Quizlet Plus Cost in 2026: What You Pay and What's Capped

The short answer

Read straight off quizlet.com/upgrade on 2026-09-08, in US dollars, on the web:

Quizlet Plus is $7.99 per month, or $35.99 per year if you pay for the year up front (checked 2026-09-08). Quizlet Plus Unlimited is $9.99 per month, or $44.99 per year (checked 2026-09-08). There is a 7-day free trial, and there is a condition on it that almost nobody writes down.

Two things about those numbers matter more than the numbers themselves, and you will not find either on the pages currently ranking for this query.

The first is that the monthly plan costs $95.88 over a year, against $35.99 if you pay annually (checked 2026-09-08). That is a difference of $59.89, which is more than the annual plan costs in the first place. Quizlet's own toggle is labelled "Annually (Save 62%)", and the arithmetic backs it: 35.99 divided by 95.88 is 0.375, so the annual plan is 62.5 percent cheaper.

The second is that Quizlet Plus, the cheaper paid tier, is still metered. More on that below, because it is the part that decides which plan you should actually buy.

What a year costs, all four ways

The monthly column is the published monthly price multiplied by twelve. Quizlet does not print that annualised figure anywhere, and neither does any of the five pages currently ranking for this query.

What a year of Quizlet costs, by plan and billing period. Prices read from quizlet.com/upgrade on 2026-09-08. Monthly figures are the published monthly price multiplied by twelve. Chart by Mindomax.Notice what the table makes obvious. Plus Unlimited paid annually, at $44.99, costs less than half of Plus paid monthly, at $95.88 (both checked 2026-09-08). If you are going to pay Quizlet anything at all, the billing period is a bigger decision than the tier.

The catch: Quizlet Plus is metered too

This is the sentence that changes the decision, and it comes from Quizlet's own upgrade page rather than from anyone's opinion.

Quizlet describes Plus as "Ad-free access to 3 practice tests, 20 rounds of Learn questions, and 3 textbook solutions per month." It describes Plus Unlimited as "Complete access to practice tests, unlimited rounds of Learn questions and millions of textbook solutions."

So the $35.99 annual plan (checked 2026-09-08) removes the ads and raises the ceiling. It does not remove the ceiling. Three practice tests a month is roughly one a week and a half. Twenty rounds of Learn is a single heavy revision session for a large set. If you are the kind of student who buys a flashcard subscription in the first place, you are probably the kind of student who will hit both limits in the fortnight before an exam.

Every competing article on this query presents Plus as "the paid tier" and lets the reader assume the caps lift when they pay. They do not. The nine dollars a year between Plus and Plus Unlimited is the difference between a metered account and an unmetered one, and it is the best-value nine dollars on the page.

A footnote on both tiers reads "English textbooks only", so the textbook solutions count does not help you at all outside English-language editions.

The free trial exists, but only on one plan

Quizlet's page says: "Get a 7-day trial when you subscribe to an annual plan." Directly underneath, in smaller type, it says: "*Monthly plan is not eligible for a free trial."

That is worth reading twice. The instinct when you want to try something is to take the monthly plan because it feels like less commitment. On Quizlet that instinct costs you money: the monthly plan bills you immediately and has no trial, while the annual plan, the larger commitment, is the only one that gives you a week to change your mind.

The trial also converts into a full year rather than a month. Quizlet's own timeline says you will be billed "for one year and yearly every subsequent year until you cancel". Put the cancellation date in your calendar on the day you start, not the day you remember.

What the free version still does

Quizlet free is a real product and not a demo. You can make and study unlimited sets, and the app is free to install on both stores. What you give up is the ad-free experience, the higher Learn and practice-test allowances, and the textbook solutions.

For a lot of students that is a fair trade, and the honest answer to "is Quizlet free" is yes, with advertising and with caps. If the caps are what you are trying to escape, it is worth knowing that what Quizlet's Learn mode does with scheduling is not the same thing as true spaced repetition, and that several free apps do the scheduling part better than the paid Quizlet tier does.

Is there a student discount?

Not a published one on the pricing page. Quizlet's upgrade page offers "generous discounts for your business or school" for group orders and asks you to request a quote, with no figure printed (checked 2026-09-08). Student discounts for Quizlet circulate through third-party student-verification networks rather than through Quizlet's own pricing page, and those offers change monthly, so any figure printed in an article like this one would be wrong by the time you read it.

You will also find a "$96 per year family plan" quoted on two of the pages ranking for this query. Neither page could verify it. One calls it "reported", the other says it is "based on user reviews". It does not appear on quizlet.com/upgrade, so it is not in this article as a fact.

What these apps charge inside the app: 29 of them, measured

Here is the part nobody has published, and the reason this page exists.

Two of the articles ranking for "quizlet plus cost" tell you that buying through an app store costs more than buying on the web. Neither gives a number. Google Play publishes each app's in-app purchase range on its own listing, so the number is public. On 2026-09-08 we read it off the listing for 31 study apps.

Quizlet's Google Play in-app range tops out at $44.99 (checked 2026-09-08), which is exactly its web annual Plus Unlimited price. On Android, in other words, there is no app-store mark-up on Quizlet at all, which is the opposite of what those two articles imply.

Before the table, the caveat that makes it usable. "None listed" means no purchase runs through Google Play billing. It does not mean the app is free. Mochi lists no Play purchase and still charges $5 a month on its own website (checked 2026-09-08). Read the column as "can this app take my money from inside the Android app", not as "is this app free".

Every app below was checked with a live listing fetch on 2026-09-08 and is currently maintained. Two candidates were dropped for failing that check: Traverse, last updated 2024-07-30, and Memorang, last updated 2022-09-12. Recommending abandonware is how a list like this loses its reader.

Three things fall out of that table.

Quizlet is one of the cheaper ceilings on the list, not one of the more expensive ones. RemNote can take $399.99 in a single in-app purchase, Memrise $349.99, Vaia $299.99, SuperMemo $289.90 and Knowt $249.99 (all checked 2026-09-08). If the reason you are reading this is that $35.99 felt like a lot, the wider market says otherwise.

The apps with no Play billing at all are worth a second look, with the caveat above firmly in mind. AnkiDroid genuinely is free, carries no advertising and has the highest rating on the table at 4.8. AlgoApp is the app formerly called AnkiApp, which is a different product from Anki despite the name and a source of long-standing confusion.

The bottom of the table is where the small apps are, and small is not the same as bad. It does mean unproven. StudyGlen sits at 2.6 from a handful of ratings, and both Mindomax and NeuraKnow have too few ratings to show one at all. Treat anything under about 10,000 installs as something to try rather than something to buy a year of.

If you decide Quizlet is not worth it

Sorted by what a year costs, most expensive first, using each vendor's own published price rather than the Play range:

What one year costs at eight study apps, cheapest plan, most expensive first. Each price read from that vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-08. AnkiMobile is a single purchase, not a subscription, so every year after the first is $0. Mindomax Premium is published as free until 2028. Chart by Mindomax.Knowt Ultra is $149.99 a year, or $24.99 a month (checked 2026-09-08). RemNote Pro is $8 a month or $96 a year, and Pro with AI is $18 a month or $216 a year (checked 2026-09-08). Brainscape Pro is $7.99 a month billed annually, which is $95.88 a year (checked 2026-09-08). Mochi Pro is $5 a month billed annually, which is $60 a year (checked 2026-09-08). Quizlet Plus, for comparison, is $35.99 a year (checked 2026-09-08).

Below that the market stops charging. AnkiMobile on iPhone and iPad is $24.99, paid once, not a subscription, verified against Apple's own listing data (checked 2026-09-08). Every year after the first is free, which over four years of a degree makes it the cheapest paid option on this page by a wide margin. Anki on desktop and AnkiDroid on Android are free with no purchases and no advertising. The trade is that Anki's interface is famously unfriendly and you will spend an evening learning it.

Mindomax, which publishes this article, is free on its free tier and lists its Premium tier at $0 until 2028 (checked 2026-09-08). The honest limitation is the one visible in the table above: at roughly a thousand Android installs it has too few ratings to show a score, so it has none of the track record Quizlet's 912,000 Play reviews represent. It is a reasonable thing to try and a poor thing to assume, and what happens to that price after 2028 is a question worth asking before you move a year of decks anywhere.

If you want the reasoning rather than the price list, we have written up the free alternatives to Quizlet in full, Knowt against Quizlet for the switch people make most often, and the ones that still work with no internet, which is the gap Quizlet has never closed.

What to actually do

If you are going to pay Quizlet, pay annually and pay for Plus Unlimited. At $44.99 a year it removes the meters, and it costs less than half of what Plus costs billed monthly (both checked 2026-09-08).

If you are not sure, start the trial on the annual plan, because the monthly plan does not have one, and set a reminder for day six.

If the caps are the problem rather than the price, the free tools listed above solve the caps for nothing, and the thing you will pay instead is an evening of setup.

Every price on this page was read from the vendor's own page or store listing on 2026-09-08. Prices move. If you are reading this months later, treat the numbers as a starting point and check the two links that matter: Quizlet's upgrade page, and the Play listing for whatever you are comparing it against.

And if the free route is the one you want, what Mindomax charges is on one page, with the 2028 date on it.