Reach120 vs My Speaking Score: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
Anyone whose Speaking score is the thing standing between them and an offer ends up holding a specialist against a four-section product, and the comparison is really about scope: one section done deeply, or four sections done at all. It is also the most transparent page in this whole set, so it is worth reading for what it discloses as much as for what it sells. This page separates them on the axes you can actually check, and says where its own evidence runs out.
Who wrote this, and how to read it
Read on 2026-08-24, 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 My Speaking Score 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 My Speaking Score, 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.
| 2026 task type | Reach120 | My Speaking Score |
|---|---|---|
| Build a SentenceWriting | Runs it here | Not stated on the page we read |
| Write an EmailWriting | Runs it here | Not stated on the page we read |
| Academic DiscussionWriting | Runs it here | Not stated on the page we read |
| Listen & RepeatSpeaking | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Take an InterviewSpeaking | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Complete the WordsReading | Runs it here | Not stated on the page we read |
How the My Speaking Score column was filled: Two of the six are named and the other four are absent by design rather than by omission — this product sells TOEFL Speaking and nothing else, and says so in its own name. Under the heading "Current iBT Speaking" the page lists "Listen & Repeat — Hear a sentence, reproduce it precisely. Scored 0–5" and "Interview — Give a spoken opinion with clear reasons. Scored 0–5", and describes practicing "authentic Listen & Repeat and Interview prompts from the current TOEFL iBT Speaking format". It writes the second one as "Interview" rather than "Take an Interview"; the cell is filled because the page frames both as the current Speaking section’s tasks and the current Speaking section has exactly those two, not because the word matched. Marking the four Reading and Writing cells as gaps would misread a scope boundary as a shortfall.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | My Speaking Score |
|---|---|---|
| Free access | Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account. | One scored test, stated plainly: "your first full Speaking test is scored free, no card", returning "a band score, subscores, a marked transcript, and a model rewrite". The page repeats the terms as "First score free · No credit card · No spam". It is a first sitting rather than a standing allowance — nothing recurs. |
| How AI use is metered | The free tier is metered by measured cost — the three tasks that spend a model on your own words carry daily allowances, Writing and Speaking counted separately because an Interview costs multiples of an essay. A paid pass carries a stated fair-use ceiling rather than an open-ended promise. | Credits, with the arithmetic published: "Vox uses 1 credit per task and 2 credits per full test." Monthly credits "refresh each billing cycle and unused credits do not roll over"; separately purchased one-time credits are "valid for 3 months from the date of purchase". |
| Price, as their page stated it | Exam passes are one-time and do not auto-renew; the current prices are on the pricing page, which this page reads rather than restates. | Three monthly plans, each stating its own per-test unit price: "Casual Starter $15 /mo" for "10 tests / mo · $1.50 each" and "20 credits monthly"; "Serious prep Pro $26 /mo" for "20 tests / mo · $1.30 each" and "40 credits monthly"; "Intensive Power $50 /mo" for "50 tests / mo · $1.00 each" and "100 credits monthly". Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name it, and no struck or sale price was shown on the page we read. Every tier is stated to include "All task types & full AI feedback" and "Voice Coach access", so the plans differ by volume rather than by feature — which is the reverse of most of this set and makes the per-test figure the number to compare. |
| Scoring transparency | How a score is produced, and what the language model is and is not allowed to do with it, is published at /methodology. No scorer-versus-human agreement figure is published: the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim. | It is the strongest disclosure in this set and deserves saying without hedging. It states its scorer is "calibrated to the TOEFL iBT Speaking rubric and benchmarked on human-rated samples" and, in the same sentence, that "It does not guarantee your official score" — a limit published beside the claim rather than left for a reader to infer. Its FAQ also volunteers that the company is "not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ETS", unprompted, at a moment when other providers in this market are advertising the opposite. What is still missing is the number behind it: no sample size, comparison set or date is attached to "benchmarked". Reach120 publishes no agreement figure at all for the same reason — its benchmark corpus is too small to publish one honestly — and publishes how a score is produced, at /methodology. |
Every My Speaking Score cell above is a sentence their own public page stated, read on 2026-08-24. Prices and free allowances move; check the source before you buy. Reach120's own prices are not typed here — the pricing page is the only place they are stated.
What My Speaking Score does better
Three things, and the first two are about honesty rather than features, which makes them rarer in this set than any feature. It states the limit of its own accuracy claim without being asked — "It does not guarantee your official score" sits in the same sentence as the claim itself — where several products here assert an agreement figure and stop. And it publishes an unprompted non-affiliation statement in its own FAQ, at a moment when other providers in this census are advertising partnership with the test maker. On features: it does one section deeply, returning per-task subscores on the 0–5 scale, a word-by-word marked transcript, a flagged-phrase list and a full model rewrite, and it prints a per-test unit price on every tier so a month of practice can be costed before purchase. Reach120 does none of those four things at that depth for Speaking.
Where Reach120 is different
Scope, and it runs both ways. Reach120 covers all four sections and the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, publishes its questions, answer keys, transcripts and sample responses in the page itself with no account, and leaves Reading and Listening practice uncapped. My Speaking Score does one section and prices it by the test. Neither product substitutes for the other, and buying the specialist first is a perfectly rational move if Speaking is your only weak section.
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 My Speaking Score 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: Three things, in order of how much they can cost you. Credits do not roll over, so a month where work or illness stops you studying is a month you have paid for and lost — if you prepare in bursts rather than evenly, price the one-time credits against the subscription before choosing. This is Speaking only and deliberately so, which makes it a component of a study plan rather than a study plan; you will need something else for Reading, Listening and Writing. And "benchmarked on human-rated samples" carries no sample size, no comparison set and no date on the page we read, so read it as a statement of method rather than of measured agreement.
Sources, and what we could not read
- the My Speaking Score homepage, which carries its plans, its credit rules and its FAQ — https://www.myspeakingscore.com/, read 2026-08-24.
My Speaking Score states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "Vox AI is calibrated to the TOEFL iBT Speaking rubric and benchmarked on human-rated samples. It does not guarantee your official score, but it provides a consistent signal for practice and improvement."
- "Is My Speaking Score affiliated with ETS or TOEFL? No. We’re independent. TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS, and we’re not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ETS."
- "Get total score transparency in about 30 seconds."
Reach120 vs My Speaking Score: common questions
- Is My Speaking Score 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 2026-08-24, plus a plain statement of what My Speaking Score does better — Three things, and the first two are about honesty rather than features, which makes them rarer in this set than any feature. It states the limit of its own accuracy claim without being asked — "It does not guarantee your official score" sits in the same sentence as the claim itself — where several products here assert an agreement figure and stop. And it publishes an unprompted non-affiliation statement in its own FAQ, at a moment when other providers in this census are advertising partnership with the test maker. On features: it does one section deeply, returning per-task subscores on the 0–5 scale, a word-by-word marked transcript, a flagged-phrase list and a full model rewrite, and it prints a per-test unit price on every tier so a month of practice can be costed before purchase. Reach120 does none of those four things at that depth for Speaking.
- What does My Speaking Score cost?
- On 2026-08-24, their own page stated: Three monthly plans, each stating its own per-test unit price: "Casual Starter $15 /mo" for "10 tests / mo · $1.50 each" and "20 credits monthly"; "Serious prep Pro $26 /mo" for "20 tests / mo · $1.30 each" and "40 credits monthly"; "Intensive Power $50 /mo" for "50 tests / mo · $1.00 each" and "100 credits monthly". Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name it, and no struck or sale price was shown on the page we read. Every tier is stated to include "All task types & full AI feedback" and "Voice Coach access", so the plans differ by volume rather than by feature — which is the reverse of most of this set and makes the per-test figure the number to compare. Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for My Speaking Score?
- You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.
- Does My Speaking Score cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: Two of the six are named and the other four are absent by design rather than by omission — this product sells TOEFL Speaking and nothing else, and says so in its own name. Under the heading "Current iBT Speaking" the page lists "Listen & Repeat — Hear a sentence, reproduce it precisely. Scored 0–5" and "Interview — Give a spoken opinion with clear reasons. Scored 0–5", and describes practicing "authentic Listen & Repeat and Interview prompts from the current TOEFL iBT Speaking format". It writes the second one as "Interview" rather than "Take an Interview"; the cell is filled because the page frames both as the current Speaking section’s tasks and the current Speaking section has exactly those two, not because the word matched. Marking the four Reading and Writing cells as gaps would misread a scope boundary as a shortfall. 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 My Speaking Score does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and My Speaking Score 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.