# Pricing

> Vietnamese Buddy’s three plans side by side: Free, Teaching Assistant at $14.90 per month and The full package at $29.90 per month. What each includes, how the monthly AI allowance works, and how to change or cancel.

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/pricing/ · Updated 2026-11-11

## Start free. Add AI when you need it.

Begin with the first lessons, the starter decks and daily reviews, free for as long as you like. When you want flashcards from your own lessons, feedback on what you say and write, or the whole course, choose the plan that fits. Cancel any time.

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### Free: free

Try the basics, with no AI.

- Add words and grammar points yourself
- The first three lessons of the course
- The three starter decks, with audio
- Spaced-repetition reviews
- The Pronouns guide
- The free grammar and word pages

### Teaching Assistant: $14.90 per month

Study for your class.

- Everything in Free
- Custom flashcards from your slides, PDFs, exercise scans, notebook photos and class recordings
- Natural Vietnamese audio for every word and sentence you keep
- Small talk, Write, Record & Correct, Echo and Reading
- Lesson practice, picture cards and reminders

### The full package: $29.90 per month

Study with our course, purpose-built to get you ahead.

- Everything in Teaching Assistant
- The whole beginner course: thirty lessons, in Northern or Southern Vietnamese
- Practical exercises, cultural insights and graded stories
- Feedback on everything you say and write in the course
- A larger monthly AI allowance

Billed monthly and renews automatically until you cancel. Prices include tax. Cancel any time from your account; it stops the next renewal, and your study data stays readable and exportable.

## What each plan includes.

Free is for trying the basics. Teaching Assistant adds everything the AI does with your own material. The full package adds the whole course.

### Study

| | Free | Teaching Assistant | The full package |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily reviews on a spaced-repetition schedule | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Words and grammar points you add yourself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The three starter decks, with audio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Pronouns guide | Yes | Yes | Yes |

### Your own material

| | Free | Teaching Assistant | The full package |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flashcards from your slides, PDFs, exercise scans, notebook photos and class recordings | No | Yes | Yes |
| A natural voice for every word and sentence you keep | No | Yes | Yes |
| Type a word in English and choose the Vietnamese you mean | No | Yes | Yes |
| Articles, messages and photos to read, with a tap on any word | No | Yes | Yes |
| Picture cards | No | Yes | Yes |
| Practice for a lesson before class | No | Yes | Yes |
| Study reminders by email | No | Yes | Yes |

### Speaking and writing

| | Free | Teaching Assistant | The full package |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small talk: your own answers, written with help and rehearsed | No | Yes | Yes |
| Writing on a prompt, with a hint before the answer | No | Yes | Yes |
| Corrections on what you say or write, each with its reason | No | Yes | Yes |
| Tone feedback when you say a line back | No | Yes | Yes |

### The course

| | Free | Teaching Assistant | The full package |
|---|---|---|---|
| The first three lessons | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| All thirty lessons, in Northern or Southern Vietnamese | No | No | Yes |
| Feedback on what you say and write in a lesson | No | In the first three lessons | Yes |

### AI allowance

| | Free | Teaching Assistant | The full package |
|---|---|---|---|
| A monthly allowance for the AI features | No | Included | Larger |

## The monthly AI allowance, in plain words.

Each paid plan includes an amount of AI work per month. One meter in the app shows how much of it you have used, and the app tells you when you are getting close to the end.

Counts toward it:

- Reading your uploads and building flashcards from them
- Transcribing your class recordings
- Feedback on what you say and write
- New audio for your own words and sentences
- Pictures you ask for

Never counts:

- Your daily reviews and practice
- The starter decks
- Reading and listening to the course lessons your plan includes
- Playing audio you already have

When a month’s allowance is used up, the AI features pause until your next billing date, and everything else keeps working. The full package has a larger allowance than Teaching Assistant.

## Plans and billing, answered

### Can I try it before I pay?

Yes. The Free plan has the first three lessons of the course, the starter decks and daily reviews, for as long as you like. There is no trial period to keep an eye on: you choose a paid plan when you want the AI features or the whole course.

### What happens when my AI allowance runs out?

The AI features pause until your next billing date, or until you move to the larger plan. Your reviews, your practice and the audio you already have keep working, so your study never stops.

### Can I change plans?

Yes, from your account. A move to the larger plan takes effect right away: you pay the difference for the rest of the month and get the larger allowance the same day. A move to the smaller plan takes effect at your next renewal, and you keep what you have until then.

### How do I cancel?

From your account, at any time. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep the free plan. Your study data stays readable and exportable.

### Is there a yearly plan?

No. Both paid plans are billed monthly.

### Do the prices include tax?

Yes. The price you see is the price you pay.

### Can I get a refund?

The Refund Policy says when and how.

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