If you have more than one kid, the decision mostly makes itself. Here's the short version of why homeschool families pick Lumi instead of Mia Academy — and why they stay.
Start Your Free 72-Hour Trial → No card required · $39.99/mo flat for up to 8 kids after trialMia Academy bills around $42 a month, per child. Add a second or third kid and that number multiplies fast — a 3-kid household ends up paying roughly $126/month, or over $1,500 a year. Lumi charges $39.99/month flat for up to 8 kids on one account. For any family with more than one child, that's not a small discount — it's hundreds to over a thousand dollars saved every year, for the same three kids getting full access.
Mia Academy covers the core four: Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies. Lumi covers those plus Coding, Debate, Art, Music, Life Skills, US History, World Geography, and more — 16+ subjects in every plan, at no extra charge. Your kids aren't limited to the core curriculum just because that's what fit the subscription price.
Mia Academy doesn't run on Amazon Fire tablets or Smart TVs — two of the most common devices in homeschool households. Lumi works on iOS, Android, Fire tablets, Chromebooks, Smart TVs, and the web. That means fewer "sorry, it doesn't work on this one" moments and more actual learning time, on whatever screen is already in the room.
Mia Academy's progress reports live in a dashboard you have to remember to check. Lumi auto-sends a weekly parent email digest for every child, plus a built-in attendance log and print-ready report cards. If your state requires homeschool records, or you just want a quick read on how the week went, it's already done for you.
Mia Academy has no lifetime option — the per-child bill runs indefinitely. Lumi offers a one-time $1,499 Lifetime Pass covering every kid on your account, forever. For a growing family paying Mia's per-child rate, that's an amount you'd spend in about a year anyway — except with Lumi, after that year you owe nothing else, ever.
Full access to every subject, every kid on your account, for 72 hours — no card required.
Try Lumi Free →To be fair, Mia Academy is a genuinely solid curriculum for a single-child household that isn't fazed by per-child pricing — its character-based lessons are well made and its community following is real. But the moment a second kid joins your homeschool, the math stops working in Mia's favor. Lumi was built around the reality that most homeschool families have more than one learner: one login, one flat bill, every kid covered.
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