Reach120 vs PrepDrills: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
It is one of a small number of products whose own public page names all six of the task types the January 2026 format introduced, which puts it in direct comparison with Reach120 on the one axis that is checkable rather than rhetorical. The second reason is commercial and it is unusual enough to be the reason people search the name: you can use a great deal of it before finding out what it costs. 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 PrepDrills 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 PrepDrills, 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 | PrepDrills |
|---|---|---|
| Build a SentenceWriting | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Write an EmailWriting | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Academic DiscussionWriting | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| 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 | Named on their page |
How the PrepDrills column was filled: All six are named on that one page, individually badged, in a grid headed "Every 2026 task type, every section": Reading lists "Complete the Words" and "Read in Daily Life" as 2026 tasks; Listening lists "Choose a Response"; Speaking lists "Listen and Repeat" and "Take an Interview"; Writing lists "Build a Sentence", "Write an Email" and "Academic Discussion". Two things about the same grid are worth recording rather than smoothing over. It also lists "Integrated Speaking" — but badged "Core skill", not "2026 task", which is a distinction the page itself draws and this row keeps. And its structured data claims "All 12 new 2026 task types", a count the visible grid does not support. That is the page naming them; no account was created to watch them run.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | PrepDrills |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Unusually wide for a product with no published price, and stated in four separate places: "Set 1 easy Speaking + Writing AI-graded free"; "First full-length TOEFL Practice Exam is completely free, all four sections, modeled on the real iBT" with "No card required"; the Grammar and Vocabulary modules each badged "Free"; and, on the AI grader, "one free task per section to try Eppy before subscribing". The word "subscribing" is the only indication anywhere on the page that a paid tier exists. |
| 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. | No credit meter and no per-action cost is stated, and no paid tier is described at all. The only quantities published are the free ones — one set, one full-length exam, one task per section — so there is no allowance here to compare against anyone’s. |
| 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. | PrepDrills publishes no paid price on any surface we could read on 2026-08-24. Its pricing route answered HTTP 404, the marketing page mentions "subscribing" exactly once and never states what a subscription costs, and the only offer written into the page’s own structured data is a free tier at zero. The page loaded in full, so this is a publishing decision rather than a failed fetch, and it is recorded as such. |
| 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 names its scorer, which most do not, and then states its provenance as an assertion: "Eppy was trained on the exact rubrics ETS raters use, so feedback is calibrated to the criteria your actual TOEFL score depends on." No training-set size, validation method or agreement figure sits behind that anywhere we read, and a claim about which rubric a model saw is not a claim about how far its scores land from a real one. It does publish the dimensions it reports — delivery, language use and topic development for Speaking; organisation, language use and topic development for Writing — on the 1–6 scale. Reach120 publishes no agreement figure either, and does publish its method at /methodology. |
Every PrepDrills 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 PrepDrills does better
Its free first sitting is larger than the one Reach120 gives an anonymous visitor, and it is larger in the way that matters: a complete simulated iBT across all four sections, "42 questions, ~2 hours", in a timed or a save-and-resume mode, with no card. Two whole modules — Grammar and Vocabulary — are badged free on top of that, and the page publishes an approximate session length for each section so you can plan a week before signing up. Its coverage grid also names every current task type individually and badges each one, which is a more checkable claim than the whole-product "updated for 2026" sentence most of this set publishes.
Where Reach120 is different
Both name the six; what separates them is what you can inspect and what you can price. Reach120 publishes the practice material itself — questions, answer keys, transcripts, sample responses, downloadable packs — in the page, readable with no account, and states its prices on one pricing page. PrepDrills describes its material on a marketing site and serves it from a second host under a second brand, and publishes no paid figure at all: its pricing route answered 404 and the only offer in its own structured data is the free tier. That is a real difference in what a stranger can evaluate before committing, and it cuts the other way on the free first sitting, which is larger than ours.
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 PrepDrills 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, and none of them is about the practice. There is no paid price anywhere: /pricing/ answered 404 on 2026-08-24 and the only offer in the page’s own structured data is a "Free Tier" at zero, so what you would eventually pay is not knowable before you are inside the product. The app you sign in to sits on a different host and under a different name — toefl.prepdrills.com, branded "EPIC Prep" — so check you are buying from who you think you are. And the five-star rating on that page is self-published: the page’s own markup carries an aggregate rating of 5.0 over six reviews written into the page itself, not gathered on an independent platform. This row restates no rating of theirs, and Reach120 publishes none of its own either.
Sources, and what we could not read
- the PrepDrills TOEFL app page, which carries its coverage grid and its structured data — https://prepdrills.com/toefl-app/, read 2026-08-24.
PrepDrills states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "Eppy is PrepDrills’ proprietary AI grader, built specifically for TOEFL Speaking and Writing evaluation. Not a generic language model. Eppy was trained on the exact rubrics ETS raters use, so feedback is calibrated to the criteria your actual TOEFL score depends on."
- "Built by Epic Exam Prep, with 25+ years of TOEFL teaching across Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Zurich, Andorra, Germany, Dubai, and France."
- "Get your predicted band in 25 minutes."
Reach120 vs PrepDrills: common questions
- Is PrepDrills 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 PrepDrills does better — Its free first sitting is larger than the one Reach120 gives an anonymous visitor, and it is larger in the way that matters: a complete simulated iBT across all four sections, "42 questions, ~2 hours", in a timed or a save-and-resume mode, with no card. Two whole modules — Grammar and Vocabulary — are badged free on top of that, and the page publishes an approximate session length for each section so you can plan a week before signing up. Its coverage grid also names every current task type individually and badges each one, which is a more checkable claim than the whole-product "updated for 2026" sentence most of this set publishes.
- What does PrepDrills cost?
- This page states no PrepDrills price. PrepDrills publishes no paid price on any surface we could read on 2026-08-24. Its pricing route answered HTTP 404, the marketing page mentions "subscribing" exactly once and never states what a subscription costs, and the only offer written into the page’s own structured data is a free tier at zero. The page loaded in full, so this is a publishing decision rather than a failed fetch, and it is recorded as such.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for PrepDrills?
- 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 PrepDrills cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: All six are named on that one page, individually badged, in a grid headed "Every 2026 task type, every section": Reading lists "Complete the Words" and "Read in Daily Life" as 2026 tasks; Listening lists "Choose a Response"; Speaking lists "Listen and Repeat" and "Take an Interview"; Writing lists "Build a Sentence", "Write an Email" and "Academic Discussion". Two things about the same grid are worth recording rather than smoothing over. It also lists "Integrated Speaking" — but badged "Core skill", not "2026 task", which is a distinction the page itself draws and this row keeps. And its structured data claims "All 12 new 2026 task types", a count the visible grid does not support. That is the page naming them; no account was created to watch them run. 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 PrepDrills does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and PrepDrills 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.