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About the Author: Steve Ward
Steve Ward is the Owner and CEO of Master Matchmakers and a second-generation matchmaker who built the firm alongside his mother and co-founder JoAnn Ward. He hosted and executive-produced VH1's Tough Love for six seasons, co-authored Crash Course in Love (Simon & Schuster), and has been featured as a dating expert by CNN, the Today Show, Oprah, Glamour, People, and Cosmopolitan. He has spent more than 25 years personally coaching and matching relationship-minded singles nationwide.
Quick answer: Master Matchmakers, with fees starting at $3,500, publishes no success rate and states it cannot guarantee an outcome. Four other firms here print a success rate for their own clients, and others print counts or a comparison with dating apps. Every figure below is quoted as the firm prints it, with its page and date.
On November 4, 2026, we read what ten matchmaking firms print about their own results. A matchmaking success rate is a sentence on a specific page, so the tables below keep each figure with that page and the date we saw it.
Every firm listed here competes with Master Matchmakers, the firm I run, and our own row sits among theirs. Open any page named below and you can check the wording yourself.
Each number is reported as the firm prints it. Firms run alphabetically, which says nothing about merit.
Matchmaking Success Rates by Firm, as of November 2026
Where a firm states a success rate, the entry is its sentence. Where we found none, the entry says what we searched, because a blank means little without knowing where someone looked.
| Firm |
In its own words |
Page and date seen |
| Berkeley International |
"a commitment to our impressive success rate of 85%." |
berkeley-international.com, home page, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Berkeley International |
"boasting a 75% global success rate" |
berkeley-international.com/how-we-work, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| It's Just Lunch |
No overall success rate found on its home page or FAQ, and a Google search of its domain for the exact phrase "success rate" returned nothing, as of November 2026. On a good outcome it writes: "we don't just mean people who walk down the aisle together" |
itsjustlunch.com/blog/10-things-weve-learned-from-35-years-of-matchmaking-success, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Kelleher International |
"Kelleher International has an 89% success rate in facilitating long-term relationships and marriages." |
kelleher-international.com, home page FAQ, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Master Matchmakers |
Publishes no success rate. "We cannot guarantee or promise a certain outcome or result from matchmaking or coaching." |
mastermatchmakers.com/how-it-works, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| The Matchmaking Company |
No success percentage found for its own clients across the 372 pages in its sitemap, as of November 2026 |
matchmakingcompany.com, sitemap read Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Midwest Matchmaking |
No success percentage found across the 280 pages in its sitemap, as of November 2026. A post describes "a proven success rate" and gives no figure |
midwestmatchmaking.com, sitemap read Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Modern Mingle |
No success percentage found across the 71 pages in its sitemap, as of November 2026 |
modernmingle.com, sitemap read Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Select Date Society |
No success percentage found across the 246 pages in its sitemaps, as of November 2026. Its membership page mentions "our exceptional success rate" and gives no figure |
selectdatesociety.com, sitemaps read Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Selective Search |
"At 89%, Selective Search has the highest success rates in the industry" |
selectivesearch.com/faqs, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Tawkify |
"92.1% of our clients find success." The home page footnote on that figure reads: "*For Tawkify-matched couples within first 12 matches." |
tawkify.com/faq and tawkify.com, home page, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Tawkify |
"About 80% of Tawkify clients find success." |
tawkify.com/blog/dating/is-tawkify-worth-it, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Three Day Rule |
Its home page gives a comparison with dating apps and a client satisfaction score, both quoted in the next table |
threedayrule.com, home page, Nov. 4, 2026 |
A "not found" entry describes a search on one date. Sites change, and a firm can add a figure tomorrow, so read the live page before you rely on any line above.
Counts and Comparisons Are Different Figures
Several firms also print numbers that are not success rates. This table quotes some of them, each labeled as what it is.
| Firm |
In its own words |
What it is |
Page and date seen |
| It's Just Lunch |
"more than 2 million arranged dates" |
Count of dates |
itsjustlunch.com/frequently-asked-questions, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| It's Just Lunch |
"We are responsible for thousands of successful dates, hundreds of marriages" |
Count, from a post about its Toronto office |
itsjustlunch.com/blog/6-Smart-Reasons-Why-You-Should-Hire-A-Matchmaker-in-Toronto, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Master Matchmakers |
"Since 2001 over 65,000 singles have passed through our private network." |
Count of singles, not of matches |
mastermatchmakers.com, home page, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| The Matchmaking Company |
"hundreds of couples find their way to one another every year at The Matchmaking Company" |
Count of couples per year |
matchmakingcompany.com/dating-tips/will-i-ever-find-love-a-matchmakers-opinion, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Midwest Matchmaking |
"interviewed over 10,000 singles, set almost 20,000 first dates, and been responsible for hundreds of relationships each year" |
Counts of singles, dates and relationships |
midwestmatchmaking.com/team, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Selective Search |
"over 4,000 (and counting) happy, committed couples" |
Count of couples |
selectivesearch.com/faqs, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Tawkify |
"over 200,000 successful connections" |
Count of connections |
tawkify.com/faq, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Tawkify |
"Our clients are 6.5x more likely to find a compatible match than app users" |
Comparison with app users |
tawkify.com/faq, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Three Day Rule |
"8x more successful than dating apps*" with the footnote "*the knot, 2025" |
Comparison with dating apps, footnote as printed |
threedayrule.com, home page, Nov. 4, 2026 |
| Three Day Rule |
"92% client satisfaction score" |
Client satisfaction score |
threedayrule.com, home page, Nov. 4, 2026 |
Each kind of figure answers its own question. A count says how many, and a rate says how many out of how many, so a count becomes a rate only once you know the second number.
A comparison measures one group against another, which makes the description of both groups part of the claim. A satisfaction score reports how clients rated a service. All of these can be useful to know, as long as each is read as the thing it is.
What a Matchmaker Success Rate Can and Cannot Tell You
A published rate tells you something real: the result a firm wants to be judged on. It also shows the words the firm uses for a good outcome, and those are worth reading slowly. Whatever follows "success" in a sentence, along with any footnote attached to it, is where the meaning of a figure sits.
What a rate cannot give you is your own chances. It describes a group of past clients, and you are one person with a particular set of criteria, a particular city and a particular amount of time to give this. A figure drawn from everyone a firm has worked with says little about a search for someone within ten miles, within five years of your age, who shares your faith and wants children. Nobody can read that off a percentage.
Nor can you set two rates side by side on the strength of the numbers alone. They describe the same thing only if they count the same people, define the same outcome and cover the same period. A single sentence on a page may not tell you all three.
Four Questions to Put to Any Published Rate
These work on any figure from any firm. Use the same wording each time, so the answers can be laid next to each other.
Who Is Counted?
Ask who is in the group the percentage describes. It could be every client who signed or only those who completed a program. The answer sets the bottom half of the fraction, and that shapes the meaning of the top half.
What Counts as Success?
A second date, an exclusive relationship, an engagement, a marriage and a client's own sense that the experience helped are all outcomes someone might call a success. Ask which one the figure uses, and ask to see the definition in writing.
Over What Period?
Ask when the outcome is measured and how old the figure is. A relationship counted at three months and one counted at three years are different results, and a number gathered several years ago describes the firm as it was then.
Who Supplied the Number?
Ask where the figure comes from: the firm's own records, a survey of clients, or someone outside the firm. If it is a survey, ask how many people answered and how they were chosen.
What Sits in Our Own Row
Master Matchmakers publishes no success rate. The sentence in the first table comes from the guarantee note on our How It Works page. The same note says what happens when we get something wrong: "If information we provide is found to be inaccurate we discount the match and try again." That commitment covers the information we give you about a person. It does not reach the outcome of your search.
What we can tell you about a search:
- Every candidate is identity-verified and background-checked before they are introduced.
- You see photos and talk by phone before anyone meets.
- A Presentation is not a Match, and a meeting that does not happen does not count against the contract.
- Fees start at $3,500, and the more open you are about who and where you will be matched, the lower the fee.
None of that predicts a result, and it is not meant to. It describes the work, which you can weigh for yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Tawkify's success rate?
The first table above quotes Tawkify's own statements from its FAQ and from a blog post, each with its page and date. Its home page prints the FAQ percentage with a footnote, also quoted there. Both are Tawkify's own figures, as printed on November 4, 2026.
What is the It's Just Lunch success rate?
We found no overall success rate. Its home page and FAQ show none, and a Google search of its domain for the exact phrase "success rate" returned nothing, as of November 2026. It does print volume figures, including arranged dates and marriages, and those are quoted in the second table above.
What is the Three Day Rule success rate?
Three Day Rule's home page, read November 4, 2026, carries a comparison with dating apps that cites The Knot, and a client satisfaction score. Both are quoted in the second table above in the firm's own words, so each stays attached to the page and date it came from.
Does Master Matchmakers publish a success rate?
No. Our site states that we cannot guarantee or promise a certain outcome, and it sets out what happens before anyone meets, including verification and a phone call. Fees start at $3,500, and the more open you are about who and where you will be matched, the lower the fee.
How do you compare one matchmaker's success rate with another's?
Ask both firms the same four questions: who is counted, what counts as success, over what period, and who supplied the number. Two percentages describe the same thing only when those answers match. Where the answers differ, compare the answers themselves and leave the percentages aside.
The Figure Worth Asking For
If a success figure is part of your decision, the most useful number is one no website can print: what a firm has seen for someone like you. Ask how many clients with your age range, your location and your criteria it has worked with lately, and what happened to them. A firm may not be able to answer precisely, and how it handles the question will still show you how it thinks about your search.
Then ask how many people it could introduce you to today. A rate looks backward over other people's searches. The size of your own pool, and how far you are willing to widen it, is the part of this you can still change.