HSK Guide

Pricing

The free plan is genuinely useful. Pro removes the limits. Prices are in euros and include VAT where it applies. There is no trial that expires and no feature that stops working when it ends — the free plan is the free plan.

DEV MOCK

Payments are running through the local mock provider. No card is charged and no card details are collected. Checkout runs against the built-in local mock provider, which simulates the whole subscription and webhook cycle so the flow can be tested end to end. Card details are never requested and never stored. Subscribing here grants the plan in this environment only.

Billing interval

Free

Everything you need to start seriously.

€0/month

No card, ever.

What is included

  • The whole dictionary, and the vocabulary, character and radical libraries
  • The complete grammar library, with the mistakes and the contrasts
  • 30 spaced-repetition reviews a day
  • 10 AI-tutor messages a day, in all seven tutor modes
  • The placement test, mini diagnostics in full, and a preview section of every full mock examination
  • Selected graded stories and lessons, and every Survival Chinese scenario

Pro

Pro

The full adaptive engine, tutor and examinations.

€9/month

Billed monthly. Cancel at any time; it keeps working until the period ends.

What is included

  • Unlimited reviews, with no daily cap
  • Unlimited pronunciation-lab attempts, with per-syllable tone, initial and final feedback
  • Full mock examinations, as many as you like, with the whole gap analysis
  • Unlimited tutor messages, in all seven modes
  • The whole graded-reading library, at every level
  • Detailed analytics: mastery, skill radar, review forecast and readiness

Schools & organisations

Cohorts, assignments and reporting.

€4per learner / month

From. Minimum 10 seats, invoiced to the institution. Volume terms on request.

What is included

  • Everything in Pro, for every seated learner
  • Classes, cohorts and invite codes
  • Assignments with due dates and completion tracking
  • Mock-test distribution to a whole cohort at once
  • Per-learner and per-cohort weakness reports
  • CSV and JSON exports, seat-based invoicing, purchase orders

Annual billing saves 27% on Pro and two months on school seats. The saving shown on the switch is the Pro figure.

Free

What the free plan actually gives you

Reference material is not a teaser. The dictionary, the grammar library and the character and radical pages are open to everyone, signed in or not — they are the part of the platform a search engine should be able to index and a learner should be able to rely on without an account.

Dictionary

752 published vocabulary entries, with pinyin, senses, examples and a character breakdown — all readable without an account.

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Grammar library

44 published grammar points, each with its structure formula, the sentences learners get wrong and why, and a contrast with what it is confused with.

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Character explorer

140 published characters, with stroke order, components and the words that contain them.

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Everything, side by side

One row per capability. Where a plan has a limit, the limit is written out rather than described as “generous”.

Feature comparison between the Free, Pro and Schools plans, grouped by area.
FeatureFreeProSchools & organisations
Reference library
DictionaryFullFullFull
Vocabulary explorerFullFullFull
Character explorerFullFullFull
Radical libraryFullFullFull
Grammar libraryFullFullFull
Survival ChineseFullFullFull
Graded storiesGraded reading with a “words you know” estimate.SelectedAllAll
Study engine
Spaced-repetition reviewsFSRS-style scheduling, tracked separately per review mode.30 reviews a dayUnlimitedUnlimited
Review modesEight of them. Each unlocks for an item as your recall for it strengthens, and which ones you meet follows the objective you chose rather than your plan.All eightAll eightAll eight
Adaptive daily planNot includedIncludedIncluded
Personal decksSaved words, characters, sentences and grammar points, in decks you name.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Offline access to the reference libraryPages you have already opened, and their audio, stay readable without a connection. Study state is never served from a cache.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Progress analyticsMastery bars, skill radar, review forecast, weak-topic list.BasicFullFull
Speaking and writing
Pronunciation lab5 attempts a dayUnlimitedUnlimited
Per-syllable tone, initial and final feedbackIncludedIncludedIncluded
Optional recording retentionOff by default on every plan; recordings are analysed and discarded.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Writing labTrace modeFullFull
Examination preparation
Placement test and mini diagnosticsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Mock examinationsSection practice and mini diagnostics are open in full on every plan; what a subscription buys is sitting a whole paper.Preview sectionFull papersFull papers
Timed section practiceNot includedIncludedIncluded
Gap analysis after an attemptVocabulary and grammar gaps, listening weaknesses, recommended next steps.SummaryFull reportFull report
Readiness estimateNot includedIncludedIncluded
AI tutor
Messages10 tutor messages a dayUnlimited (fair use)Unlimited (fair use)
ModesExplain, practice, role-play, correct, exam coach, survival, daily conversation.All sevenAll sevenAll seven
Sources cited on every answerThe tutor answers from reviewed records and names them.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Teaching and organisations
ClassesNot includedNot includedIncluded
AssignmentsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Mock-test distribution to a cohortNot includedNot includedIncluded
Weakness reportNot includedNot includedIncluded
Shared teacher decksNot includedNot includedIncluded
Data exportYour own dataYour own dataWhole cohort
Seat invoicing and purchase ordersNot includedNot includedIncluded
Single sign-onNot includedNot includedOn request
Your account and your data
Export my dataIncludedIncludedIncluded
Delete my accountIncludedIncludedIncluded
Advertising cookies or ad-network trackingNone, on any plan. See the cookie policy.NoneNoneNone

This is unofficial practice material written for HSK Guide. It is not a past paper and is not endorsed by any examination authority. Examination affiliation

Billing questions

Is the free plan a trial?

No. It has no end date and no card. It includes the entire reference library, 30 reviews a day, 10 tutor messages a day, the placement test, mini diagnostics in full and a preview section of every mock paper. If you never upgrade, none of that is taken away.

What exactly happens when I subscribe to Pro?

Pro is €9 a month, or €79 paid once a year — €29 less than twelve monthly payments. The daily limits are removed immediately, and full mock examinations, the whole graded-reading library and detailed analytics unlock on the account you already have.

Can I cancel, and what happens to my progress?

You can cancel at any time from Settings → Billing. The subscription stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for, then the account returns to the free plan. Nothing is deleted: your decks, scheduling state, notes, recordings and examination history stay exactly as they are, and the daily limits simply apply again.

Do you offer refunds?

If you are a consumer in the EU you have a statutory fourteen-day right of withdrawal on a new subscription, and we honour it without asking why. Outside that window we refund an annual subscription pro rata if the platform was unavailable for a sustained period, and we will always look at an individual case — write to us rather than filing a chargeback.

How is the schools price calculated?

Schools and agencies are billed per seat, from €4 per learner per month, with a minimum of 10 seats and volume terms above that. A seat is a learner who has been enrolled in a class; unassigning a learner frees the seat at the next billing period. Institutions are invoiced and can pay by transfer against a purchase order.

Are prices inclusive of tax?

Prices are shown in euros. Consumer prices include VAT where it applies; for business and institutional customers VAT is shown separately on the invoice and a valid EU VAT number is applied at checkout.

Do you sell learner data or run advertising?

No. There is no advertising anywhere on the platform, no advertising cookie, and no sale or sharing of personal data with third parties for marketing. The subscription is the business model; the privacy policy states exactly which processors receive data and why.

Why does this environment say payments are mocked?

Because PAYMENTS_PROVIDER is not set to “stripe”. The platform ships with a local mock payment provider that simulates checkout, the webhook and the subscription lifecycle so the whole flow can be tested without keys. No card details are requested, no card is charged, and any plan granted here exists only in this environment.

Schools & organisations

Seats are billed to the institution, not to the learner. Tell us the number of learners, the levels you teach and when your term starts, and you will get a written quotation and a pilot cohort rather than a sales sequence.