A side-by-side comparison of two AI tools that get grouped together but answer different questions. Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI tutor — its centre of gravity is the learner, with a free teacher product layered on top. Kuraplan is teacher-side only, with native NZ / AU / UK / US curriculum and NCEA alignment. We verified every pricing and feature claim against the live product pages on 20 May 2026.
Different audiences — Khanmigo serves students, Kuraplan serves teachers
Pick Kuraplan if you…
Are a TEACHER planning lessons — and need plans, worksheets, slides and rubrics in one tool
Teach the NZ Curriculum, Australian Curriculum v9, UK National Curriculum or NCEA
Want a browsable library of 1,000+ printable worksheets
Want curriculum-flexible outputs (not anchored to one content library)
Pick Khanmigo if you…
Want a Socratic AI tutor your STUDENTS can use directly to learn math, science, coding or humanities
Are already running on Khan Academy content (videos, practice, mastery tracking)
Are a US K-12 school or family — the student product currently requires a US billing address
Want a free teacher AI assistant from one of the most trusted brands in education
Honest note: Khanmigo's centre of gravity is the learner; Kuraplan's is the teacher. They overlap on teacher-facing lesson planning, but outside that they answer different questions. For a US school running on Khan Academy with students needing a tutor, Khanmigo is the right call — Kuraplan does not try to be that.
Feature-by-feature comparison
Every row verified against the live product pages on 20 May 2026.
Feature
Kuraplan
Khanmigo
Free tier
Free forever
21 classroom tools usable with no signup; AI generation requires a free account
Free for teachers (worldwide, English)
Khanmigo for Teachers is free in 44+ countries via Khan Academy's Microsoft partnership; includes lesson planning, rubrics, exit tickets, activity generators
Khanmigo for learners is $4/month or $44/year (verified on khanmigo.ai 20 May 2026). Teacher product is free.
Primary audience
Teachers (prep workflow)
Built for the teacher's prep desk — plan a lesson, generate the worksheet, build the slide deck, mark with a rubric
Students primarily; teachers secondarily
Khanmigo's centre of gravity is the learner — a Socratic AI tutor walking students through Khan Academy content. Khanmigo for Teachers is a separate, free product layered on top.
AI lesson plan generator
Yes (native AI lesson planner)
Curriculum-aligned lesson plans in one click
Yes (Khanmigo for Teachers)
Standards-aligned lesson planning tied to Khan Academy's content library — strongest when your lesson plan is built around a Khan Academy video or practice unit
Worksheets database (pre-built)
1,000+ printable worksheets in library
Activity / exit ticket generators (not a worksheet library)
Khanmigo for Teachers can generate activities, exit tickets and rubrics on demand, but does not publish a browsable Twinkl-style library of pre-made printable worksheets
Student-facing AI tutor
No (teacher-facing tool)
Kuraplan deliberately does not put an AI chatbot in students' hands — the product is for the teacher's prep workflow
Yes — headline product
Khanmigo's signature feature is a Socratic tutor that guides learners to find answers themselves across math, science, coding, history and humanities. This is what Khanmigo was built for.
Curriculum support
NZ, AU v9, UK NC, US, CA, IE + NCEA
Native alignment across six curricula and NCEA achievement standards
US-aligned, anchored to Khan Academy content
Khanmigo's standards alignment is built around Khan Academy's content library, which is anchored in US K-12 (Common Core, AP, SAT). Native alignment to NZ Curriculum, Australian Curriculum v9, UK National Curriculum or NCEA is not advertised on khanmigo.ai (verified May 2026).
Output formats
PDF, web, slides, images
Chat output, copyable text, Khan Academy assignments
Teacher outputs are primarily chat-based text you copy out (or assign on khanacademy.org). Standalone PDF / slide deck export is not the product's centre of gravity.
LMS / SSO integration
Google Classroom, Google Workspace
Direct export; Canvas / Schoology not surfaced
Khan Academy classroom integration
Tightly integrated with khanacademy.org class rosters and assignments. If your school already runs on Khan Academy, this is a real advantage.
Student availability outside the US
Worldwide (teacher tool, any country)
Teachers worldwide; learners US-only
Khanmigo for Teachers is available in 44+ countries. Khanmigo for learners (the student tutor) requires a US billing address as of May 2026 — students outside the US cannot subscribe directly.
Mobile / device access
Responsive web
Web + Khan Academy mobile apps
Best for
Teachers planning the week (NZ / AU / UK / US) who want plan + worksheet + slides + rubric in one tool
US schools and families already on Khan Academy who want a Socratic AI tutor for students plus a free lesson-planning assistant for teachers
Where Kuraplan wins
Five specific advantages, each backed by what we verified on both products this week.
Native multi-curriculum (NZ, AU v9, UK, US, CA, IE) + NCEA
Kuraplan generates plans aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum, Australian Curriculum v9, UK National Curriculum, US Common Core, Canadian provincial curricula and Irish curriculum out of the box — plus NCEA achievement standards for NZ secondary. Khanmigo's lesson planning is anchored to Khan Academy's content library, which is built around US K-12 standards; native alignment to NZ, AU v9, UK NC or NCEA is not advertised on khanmigo.ai (verified 20 May 2026). For teachers outside the US, that gap matters.
Full prep workflow: plan + worksheet + slides + image in one pass
Kuraplan is built around the teacher's whole prep workflow — type the topic, pick the year level and curriculum, and the lesson plan, matching worksheet, slide deck and any supporting images come out together as downloadable artefacts. Khanmigo for Teachers will help you draft a lesson plan and generate exit tickets in chat, but exporting a polished slide deck and printable worksheet in one pass is not what it is built for.
Beyond on-demand generation, Kuraplan ships a library of 1,000+ printable worksheets across maths, reading and science — designed to be downloaded, printed and handed out. Khanmigo can generate activities on demand but does not publish a Twinkl-style browsable worksheet library you scan through and download.
Curriculum-flexible — not anchored to one content library
Khanmigo's superpower is that it sits on top of Khan Academy's content. That is also its constraint: lessons assume your students will be watching Khan videos and doing Khan practice. Kuraplan is content-agnostic — you describe what you want to teach and how, and the artefacts come out aligned to your curriculum, not tied to one publisher's library.
21 free classroom tools without an account
Kuraplan publishes 21 classroom utilities — random name picker, rubric generator, exit ticket generator, seating chart maker, word search maker, and more — that work in the browser with no signup. Student names and class data are stored locally on-device, not on Kuraplan's servers. Khanmigo requires a Khan Academy account for both teachers and learners.
Where Khanmigo wins
Khanmigo is genuinely excellent at the job it was built for — a Socratic AI tutor that sits on top of Khan Academy's content. Here are the places it outperforms a teacher-only tool like Kuraplan.
The most thoughtful student-facing AI tutor we have used
Khanmigo's headline product is a Socratic tutor that guides learners to find answers themselves rather than handing them solutions — pedagogically a meaningfully better stance than a general chatbot. For a US student studying math, science, coding or humanities on Khan Academy, Khanmigo is genuinely excellent at what it is built for, and a teacher-only tool like Kuraplan does not try to compete on that surface at all.
Tightly integrated with the world's largest free learning library
Khanmigo sits on top of Khan Academy's content library — videos, practice exercises, mastery tracking — and ties teacher lesson plans and student tutoring back to that material. If your classroom is already running on Khan Academy assignments, the integration value is real and immediate. Kuraplan does not have anything like the Khan Academy content library behind it.
Free for teachers worldwide (44+ countries)
Khanmigo for Teachers is free thanks to a Microsoft partnership, available in English in 44+ countries. For a teacher who wants to experiment with an AI lesson-planning assistant at zero cost, that is a strong offer. Kuraplan also has a free tier, but for the paid Pro features Khanmigo for Teachers' price is genuinely zero — credit where it is due.
Khan Academy's track record and brand trust
Khan Academy has spent over a decade as one of the most trusted names in free online education, with a non-profit mission and enormous institutional credibility. A board / IT review on Khanmigo starts from that posture, which is a real advantage when you are pitching AI in classrooms to skeptical stakeholders. Kuraplan is a younger product with a smaller institutional footprint.
Pricing breakdown (May 2026)
Pricing verified on each product's public pages on 20 May 2026.
Tier
Kuraplan
Khanmigo
Free
$0 — AI lesson, unit and worksheet planners (with limits), the full 1,000+ worksheets library, plus 21 classroom tools that need no account at all.
Khanmigo for Teachers: free in 44+ countries (English), via Khan Academy's Microsoft partnership. Includes lesson planning, rubrics, exit tickets, activity generators and student progress summaries.
Khanmigo for learners: $4 / month or $44 / year — the student-facing AI tutor. Requires US billing address as of May 2026; learners outside the US cannot subscribe directly.
Schools / District
$99 / teacher / year (Schools). Admin dashboard, bulk licensing, custom AI training, custom slide branding, DPA, 30-day trial.
District licensing for Khanmigo for Districts — Khan Academy offers institutional packages for US districts; pricing is not publicly listed on khanmigo.ai and is quoted per district. Teachers can also use the free teacher product without district licensing.
We deliberately do not invent a Khanmigo Districts price. As of 20 May 2026, khanmigo.ai does not publish a per-student dollar figure for district licensing — that is quoted directly.
Two different jobs — when each tool is the right pick
Because Kuraplan and Khanmigo are designed for different audiences, comparing them on a single prompt is misleading. Here are two realistic jobs and how each tool handles them.
Job 1: plan tomorrow's Year 5 maths lesson on fractions
Kuraplan generates a 45-minute lesson with timing breakdown, learning objective aligned to NZC Level 3 Number and Algebra (when you pick the NZ curriculum), differentiated scaffold + extension tasks, plus a matching worksheet and slide deck in one pass.
Khanmigo for Teachers can produce a US Common Core-aligned lesson plan tied to relevant Khan Academy fractions content, with rubrics and exit tickets generated on demand. The one-tap "plan + slides + printable worksheet" flow is not where Khanmigo's centre of gravity sits — its strength is connecting teacher planning to Khan Academy's existing student-facing material.
Job 2: help a Year 9 student work through algebra at their own pace
Khanmigo is exactly this tool: the student logs in, works through Khan Academy algebra content, and Khanmigo asks Socratic questions guiding them to find the answer themselves rather than handing it over. The student sees Khan videos and practice exercises alongside the tutor in one flow.
Kuraplan does not solve this job at all — by design, Kuraplan does not put an AI chatbot in students' hands. If your need is a student-facing AI tutor for self-paced learning, Khanmigo is the right tool (assuming US billing, or your school has a districts license).
Honest assessment: The two tools answer different questions. We do not recommend choosing one solely on a head-to-head feature shootout; pick the tool that matches who you want to put AI in front of — the teacher or the student. Many schools use both: Kuraplan for the teacher's prep desk (especially outside the US), Khanmigo for students learning on Khan Academy.
User signals and adoption
We did not paraphrase unverified G2 / Capterra quotes for this comparison. Instead, here are the user-facing signals each product publishes directly.
Kuraplan, in its own numbers
"Trusted by 1,000+ schools."
"Loved by 40,000+ teachers."
1,000+ printable worksheets in the public library.
21 classroom tools open and free to use without an account.
Source: kuraplan.com homepage (verified 20 May 2026).
Khanmigo, in its own numbers
Free teacher access in 44+ countries via the Microsoft partnership.
Built by Khan Academy — over a decade as one of the most trusted free education platforms in the world.
Socratic tutoring across math, science, coding, history and humanities, elementary through college.
Tightly integrated with Khan Academy's existing video library, practice exercises and mastery tracking.
Source: khanmigo.ai (verified 20 May 2026). Country / user counts are Khan Academy's own self-published data.
Adding Kuraplan (alongside Khanmigo, or instead)
Because the two tools handle different jobs, "switching" is rarely the right framing — many schools end up running both. Here are the three paths most teachers take.
1
Add Kuraplan for the teacher's prep desk, keep Khanmigo for student tutoring
The most common pairing for US schools already on Khan Academy. Teachers plan their week in Kuraplan (plan + worksheet + slides + rubric, aligned to your curriculum), then point students to Khanmigo for self-paced Socratic tutoring on Khan content. Each tool stays in its lane.
2
Replace Khanmigo for Teachers with Kuraplan if you need non-US curriculum alignment
For teachers in NZ, AU, UK, CA or IE who need lesson plans aligned to the local curriculum (and especially NCEA in NZ), Kuraplan's native multi-curriculum coverage is a meaningful upgrade over Khanmigo's Khan-Academy-anchored content base. Sign up at kuraplan.com/signup.
3
Use Kuraplan's 21 free no-account tools alongside whichever platform you choose
Even if Khanmigo is your primary platform, quick utilities (rubric maker, exit ticket, name picker, word search) work better as no-login browser tools. Bookmark kuraplan.com/tools. They run in the browser with no account; student data stays on-device.
Try Kuraplan free — no credit card
Pick your curriculum, generate your next lesson, and see how the teacher's prep workflow feels in 60 seconds.
It depends on what job you are doing. Khanmigo is purpose-built for students learning on Khan Academy — its signature product is a Socratic AI tutor that guides learners through math, science, coding and humanities. Kuraplan is purpose-built for the teacher's prep workflow — lesson plans, worksheets, slides and rubrics aligned to the NZ, AU v9, UK, US, Canadian or Irish curriculum (and NCEA). If you want an AI tutor for your students and you are in the US on Khan Academy, Khanmigo. If you want to generate next week's lessons and printable worksheets aligned to your local curriculum, Kuraplan. The two products genuinely answer different questions.
Are Kuraplan and Khanmigo direct competitors?
Only partially. Khanmigo's centre of gravity is the learner — a student-facing AI tutor — with a free teacher product (Khanmigo for Teachers) layered on top. Kuraplan is teacher-side only. The overlap is the teacher-facing surface: both will help you draft a lesson plan or generate a rubric. Outside that overlap, the tools answer different questions, and the right answer for some schools is to use Khanmigo for student tutoring on Khan Academy and Kuraplan for teacher prep aligned to a non-US curriculum.
How much does Khanmigo cost in 2026?
As of 20 May 2026 (verified at khanmigo.ai): Khanmigo for Teachers is free worldwide in 44+ countries (in English), thanks to a Microsoft partnership. Khanmigo for learners — the student-facing AI tutor — costs $4 / month or $44 / year (saves $4 vs monthly) and currently requires a US billing address; students must be 18+ or have a parent / guardian sign up. So the answer is: free for teachers worldwide, $4 / month for US learners.
Does Khanmigo support the NZ, Australian or UK curricula?
Khanmigo's standards alignment is built around Khan Academy's content library, which is anchored in US K-12 (Common Core, AP, SAT). Khan Academy itself has some international content, and Khanmigo for Teachers is available in 44+ countries — but native alignment to the New Zealand Curriculum, Australian Curriculum v9, UK National Curriculum or NCEA achievement standards is not advertised on khanmigo.ai as of May 2026. Teachers in NZ, AU and UK can still use Khanmigo for general lesson planning, but for curriculum-specific outputs Kuraplan is purpose-built for those frameworks.
Is Kuraplan a good Khanmigo alternative?
Honest answer: only for the teacher-facing use case. If you are using Khanmigo for its student tutor, Kuraplan does not replace that — by design we do not put an AI chatbot in students' hands. If you are using Khanmigo for Teachers for lesson planning and rubrics, Kuraplan covers that with native multi-curriculum alignment, a 1,000+ worksheets library, slide-deck generation and image generation that Khanmigo for Teachers does not produce in one pass. For some schools the right answer is Khanmigo for student tutoring and Kuraplan for teacher prep.
Can students use Kuraplan directly?
Kuraplan is designed for teachers, not students. The 21 free classroom tools (name picker, exit tickets, word search) run in a teacher's browser. The AI generation tools (lesson planner, worksheet planner, unit planner) produce teacher-facing artefacts. If your need is "a safe AI tutor my students log into and learn with," Khanmigo's student product is the right tool — Kuraplan does not try to be that.
What about students outside the US?
Khanmigo for learners currently requires a US billing address (verified May 2026), so students outside the US cannot subscribe to the student tutor directly. Khanmigo for Teachers is available worldwide in English. Kuraplan is available worldwide for teachers in any country, and its curriculum coverage explicitly includes NZ, AU, UK, US, CA and IE.
Does either tool integrate with Google Classroom?
Kuraplan exports to Google Classroom and Google Workspace from any tier. Khanmigo's primary integration is with Khan Academy's own classroom and assignment system on khanacademy.org rather than Google Classroom. If LMS integration is a hard requirement, the right question is: which platform do your students already use day-to-day — Khan Academy or Google Classroom?
About this comparison
This comparison is editorially independent. Kuraplan is our product. We are not paid by Khan Academy or any competitor mentioned. We have not received review units or affiliate commissions. Khanmigo is an excellent tool at what it is built for — a Socratic AI tutor sitting on top of Khan Academy's content library — and we have tried to give it credit explicitly where it outperforms us. Ratings reflect our genuine assessment based on free-tier and public-page review on 20 May 2026.
Last verified: 20 May 2026. Pricing accuracy: confirmed against khanmigo.ai and kuraplan.com/pricing on 20 May 2026. Khanmigo for Districts pricing is not publicly listed; we have not invented any.