In short: Mizou is the right choice if you want to build a custom educational chatbot yourself, for any subject or to work on a language. Parlova is the right choice if you teach history-geography and want a student to interact with a historical character consistent with their era in seconds, without having to design the scenario yourself. Both can coexist: Mizou for your own creations in all subjects, Parlova for ready-to-use history-geography.
What is Mizou?
Mizou is a no-code platform that allows a teacher to create their own educational chatbots: give the assistant a personality, feed it documents, define a specific role. It is particularly used in languages (FLE and others), for role-playing, 24/7 support or simulations, but remains generalist: it does not target any specific subject, the teacher builds what they want with it.
Price: free and paid options on both sides
Mizou offers a free plan without a credit card, capped at 50 student sessions per day, with a basic AI model and no document upload or grading grid. The Individual plan increases to 250 sessions per day, a more advanced model, document upload and grading grids, for $12.90 per month billed annually. The Team plan (350 sessions/day, private space, admin control) is $15.90 per month billed annually. An Institution plan on request lifts the session limit. Prices observed on mizou.com on 2026-09-10.
Parlova is entirely free to date, with no subscription or paid offer: teacher account, missions, class tracking and result export are all included.
For whom each tool is designed
- →Mizou — all subjects and all levels, particularly adopted in modern languages (FLE, English) for conversational practice and automated grammatical correction.
- →Parlova — history-geography (6e to Terminale), with ongoing extension towards philosophy, mythology, and psychology. Specifically designed for dialogue with characters rooted in a specific era, not for generalist use.
What each tool allows you to do
- →Mizou — free creation of personalized chatbots, sharing via link or QR code without a student account, multilingual (about fifty languages), voice transcription. Document upload and grading grids are only available from the paid plan.
- →Parlova — ready-to-use historical characters rooted in their era (they are unaware of what follows chronologically), investigation mode with multiple witnesses with contradictory versions, educational sheets by character and chapter, open final question that the teacher can consult.
Several feedbacks from French-speaking teachers indicate that Mizou's automatic grammatical correction remains improvable, with recurring errors reported in real use — a point to test yourself before basing an evaluation on it.
The specific case of history-geography
With Mizou, having a class interact with Robespierre requires building the character yourself: writing his personality, providing him with context documents, calibrating what he knows and doesn't know according to the chosen date. It's possible and some teachers do it very well, but it requires design time. With Parlova, the character already exists, with its integrated temporal constraint and an associated educational sheet — the time saving comes at the cost of more restricted creative freedom than with Mizou.
For whom Parlova is the right choice — and for whom it is not
Parlova is the right choice if you teach history-geography and want to start a session in a few minutes, without building the scenario or character yourself. It is not the right choice if you are looking for a generalist tool to create chatbots on subjects other than history-geography, philosophy, mythology, or psychology, or if your priority is practicing a foreign language — Mizou is then more suitable.
Frequently asked questions
- 1Is Mizou free? Yes, with a free plan capped at 50 students per day and per chatbot; paid plans lift this limit.
- 2Parlova or Mizou, which to choose for history-geography? Parlova if you want a ready-to-use historical character without building it yourself; Mizou if you prefer to create your own custom chatbot, including for other subjects.
- 3Can both be used in class? Yes, nothing prevents it: Mizou for your creations in all subjects, Parlova for ready-to-use history-geography sessions.
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