Duolingo Max

About Duolingo Max

Duolingo Max is the flagship subscription tier of Duolingo, the world's most downloaded language learning application with over 500 million registered users. Launched in 2023, Max introduces two GPT-4-powered features unavailable on lower tiers: Roleplay and Explain My Answer. Roleplay allows learners to practise real-world conversations with an AI character across contextual scenarios such as ordering at a café, checking into a hotel, or navigating a job interview—all in the target language. Explain My Answer provides detailed, personalised feedback on why an answer was right or wrong, going beyond simple correction to build genuine comprehension. The core Duolingo experience is gamified, with streaks, experience points, leaderboards, and bite-sized lessons that reinforce vocabulary, grammar, listening, and speaking skills. The AI personalises lesson difficulty and content sequencing based on individual performance data, a system Duolingo has refined through billions of learner interactions. More than 40 language pairs are supported, with Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese among the most popular. Duolingo for Schools (formerly Duolingo for Educators) extends the platform to classroom environments, allowing teachers to assign specific lessons, monitor individual student progress, and track class-wide metrics through a free dashboard. This product is widely used in secondary and higher education and is designed with COPPA and FERPA considerations in mind for under-13 learners. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and publicly traded on NASDAQ (DUOL), Duolingo processes learner data primarily in the United States. The company is transparent about its data practices in its privacy policy and complies with GDPR via Standard Contractual Clauses for European users. Duolingo does not sell personal data and offers learners the ability to export or delete their data on request. Duolingo Max is priced at $29.99 per month or $167.99 per year (approximately $14/month). For institutions and regulated education organisations, Duolingo for Schools remains free, while enterprise and government procurement is handled via direct agreements. The combination of extreme accessibility, proven learning methodology, and now GPT-4-driven conversation practice makes Duolingo Max one of the most capable consumer-grade AI language learning tools available.