Free for teachers.
No card, no trial clock, and no feature held back to make you upgrade. This page says what that covers, where the limits actually are, and what would ever cost money — because a free tier with an unspoken catch is worse than a price.
What a teacher gets, at no cost
Every class you teach, every student on every roster, roll call for the whole term with its history, quiz homework drafted from your own worksheet, automatic marking of the questions a rule can settle, a grading inbox for the answers it cannot, flashcard decks, lesson notes, slides, and the class analytics that name the weak skills.
Students need no account and no email address. They join with a class code you read out, on a school Chromebook or a phone.
Where the limits are
Two, and they exist because the model costs us real money per request, not to push you toward a plan that does not exist.
Thirty AI generations a day per teacher. A quiz, a deck, a set of notes and a slide deck each count as one. For context, a teacher setting homework for five classes uses about five.
Thirty megabytes per upload. A thirty-page scanned PDF is comfortably inside it. A worksheet you upload is held for thirty days so you can make notes or slides from it later, then deleted automatically — or immediately, if you press delete.
If either limit is the wrong one for how you teach, tell us. They are numbers in a config file, not a business model.
Why it is free
Because TeachRoster is early and we would rather have teachers than revenue right now. The honest version: a handful of people use this, we are still finding out what it gets wrong in a real classroom, and charging for that would be charging for the privilege of testing it.
We are not funded by advertising and we do not sell anything about your students. There is no second business here that you are the product of. The privacy page is the long version.
What would ever cost money
Schools, eventually. A school-wide rollout wants things a single teacher does not: dashboards across departments, teacher accounts an administrator manages, exportable attendance and grade reports for the office, and school-level control over what the AI may do. That is the work a school would pay for, and none of it is built yet.
What will not become paid: taking roll call, setting work, marking it, and everything else on this page that a teacher does alone in their own classroom. If that ever changes, teachers already using it keep what they have.
If you are deciding for a school
Start with one teacher and one class. No contract, no IT project, no purchase order. When it is worth a conversation, the schools page covers data processing, where the servers are, and what a rollout would involve.