Khanmigo

What is Khanmigo?

Khanmigo is an AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant from Khan Academy. It is intended to help learners understand how to solve problems, not merely provide a final answer, and to reduce the preparation work involved in teaching.

The product has separate experiences for learners, parents, teachers, and schools or districts. A student might use Khanmigo to work through a difficult math problem, practice an essay, or explore a historical topic. A teacher might use it to draft a lesson plan, create a rubric, generate an exit ticket, or identify areas where students may need additional support.

How learners use Khanmigo

Khanmigo's learner experience is conversational, but it is narrower and more education-oriented than a general-purpose chatbot such as ChatGPT. Users ask questions or select guided activities, and Khanmigo responds with explanations, prompts, feedback, or follow-up questions intended to support learning.

• Problem solving: Students can receive guided assistance with mathematics, science, coding, and other academic subjects.
• Writing practice: Khanmigo can help with brainstorming, drafting, reviewing, and improving essays and other academic writing.
• Subject exploration: Learners can discuss history, humanities, and other topics through structured educational activities.
• Practice and feedback: The system can provide explanations and help students identify what to try next rather than functioning only as an answer generator.

This makes Khanmigo most useful when the learner wants an interactive explanation or a next step. It should not be treated as an infallible authority: generated explanations and feedback still need judgment, particularly for consequential schoolwork.

Teacher tools and classroom workflows

For educators, Khanmigo is less about open-ended conversation and more about preparing and adapting instructional materials. Teacher Tools include guided activities for lesson planning, quizzes, rubrics, report-card comments, discussion prompts, exit tickets, and differentiated learning materials.

Teachers can also use supported workflows to review recent student work, recommend Khan Academy assignments, and obtain class-level snapshots. Materials created with Khanmigo can be kept in a My Documents area for later review, editing, or export. The product can therefore function as a preparation assistant, although teachers remain responsible for checking the accuracy, suitability, and level of generated content.

School and district use

Schools and districts can deploy Khanmigo through Khan Academy Districts plans. Supported administrative workflows include district rostering and sign-in arrangements involving Clever, ClassLink, Google SSO, and Canvas environments. Khanmigo Teacher Tools can also be installed in Canvas through an LTI integration, giving educators access within a supported learning-management workflow.

District deployments add administrative controls, role-based access, collaboration, shared workspaces, analytics, and SSO capabilities. The exact features and commercial terms depend on the implementation rather than a single universal plan.

What distinguishes Khanmigo from other AI tools?

Khanmigo is built around guided education rather than broad information retrieval, creative media production, or business automation. Its value comes from combining conversational help with Khan Academy's learning content and teacher-oriented activities.

Unlike a general-purpose chatbot, it is not positioned as a broad web-search assistant, custom agent builder, or developer platform. It has no public developer API, custom model selection, image-generation workflow, or general workflow-automation system. Compared with tools such as Claude or Google Gemini, Khanmigo is a more specialized choice for students, parents, educators, and education institutions.

Pricing and availability

Khanmigo uses a mixed access model. Free Teacher Tools are available to educators in many countries and regions, subject to supported languages and other availability restrictions. Individual Learner and Parent subscriptions are advertised at $4 per month in the United States and are currently geographically restricted to that market.

Schools and districts access Khanmigo through Khan Academy Districts plans. These arrangements can include custom enterprise terms; an Enterprise Starter plan has been advertised at $10 per student per year. Availability, included features, and pricing can vary by deployment.

Usage is also subject to daily interaction limits intended to keep sessions focused and prevent extended conversations from drifting away from educational purposes. Parent accounts can provide access to up to 10 connected children. Mobile support is limited: some learner activities are available in the Khan Academy iOS and Android apps, but the full Khanmigo chat experience, teacher tools, and parent tools are primarily accessed on the web.

Platforms, languages, and access

Users sign in with a Khan Academy account, select a learner or teacher activity, and provide a question, learning goal, student-support request, or content-generation prompt. Khanmigo is available through the Khan Academy web experience and khanmigo.ai, with mobile-browser access and selected mobile-app activities.

The service supports a broad set of languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and others. Khan Academy documents English, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese as fully quality-tested; other languages may experience translation or formatting issues.

Privacy, safety, and limitations

Khanmigo includes education-oriented safeguards such as moderation, adult visibility for child conversations, and notifications for certain flagged interactions. Khan Academy advises users not to submit personally identifiable information. Images shared with Khanmigo are documented as not being stored under Khan Academy's privacy practices.

Conversation retention depends on the situation. Inactive conversations may remain viewable in chat history for up to 365 days. Moderation-flagged or feedback-submitted conversations, and conversations retained for certain research purposes, may remain for up to two years. Users can request earlier deletion, while some user insights may remain until account deletion.

The data-training policy is not expressed in one product-specific public policy covering every Khanmigo experience and external provider. Khan Academy states that Khanmigo uses AI developed with external partners, and Khanmigo Lite has a separate notice explaining that OpenAI may use chats to improve its models unless users opt out. This makes it important for schools, teachers, and families to review the terms applicable to their particular account and deployment.

Who should use Khanmigo?

Khanmigo is a good fit for students who want guided academic help, parents supporting children's learning, and teachers who regularly create lessons, assessments, rubrics, or differentiated materials. It is also relevant to schools and districts that want an education-specific AI implementation with administrative and learning-management integrations.

It is a weaker fit for users seeking broad internet research, unrestricted model selection, image or video generation, custom agents, public APIs, or general business automation. It also should not replace teacher or parent judgment. The strongest use case is supervised educational support: Khanmigo can accelerate practice and preparation, while people remain responsible for interpreting its output and making instructional decisions.