AnswersAI vs Canvas Quiz Solver for Canvas quizzes

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Checked 2026-10-08 on the AnswersAI pricing page, its FAQ and its Chrome Web Store listing. The pricing page shows Pro as "$3.33/month", "$39.99 billed yearly"; the FAQ says "our monthly plan costs $12.99 per month".

AnswersAI review: what you get

AnswersAI is made by AnswersAi Corp in San Francisco. Its homepage line is "Snap a photo, get solutions to your problems instantly." It is a full study app, not only an answer tool.

One more fact from AnswersAI's own footer: "AnswersAi, Corp. does not condone plagiarism or academic dishonesty", and if its services are misused it reserves the right to take actions "including but not limited to co-operating with academic institutions and suspending accounts".

AnswersAI or Answer.AI? Two different extensions

Search for "answer ai chrome extension" and you get two products with almost the same name. AnswersAI (answersai.com, AnswersAi Corp) is the one on this page. Answer.AI is a separate extension from ANSWER AI LAB INC (answerai.pro). Its store listing says you can "screenshot or highlight any question on your browser", open a sidebar, and use free or premium versions on Chrome, iOS and Android.

Both work from a screenshot or highlighted text on any site. Neither listing describes an answer placed inside the Canvas quiz page, which is what Canvas Quiz Solver does.

AnswersAI on a Canvas quiz

To use AnswersAI on a Canvas quiz, you click its icon in the toolbar, take a screenshot of the question, read the answer and then find the matching option in Canvas. On a phone, you photograph the screen. We have not tested whether its screenshot tool or popup takes focus from the quiz page, so we do not claim it either way.

What Canvas does record is documented: the quiz log writes "Stopped viewing the Canvas quiz-taking page" when a student "closes the browser tab, opens a new browser tab, or navigates to a different program", with a time (Instructure quiz log guide). So opening AnswersAI's website in another tab, or its app on the same computer, can be logged. A phone next to the laptop is not. See the Canvas quiz log, explained.

Which one should you pick?

Pick AnswersAI if you want the cheapest yearly study app, use your phone, record lectures, make flashcards, or need help on sites other than Canvas. At $39.99 a year it costs far less than Canvas Quiz Solver over a year, and Canvas Quiz Solver does none of those things.

Pick Canvas Quiz Solver if your job is a Canvas quiz on a laptop:

The answer is where you are looking. It shows right below the question it belongs to, not in a popup or on your phone.

Nothing to capture. No screenshot and no cropping. It reads the question and its options from the page, on Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes.

Built for Canvas question types. Matching, ordering, categorization and fill in the blank questions are read where they sit on the page, including inside New Quizzes. One plan, $14.99 a month, unlimited questions.

An AnswersAI alternative that answers inside the Canvas quiz

Canvas Quiz Solver puts the answer right below the question, inside the Canvas quiz page. You do not open a second tab, you do not copy the question into ChatGPT, and you do not switch windows, so there is no page switch for the quiz log to record. A web page cannot list the Chrome extensions you have installed (see what Canvas can and cannot see about your extensions). It works on Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes. You can start free, then it costs $14.99 a month. AI answers can be wrong, so check them against your course material.

It is not for proctored exams: it does not run in LockDown Browser or Respondus, and Honorlock and Proctorio can turn Chrome extensions off. Use it on unproctored Canvas quizzes.

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