Plans
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Free
Sign in. Every paper, every skill, unlimited — nothing to buy first.
Freeno card, no trial that expires
- Placement test, study plan and all drills — unlimited
- Every reading, listening, writing and speaking paper, no weekly limit
- The full mock exam, all four skills, timed
- Writing and speaking handed back to you after you submit — no AI score
- Results stay in this browser tab only — Tracking keeps them
Included with every account, and with no account at all for most of it.
Tracking
Everything in Free, remembered — your band history, saved and synced.
$0.69a month
- Everything in Free
- Every sitting saved, synced across your devices
- Your band trend and standing, any time
- Cancel any time, one button
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AI
Everything in Tracking, plus an examiner and a tutor.
$1.09a month
- Everything in Tracking
- 5 essays and 3 speaking tests marked a month
- 20 tutor questions and 40 word lookups a month
- 1 fresh AI-written paper a month
- Cancel any time, one button
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Most of BandUp is free the moment you sign in — every paper, every skill, unlimited. Tracking saves your results over time; AI adds the part that costs money to run — the examiner, the tutor and word lookup.
Free forever, on every plan
These are what a signed-in account gets — signing in is free and takes a moment. Serving them a thousand times costs the same as serving them once, which is nothing — so there is nothing to charge for.
- — The placement test, and re-sitting it whenever you like
- — Your study plan, and everything it schedules
- — Every reading, listening, writing and speaking paper, unlimited
- — The grammar drills and the vocabulary drills
Things worth knowing before you pay
A band score here is an estimate, not a result. The AI examiner is a language model. It can be wrong, and it can be confidently wrong. Nothing this app shows you has any standing with a university, an employer or an immigration authority — see the terms.
A card subscription renews until you cancel, and you can cancel at any time from the button on this page — the same one place you subscribed from. You keep what you have paid for until the end of the period you paid for, and nothing further is charged after that.
An Alipay or WeChat Pay pass is a single payment for one month or one year, because neither wallet can make a recurring charge. It does not renew and there is nothing to cancel: when the time runs out the account goes back to Free, with everything you have done still in it. Your billing page shows the date it ends from the moment you pay, and paying again before then adds to the time you have left rather than replacing it.
Each AI allowance runs over a rolling 30 days, not a calendar month. There is no reset day: a request frees itself up 30 days after you make it, one at a time. Every kind of AI has its own allowance rather than sharing one pool, so a month of word lookups cannot use up the essays you have left.
The AI plan also caps you week to week, tighter than the monthly figures above: 2 essays and 1 speaking test marked a week, 5 tutor questions and 10 word lookups a week. It rolls the same way the monthly allowance does — a week after each request, not a fixed day — and it is the ceiling a busy week can reach before the monthly total would.
On iPhone, subscriptions will be bought through Apple. Apple requires in-app purchase for digital goods, so the App Store version will offer the same plans through its own payment system rather than the one on this page. That is not built yet; until it is, subscribing is a web feature.