SchoolAI
Classroom AI platform with monitored student chat spaces and teacher oversight.
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
MagicSchool AI and Google Gemini cover the headline feature free, so the $10/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Google and OpenAI offering education tiers free to districts with existing platform contracts. Google, May 20, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 3 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: MagicSchool AI, Google Gemini and Brisk Teaching.
- What the call is worth $120/yr
- $10/mo at the entry paid tier — $120 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- Since
- May 20, 2025
- List price
- $10/mo
- Per year
- $120
The backstory
SchoolAI's differentiator is that it lets students use AI directly while giving teachers visibility into every conversation, which addresses the real objection in schools: not whether AI helps, but whether anyone can see what a fourteen-year-old is asking it. That supervision layer is genuinely useful. It is also the sort of feature the platform vendors add, and they arrive with existing contracts, free pricing and a district relationship that predates the AI conversation entirely.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $120/yrLarger teacher community and more tools
magicschool.ai open_in_newFree education tier with admin controls
gemini.google.com open_in_newAI tools inside Google Docs and Classroom
briskteaching.com open_in_new3 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.