Khanmigo is the AI tutoring assistant built by Khan Academy, the nonprofit education platform founded by Salman Khan. Launched in 2023 and powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 family of models, Khanmigo is designed as a Socratic tutor that asks guiding questions and probes student reasoning rather than handing out direct answers. It is one of the largest production deployments of LLM-based tutoring, distributed through Khan Academy's existing footprint of more than 150 million registered learners.
For students, Khanmigo helps with math, science, coding, writing, and exam prep, often anchored to the specific Khan Academy lesson or exercise the learner is working on. For teachers, it doubles as a planning and grading assistant, generating lesson plans, rubrics, exit tickets, and parent communications. Because Khanmigo is embedded in the Khan Academy product, it inherits standards alignment, progress tracking, and content libraries that general-purpose chatbots lack.
Khan Academy has prioritized accessibility over revenue. Khanmigo is free for K-12 teachers in supported regions, and it has been rolled out at no cost to entire states in some pilots, including a statewide agreement with New Hampshire that began in 2024. For parents and individual learners, Khanmigo is offered at $4 per month or $44 per year. School and district deployments are typically priced around $15 per student per year as an add-on to the free Khan Academy platform, with custom pricing for larger contracts.
The tutor is best understood as an extension of Khan Academy's mission rather than a competitive AI product, so its strengths and limits track the platform. Khanmigo is most valuable inside classrooms and districts that already use Khan Academy, especially in math and core STEM subjects, and less suited to learners who want an open-ended chatbot or production-grade coding assistant.