (Pew Research Center).

Most who use astrology (or a horoscope), tarot cards or a fortune teller say they do so just for fun rather than for insights about life. — Pew Research Center, Astrology, Tarot Cards or Fortune Tellers Used by 30% of Americans, May 2025

How much do you keep after Brillay and Stripe fees?

Brillay charges 8% when a follower pays for work and 5% on tips and goals; Stripe processing is deducted separately from creator earnings. Followers pay the displayed fixed price by card without creating an account, and a $40 US-card order would net approximately $35.34 using Stripe’s published domestic rate as an estimate. Creating a Brillay page carries no monthly fee and no follower minimum (Brillay pricing). Astrologers in 41 payout countries can connect their bank through Stripe and receive their reading income there.

Stripe's published US rate for domestic online cards is 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge, with an additional 1.5% for international cards and a further 1% when currency conversion is required (Stripe pricing). A compatibility reading paid for on a non-US card therefore nets a US creator less than the rows below show. The table applies both deductions to the same gross price rather than compounding them, for planning purposes only.

If you sell readings on Etsy and are unsure how much its fees leave you, account for the $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction fee, and US payment-processing fee of 3% + $0.25 before setting your price (Etsy, Fee Basics, What are Payment Processing Fees for Selling on Etsy, and Etsy Fees & Payments Policy). Etsy sellers can owe more than that on an advertised sale: Etsy's Help Center states that the Offsite Ads fee is 15% of the order total, discounted to 12% for sellers who made at least $10,000 in the past 365 days, and capped at $100 USD per order (Etsy, What are the Fees and Taxes for Selling on Etsy and How Etsy's Offsite Ads Work), which on a $40 synastry listing sold through an Offsite Ad is a further $6.00 on top of Etsy's 6.5% transaction fee and 3% + $0.25 payment processing. Each row above is an illustrative example rather than a promise: Stripe's processing charge varies by card type and country, and the platform fee for follower-paid work is documented on the Brillay pricing page. A Brillay reading, by contrast, is a single order on your own page, with the scope and the delivery window written down and no listing to renew.

What should a compatibility-reading listing include?

A compatibility-reading listing should state six required intake fields (birth date, time, and city for each person), the scope, the delivery format, the delivery time, the missing-data policy, and an outcome boundary — all before the follower pays. Naming each element before checkout prevents missing details and unpaid scope creep; one delivery closes the order.

Define, before publishing: required input (six fields), scope (one specific question, or a full overlay across major planets and houses), format (written, voice, or both), delivery time (a window inside Brillay's 1-hour-to-5-day Custom Work range), missing-data policy (what happens if the second person's exact birth time is unavailable), and an outcome boundary — that the reading offers a perspective, not a determination of whether a relationship will work.

For example: Send both people's birth date, time, and city. You'll receive a written breakdown of the top three interactions between the two charts within 72 hours. If an exact birth time is missing for either person, the reading covers sign-level placements only, and Moon placements are flagged as approximate.

An unscoped listing also carries a cash risk when a buyer disputes the charge: Stripe's published pricing lists a $15.00 dispute fee for each dispute received, returned to the business only when the dispute is won. At the $23.59 median asking price Brillay measured for two-chart readings on 2 September 2026, a single lost dispute wipes out $38.59 — the revenue from more than one and a half full readings — which makes the written scope, delivery time, and missing-data policy the cheapest insurance on the page. On Brillay, handle scam concerns by collecting complete details before checkout, declining unusable requests before delivery, and keeping the work inside the stated one-delivery scope.

An outcome boundary matches how buyers say they use readings: in a Pew Research Center survey of 9,593 U.S. adults fielded 21–27 October 2024, just 1% of U.S. adults said they rely a lot on insights from astrology, tarot cards, or fortune tellers when making major life decisions, and a further 5% said they rely on them a little (Pew Research Center). Selling a perspective rather than a verdict is the honest framing for an emotionally loaded request — the same tone that governs pricing a eulogy or tribute speech.

For a broader look at building an astrology offer page — single-question pricing, full reports, and disclaimers — see the single-chart astrology pricing anchors linked above.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers to the five questions creators ask most about two-chart pricing: a synastry reading is priced above a comparable single-chart reading, both people's birth date, time, and city belong in the intake, one narrow compatibility point fits a Paid Question, a full overlay fits a custom request, and Brillay's platform fee applies only when a follower pays.

How is a synastry reading different from a regular astrology reading in price?

A synastry reading costs more than a single-chart reading of similar depth because it needs two people's birth data and an interaction analysis rather than a single-chart description. Brillay's editorial anchors put a quick compatibility question at $10–$30 and a full written overlay at $25–$60, against Brillay's single-chart anchors of $6–$25 for a quick chart question and $20–$45 for a birth chart report. A documented listing sample points the same direction: Brillay's scan of Google Shopping results on 2 September 2026 found a median asking price of $23.59 across 74 listed synastry, compatibility, and composite-chart readings versus $17.60 across 77 listed single-chart natal readings.

Should I ask for both people's birth details before or after payment?

Collect both people’s birth details in the order form before checkout.

What if only one person's exact birth time is available?

Say so in the listing and in the reply, and price the reduced scope accordingly. Sun, Venus, and Mars placements can usually be read from a birth date alone, with an ephemeris check when the date sits near a sign boundary or during a retrograde. Moon placements belong in the reply as approximate, and house-dependent work such as an exact 7th-house overlay requires a real birth time — so either collect it before starting or scope it out in writing before the follower pays.

Can I sell a compatibility reading as a Paid Question?

Yes, for a single narrow question that fits in a private written answer. You choose a reply time from 1 hour to 5 days for one private question and one written reply. A full overlay, a structured two-profile intake, or an audio walkthrough fits Custom Work, where you select a delivery time from 1 hour to 5 days.

Does Brillay take a cut of a compatibility reading?

Yes — Brillay's platform fee on a $40 overlay is $3.20, shown with the other rows in the fee table on this page; Stripe's published US rate of 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge for domestic online cards applies on top, plus 1.5% more for international cards and a further 1% when currency conversion is required — so a $40 overlay nets roughly $35.34 on a US card.

Create your free Brillay page when you are ready: there is no follower minimum or application, and one Brillay link lets you give people asking “Are we compatible?” a fixed price and clear scope instead of negotiating or giving the reading away in DMs.