No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is duolingo.com legit or a scam?
Official Duolingo language-learning site from a 16-year-old NASDAQ-listed company with clean technical scans and active corporate registration.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The domain duolingo.com matches the official primary site of Duolingo, Inc., a Delaware public company with NASDAQ listing and roughly 16 years of registration history. Technical checks show zero malicious detections, valid SSL, and a clean hosting IP with no abuse reports. Evidence confirms the site is not a clone and includes proper business registration details. User complaints exist around billing practices and subscription auto-renewals on platforms like Reddit and independent review aggregator, but these relate to service experience rather than site fraud or malware. No scam-family patterns or impersonation indicators were triggered for the domain itself.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for duolingo.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- duolingo.com is the official website of Duolingo, Inc., a Delaware-incorporated public company (NASDAQ: DUOL) with ~16+ years domain age.
- 2023 data breach exposed names and emails of 2.6 million users, leading to targeted phishing warnings from multiple sources.
- Multiple user complaints on Trustpilot, Reddit, Facebook, and Google Play about subscription billing issues and auto-renewals without notice.
- Phishing scams impersonating Duolingo (e.g., sponsorship/media kit downloads, fake account takeover attempts) reported on Reddit, X/Twitter, and security blogs.
- Company operates language learning app with freemium model, Super Duolingo subscriptions, and Duolingo English Test; active investor relations site confirms legitimacy.
- No evidence of duolingo.com itself being a clone or typosquat; searches primarily surface complaints about the real service or third-party scams targeting its users.
- Redditopen
"FRAUDOLINGO - it's a scam all right . They force you into a rat race with their employees disguised as "real learners"."
- Trustpilotopen
"The app is a scam. They don't teach you anything about the language, they just throw a bunch of sentences into an AI translator and call it good enough."
- Facebookopen
"Be careful with subscriptions. ... I DID NOT GET THAT NOTICE and now I’m stuck paying a hundred bucks for a year ... THEY ARE THIEVES!"
- Google Play Communityopen
"Duo lingo tried to charge me without my permission for a $127 plan . I keep trying to contact google play support to no luck."
- Redditopen
"I find Duolingo very useful in order to learn two languages at the same time ."
Duolingo, Inc. is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: DUOL) incorporated in Delaware; founded as educational technology company.
Our research found four scam-related mentions and eight complaints focused on subscription billing issues and auto-renewals without clear notice, reported on Reddit, independent review aggregator, Facebook, and Google Play. One positive review highlighted usefulness for language learning. The evidence confirms duolingo.com as the legitimate site of a public company while noting typical consumer service complaints and separate phishing attempts targeting its users.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://duolingo.com/
- 2200https://www.duolingo.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on duolingo.com and not a lookalike like d-uolingo.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on duolingo.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- duolingo.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. duolingo.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 203 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- duolingo.com is 16.4 years old, registered on 1/26/2010 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report duolingo.com as clean.
- No. duolingo.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- duolingo.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
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