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Khanmigo

Socratic AI tutor across subjects, from Khan Academy

The Four Mismatches · Khanmigo

Built for another system

Assessed for a Commonwealth / Global-South student (as an import).

  • CurriculumFail

    Built to US Common Core / AP, not to SPM, WAEC, JEE or IGCSE — it teaches confidently in the wrong direction for these students.

  • LanguageFail

    English-only; no Bahasa Melayu, Hindi or bilingual delivery for the classrooms that need it.

  • PricePass

    At ~US$4/month it clears the price axis AI has collapsed — genuinely affordable.

  • InfrastructurePartial

    Cloud-only chat; needs a stable connection, no offline mode.

One clear pass. Among the best-built AI tutors in the world — and product-export for a Commonwealth buyer.

addestra.com · The Four Mismatches Test. A single fail means it was built for a different system.

Independence: Addestra builds learning products too (MathsTutor, TinkerWell). We never review or score our own, and no tool pays to be listed or to rank higher — how we assess fit.

What it does

What the AI actually does — A chat tutor on OpenAI's GPT-4, tuned to a Socratic method that withholds the answer and guides the student to it.

Why it was built — Give every student a personal tutor and every teacher an assistant, on top of Khan Academy's free-education mission.

Who built it

Company
Khan Academy (non-profit)
Founders
Sal Khan (Khan Academy)
HQ / origin
Mountain View, California, USA
Founded
2023 (announced 14 March 2023, GPT-4 launch day)
Model
B2C / B2G
Exam systems
SAT · AP · US Common Core
Languages
English
Pricing
Free for US teachers; ~US$4/month for parents/learners

We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.

The fit assessment

The scorecard above scores Khanmigo on the four axes on which exported EdTech fails to fit a local system — assessed for a Commonwealth / Global-South student (as an import). The verdict: One clear pass. Among the best-built AI tutors in the world — and product-export for a Commonwealth buyer. For the full framework, see the Four Mismatches Test.

Where it sits

Khanmigo is on the EdTech AI 100 map, in whole-curriculum ai tutors, built in United States. We have also published a full scored review.

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