Reach120 vs Magoosh: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached

Who wrote this, and how to read it

Read on 2026-08-06, without an account, buying nothing and accessing no paywalled surface. Free allowances and prices change faster than pages like this one do, so treat every figure as dated evidence rather than a current quote.

• There is no score, no rating and no verdict. There are no star ratings in this page or in its structured data — Reach120 has no published review corpus, so a rating would be a number we made up.
• What Magoosh does better is stated plainly, because a comparison that finds nothing good in the other product is an advertisement.
• Reach120 prices are not typed on this page. The pricing page is the only place they are stated, so there is one thing to keep correct rather than fourteen.

Reach120 and Magoosh, side by side

The spine of this table is the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, because coverage is the one axis with checkable evidence: either a public page names the task or it does not. Everything else — free access, metering, price, scoring transparency — is quoted.

What Magoosh does better

Two things, both clearly: a full refund within seven days "for any reason", which is more generous than Reach120’s conditional window, and a taught course with lessons rather than a practice-and-feedback system. If you want to be taught the test rather than drilled on it, that is a real difference.

Where Reach120 is different

Magoosh teaches the test; Reach120 drills it and scores what you produce. If you do not yet know how a Write an Email response is built, lessons come first and Reach120 is the wrong first purchase. If you know the shape and need volume with feedback, the order reverses.

Different is not better in the abstract. The difference matters only if it matches what you are short of — time, money, feedback, or lessons.

Where Reach120 is weaker, in its own words: This page makes no case for its own product over the others. Where Reach120 is weaker: there are no taught video lessons, no human tutor review of a response, no coverage of any exam other than the TOEFL test, fewer free AI-scored submissions a day than PrepEx states, and no published scorer-versus-human agreement figure — the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim, so it is not published.

Which one to choose

• Choose Magoosh if what it does better is what you are short of. That sentence is above, unedited, and it is the whole reason this section can be brief.
• Choose Reach120 if you want to read the practice material and its answers before creating anything, and you want the four sections in one place with the method published.
• Choose both if the budget allows. They are not mutually exclusive, and nobody preparing for an exam owes one vendor loyalty.

Before either: The guarantee is stated in points, which is the unit of the retired 0–120 report; official reports have used 1–6 bands since January 21, 2026. Ask how it is applied to a current score report before relying on it.

Sources, and what we could not read

• Magoosh TOEFL plans page — https://toefl.magoosh.com/plans, read 2026-08-06.

Magoosh states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:

• "All Magoosh lessons are aligned with the 2026 TOEFL."
• "We guarantee after completing our premium program, you’ll see a +4 point increase over your old score, or we’ll give you all of your money back."

Reach120 vs Magoosh: common questions

Is Magoosh better than Reach120?

This page does not answer that, and no page published by one of the two products honestly could. What it gives you instead is the evidence to answer it yourself: what each states about free access, price and 2026 task coverage, quoted from the page it was read from on 2026-08-06, plus a plain statement of what Magoosh does better — Two things, both clearly: a full refund within seven days "for any reason", which is more generous than Reach120’s conditional window, and a taught course with lessons rather than a practice-and-feedback system. If you want to be taught the test rather than drilled on it, that is a real difference.

What does Magoosh cost?

On 2026-08-06, their own page stated: On sale as read: "Premium · 1 month" at "$54.50 USD" against "Usually $109", and "Premium · 6 months" at "$64.50 USD" against "Usually $129", or four monthly payments of $16.13. Sale prices move; the struck prices are the page’s own. The page states plainly: "No. Magoosh plans do not renew or auto-renew." Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.

Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for Magoosh?

You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading and Listening practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email, Write for an Academic Discussion and Take an Interview share 1 AI-scored credit a day; Listen & Repeat has its own allowance of 3 a day. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.

Does Magoosh cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?

Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: The page makes a whole-product statement — "The TOEFL changed on January 21, 2026, and our content is fully updated for the new test format" — without naming individual 2026 task types, so no task cell can be filled from it. A blank cell in the table on this page means we found no public statement, not that the feature is missing.

Who publishes this comparison?

Reach120 does, and Reach120 is one of the two products in it. That is disclosed at the top rather than buried, every competitor fact carries the URL and date it came from, and the section stating what Magoosh does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and Magoosh did not review it. If you believe a fact on this page is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-read the source.