Current recommended picks

Last verified: 2026-10-20

Who	Pick right now	Why	Source cards
Owner, getting started	ChatGPT Free	Every Course 1 Lesson 1 demo works on Free	T1, T2
Owner, once they hit limits	ChatGPT Plus	Free allows only 3 uploads a day; Plus raises that and adds audio uploads (Course 2: 25 files per project vs. Free's 5)	T1
Staff, or any real school data	ChatGPT Business	No training on your data by default, and you can share projects with the team	T1, T3
Runner-up	Claude (Free or Pro)	Strong at long reading and writing; Projects on Free (up to 5)	T4
Google-heavy businesses	Gemini	Works with Gmail and Drive; Gems with knowledge files	T6
Wants an agent that does the work	ChatGPT scheduled tasks, Claude "hand off and schedule tasks," or Grok Bot	See T8	T8

Why one pick: the course's whole promise is "take the choices away first." Change the pick only when a card fact makes the current one clearly worse for owners, not because a new tool shows up in the news.

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