Pear Deck
Interactive lessons and AI planning tools for K-12
Pear Deck is an instructional platform for K-12 teachers and schools from Pear Deck Learning, made up of four products: Pear Start, Pear Deck, Pear Practice and Pear Assessment. Pear Start is an AI tool for planning and delivering lessons, with Instant Pear Decks generating content from standards and an instant lesson package tool that builds lessons, practice sets and tests. Pear Deck itself adds interactive questions, polls and quizzes to presentations, with Google Slides as its main focus. The company says it requires its LLM partners to delete AI request data within 24 hours. Teachers can sign up free, and schools can buy premium tiers.
- Filed under
- Education & Learning
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Platforms
- web
- Last updated
- November 10, 2026
What Pear Deck does
- Pear Start AI tools. More than 40 AI tools for lesson planning, with content generation and export.
- Instant lesson packages. Creates lessons, practice sets and tests in under a minute.
- Interactive presentations. Pear Deck adds questions, polls and quizzes with immediate feedback; includes Student-Paced mode.
- Pear Practice. Build and share differentiated, gamified practice sets.
- Pear Assessment. Create standards-based assessments with automatic grading of answers.
Who it’s for
- Teachers running interactive Google Slides lessons
- Schools wanting lesson planning, practice and assessment in one suite
- Teachers generating lesson drafts from standards
Pear Deck pricing
Teacher Free tiers; Pear Assessment Premium $125/yr; Pear Deck Teacher Premium $149/yr; schools and districts by quote.
As listed on November 9, 2026. Check peardeck.com for current prices.
Things to know
- Several features are Google-only, such as Flashcard Factory and the District Library
- Free tiers omit premium features such as the Teacher Dashboard and standards-based reporting
- District controls, usage reports and SSO are not in free Pear Start
Quick answers
- What is Pear Deck?
- Pear Deck is an instructional platform for K-12 teachers and schools from Pear Deck Learning, made up of four products: Pear Start, Pear Deck, Pear Practice and Pear Assessment.
- Is Pear Deck free?
- Pear Deck has a free plan. Paid plans start at $10.42 a month. (As listed on November 9, 2026.)
- Who makes Pear Deck?
- Pear Deck is made by Pear Deck Learning.
- Where can you use Pear Deck?
- Pear Deck is available on the web.
- What are some alternatives to Pear Deck?
- Other tools filed in the same section include Nearpod, MagicSchool and Aila.
Tags
#k-12#interactive-presentations#google-slides#assessment#lesson-planning#teachers
See also
Cross-referenced entriesNearpod
Interactive lesson platform with AI lesson creation
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MagicSchool
AI platform with teacher and student tools for schools
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Aila
AI lesson assistant for UK teachers by Oak National Academy
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Eduaide
AI workspace for K-12 teachers to build class materials
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