Reach120 vs New Oriental: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
It is the name a Chinese candidate meets first, and the comparison is between an institution and a website rather than between two websites — so the useful question is not which is better but which one your problem is. What makes it worth writing anyway is that the two are short of completely different things: they have teachers and no published price, we have a published product and no teachers. 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 New Oriental 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 New Oriental, 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 | New Oriental |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Not stated on the page we read |
| Take an InterviewSpeaking | Runs it here | Not stated on the page we read |
| Complete the WordsReading | Runs it here | Not stated on the page we read |
How the New Oriental column was filled: No cell can be filled: the portal names none of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, and it makes no reference to the January 2026 change at all on the page we read. Its own navigation is organised by the older shape of the product — past papers, predictions, mock tests, downloads — rather than by task type. That is a statement about this page and not about what is taught in a classroom, and this row does not treat it as any.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | New Oriental |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | No free allowance of any kind is stated on the page we read. What it offers instead of a trial is a route to a person: the purchase path is a campus and enrolment point — "校区和报名点" — or a messaging assistant, and neither is described as free or paid on the page itself. |
| 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. | Nothing is metered, because nothing on this page is sold as software. It is a portal to courses, past papers, predictions and downloadable material, with the transaction happening off the page entirely. |
| 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. | New Oriental publishes no figure of any kind on the page we read on 2026-08-24 — no amount, no range and no currency symbol anywhere on it. The purchase path it offers instead is a campus and enrolment point or a messaging assistant, so every route to a number runs through a conversation with a person. The page loaded fully, so this is a publishing decision rather than a failed fetch, and it is recorded as one. |
| 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. | There is no automated scoring here and none is claimed, so the transparency question becomes who teaches and under what arrangement. On the second half the portal states two things about the test maker — a strategic cooperation agreement and star membership of a TOEFL alliance programme — and neither carries a date, a scope or a description of what it covers. Both are rendered on this page as their assertions, under a heading naming them so, and neither is restated as fact. What the page does not state anywhere is a rubric, a marking scale or a feedback turnaround for a practice response. Reach120 scores with a model, claims no relationship with the test maker of any kind, publishes no agreement figure, and publishes how a score is produced at /methodology. |
Every New Oriental 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 New Oriental does better
Two things, and both are structural rather than clever. It teaches this exam in physical classrooms across dozens of Chinese cities, in the student’s own language, with an enrolment adviser at the end of every path — an institution of that scale is a category Reach120 does not compete in and should not pretend to. It also publishes past papers, predictions and downloadable study material as a free public library beside the paid teaching, which is a genuinely useful thing to have whether or not you ever enrol.
Where Reach120 is different
Presence against inspectability, and the gap is wide in both directions. New Oriental teaches in classrooms across dozens of Chinese cities in the student’s own language, with an adviser at the end of every path, and publishes a free public library of past papers and downloadable material beside it. Reach120 has none of that. What Reach120 has is a product you can evaluate in full before spending anything: published questions, answer keys, transcripts and sample responses in the page itself, the six task types the January 2026 format introduced named and run, uncapped Reading and Listening practice, and one page that states the price. Their portal names none of the six and makes no reference to the January 2026 change at all — a statement about that page, not about what a teacher covers in a classroom.
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 New Oriental 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. No price of any kind appears on the page — no figure, no range, no currency symbol — so every path to a number runs through a consultation, and you cannot compare it against anything until you have made contact. Second, the portal names no 2026 task type and does not mention the January 2026 change at all, so ask directly which format the course and the materials were rebuilt for. And third, the online mock platform its own navigation points to served us nothing readable on 2026-08-24 — see the note recorded against this row — so confirm that half of the offer works before buying on the strength of it.
Sources, and what we could not read
- the New Oriental TOEFL portal, published in Simplified Chinese — https://toefl.xdf.cn/, read 2026-08-24.
New Oriental states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "ETS战略合作协议和杰出战略合作伙伴" — a strategic cooperation agreement with the test maker, and distinguished strategic partner.
- "ETS授予的托福联盟项目星级成员" — a star-rated member of the TOEFL alliance programme, conferred by the test maker.
Reach120 vs New Oriental: common questions
- Is New Oriental 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 New Oriental does better — Two things, and both are structural rather than clever. It teaches this exam in physical classrooms across dozens of Chinese cities, in the student’s own language, with an enrolment adviser at the end of every path — an institution of that scale is a category Reach120 does not compete in and should not pretend to. It also publishes past papers, predictions and downloadable study material as a free public library beside the paid teaching, which is a genuinely useful thing to have whether or not you ever enrol.
- What does New Oriental cost?
- This page states no New Oriental price. New Oriental publishes no figure of any kind on the page we read on 2026-08-24 — no amount, no range and no currency symbol anywhere on it. The purchase path it offers instead is a campus and enrolment point or a messaging assistant, so every route to a number runs through a conversation with a person. The page loaded fully, so this is a publishing decision rather than a failed fetch, and it is recorded as one.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for New Oriental?
- 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 New Oriental cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: No cell can be filled: the portal names none of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, and it makes no reference to the January 2026 change at all on the page we read. Its own navigation is organised by the older shape of the product — past papers, predictions, mock tests, downloads — rather than by task type. That is a statement about this page and not about what is taught in a classroom, and this row does not treat it as any. 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 New Oriental does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and New Oriental 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.