Khanmigo
Khan Academy's AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant for guided learning, teacher prep, lesson planning, rubrics, exit tickets, student-work summaries, writing practice, coding help, and district AI adoption.
Decision snapshot
- Last updated
- 2026-06-29
- Source checked
- 2026-06-29
- Pricing checked
- 2026-06-29
- Security checked
- 2026-06-29
Decision summary
Decision summary
Try: Worth trying for educators, parents, learners, homeschool families, districts, and education teams that need an AI designed around tutoring, teacher prep, and Khan Academy content rather than a general chatbot. Do not use it as a generic workplace assistant or unsupervised student AI rollout without reviewing access rules, age restrictions, district implementation, student-data controls, moderation alerts, and human review expectations.
- Best for
- Teacher prepGuided tutoringKhan Academy contentDistrict AI adoption
- Not good for
- General workplace teams that need broad writing, coding, research, file analysis, or business workflow support
- Main privacy/security risk
- Khanmigo is an education AI product that can involve children, student work, teacher prompts, parent accounts, moderation alerts, district rostering, classroom progress data, and school SSO. Khan Academy positions Khanmigo around safety and learning, but buyers should treat student-data and minor-access review as high stakes before rollout.
- Pricing snapshot
- Teachers: free; individual learners and families: $4/month or $44/year before tax; Khanmigo District Tools: request pricing
Pricing
Teachers can use free Khanmigo teacher tools for planning, rubrics, exit tickets, progress summaries, and classroom content. Parents and learners pay for access and can enable up to 10 children from a parent account. Districts request pricing for teacher and student access, instructional data, co-teaching support, automatic rostering, SSO through Clever SecureSync or ClassLink, customer success, and professional learning.
- Free plan
- Khanmigo for Teachers is listed as free; Khan Academy's core content library and learning platform remain free
- Starting price
- Teachers: free; individual learners and families: $4/month or $44/year before tax; Khanmigo District Tools: request pricing
Pricing checked 2026-06-29
Decision fit
Best for
- Teacher prep
- Guided tutoring
- Khan Academy content
- District AI adoption
Not good for
- General workplace teams that need broad writing, coding, research, file analysis, or business workflow support
- Schools that want teachers to directly grant student access without a district implementation or parent path
- Sensitive student data workflows where FERPA, COPPA, district contracts, rostering, SSO, moderation, retention, and AI vendor terms have not been reviewed
Workflow fit
- Standards-aligned lesson planning
- Rubrics, exit tickets, and classroom activities
- Socratic-style tutoring and homework guidance
- Writing Coach and coding practice feedback
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