How much money does Duolingo make?

Duolingo made $250 million revenue in 2021, primarily from subscriptions to the company's premium service.
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Is Duolingo making a profit?

Duolingo looks strong in the smaller low margin segments and weak in the largest most profitable and fastest-growing segment. Despite its excellent financial situation and growing revenue analysis of this industry suggests that Duolingo may never make a profit.
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Is Duolingo losing money?

Duolingo valuation

Duolingo's valuation pre-IPO was $2.4 billion, which accelerated to over $6 billion in 2021. The tech selloff hit the company as well in 2022, dropping below $3 billion in value.
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Is Duolingo successful?

Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020.
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How does Duolingo get money?

Duolingo makes money via a premium subscription, display ads, as well as its language proficiency tests. The company operates under a freemium business model. It operates on a freemium business model.
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Duolingo: Making millions out of you



How does Duolingo app make money?

These websites wanted their content to be translated, and Duolingo with the help of crowdsourced translation would translate the text in an effective and much cheaper price than a professional translator. Thus, helping the users as well as developing revenue to sustain itself.
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How much Duolingo is worth?

Duolingo Is Valued at $4 Billion.
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What is the longest Duolingo streak?

The longest streak on Duolingo is over 7 years long (2805 days) and was earned by user christi3. However, multiple users have accomplished this feat of a world record Duolingo Streak and have made it onto a Streak Hall of Fame. Above you can see the list of users who have completed a streak of over 2555 days.
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How much is the Duolingo app worth?

As per the Crunchbase report, Duolingo raised $183.3M of the total in over 9 rounds. As of January 2021, the investors estimate the total valuation to be staggering high, up to $2.4 billion.
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Is Duolingo a big company?

Currently, they have over 25 million monthly active users learning a language right from their web browser or smartphone, each at their own pace. Along the way, Duolingo has built a $700 million company—without charging users a cent.
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Does Duolingo sell your translations?

The translations are also a key component of how Duolingo makes its money. The app is free, so Duolingo keeps the lights on by selling the translations that users do.
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Does Duolingo sell data?

We don't sell your personal data to third parties. We do not use the microphone permissions on your mobile device for anything other than speaking exercises in our courses.
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How old is the Duolingo owl?

The lively green owl has been with the company since its 2012 launch and in recent years has become the means by which Duolingo encourages you to complete your lessons—sometimes memorably. Duo through the years: 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2018.
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Does Duolingo send threatening messages?

Granted, Duolingo users can turn these notifications off, and if you ignore them for long enough, the app will send you the ultimate passive aggressive alert: "These reminders don't seem to be working.
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How old is Duolingo?

At the time Luis was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and Severin was one of his students. Bringing on board linguistics and language retention experts, Duolingo launched in 2012, initially offering a handful of languages, including English, French and Spanish.
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Is Duolingo unethical?

An app for language learning that particularly undervalues its language professionals, is a real tragedy for the language community. So in that sense, I think using Duolingo is a bit unethical, as you are benefiting from someone's unpaid labour, while giving the app money (through ad revenue or by going premium).
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Is Duolingo nonprofit?

And yet, Duolingo is a for-profit business. To make money, the company gets its users to translate real news articles from sites like CNN and Buzzfeed into their native languages as a way to practice their English. Duolingo then charges these sites between two and three cents per word for the translations.
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Is Duolingo addictive?

Language apps like Duolingo are addictive—but not particularly effective.
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Who has the most followers on Duolingo?

Congrats to John Arnold, who has the highest-ever Duolingo streak of over 2000 days! He's a horse farmer and chemist who's been studying for 5.5 years straight. His secret?
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Why has Duolingo changed 2021?

Making totally new content: We want to align all our courses with the standards of the CEFR. So sometimes there'll be a total change of your course content to improve what we teach and when, so you learn the right things at the right time.
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Is Duolingo owned by Google?

Language-learning app Duolingo is now valued at more than $1 billion after an investment from Google's parent company.
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Is Babbel better than Duolingo?

After thoroughly testing out and reviewing each language learning program, we feel that Babbel is better than Duolingo for multiple reasons. Based on the strength of their curriculum, teaching style and delivery, we rate Babbel as the superior app over Duolingo.
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Is the Duolingo Bird evil?

Meme Culture

Duo has been known to call in ballistic missile-strikes on people who do not practice, or physically abuse them. The meme has become known as "Evil Duolingo Owl". The official Duolingo YouTube channel posted a video titled "Introducing Duo Push" on April 1st, 2019, as a nod to the "Evil Duo" memes.
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