Pricing
Simple, honest pricing.
Always.
No VIP traps in the final two weeks. Cancel any time. No fake urgency. Prices are in your own dollars: NZD in New Zealand, AUD in Australia.
For women
Free to search, always
Searching, photos, interests, messages and calls. Forever, with no upgrade prompt. The matchmaker services below are paid, the same as they are for men. Your photos are private by default and stay private until you approve each person individually — that is not a paid feature here, and it never will be.
Membership · men
Women get all of this free, permanently. The matchmaker services below that are paid for everyone, because a real person is doing the work.
Search
or $99 for 3 months, paid once: just over a dollar a day
Search approved profiles yourself, with the controls that make women reply.
- Every profile ID-checked before it goes live, yours and theirs
- Search and filter every woman who chose to be found by men like you
- Every interest carries a note you wrote, so hers is an inbox and not a firehose
- No daily quota — write as many as you are willing to write properly
- Photo requests; her photos appear when she approves you
- Private messaging after she accepts
- A person looks over every new profile the same day
- Cultural filters: community, language, diet, family origin, visa status
- Her profile shows which of her preferences you meet, and which you do not
- By card it renews monthly. Cancel any time, and it runs to the end of the month you paid for
- Or 3 months for $99, paid once (just over a dollar a day): it never renews
Vicholayour personal matchmaker
A matchmaker reads your file, searches on your behalf, and brings you people.
- A named matchmaker, never from your own town
- An intake conversation about what you actually want, not what you typed
- She searches for you and brings you people, rather than you hunting
- She reaches women who chose to be visible to a matchmaker only
- She handles the awkward parts: expectations, timelines, families
- She tells you why she is suggesting each person
- You stay visible on the site and can keep searching yourself
A person does the work · anyone can buy these
When you would rather not do it alone.
The vichola is the person who has always done this in every Indian community: knows both families, makes the approach, asks what nobody wants to ask directly. Half of what you pay goes to her.
Rather search yourself? Search is $99 for 3 months, paid once (just over a dollar a day), or $39 a month.
Icebreaker
A matchmaker hosts your first call, because knowing what to say is the hard part.
- A fifteen to twenty minute call, hosted by a matchmaker
- She has to agree before anything is booked — asking is not arranging
- You each give a number for this one call, to her, never to each other
- She rings you both, opens, keeps it moving, and leaves you to it
- Both numbers are erased the moment the call is over
- Booked into a fixed evening slot, so there is nothing to negotiate
- One payment. Not a membership.
Vichola
A matchmaker reads your file, searches on your behalf, and brings you people.
- A named matchmaker, never from your own town
- An intake conversation about what you actually want, not what you typed
- She searches for you and brings you people, rather than you hunting
- She reaches women who chose to be visible to a matchmaker only
- She handles the awkward parts: expectations, timelines, families
- She tells you why she is suggesting each person
- You stay visible on the site and can keep searching yourself
Rishta Elite
Your profile comes off search completely and your matchmaker works privately.
- Everything in Vichola
- Your profile is removed from search — nobody browsing the site can find you
- Approaches are made on your behalf, discreetly, one at a time
- Nobody learns you are looking unless you decide to tell them
- For anyone who would rather this were not public: a second marriage, a known family, a small community
- Parents can start quietly: nothing about your son or daughter goes on the site until they join and check their own ID
- Priority on your matchmaker’s week
Vichola and Rishta Elite are by invitation and paid three months at a time, because that is how long it takes to be worth anything. The Icebreaker is a single payment. None of these renew by themselves.
Every interest is written by hand, and no phone numbers.
You search approved profiles yourself. Women choose who can find them, her photos appear when she approves you, and contact details are never displayed at any tier. That is the reason women join Rishta at all, and why a reply here means something.
Search tier
The Success Refund
Marry someone you met through us and we refund up to 12 months of your Search membership. We would rather you leave married than stay subscribed.
- Applies to
- Search membership
- Refunded
- Up to 12 months of fees
- Condition
- A member 30+ days before you were introduced
Vichola is excluded because your matchmaker has already been paid for the work she did.
What a Vichola does
Somebody who speaks for you.
A vichola is the person who has always done this work in every Indian community — the one who knows both families, makes the approach, asks the questions nobody wants to ask directly, and carries a "no" back without anybody losing face. That role never stopped being necessary. Every platform just quietly removed it and handed you a search box instead. We hired it back.