Khanmigo
Khan Academy's AI tutor that guides students to answers instead of giving them
Overview
Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI tutor and teaching assistant. It guides students through maths, science, coding and writing with questions and hints rather than answers, and gives teachers tools for lesson plans, rubrics and summaries of student work. Teacher tools are free in more than 180 countries; the student tutor costs $4 a month and is sold only to US residents.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Standards-aligned, differentiated lesson planning
- On-demand summary of student work
- Learning objectives, rubrics and exit tickets
- Chat history
- Personalised tutoring on Khan Academy content
- Writing and debate with feedback
- Career coaching
- Real-time coding feedback
- Children's chat history and moderation alerts
- Tutoring, writing and coding feedback
- College admissions coaching
- District and school data
- Rostering and SSO through Clever or ClassLink
- Dedicated customer success manager
- Professional learning on AI
Use cases
What you can produce with Khanmigo
- Step-by-step hints and questions that lead a student to an answer without giving it away
- Tutoring attached to any Khan Academy exercise, video or article
- Standards-aligned, differentiated lesson plans, rubrics and exit tickets for teachers
- Summaries of recent student work showing who needs support
- Interactive maths and science diagrams, generated with Gemini, that respond to what a student does
- A parent view of children's chat history with moderation alerts
- Code feedback while learning JavaScript, HTML, Python and SQL
ASEAN Perspective
Khanmigo in Southeast Asia
Khanmigo's free teacher tools reached the Philippines and Vietnam by late 2024-2025, and the platform is accessible in 180+ countries — a genuine positive for ASEAN educators. However, paid student subscriptions remain restricted to US residents, meaning learners in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand cannot subscribe directly. Language support for Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, or Tagalog is not confirmed as of mid-2026, limiting deep local adoption. ASEAN educators can access lesson-planning tools in English, but the full tutoring experience remains US-centric in pricing and language.
Khanmigo does what it promises: it withholds answers and walks students through the reasoning, tied to Khan Academy's exercises and videos, and the free teacher tools for lesson plans, rubrics and exit tickets are genuinely useful in 180-plus countries. Khan Academy's own figure that only about 15% of students with access engage with it is the honest caveat, and outside research in Tennessee found the same thin engagement.
For ASEAN schools the teacher pilot is the practical way in, including Vietnamese and experimental languages; the $4-a-month student tutor is sold only to US residents, and district access is quoted on request.
What we found
Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI tutor and teaching assistant, launched in 2023. Its defining rule is that it will not simply hand over answers: students get questions and hints that push them to work a problem out, across maths, science, coding, writing and humanities, attached to Khan Academy's own exercises, videos and articles. Khan Academy's pages still say it runs on GPT-4. In August 2026 Khan Academy added Gemini-generated interactive maths and science diagrams, built with a Google.org fellowship, and put Gemini into its Practice My Knowledge tool so teachers can generate and curate multiple-choice questions.
Access depends on who you are and where you live. Teachers get the teacher tools free, still labelled a pilot, in more than 180 countries and territories, including the Philippines since December 2024, with a Vietnamese version from November 2025 and more than 30 experimental languages added that December. Those tools draft lesson plans, rubrics, exit tickets and student groupings and summarise recent student work. The tutor is different: parents and adult learners pay $4 a month or $44 a year before sales tax, and must live in the United States with a US billing address. A parent account can switch it on for up to 10 children under 18. Students elsewhere reach it only through a district contract, priced on request.
The open question is whether students use it. In April 2026 Khan Academy wrote that only around 15% of students with access engage with Khanmigo, and said it was reworking the experience for district partners. In August 2026 Chalkbeat reported a University of Toronto-led study in Tennessee middle schools: students used Khanmigo on about a third of their Khan Academy days, often sending off-topic messages or angling for answers, and the gains the study measured did not appear to come from the AI.
For a US family that wants a patient tutor which withholds answers, $4 a month is cheap. Outside the US it is mainly a free planning assistant for teachers.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
Notable facts
- Khanmigo launched the same day as GPT-4 — March 14, 2023 — as one of OpenAI's earliest education launch partners.
- Khan Academy's founder Sal Khan first experimented with AI tutoring concepts by tutoring his own cousins via video in 2004, eventually founding the nonprofit in 2008.
- Microsoft's partnership moved Khanmigo to Azure OpenAI Service and funded free access for all US K-12 teachers, described as one of the largest single AI-in-education rollouts in history.
- In SY24-25, Khanmigo recorded 731% year-on-year user signup growth, reaching 2 million global users across 180+ countries.
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About this listing
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