Duolingo’s premium subscribers soar above 3.3M users

PITTSBURGH — Duolingo is always finding new ways to experiment and its continued innovations aimed at trying to increase user engagement are paying off.

The East Liberty-based educational platform maker announced its surpassed 3.3 million paying subscribers to its premium language learning offering, Super Duolingo, during the Duolingo Inc. (NASDAQ: DUOL) Q2 earnings call on Thursday. That’s up 71% year-over-year for the company, which also reported having 13.2 million daily active users and 49.5 million monthly active users, up 44% and 31% year-over-year, respectively.

Per CEO and Co-Founder Luis von Ah, the continued use of A/B testing on the platform by the company’s engineers is responsible not only for this growth but also for future enhancements and features to come.