What you actually buy
You buy minutes of talking, not an unlimited plan.
Every minute of live voice costs us money, and we pay for it by the second. That is why there is no unlimited plan: it would either hide a cap or break on the people who talk the most. So we sell you the same thing we buy — minutes.
Free
$0once, per device
5 minutes with anyone marked free, and the full review at the end — not a teaser.
- No card is asked for
- Every score, with your own words under it
- The transcript is yours, and the export takes everything
Monthly
$105300 minutes a month
For when there is no date in the diary. You live in the language every week instead of cramming for something.
- The cheapest minute here
- Cancel any time, from your account
- Unused minutes do not carry over
Sprint
$66150 minutes, 30 days
For when the date is already set: an interview, an exam, a move. The minutes run out with the sprint, and that is on the card, not in the small print.
- Repeat the same conversation three times in a week
- Nothing renews itself
- A conversation that never started is not charged
What the card says is what the receipt says. Both read the same price list.
How far they go
How many conversations that buys
The price of a month is not the point. What matters is how many times you get to repeat the same conversation. Three times across a week and your answer changes. Three in one evening and you are just tired.
How long each conversation runs
That buys
12conversations
12 minutes each, with 6 minutes left over.
Where the money goes
We would rather show you the cost than tell you there isn’t one.
Everyone in this business earns something. The ones who say otherwise are charging you for a subscription you forgot to cancel.
$0.07
What a minute costs us
Voice, the text model and the review at the end — one minute, as our providers bill it.
10
Our markup
We publish it. It is the one number that moves when a provider raises its price, and it lives in our settings rather than hard-coded into this page.
$0.50
What a minute costs you
This is before the volume discount. A sprint and a monthly plan each take a published percentage off it. Nothing else is added anywhere.
So a 12-minute conversation costs us about $0.80. A free first conversation costs us exactly what a paid one does. What a teacher earns when their own students practise is on for teachers.
Compared with a live native speaker
9 conversations for the price of one
Talking with a live native speaker is the best practice there is, and it is priced like it: from $50 a conversation, at a time that suits them. Here a conversation costs $5.28, starts when you press the button, and can be had again tomorrow.
A conversation with a native speaker
$50
A conversation here
$5.28
Nothing to book, and the same conversation can be had as many times as you like.
| A live native speaker | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| What one conversation costs | From $50 | $5.28 |
| When you can talk | When they have a slot | Now, or at six in the morning |
| Who is across the table | The same person every time | A recruiter, a doctor, a neighbour: 56 people |
| Will they interrupt you | Rarely. You are the one paying | Yes, like in real life |
| Feedback in writing | Usually none | 60 seconds later, quoting you |
| A real person across the table | Yes | No, an AI person |
The last row is the honest one: a real person is a real person, and nothing replaces that. But getting comfortable speaking takes dozens of conversations, not one a week at $50. Your teacher teaches you the language; this is the practice in between.
Where to start
You pay nothing until you have had your first conversation.
The first 5 minutes are free and take no card. After that you buy minutes, they sit on your balance, and you spend them by the second. No subscription.
FAQ
The ones that only come up once there is a price on the table
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The only machines here are the people you talk to. Everything else is us, and we usually answer inside 2 hours.
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