Duolingo Max
Video Call with Lily, Explain My Answer and roleplay on top of the core course engine.
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Duolingo Max vs LearnLM
Duolingo Max (Duolingo) and LearnLM (Google) both sit in Education. LearnLM is the cheaper entry point at Integrated into Gemini 2.5 series, see Gemini API pricing. LearnLM shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Duolingo Max Duolingo | LearnLM |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Education | Education |
| Version | 2026 release | 2.5 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $30/mo | Integrated into Gemini 2.5 series, see Gemini API pricing |
| Pricing tiers | — | Gemini API Free Tier free |
| Model stack | GPT-5 | Gemini · Gemini 2.5 · Gemini 2.5 series |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 9 |
| Origin | United States | United States |
| Capabilities | Video Call, Roleplay, Explain My Answer, Adaptive courses | Pedagogical tuning, Guided Learning, Classroom integration, Multimodal, Educational fine-tuning, Educational reasoning, Educational capabilities, Integrated into Gemini 2.5 |
LearnLM
Learning-science-tuned models now folded into Gemini and Google Classroom.
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