How much practice per month does sayit's free plan allow?

sayit's free plan gives you 5 minutes of analysed speech every month — enough for a few short takes. That allowance resets at the start of each calendar month, and it isn't a one-time trial — you can stay on the free plan indefinitely, and it renews every month for as long as you want to use it, with no card required at any point.

30-second version: 5 minutes/month on Free. Pro raises that to 10 hours a month for $9/mo. Max raises it further to 25 hours a month for $13.50/mo. All three reset monthly on the same schedule — the difference between tiers is purely the ceiling, plus four paid-only features (custom passages, book import, AI conversation, full exam mode).

The exact numbers, side by side

Note that "5 minutes" measures analysed speaking time, not app usage time — reading, thinking, and reviewing your feedback don't count against the allowance, only the actual recorded audio that gets scored.

What counts against the 5 minutes

The allowance is metered on the audio sent for scoring — every recorded take you submit for analysis draws down the monthly total, whether it's a single-word drill or a longer passage. It resets automatically at the start of each calendar month; there's no rollover of unused time and no way to buy extra minutes without moving to a paid tier.

Whether 5 minutes is enough for you

• Trying sayit out, short takes — 5 minutes is enough to see how the scoring works on your voice, since a single drill or sentence takes only seconds of recorded audio.
• Regular practice, daily practice, or longer passages — you will hit the cap within the first week or so; this is the practical signal to consider Pro.
• Intensive exam prep close to a test date — Max's 25 hours a month is built for exactly this kind of daily, heavy use.

Why the cap exists at all

Every take on sayit is genuinely analysed by a real acoustic model on sayit's servers — the scoring isn't a lightweight lookup, so metering the free tier is what keeps it sustainable to offer for free at all. It's worth noting this is also why sayit doesn't work offline: see does sayit work offline? for that detail.

How the allowance compares across a typical month

Five minutes is a small allowance, so it helps to break it into actual takes. A single word or short-phrase drill is a few seconds of audio; a full sentence read-aloud is closer to five to ten seconds. At that rate, 5 minutes covers roughly a hundred single-word drills a month, or thirty to sixty sentence reads, or about two full two-minute IELTS Part 2 answers — enough to try sayit and check a few sounds, not enough for a daily habit, whole chapters or mock exams. The cap resets automatically, so there's no penalty for using it unevenly across the month; a heavier week followed by a lighter one still lands within the same monthly total.

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