 | Super $95.99 $8.00/mo Source · Checked Today you pay $0.00 Free trial: 7 days — then the price above is charged. | Super Family $119.99 $10.00/mo Source · Checked Today you pay $0.00 Free trial: 7 days — then the price above is charged. |
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| Choose a plan | Choose a plan | |
Billed once for the full year, up front. | Billed once for the full year, up front. |
$8.00/mo
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Today you pay $0.00
Free trial: 7 days — then the price above is charged.
Billed once for the full year, up front.
Language learning in the US
Duolingo Super: what you get over the free app
Every Duolingo lesson is free — Super doesn’t unlock more content. It removes ads, adds Unlimited Hearts so mistakes don’t stop you, personalized practice of your mistakes and unlimited Legendary attempts. Super Family shares that with up to 5 other people. Duolingo Max adds AI Roleplay and Video Call with Lily, on iOS and Android only. New subscribers get a 1-week free trial.
- Free lessons for everyone. Duolingo offers the same lesson content to all users.
- No ads, Unlimited Hearts. Mistakes don’t end your session.
- Family for 6. You plus 5 family or friends, anywhere.
- Max adds AI speaking. Roleplay and Video Call with Lily.
- 1-week free trial. With a reminder before it ends.
Most important before you pay
Tomas StankevičiusUpdated 2026-10-14Facts from duolingo.com and the Duolingo Help Center, with dates
At a glance
- Plans
- Free, Super, Super Family, Max
- Lesson content
- The same on every plan
- Family
- Up to 6 accounts
- Max AI features
- iOS and Android only, select courses
- Free trial
- 1 week
- Refunds
- Generally none
Plans change — check the provider’s own page before you pay.
Prices with dates
Every price has a source and the date it was checked.
From duolingo.com and the Help Center
Plans, trial, Family Plan, Max and refund rules as Duolingo publishes them.
Affiliate links are labeled
If a link is an affiliate link, we say so right next to it.
Short summary
Duolingo is one of the few apps where the free version is the full course. Pay for Super if ads or running out of hearts stop you from practicing; the Family Plan is the better deal if two or more people learn. Max is worth it only for its AI speaking practice — and only if your course supports it.
The course is free
Super changes the experience, not the content.
Refunds are rare
In-app purchases are generally nonrefundable.
- We recommend first:
- Daily learners who hit the heart limit, and families who learn together.
- With caveats:
- Anyone hoping Max’s AI features cover their course — check the list first.
Who Super is for, and who it isn’t
The free app already teaches everything.
A good choice
If hearts stop you
Unlimited Hearts lets you keep going after mistakes.
If ads bother you
Super removes them.
If your family learns too
Super Family covers up to 6 accounts.
A weaker choice
If you want more lessons
Content is the same on the free plan.
If you might want a refund
Duolingo generally doesn’t refund.
If you learn on the web
Max can’t be bought or used on the web.
Plans
Prices are shown in the app and at checkout.
| Plan | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Free | What it means in practiceAll lessons, with ads and a limited number of hearts. |
| Super | What it means in practiceNo ads, Unlimited Hearts, personalized mistakes practice, unlimited Legendary attempts, free challenge entry. |
| Super Family | What it means in practiceSuper for you and up to 5 others, each with their own account. |
| Duolingo Max | What it means in practiceEverything in Super plus Roleplay and Video Call with Lily — iOS and Android, select courses; also as a family plan. |
Learning alone → Super; learning together → Super Family; want AI speaking practice in a supported course → Max.
Our score and what it’s made of
This is our own assessment based on checked facts. It isn’t an average of user reviews or the provider’s claim. Below — every criterion with its weight and source.
4,1
out of 5 · average of 2 plans · 5 of 7 criteria checked
The score is calculated from the criteria you see below: each criterion shows its weight, what exactly we found and where. Where we have the provider’s page, there’s a link with a check date; where the number comes from our catalog, we say so. “Not checked” means we don’t have the data and the criterion isn’t counted. “Provider doesn’t say” means we went through the provider’s pages but the information isn’t there; that criterion isn’t counted either. If you disagree with the weights — in the methodology you’ll see all the parts and can weigh them your own way. We don’t put app store ratings into structured data: they were collected on other websites, so they stay as visible text.
Scores for individual plans: Super Family 4,1 · Super 4,1
The same for all “Duolingo” plans
| Criterion | What we found | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertised price is the final price(10 %) | not checked | — | not checked |
| Free way to try it(10 %) | all content free | 5,0 | our catalog |
| Learning offline(20 %) | provider doesn’t say | — | source |
| Value of the certificate(20 %) | no external recognition | 2,0 | our catalog |
| Sharing with family(15 %) | family or group plan available | 5,0 | our catalog |
| App rating(15 %) | 4,7 out of 5 | 4,7 | our catalog |
Depends on plan
| Criterion | Super Family | Super |
|---|---|---|
| Price compared with others(10 %) | 10,00 USD/mo · when paying for 12 months5,0 | 8,00 USD/mo · when paying for 12 months5,0 |
Availability in the US
The final price isn’t entirely clear
Some terms for US buyers are clear, others aren’t. See which ones below.
- price in dollars
- final tax not confirmed — the amount may be higher
- shared international price list — the price depends on your account’s country
What you get for the money
What’s included in the plan, what’s available in the US, and how the paid version differs from the free one.
Features
What works now, what has only been announced, and how it connects with other services.
What applies in the US
Duolingo is fully available in the US. A few features depend on the platform or course.
Max AI features
Works with conditionspaid users onlyRoleplay and Video Call with Lily on iOS and Android, in select courses.
Super Family
WorksUp to 6 accounts; members can live in any country.
Math and Chess
WorksListed alongside the language courses.
Music
Works with conditionsiOS and Android only.
Content
What you actually get to watch: catalog, languages, sports and events.
What you can learn
Duolingo lists 100+ courses: languages, plus math, chess and music.
Languages
From Spanish, French and Japanese to Irish, Hawaiian and Navajo.
Math and chess
Separate courses in the same app.
Same content for everyone
Duolingo says it offers the same lesson content to all users.
Duolingo Max: what the AI adds
Max includes everything in Super plus two AI features. It’s sold only in the iOS and Android apps.
Roleplay
Practice real-world conversations with Duolingo’s characters — for English speakers learning French, Spanish, German, Portuguese or Italian, and for a few English courses.
Video Call with Lily
On-demand practice calls on iOS and Android for learners of English, French, Spanish, Italian, German or Portuguese.
Family Max
Max can be a family plan for you and 5 others; members whose course isn’t supported still get Super.
No web upgrade
Web subscriptions can’t be upgraded to Max.
If your course isn’t on the Roleplay or Video Call lists, Max gives you nothing over Super.
What US App Store reviewers say
Duolingo has 4.7 out of 5 stars from 5.5 million ratings on the US App Store. We also read the 50 most recent US reviews — 8 of them gave one or two stars. Recent reviews skew toward people with a problem, so read them as a list of what can go wrong, not as a verdict.
Praised
Most reviewers enjoy the game-like lessons, the variety of languages and the chess and math courses.
Trial charges
A couple of reviewers say they were charged earlier than expected or missed the end-of-trial reminder.
Pushiness
Others dislike the streak pressure, in-app upsells and AI-driven changes.
Set your own reminder for the trial end — don’t rely only on the app’s.
Streaks, leagues and reminders
Duolingo is built like a game meant to get you practicing every day. Three things drive it.
Streak
The flame counts how many days in a row you’ve completed a lesson.
Leagues
A weekly XP contest against a new group of learners each week, in the Leaderboards tab.
Reminders
Turn on practice reminders in notification settings and pick a time that works.
The game layer motivates many learners, but plenty of reviewers find it too much – use leagues if they help and ignore them if not.
Where it works
Supported devices and offline learning.
Where you can learn
| Group | Examples | Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Apps | ExamplesiPhone and Android apps | CaveatMax is available only in the mobile apps. |
| Web | Examplesduolingo.com | CaveatSuper can be bought on the web; Max can’t. |
App ratings in the stores
These are ratings from store users. They rate how the app works; they say nothing about whether the subscription price is fair.
Ratings change constantly and often drop after price increases or removed features. We show the value from the check date together with the number of reviews, because 4.8 from two hundred and 4.5 from two million ratings aren’t the same thing.
Account and terms
Saved progress, sharing, cancellation and refunds.
Super Family
- The family manager invites up to 5 people by link — family or friends, in any location, learning any language.
- Someone with an active paid Duolingo subscription must cancel it and let it expire before joining.
- Joining, starting or leaving a Family Plan doesn’t affect anyone’s progress or streak.
No reselling slots
Where you subscribed matters
| Condition | How it works |
|---|---|
| In the app | How it worksBilled by Apple or Google Play |
| On the web | How it worksBilled by Duolingo |
| Managing | How it worksOn the platform where you subscribed |
Canceling and refunds
You can cancel Super at any time, on the platform where you started it. You keep Super until the end of the paid period, and you won’t be billed again. Canceling doesn’t refund past payments, and charges aren’t prorated.
App or web subscription
Renews automatically until you cancel.
Apple or Google Play
Cancel and request refunds with them.
Deleting isn’t canceling
Plans and terms
Who each plan is for and what terms it requires.
Super Family: the rules
Super Family shares Super with 5 family members or friends. Joining, starting or leaving a Family Plan doesn’t affect anyone’s progress or streak.
- Who can join
- Anyone — friends and family, in any location and any language
- Not eligible
- Someone with an active paid Duolingo subscription, until it expires
- Managing
- Only the family manager — in the Super dashboard in the app
- Inviting
- An invite link by text, WhatsApp or email; members accept it to join
- Upgrading
- Possible from an individual plan — but not from a monthly Google Play subscription
Don’t sell the slots
Privacy, accessibility and transparency
What data you can control, how the accessibility features work, and what the provider discloses.
Privacy and data
What Duolingo says in its privacy policy.
AI features
When you use Video Call or other AI features, text and audio can be shared with AI vendors such as OpenAI and Google, which may not use your personal data for their own purposes.
Recordings
Duolingo may record and keep audio or transcripts of what you say and type to improve and personalize the service.
Your rights
Change your details and opt out of some processing in Settings. Ask for access or account deletion through the Duolingo Data Vault.
Children
Users under the age of digital consent get a slightly different experience with extra protections.
The website also uses marketing cookies from Google, Meta and Amazon, among others – accept only the necessary ones to avoid them.
What we don’t claim
Common claims about Duolingo, next to what Duolingo says.
Super unlocks more lessons.
Duolingo offers the same lesson content to all users.
Max works in every course.
Roleplay and Video Call cover a limited list of courses, on mobile only.
Deleting the app stops the charges.
You have to cancel the subscription where you started it.
If there’s no price on the page, the service isn’t available in the US.
Not necessarily. More often it means the provider doesn’t publish a fixed price or shows it only at checkout. Availability and a published price are two different things.
An annual plan always works out cheaper.
Cheaper than the monthly plan only if you use the whole period. You pay for the whole year up front, and when you cancel you usually don’t get the unused part back — so it’s a saving for people who already know they’ll stay all year.
Deleting the app cancels the subscription.
No. Deleting the app doesn’t stop the payments — only canceling in the account where you bought the subscription does. The app disappears, the bill stays.
Every plan looks the same in every country.
No. The list of plans, the features in the same plan and the available languages can differ. That’s why we don’t carry data from another country over to the US page.
The price on the pricing page is exactly what you’ll be charged.
Not always. US providers list prices before sales tax, and whether tax is added at checkout — and how much — depends on your state. On one VPN order page we saw a 6.25% sales tax added on top of the listed monthly price.
This list isn’t an accusation against the service. If you find something on our page that doesn’t match the official source, write to us.
When Super is a good choice
Daily practice
Super.
Compromise: The free app teaches the same content.
Learning together
Super Family.
Compromise: Only the manager pays and manages.
Speaking practice
Max.
Compromise: Mobile only, select courses.
Pros and cons
Pros
Free course
Super isn’t needed to learn.
Family for 6
Anyone, anywhere.
Progress is safe
Canceling doesn’t touch your streak.
Cons
Generally no refunds
No credits for partly used periods.
Max is limited
Select courses, mobile only.
No public prices
Shown only in the app or at checkout.
Duolingo compared with other language apps
Based on each provider’s US pages.
| Criterion | Duolingo | Babbel | Busuu |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free option | Full course with ads | First lesson of each course | Essential course with ads |
| Family or group | Up to 6 | Group Plan, up to 6 | Individual only |
| AI speaking | Max (select courses) | Babbel Speak (beta, app) | Premium Plus (select languages) |
| Billing | Renews until canceled | Whole period paid up front, or Lifetime | 1 or 12 months |
- Free option
- Full course with ads
- Family or group
- Up to 6
- AI speaking
- Max (select courses)
- Billing
- Renews until canceled
- Free option
- First lesson of each course
- Family or group
- Group Plan, up to 6
- AI speaking
- Babbel Speak (beta, app)
- Billing
- Whole period paid up front, or Lifetime
- Free option
- Essential course with ads
- Family or group
- Individual only
- AI speaking
- Premium Plus (select languages)
- Billing
- 1 or 12 months
If you want to learn free — Duolingo
Pay only to remove limits.
If you want structured courses — Babbel
With a Lifetime option.
If you want certificates and feedback — Busuu
From native speakers.
Final verdict
Start free — Duolingo’s course doesn’t change with Super. Upgrade when ads or hearts get in your way, pick Super Family if others in your life learn too, and check the course list before paying for Max.
Choose it if
You practice daily and hit the heart limit.
Think twice if
You expect Super to teach more — it doesn’t.
Skip Max if
Your course isn’t on its Roleplay or Video Call list.
Babbel sells structured courses with a Lifetime option; Busuu adds certificates and native-speaker feedback.
Duolingo Super prices
Duolingo shows US prices in the app and at checkout, not on its public pages.
Super vs MaxPrices appear when you start the trial or open the Shop in the app, and can differ by platform. All subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel.
Duolingo Super deals and discounts
We have no confirmed deals or promo codes for Duolingo Super right now. When the provider publishes one and we have checked it, the dates and terms will appear here — we never list made-up promo codes.
Duolingo Super free trial
How to pay less for Duolingo Super
- Annual billing for “Super”: $95.99 for 12 months instead of $167.88 if you pay monthly — you save 43%.
Compare the price with alternatives: Udemy price · DataCamp price · Skillshare price
We only show the provider’s official options — no shared accounts and no region switching.
Customer support
The help center is available in English.
Contact options the provider lists:
- email or form
„Still unsure about something? SEND FEEDBACK"
Source: www.duolingo.com/help
FAQ
How we work
This page is a comparison, and for every claim we say where it comes from.
The provider’s sources
The facts come from duolingo.com/super and the Duolingo Help Center (Super, Family Plan, canceling, refunds, Max).
We don’t write prices into the text
Prices are in the price block, in the price list’s currency, with a source and a date.
Product facts are shared, market facts aren’t
How many screens a plan allows, how many devices an account works on, how many servers a network has — that doesn’t depend on the country, and on our pages those numbers are the same in every language; a separate tool watches over that. Price, promotions, availability and app language belong to the market, and we never carry them over from another country.
The provider’s list is the same for everyone
If a service publishes a list of countries or languages, we can say whether the US is on it — that list looks the same for everyone. Checkout, however, can look different for every account, so for amounts a provider shows only at checkout we write: check before you pay.
A shorter section doesn’t mean something is missing from the product
If a section here is shorter than for another service, it’s because the provider publishes less about it. We don’t fill the gap with generic wording just to make the page look more complete.
Three different answers
We distinguish between “none”, “the provider doesn’t say” and “we didn’t find it”. They’re three different situations — mixing them up would turn our own limitation into a flaw in the product.
A price without a source isn’t shown
If an amount has no source and date, we don’t show it. An empty spot is more honest than a number that only looks right — and prices change more often than articles get updated.
Data from the US market
This page isn’t a translation of another language version. Numbers from other countries don’t end up here: markets differ, and that’s exactly why this page exists.
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