The range, roughly
In person with an established reader, an hour is typically the price of a decent dinner out, and can be several times that in a large city or with someone well known. Shorter sittings of twenty or thirty minutes are common and cost proportionally less.
On marketplaces and freelance platforms, prices drop sharply, often to the price of a couple of coffees for a written reading. Quality varies more than anywhere else in the category.
Apps and subscription tools usually sit in the range of a monthly streaming service, and most offer some form of free tier. One-off readings inside those tools are cheaper still.
These are ranges rather than quotes. Anyone giving you an exact global figure is guessing.
Why the spread is so wide
Almost none of it is the cards. A reader charging a lot is usually charging for time, a room, years of practice, and demand that lets them. A tool charging a little is spreading a fixed cost across a lot of people, which is what software does.
Reputation drives the top end more than skill does, which is true of most services people buy rarely and cannot easily evaluate.
What you are actually buying at each price
At the high end you are buying attention: an hour of someone's undivided focus, follow-up questions, and the experience of being taken seriously by another person. That is a real product and it is priced like one.
In the middle you are usually buying text. A written reading delivered by email is a document, and it is worth what the document is worth to you.
At the subscription end you are mostly buying continuity: readings kept, history you can search, patterns across months. The prose matters less than people expect. The record matters more.
For reference, ours is 9.99 US dollars a month, and the free tier is a real one rather than a demonstration. We would rather you use the free version for a while and decide.
When paying more is worth it
When you want to be heard. If the reason you are seeking a reading is that something is hard and you want a person present for it, pay a person. Software is cheaper and will not do that.
When it is a one-off. For a single meaningful sitting once a year, an hour with a good reader is better value than a subscription you will forget to cancel.
When you can check the reader. Recommendations, a body of writing, a clear description of what they do and refuse to do. Price is a poor proxy for any of that.
When paying more is not worth it
When you want frequency. Weekly readings from a person are expensive and, for most people, unnecessary. This is the case where a tool genuinely wins.
When the seller predicts. Anyone charging a premium to tell you what will happen is charging for a claim they cannot support. Price does not improve that claim.
When you would not go back to it. Most of what any reading is worth appears on the second look. If there is no second look, spend less.
A fair way to decide
Work out how often you actually want a reading. Once a year points at a person. Once a week points at a tool. A few times a month points at a free tier plus a notebook, which costs nothing and works.
Then ask what you want to still have in six months. If the answer is nothing, the cheapest option is the right one.