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 Free tier available via Gemini API / Google AI Studio.. LearnLM shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (13 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 | Gemini 2.5 integration |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $30/mo | Free tier available via Gemini API / Google AI Studio. |
| 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 | 13 |
| 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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