MobyMax cost, MobyMax pricing and what a Moby Max license costs a school or district

Short answer: MobyMax costs $4,795 per school per year for unlimited teachers and students, which is the price printed on MobyMax's own order page in September 2026. A district license is quoted by phone and advertised at up to 20 percent off that school price. Below the site license, public documents show student seats at $11.99 a year in a Missouri district and $9 a year in a negotiated group deal, and individual teachers paying $14.99 a month on district purchasing cards. The same group deal prices a whole school at $995 a year, so the list price is a starting point.

MobyMax is one of the few K-8 programs that prints a school price at all. What it does not print is what schools around you actually paid, how fast the price has moved, or where seats beat a site license. Those answers are in board agendas, purchase order listings and card reports that districts post themselves. Each document below is linked and was read in September 2026. Coeducate is not affiliated with MobyMax. We sell a different kind of product, and the section near the end says where MobyMax is the better purchase.

How much does MobyMax cost? The public documents

Seven sources with a dollar figure next to a known scope. Where a per-unit number can be worked out, it is in the last column.

Source	What it bought	Amount	Per unit
MobyMax order page, September 2026	MAX Schoolwide License, unlimited teachers and students, one year	$4,795	$4,795 per school
Santa Ana USD, CA, purchase order listing, July 5, 2023	License subscription for one intermediate school, Title I, Part A	$3,795	$3,795 per school
Stockton USD, CA, Pulliam Elementary school plan, 2024-25	Twelve-month license for all students, budgeted from Title I	$4,000	$4,000 per school (a budget line)
Lee's Summit R-7, MO, contracts list, October 2022	80 ELA student licenses for grade 5, one year	$959	$11.99 per student
Lee's Summit R-7, MO, purchasing card reports, 2024-25	Individual teacher subscriptions, billed monthly to three grade 6 teachers	$14.99 each	$14.99 per teacher per month
MobyMax price sheet for North American Division Adventist schools	School license and per-seat license under a group agreement	$995 and $9	$995 per school, $9 per seat
Rutherford County Schools, TN, board agenda, August 11, 2020	District purchase for 2020-21, CARES Act funded, school count not stated	$27,587	Not derivable

One more data point sits at the small end. In February 2020 the East Orange, NJ board approved one school to keep using MobyMax for the rest of the year "at a cost not to exceed $2,000".

MobyMax pricing by license type

MobyMax's help center describes three ways to buy and gives no dollar figure for two of them. Put together with the documents above, the menu looks like this.

License	Who it covers	Price evidence
School license	Unlimited teachers and students at one school for a year	$4,795 list. $3,795 paid in 2023, $4,000 budgeted for 2024-25
District license	Every K-8 school in the district. Schools with only grades 9 to 12 are included at no charge	By quote, advertised as up to 20 percent off the school price
Per-student license	A set number of seats, priced by subject	$11.99 a seat for ELA (2022), $9 a seat in a group deal
Individual teacher subscription	One teacher's classes	$14.99 a month on district card statements, about $180 a year
Training	One-hour custom webinar	$299 regular price, $99 per school when ordered with a license

Teachers can also register for a free version. The order page does not list what it limits, so check that against the features you need before you plan a building around it.

How much does MobyMax cost per student?

On a school license it depends entirely on enrollment, because the price is flat. At $4,795 a year:

Students in the building	Cost per student on a school license	Same students on $11.99 seats
150	$31.97	$1,799
300	$15.98	$3,597
400	$11.99	$4,796
600	$7.99	$7,194
900	$5.33	$10,791

The break-even is 400 students. If the program will reach fewer than that, for example one grade level or the intervention caseload, ask for a per-student quote before you accept the site license. If it will reach the whole building, the site license is the cheaper route, and at 600 students it lands under $8 a head for every subject MobyMax sells. That is low for this category. Our DreamBox cost article found $19.72 to $28 per student for math alone.

What the multi-year discount is really worth

The order page offers two to five year terms with the line "Lock in this year's price and get a great discount". The savings it prints are $959 for two years, $1,439 for three, $1,918 for four and $2,398 for five. Run the arithmetic and each one is 10 percent off the total. A five-year commitment earns the same percentage as a two-year one.

So the discount is not the reason to sign a long term. The price lock might be. Santa Ana paid $3,795 for a school in July 2023 and the list price three years later is $4,795, a rise of about 26 percent. A school that had locked the 2023 price would have avoided that. Weigh it against how sure you are that the program will still be in use in year three.

Where the list price bends

Three of the documents show prices well under list, and each one points to something you can ask for.

• Group agreements. The price sheet for Adventist schools lists a full school license at $995 a year, about 79 percent under list, with onboarding included. If your school belongs to a diocese, a charter network, a cooperative or a regional service agency, ask whether a group rate exists before you order online.
• District volume. MobyMax advertises up to 20 percent off for a district license and counts only K-8 schools. Rutherford County's $27,587 for 2020-21 shows the scale of a district order, though the agenda does not say how many schools it covered.
• Pilots. A pilot offer posted by Hamilton Township, NJ gave special education and RTI teachers free subscriptions with "absolutely no charge". A free pilot for one team is a reasonable thing to request.

The quiet cost of teacher-by-teacher subscriptions

Lee's Summit's card reports show three sixth grade teachers each paying $14.99 a month through the year. That is about $540 a year for three classrooms, far below a site license, and a sensible way to buy for one team. It stops being sensible when it spreads. Twenty-seven teachers on monthly subscriptions cost more than the $4,795 school license, and nobody sees it happen because each charge is small and sits on a different card.

The fix is procedural. Have one person see every software request, so that when the sixth teacher asks, someone notices the pattern. Some districts route every software request to a single approver for exactly this reason, and the same list tells you when a building has crossed the line where a site license is cheaper.

MobyMax cost for a 450-student K-5 school, four ways

Option	Arithmetic	Year one	Per student
School license at list	1 x $4,795	$4,795	$10.66
School license, three-year term	($14,385 less $1,439) / 3	$4,315	$9.59
Seats for 120 intervention students	120 x $11.99	$1,439	$11.99
Six teachers on monthly subscriptions	6 x $14.99 x 12	$1,079	Varies by class size

Add $99 for a training webinar if you order it with the license. For comparison, Coeducate's School plan is $3,480 a year for up to 600 students and is published on the AI tutor for schools pricing page. It does a different job, which the next section covers.

What the price does not buy

Two things are worth knowing before the purchase order goes out.

First, evidence. If the money is school improvement funding, the intervention has to carry an ESSA tier. The Evidence for ESSA listing for MobyMax Math reads "No studies met inclusion requirements for reading or math". Ask MobyMax for the study behind any tier claim and check it against your state's rules. Our page on research based math intervention programs lists the math programs that do hold a rating and the grades each one covers.

Second, diagnosis. MobyMax places students with a test, assigns lessons to the gaps and reports progress by standard. That tells a teacher which standards a student has not passed. It does not read how the student reasoned, so it cannot say why a fourth grader keeps missing fraction comparison. For the students who are not moving, that reason is what the interventionist needs.

Where MobyMax is the better buy, and where it is not

Your need	MobyMax	Coeducate
Practice across every K-8 subject for a whole building	Yes, under $11 a student at 450 students	No. It is a tutor, not a curriculum
Kindergarten to grade 2	Yes	No. It starts at grade 3
Fact fluency	Yes	No. It is untimed on purpose
A named misconception for each student in the intervention block	No	Yes, with the student's own words quoted
Dated, per-skill evidence for MTSS meetings and IEP reports	Progress by standard	Yes, exportable as CSV
Published price	School license only	Every plan
ESSA evidence tier	None listed on Evidence for ESSA	None, and we say so

Many schools will want both layers. MobyMax supplies volume at a low price per student. Coeducate works on the students that volume is not reaching, in the elementary math intervention block or a middle school Tier 2 group, and hands the teacher the reason. A Classroom plan for one interventionist is $89 a month. You can try it in the panel at the top of this page by pasting one student answer.

Six questions to ask before you pay for MobyMax

1. How many students will use it weekly? Under 400, ask for per-student pricing in writing.
2. Does our network, diocese or cooperative have a group rate like the $995 Adventist agreement?
3. What is the district price for our number of K-8 schools, and is the full 20 percent on the table?
4. How many teachers are already paying $14.99 a month, and will those charges be credited?
5. What will renewal cost in each of the next three years if we do not sign a multi-year term?
6. Which study supports the ESSA tier, and does it cover our grades?

Frequently asked questions

How much does MobyMax cost for a school?

MobyMax costs $4,795 per school per year at list price for unlimited teachers and students, as printed on its order page in September 2026. Public documents show schools paying less: $3,795 in Santa Ana in 2023, $4,000 budgeted in Stockton for 2024-25, and $995 under a group agreement for Adventist schools.

Is MobyMax free for teachers?

MobyMax has a free version that teachers can register for with no obligation. The paid individual teacher subscription shows up on district card statements at $14.99 a month. The order page does not spell out what the free version leaves out, so compare it with the paid features before relying on it for a whole class.

How much does MobyMax cost per student?

On per-student licenses, a Missouri district paid $11.99 a seat for ELA in 2022 and a group price sheet lists $9 a seat. On a $4,795 school license the cost per student falls with enrollment: $15.98 at 300 students, $10.66 at 450 and $7.99 at 600. The two options cost the same at 400 students.

How much is a MobyMax district license?

MobyMax does not publish a district price. Its order page advertises up to 20 percent off the school price and asks for the number of K-8 schools, with high schools that only have grades 9 to 12 included at no charge. One Tennessee district approved $27,587 for a 2020-21 district purchase.

Is MobyMax worth the cost?

For whole-building practice across subjects it is one of the cheapest options per student, under $11 at 450 students. It is a weaker fit when funding requires an ESSA evidence tier, since Evidence for ESSA lists no qualifying study, or when the question is why specific students are stuck. Compare it with Zearn cost per school before deciding.