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Every program on these pages is one a parent might reasonably choose instead of us, and each page says where that program is the better answer. We sell an assessment. We do not sell tutoring or curriculum, and we earn no commission from anything named here.

• IXL vs Khan Academy

  One is free and documents its scoring to the percentage. The other charges and sells a placement test. The choice is less about price than about who decides what your child works on next.

• Test My Kid vs Renaissance Star

  Star is a school assessment a family can buy a seat at. Test My Kid is a short check built for the parent from the start. The difference shows up in what happens the second time you want to measure.

• Free math assessments for kids, compared

  Most things that rank for "free math assessment" are free practice, a teacher tool, or a paid diagnostic. Here is what each one is in its own words, and which of them gives a parent a result at home for nothing.

• Kumon vs Mathnasium

  Kumon is an after-school math and reading program built on worksheets practised daily. Mathnasium's own home page describes its centers as math-only, with the work kept inside instructor-led sessions. Here is what each company says about subjects, ages, the assessment, the week and the price.

• Test My Kid vs Learning Heroes

  Learning Heroes and Test My Kid both start from the same finding: most parents overestimate where their child stands. Both check a child against a named grade, at home. Learning Heroes does it in five game-like questions, with a practice link for each skill and nothing to pay in our run. Test My Kid does it in ten, and a signed-in family sees each result charted so they can watch a direction.

• Test My Kid vs Khan Academy

  Test My Kid is a check a parent starts at home: a named grade, a position within it, and every question with your child's answer. Khan Academy is free and it teaches, and most families should keep it. Here are the Khan instruments that look like a test, what each one reports, and who can start it.

• Test My Kid vs IXL

  Both hand a parent a result at home, and each one names something different: IXL's knowledge levels and the skills to learn next, ours a grade and your child's position in it. Here is what each measures, how long each takes and what each costs, in each company's own words.

• Test My Kid vs buying MAP Growth at home

  The real MAP Growth test is purchasable at home for $60, but Homeschool Boss, which sells it, says that typically, if your student is enrolled in a school, it is not allowed to test them. Here is what that means for you.