Khanmigo

Khanmigo is an AI-powered tutoring assistant developed by Khan Academy. It provides personalized learning guidance for students, helping them understand concepts through Socratic questioning rather than giving direct answers.

Khanmigo is available to Khan Academy donors at $4/month or $44/year. It is also available for free through participating school districts. The pricing is designed to be accessible for students and educators.

Khanmigo covers a wide range of subjects including math, science, history, economics, and computer science. It draws on Khan Academy extensive content library to provide accurate, curriculum-aligned tutoring.

No, Khanmigo is designed to guide students through the learning process using Socratic method. It asks leading questions and provides hints rather than giving direct answers, helping students develop critical thinking skills.

Yes, Khanmigo is designed with student safety in mind. It includes guardrails to prevent inappropriate content, and all interactions are designed to be educational. Parents and teachers can monitor student activity.

Yes, Khanmigo includes features for teachers such as lesson planning assistance, student progress insights, and classroom activity suggestions. It serves as an AI teaching assistant alongside its student tutoring capabilities.

Khanmigo generates ready to use lesson plans, adapts content to each grade level, and tracks student progress so teachers can spot gaps early. It turns class preparation from hours of searching into minutes of reviewing a draft the AI already drafted.

Khanmigo is free for select participating school districts, while families and individual learners pay $4 per month or $44 per year through the Khan Academy donor model. Check whether your district has partnered with Khan Academy before paying personally.

Khanmigo is priced as a donor-supported product at $4 per month or $44 per year, which works out to $3.67 monthly and undercuts nearly every competing AI tutor by design, since Khan Academy treats it as a mission product. Free access exists for select partner school districts, and Khan Academy has offered free teacher access in the US. Check your district status before paying, and note one Khan Academy account per learner is required.

The difference is pedagogy and guardrails. Khanmigo is built on the Socratic method: instead of handing over the answer, it asks guiding questions, breaks problems into steps, and pushes the student to complete each step. General chatbots simply solve the problem when asked, and homework-averse students notice immediately. Khanmigo also runs inside the Khan Academy ecosystem with progress tracking and grade-adaptive content.

Coverage spans math, science, humanities, and coding across the K-12 range, with content adapting to student grade level, plus lesson plan generation and class tools for teachers. The honest boundary: the platform itself notes it is not ideal for advanced college-level topics. For elementary through high school, especially the standard math track from arithmetic through calculus, the step-by-step tutoring depth is the strongest part.

Teacher access has been the generous side: Khan Academy has offered free Khanmigo for US teachers, funded through donations while family plans run $4 per month, and select districts provide student access. Practical classroom uses include differentiated worksheets, discussion prompts, and unit-aligned practice sets, with the AI drafting and the teacher keeping final judgment. Verify availability for your region first.

No, and the constraint is deliberate. The tutoring design uses Socratic questioning, so a student asking for the answer gets walked through the reasoning one step at a time and is asked to attempt each step. This frustrates students who want shortcuts, which is by design, and it is the main reason parents pick it over general chatbots for homework supervision. If the goal is learning that survives the test, the friction is the feature.