Is Khanmigo Safe for Kids?

Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant, built into Khan Academy's learning platform. SafeGradeAI rates Khanmigo 86/100 overall — Kid Safe, with strong marks for design (94), safeguards (88), transparency (88), and solid scores for privacy (82) and moderation (82). This page summarizes what the vendor documents about access and safety, and what that means in practice for families and schools.

Vendor-documented access rules

Khan Academy structures under-18 access to Khanmigo around adult oversight rather than open self-signup:

• A learner under 18 can only use Khanmigo if a parent/guardian grants access through a Khanmigo parent subscription, or if the learner's school or district has a Khan Academy / Khanmigo partnership.
• A child cannot independently create an account and start using Khanmigo's AI features on their own.
• A Khanmigo parent subscription can enable access for up to 10 children under 18 in one household.
• Individual classroom teachers cannot simply flip on Khanmigo access for their students; classroom-level access is provisioned through school or district implementations, not a single teacher's account.
• Khan Academy's Terms of Service state that any under-18 use of AI-enabled features must be supervised by an authorized adult user, and that student/minor accounts must be associated with a parent or an authorized school-personnel account.

These are vendor rules, not settings SafeGradeAI can verify are enforced in every deployment — but they establish a supervision-first model that is more restrictive than many general-purpose chatbots.

What SafeGradeAI assessed

SafeGradeAI's score reflects the product's design for a K-12 tutoring context: guided, curriculum-aligned interactions rather than an open-ended general chatbot, plus the documented supervision requirements above. Khan Academy also states that its agreements with LLM providers do not permit those providers to train models on student input data, and that AI-enabled features are designed to meet U.S. student-privacy law requirements — see the privacy guide for details.

What SafeGradeAI recommends

• Confirm access is coming through a parent subscription or a verified school/district partnership — not an informal teacher workaround.
• Read the parent guide and the teacher guide before a child starts using Khanmigo.
• Treat Khanmigo like any AI tool: don't have students enter personally identifiable information into prompts, per Khan Academy's own guidance.
• Review the age guide for grade-band considerations, and the FAQs for common access questions.

For the full picture, see the Khanmigo hub.