What it costs, and why
Two plans, both with everything in them. They differ only in how much you talk. Your first five conversations are free, and no card is needed to have them.
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The short answer
Standard is US$239 a year, about US$19.92 a month, or US$29.99 month to month. Premium is US$399 a year (about US$33.25 a month) or US$49.99 monthly, and gives you double the conversation time. The yearly price is a third less than paying by the month, and it is the same price for everyone, all the time: there is no first-year-only rate to expire. Both plans include every language, every tutor, Travel Mode and everything else; the only difference is how much you talk. Your first five conversations are free, no card is needed to have them, and you can cancel from your phone in about fifteen seconds.
The two plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Conversation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | US$29.99 | US$239 (US$19.92/mo), saving 33.5% | Generous conversation time |
| Premium | US$49.99 | US$399 (US$33.25/mo), saving 33.5% | Double the conversation time |
Everything else is identical: all 20 languages, all five tutors in each, live reference cards during the conversation, a written reflection after every session, the adaptive engine, and Travel Mode. We do not hold features back to sell you a higher tier.
Why it costs what a tutor costs
Almost every AI speaking app of the last two years is priced against Duolingo, somewhere between five and twenty dollars a month. That is a sensible business decision and it sets a hard ceiling on what can be built underneath it. A few dollars a month buys a text pipeline, a stock voice and a topic list. It does not buy a live audio model running for the length of every conversation, and it does not buy an authored curriculum in twenty languages.
We chose the other end deliberately. The thing Well Versed is built to substitute for is not a cheaper app, it is the hour a week you might otherwise spend with a private tutor at thirty to sixty dollars an hour.
So the honest way to read US$29.99 is as roughly one hour with a private tutor, per month, in exchange for a tutor that is available at eleven at night, never makes you feel slow, remembers everything you have struggled with, and comes with you on the trip. If you were never going to book a tutor, this is expensive. If you were, it is not.
What actually gets metered
A live conversation costs us real money for every minute it runs, which is unusual for an app and is the single fact that shapes the pricing. So plans carry a cap.
The cap is on spend rather than on a number of minutes, and it resets every week rather than every month, which stops the whole allowance being saved up for one very long sitting. Your week starts when you subscribe, and the app shows you where you are and when it next resets.
We deliberately do not print a minute figure next to the price. We could estimate one, and any number we gave you would be an estimate rather than a promise, because how far it goes depends on how much you talk, how long the tutor talks back, and what the underlying models cost us that month. Printing it would turn a guess into something that reads like a guarantee. It is not unlimited, and we are not going to imply that it is.
If you do reach the cap, the app tells you plainly and tells you when it resets. Nothing is quietly degraded, and no session is cut off mid-conversation.
Before you pay anything
Your first 5 conversations are free. There is no card to enter, nothing to cancel and no date to remember, because nothing has been set up to charge you. Each one is a real session with a real tutor, and the notes and progress they produce are yours whether or not you go on to subscribe.
We used to run a seven-day trial instead. Five conversations is the better version of the same offer: a week rewards whoever happens to be free that week, and it asks you to remember to cancel. This asks nothing.
Subscriptions are handled by Apple or Google, so cancelling happens in your iPhone settings or in Google Play rather than by emailing us, and we could not make it difficult even if we wanted to.
Annual, or month to month
Annual is US$239, which works out to about US$19.92 a month and saves 33.5% against paying monthly. That is a standing price, not an introductory rate that jumps after the first year: what you sign up at is what you keep, for as long as you keep it. We would rather set the yearly price where it belongs than dress the real price up as a temporary discount.
Monthly is US$29.99, and it buys flexibility. Take it if you are not sure this is a habit yet, and switch to annual later once you know. Language learning has a high dropout rate, so paying by the month while you find out is often the sensible choice, and nothing about the annual price is going anywhere while you decide.
Who should not pay for this
If cost is the only thing that matters, Langua and Talkpal are cheaper and both work. And if you can face booking a human on italki, a good teacher is still better than any of this.
Complete beginners, though, are welcome. Start as simply as you like, lean on English when you are stuck, and the tutor meets you where you are. You do not need vocabulary to begin, because you pick it up by talking.
Well Versed runs on iOS and Android.
We would rather tell you that than take a subscription you cancel in three weeks.