What you actually buy
You buy minutes of talking. Not a subscription.
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 recording is yours to download
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
- Money back within 24 hours of a conversation
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
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.
At $50 an hour, rounded up to the 60-minute booking nobody will sell you less than.
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 an hour of a tutor
9 rehearsals for the price of one lesson
A human tutor is worth $50 an hour. What they cannot do is sell you 12 minutes, be free the morning of the interview, or cut you off mid-sentence because that is what the room will do.
One lesson, 60 min
$50
One rehearsal, 12 min
$5.28
89% less, and you can do it 9 times before the hour is paid for.
| A human tutor | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortest thing you can buy | 60 minutes | 12 minutes, or five |
| What that costs | $50 | $5.28 |
| When you can have it | When they are free | Now, or at 6am on the day |
| Feedback in writing | About 24 hours later | 60 seconds later |
| Will they interrupt you | No. They are being kind | Yes, on purpose, at ninety seconds |
| Evidence under the feedback | What they remember | Your own sentence, checked |
| Can they hear what you meant | Yes, and that is the point of them | No. It is a rehearsal, not a teacher |
The last row is not a concession, it is the division of labour. A tutor teaches you the language. This rehearses the minutes where you have to use it, and there is no reason to buy an hour of a person’s time to do that.
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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