Lesson Maker Pro vs Eduaide.Ai

We planned the same lesson in both

One topic, one grade, both free plans, on October 7, 2026. Every image is a real screenshot, cropped but not retouched; click one to see it full size.

1. 01The plan

   

   A 50-minute lesson with a timed sequence, aligned to 6.RP.A.2. The slides, worksheet, exit slip, and teacher guide it calls for were generated with it, below.

   

   The 5E Lesson Plan tool with the same topic, standard, and grade: a five-phase sequence paced at 45, 60, 45, 60, and 45 minutes, five class sessions in all. It asks the teacher to provide the market price tags, price lists, a data sheet, model tracker worksheets, and the quiz.

   Theirs is a thoughtful 5E sequence for a week. Ours is one class period you could teach tomorrow, with the pieces it names already made.

2. 02The slides

   

   12 slides generated from the lesson, with worked examples, drawn models, and speaker notes, downloadable as PowerPoint or PDF. Slide 4.

   

   The Slides Outline tool with the same topic and grade: eight slides described in text, each with a title, a description of a visual to make, and speaker notes. There is no slide file; it exports as PDF, Word, or a Google Doc. Its example is cereal prices, not the plan’s farmer’s market.

   This is the widest gap we found. One is a deck you can present; the other is directions for building one.

3. 03The materials

   

   Generated with the plan, no extra prompt: a partner worksheet that has students write each ratio, divide, and explain the rate per one with units, plus an exit slip and a teacher guide.

   

   The Short Answer Worksheet tool with the same topic and grade: twelve unit-rate questions (miles per hour, flour per cookie, students per teacher) and a short teacher guide, with no answer key. It has not seen the plan’s farmer’s market. (You could paste the plan into it; we gave both tools the same topic.)

   Theirs is a reasonable practice set about unit rates. Ours is the practice for this lesson, because the plan, the slides, and the worksheet came from the same place.

Feature by feature

Shaded cell: the stronger offering, in our judgment. Unshaded rows are a wash or a different kind of thing.

		Eduaide
Lesson plan	A timed, ready-to-teach plan aligned to your standard	11 lesson models as a document; in our test, a five-session 5E sequence whose price lists, data sheet, and quiz are yours to make †
Slide decks	Generated with every lesson, with images and speaker notes; PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides	A slide outline in text: titles, descriptions of visuals to make, and notes; no slide file †
Printable materials	Generated with every lesson: the worksheets, handouts, and assessments it calls for, plus a teacher guide	Worksheet, organizer, game, and assessment generators, each from its own form
Materials match the lesson	Same scenario, vocabulary, and numbers across the plan, slides, and printables, because they come from one request	Each generator starts from its own form; on Pro, the Erasmus chat can build a related resource from one you've made
AI assistant	One assistant that keeps your lesson in context, remembers past work, learns how you teach, and edits the lesson and its materials	Erasmus (Pro), a chat that revises, translates, and combines documents in the Workspace
Weekly planner	A planning board on your bell schedule; push lessons forward when a day is lost
Standards	420,000+ browsable, 6,600+ plain-language guides; official text in context when the lesson is written	A standards search inside the generators; up to 5 standards per generation on Pro
Student-facing activities	Gamified lesson worlds and escape rooms; join code, no accounts, no student data stored	None; it has no student accounts or student-facing features
Exports	PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Google Slides, Classroom, Forms	PDF, Word, Google Docs, Google Forms
Lesson structures	One timed, ready-to-teach format	11 named models, including 5E, Understanding by Design, Madeline Hunter, Gagné, and UDL
Assessment design	Assessments built with the lesson from the same content; export to an auto-graded Google Form	An Assessment Builder with blueprints, 9 question types, and cognitive-demand settings

Pricing

Free: 5 lesson plans, 1 unit plan, 10 materials, and 25 assistant messages every month. Your first lesson needs no account and no credit card.

Pro, $9.99/month: everything included, no locked tools. School and district plans available.

Eduaide

Free: 24 generation credits a month; a lesson plan uses 3, so about 8 lesson plans.

Pro: $5.99/month, or $49.99/year, for unlimited generations, the Erasmus chat, differentiation, and translation. School and district plans by quote.

Common questions

Is Lesson Maker Pro a good Eduaide alternative?

For planning a whole lesson, yes. One request in Lesson Maker Pro returns the timed plan with its slide deck, worksheets, assessment, and teacher guide, all built from the same lesson, and its assistant remembers what you were working on and learns how you teach. Eduaide is stronger if you want to choose the lesson model yourself, build an assessment from a blueprint, or generate classroom games one at a time, and it costs less.

Which is better for making slides?

Lesson Maker Pro. Every lesson comes with a slide deck, with images and speaker notes, that you can present in the browser or download as PowerPoint or Google Slides. Eduaide's slide tool writes a text outline of the slides; building the deck is left to you.

Which costs less?

Eduaide. Its Pro plan is $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year; Lesson Maker Pro's is $9.99 a month. On the free plans, Eduaide gives 24 generation credits a month (a lesson plan uses 3), and Lesson Maker Pro gives 5 full lessons, each with its slides and materials, plus 10 more materials and 25 assistant messages.