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shì bàn gōng bèi — “Half the effort, twice the result”

Free, Pro and Pro Plus side by side, plus the separate plans for tutors, parents and schools.

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October 9, 2026

Written and maintained by the Mandarin Temple Editorial Team.

Five kinds of account, priced for five different situations. The thing that makes this simpler than it looks: every plan is a content subscription plus a monthly credit allowance, and those two are the only axes. This article lays them side by side.

Learning on your own

  • Free — $0 — The whole dictionary, grammar, culture and learning materials. The opening and podcast of every lesson. Mock Test 1 of each level. Spaced-repetition flashcards, 20 reviews a day. Topped up to 300 AI credits a month, every month.
  • Pro — $15/month, or $99/year — Every HSK 1–9 lesson in full, unit exams, all the mock tests, unlimited flashcard reviews, the speaking studio and pronunciation trainer, and 1,500 credits a month. The yearly price saves 45%.
  • Pro Plus — $27/month, or $149/year — Everything in Pro, 12,000 credits a month — eight times the Pro allowance — and unlimited shared board links. The yearly price saves 54%.

For a family

Family — $39/month, or $229/year. Pro Plus access for up to two children, a parent dashboard with weekly reports, the ability to assign practice and follow streaks, and one bill instead of several.

Compared with buying two Pro Plus accounts at $54, the saving is real but the oversight is the actual reason to take it.

The Families section of the pricing page, headed “For Parents 家长” over the line “The parent account is always free — store your children’s profiles, create child logins with guardian consent, and follow their progress” and an instruction to pick the cheaper path for your household: one child → add a plan to their account; two or more → the Family bundle. Two cards sit under it. On the left, a plain white card with a red roundel of an adult leading a child by the hand: “One Child 孩子”, From $15/mo, the grey note “Pro ($15) or Pro Plus ($27) on their own account”, and an outlined Add a Learner Plan button. Its list stars “Full HSK 1–9 lessons for your child” and “AI speaking, tutor chat & practice (credits included)”, then ticks “Pro at $15/mo, or Pro Plus at $27/mo for far more AI credits” and “You keep the free parent dashboard alongside”. On the right, a red-outlined card with a RECOMMENDED pill across its top edge and a roundel of two adults and a child: “Family 家庭”, badged “Best for 2+ kids”, $39/mo, the grey note “Up to 2 children · $69/mo for up to 4”, and a filled red Start a Family Plan button. Its list stars “Pro Plus access for every child on one household bill” and “Up to 2 children for $39/mo, or up to 4 for $69/mo”, then ticks “Parent dashboard & weekly reports” and “Assign practice & follow streaks for each child”. A centred red “See full Parents pricing →” link closes the section.
One child does not need the bundle: the left card is an ordinary Pro or Pro Plus subscription sitting on the child’s own account, and the free parent dashboard comes with either path — the intro says so and the card repeats it as its last line. Notice too that the larger household tier never gets a card of its own: $69/mo for up to four children appears only as grey small print under the $39 and again as a bullet, so a section that looks like two choices is really three.

If you teach

  • Tutor — $39/month, $390/year — Full Pro Plus learner access for yourself, the teacher dashboard, assignable HSK lessons and homework, every circle type and every teaching-board widget, progress tracking, and 1,500 AI credits a month. No cap on how many students you teach.
  • Tutor Plus — $69/month, $690/year — The same features as Tutor. The difference is the AI budget: 12,000 AI credits a month instead of 1,500, which is room to run many circles at once without topping up.

For a school

  • The School plan — $299/month plus each student — 1 admin and 5 teacher seats included; students from $8 a month each down to $6. Bulk import, cross-teacher analytics, branded join links.
  • The Managed Pilot — $999 once — 8 weeks with one cohort, set up with us, and credited in full to the plan afterwards.
  • Enterprise — talk to us — Over 1,000 students or several campuses: invoiced, volume pricing, custom onboarding, reporting and a support SLA.

What none of them do

No plan has a per-day, per-week or per-session cap. There is no "30 conversations a day", no weekly quota and no throttle. The only limit on AI use is the credit allowance, and how fast you spend it is your business.

Equally, no plan limits how much you read. Lessons, entries, grammar points and passages are unmetered on every tier including free.

Which one

  • Just looking — Free. It is not a trial — the reference half of the site stays open permanently.
  • Studying seriously, alone — Pro — it opens all seven Learning Lab facets. It includes every learning module too. Go Pro Plus only if you find 1,500 credits a month tight.
  • Two children in one house — Family, at $39 rather than two Pro Plus accounts at $54.
  • Teaching up to 50 people — Tutor at $39 — which includes your own Pro Plus learning.
  • A school with staff — The School plan, priced by your student count — the calculator on the schools pricing page does the sum.

Common questions

No, and nothing about it expires. The dictionary, grammar, culture and learning materials stay free permanently, as does the opening of every lesson, and the 300 AI credits are topped up every month rather than granted once.

Continue learning

What Pro unlocksEverything behind the paywall, feature by feature, so you can tell whether you need it.Trying free, renewals and cancellingHow to try it free, when you are charged, and how to cancel without losing your progress.Parent accountsWhat a parent account is for, how it differs from a learner account, and how to switch.Setting up your schoolFrom an empty workspace to a running programme, in the order the steps actually depend on each other.