Aluma is a personal AI tutor built around your real classes. It connects to the school platforms you already use, reads the assignment your teacher actually posted, and coaches you through it with hints and questions.

What is the biggest difference between Aluma and Khanmigo?

Khanmigo teaches Khan Academy's curriculum. Aluma teaches your curriculum. Because Aluma syncs with your school platforms, the practice you get is tied to the assignment and the test in front of you.

Does Aluma write my homework for me?

No. Aluma coaches. It never produces turn-in-ready work, and every session moves through hints and check questions so the answer is yours.

Which one is better for test prep?

If you are studying SAT, ACT, PSAT, ISEE, SSAT, HSPT, SHSAT, or AP courses against a real score goal, Aluma's mastery ledger drills the specific skills you keep missing rather than walking a fixed course order.

Yes. Khan Academy has a strong course library. Many students watch a Khan lesson for background, then use Aluma to apply it to the assignment their own teacher assigned.

Aluma vs Khanmigo: Which AI Tutor Fits Your Classes?

The short answer

Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI assistant. It is excellent inside Khan's own content: a student working through a Khan unit gets guided help without being handed the answer.

Aluma is an AI tutor built around the classes you are enrolled in. It syncs with your school platforms, pulls in the real assignment and due date, and coaches you through that specific problem set rather than a generic equivalent.

If you want to learn a subject from scratch, a structured course library is a great place to start. If you want help with the class you are actually taking, Aluma starts from that class.

Side by side

Dimension	Khanmigo	Aluma
Content source	Khan Academy's own course library	Your teacher's real assignments
School platform sync	Not part of the product	Sync with Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, PowerSchool and more
Teaching model	Guided help inside a lesson	Coaching only, never turn-in-ready work
Progress tracking	Progress through Khan course units	Mastery ledger of every concept you have and have not locked in
Test prep	Strongest on Khan's own SAT materials	SAT, ACT, PSAT, ISEE, SSAT, HSPT, SHSAT and 40 AP courses
Study focus	Learning a topic from scratch in a structured course	Keeping up with the classes you are actually enrolled in

Coaching versus helping

Most AI tools for students sit somewhere on a line between helping and coaching. Helping means the tool moves the assignment forward for you. Coaching means the tool moves you forward, and you move the assignment.

Aluma is built at the coaching end on purpose. It will not write a paragraph you can paste into a document or hand back a finished proof. It asks what you already tried, gives the next hint, and ends with a check question to confirm the concept actually stuck.

School sync

Aluma can sync with Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, PowerSchool and more, so assignments and due dates can land in one place.

That context changes the tutoring. Instead of asking you to describe the problem, Aluma can start from the assignment your school shared.

The mastery ledger

Course platforms track how far through a unit you are. Aluma tracks something different: which concepts you have actually locked in and which ones keep slipping.

Every session updates that ledger, so study time goes to skills that are genuinely weak instead of rereading the whole chapter.

Where Khanmigo is the better pick

Khan Academy remains one of the strongest course libraries on the internet, and Khanmigo is a good companion to it. If you are learning a topic well ahead of your class, filling a gap from a previous year, or studying with no assignments attached, a structured course path is the right shape.

Aluma is built for the moment your goal is a specific class with a specific deadline.

Frequently asked questions

Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI assistant. It sits inside Khan Academy's own course library and helps students work through Khan lessons, practice sets, and videos.

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