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Pricing

Foundation is free forever. Premium is £3 a month.

Reading, writing and basic maths — the things every adult and child deserves — never cost a penny. The deeper diplomas, the catch-up tutor, every language pack and offline downloads sit behind a cheap subscription so the school can sustain itself without anyone being priced out.

Free

Foundation literacy & numeracy. Forever.

£0

no card, no time limit

  • English Phonics 1 + 2 (30 lessons)
  • Numeracy Foundation 1 + 2 (30 lessons)
  • 1 teaching language at a time
  • Standard Foundation certificate
  • Skills Passport (foundations stamps)
  • Work-Ready Diploma tracks
  • After-school Catch-Up Tutor
  • Digital Skills programme
  • Unlimited language packs
  • Offline downloadable packs
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NGO / School

Bulk seats for a cohort.

£5/student/year

30+ students · invoice-friendly

  • All Premium features per student
  • Teacher dashboard
  • Cohort analytics + progress reports
  • Bulk certificate issuance
  • White-label option (custom logo on certificates)
  • Priority support & onboarding
  • Grants / sponsorship match (see below)
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Why anything is paid at all

First Global Education exists to carry everyone along to the best, not just those who can pay. So we run a real tier: Foundation literacy & numeracy stay free for life. The premium tier funds language-pack production, server costs, and the contributors who keep authoring lessons. A learner who genuinely can't afford £3/month can request a free Premium year via the NGO programme — nobody who needs the school gets turned away.

Built on open-source models, free-tier infrastructure, no Anthropic or OpenAI APIs — the costs we cover are the costs that actually exist: human authoring, native-speaker audio, the small amount of paid hosting beyond free tiers. £3/month covers a learner for an entire year of server + Workers AI usage with margin.

Grants & sponsorship

Foundations and grant-makers underwriting cohorts in low-income communities is a first-class part of how we operate. If you fund literacy work — UNESCO, Gates Foundation, MacArthur, Rotary, Lions, faith-based orgs — we'll match every sponsored seat to a learner who'd otherwise be priced out, with anonymous quarterly impact reporting. Reach out to the principal directly.

Common questions

Will the things I learn for free ever start costing money?
No. Phonics 1+2 and Numeracy Foundation 1+2 are free forever and that won't change. If anything moves into Premium it'll be new content built on top — the floor only goes up.
What happens if I cancel Premium?
Your progress is preserved. You go back to the free Foundation packs; any certificates you've already earned stay valid; downloaded packs continue to work offline on the device they're on.
How do you handle a learner who genuinely can't afford £3/month?
NGO sponsorship + a "request a free year" link in the app. We're not in the business of asking children to choose between food and learning.
Is Premium one device or per learner?
Per learner. A learner profile can sync to a second device with the same Premium status — your phone today, a borrowed laptop tomorrow.
How do you process payments?
Google Play Billing on Android (no separate card details). Web payments via Stripe are coming in 2026. NGOs and schools are invoiced.
What languages get Premium first?
Each language flips to LIVE when its Foundation pack-set is translated end-to-end. Six languages are already LIVE end-to-end (Foundation + JSS-Maths + JSS-English + SSS-Maths + SSS-English): English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Arabic, Mandarin (Simplified). More on the build list. See /learn for the live status of each pack.