Updates to the questionnaire also cover your personal relationship style, but in ways that are probably more accurate than a sliding scale of self-rated emotional stability. One of our favorite tactics covered how you think family and friends would describe you: “Deals with problems in an objective and thoughtful manner” or “Always participates in everything” are two options that can really tell you a lot about someone’s outlook on life.

The combination of the weighty questionnaire and eharmony’s reputation of forming serious relationships means that matches are going to expect you to be vulnerable with someone you’ve never met IRL and maybe even be open to putting a title on the relationship after a few meet-ups. (The site monitors each user’s activity very closely, so the chances of getting nasty opening lines about your favorite position in bed are minimal.) If that sounds gross to you, don’t force it. You won’t have fun, and neither will your matches who are looking for something serious.

The biggest shock? eharmony doesn’t give off overbearing Christian vibes anymore. As recently as two or three years ago, questions about church and God were sprinkled in, even for respondents who marked that they aren’t religious. The site has since updated the questionnaire and barely touches on the topic. If the picture of eharmony painted in your head is one from a 2009 commercial, you may want to give the site a revisit.

eharmony is confident enough in their matchmaking abilities to guarantee that if you’re not satisfied in three months, they’ll give you another three months for free.

As of early 2020, eharmony is jointly run by a three-person executive team (CCO, CFO, and COO) rather than a single CEO position, which has led to some notable changes. However, the site hasn’t always felt like a welcoming place to members of the LGBTQ+ community. Following a 2010 lawsuit, their gay and lesbian spin-off site Compatibility Partners has been folded into eharmony’s overall site, but users on Reddit as recently as 2019 say that it still seems more geared toward straight people.

What eharmony costs in 2020

If you do decide to join, you’re looking at $ a month for a 6-month plan, $ a month for a 12-month plan, or $ a month for a 24-month plan. (Prices change and are discounted frequently, but usually remain in this ballpark. You probably won’t be paying less than $20 per month unless you join for at least a year.) It’s an investment, but we’re hoping that the premium price weeds out people who wouldn’t be joining for the right reasons. Would someone just looking for a hookup really want to drop this kind of money on a one night stand when Tinder exists?

Where match (opens in a new tab) wins

With upwards of 39 million unique monthly visitors, match has one of the the largest user bases of any online dating site and includes singles that run the gamut, from Gen Z to millennials to baby boomers. As of 2018, a quarter of the site’s users are under 30, another quarter are over 50 – the site’s fast-growing demographic. The number of users who don’t have kids and who do have kids is almost perfectly split in half, as well as the number of men versus women. This data fluctuates year after year, but you can count on avoiding the sausage party that happens at many other sites.

match rivals eharmony’s guarantee by doubling the number of months they’ll throw in: If you don’t find someone in half a year, they’ll let you peruse the pool for the rest of the year without cost.