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

sayit's free plan gives you roughly 30 minutes of analysed speech every month. 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: ~30 minutes/month on Free. Pro raises that to 10 hours a month (20× Free) for $9/mo. Max raises it further to 25 hours a month (50× Free) 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 "30 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 30 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 30 minutes is enough for you

• A few sessions a week, short takes — 30 minutes is generally workable, since most single drills or sentences take only seconds of actual recorded audio.
• Daily practice, or longer passages — you're likely to hit the cap before the month is out; 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

Thirty minutes doesn't sound like much until you break it into actual practice sessions. 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, 30 minutes covers somewhere in the range of two to four hundred short drills a month, or a few dozen longer passage reads — enough for most people to build a genuine daily habit on individual sounds, even if it isn't enough for reading whole chapters or running many full 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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