Duolingo vs Yandex

Duolingo — Application · Public · $7.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Duolingo Max and Alice AI do comparable work on voice agent; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Yandex's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 4 capabilities — Shares speech to text, text generation and voice agent.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldDuolingoYandex
Size$7.3B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees90036,991 Yandex has 41× more
Founded20111997 14 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerApplicationAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersPittsburgh, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Speech to textText generationVoice agent

Not verified for Yandex · 1

Education and tutoring

Recorded for Duolingo. Yandex’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Duolingo · 15

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingKnowledge retrievalText to speechTranslationSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. Duolingo’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Duolingo

Application

Duolingo English TestApplication

An online English proficiency exam scored by machine learning and accepted by institutions worldwide, with results in two days.

Duolingo MaxApplication

The subscription tier where the AI features live: Video Call with an animated tutor, Roleplay conversations and Explain My Answer, sitting on top of everything Super already removes from the free course.

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

No counterpart

Yandex sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Duolingo yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.